REALLY enjoying the Lost Book of the Grail, in large part because of what it says about books. Early on, the two leads share this exchange:
Quote:
"I just read a great monograph on the postbook library from this guy I heard at ALA.”
“I’m sorry, are you speaking English?”
“ALA is the American Library Association.”
“But what do you mean by the ‘postbook library’?”
“It’s amazing. You see, technology is exploding the possibilities for libraries. Now they can exist virtually. Imagine a library that has no building, almost no expenses, and can be used by everyone on the planet.”
“A library without books?”
“Yeah, pretty cool, huh?”
“You do know that library is derived from the Latin librarius, meaning ‘concerned with books.’ Not computers—books.”
“If you want to play the etymology game,” said Bethany, “I read in this same article that the word librarius is derived from liber, meaning ‘the inner bark of trees.’ Do you really think we need to fill our libraries with the inner bark of trees?”
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Then at around 3/4 of the way, the same theme returns, this time in a C16 setting
