Dec
31
2009
Life Before Kindle
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.





