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The Booklover and His Books

by Harry Lyman Koopman

Short essays of 1917 on owning, reading, binding and lending books. Koopman was librarian of Brown University. He takes the side of the reader against the collector, gently.

The librarian

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Reading time

About 3 hr 40 min

Where to find it

On the Archive shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #22606. In the public domain in the United States.