Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions

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Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten DigressionsA best selling author and world renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries. In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries old village home in France's Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one bedroom apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Packing up his enormous, 35,000 volume personal library, choosing which books to keep, store, or cast out, Manguel found himself

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