Dec

31

2009

Thabiti Anyabwile|5:32 pm CT

Life Before Kindle
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HT: Tony Reinke

“In the tenth century…the Grand Vizier of Persia, Abdul Kassem Ismael, in order not to part with his collection of 117,000 volumes when traveling, had them carried by a caravan of four hundred camels trained to walk in alphabetical order.” [Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading (Penguin, 1996), p. 193]

I’m a confessed tech dinosaur, skeptical about Kindle.  But this little anecdote gives me pause.

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