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frahse · 07-07-2017, 05:29 AM

Here are a few more reasons to abandon paper books and we easily make the parallel between large unvented dusty musty libraries and the portal to Dante Alighieri's hell.

Bookworms slowly poisoned by their home library in eastern China

'All hope abandon ye who enter here'

Note the phrase "Such characters in colour dim I mark'd." Perhaps a reference to the idea of color E-ink even so long ago. Prophetic vision maybe?

07-07-2017, 05:29 AM	#1
frahse occasional author Posts: 2,315 Karma: 2064403292 Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Wandering God's glorious hills, valleys and plains. Device: A Franklin BI (before Internet) was the first. I still have it.	Abandon hope all ye who don't go Digital! Here are a few more reasons to abandon paper books and we easily make the parallel between large unvented dusty musty libraries and the portal to Dante Alighieri's hell. Bookworms slowly poisoned by their home library in eastern China 'All hope abandon ye who enter here' Note the phrase "Such characters in colour dim I mark'd." Perhaps a reference to the idea of color E-ink even so long ago. Prophetic vision maybe?