Shelf Life: How Books Have Changed the Destinies and Desires of Men and… (udgave 1999)

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

By Charing Cross in London Town
There runs a road of high renown
Where antique books are ranged on shelves
As dark and dusty as themselves.
And many book lovers have spent
Their substance there with great content,
And vexed their wives and filled their homes
With faded prints and massive tomes.
Norman Davey (1888-1959)