Tootfinder

@mela@zusammenkunft.net
2026-10-09 22:09:45

Weil gerade mal wieder eine Krise des Lesens oder der Niedergang des Buchs ausgerufen wird ... was die Autoren von "The Library: A Fragile History" dazu zu sagen haben.
#MoralPanic

The history of the library, it turns out, is a story with many such paradoxes, false dawns and a laborious struggle to foster a reading public. Now we talk of its very survival, even though the death of the library has been predicted almost as often as the death of the book. Yet when, in the spring of 2020, a global pandemic forced all libraries to close their doors, the sense of loss was palpable.