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The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
April 8, 2021
Words
202

“I didn’t love this book. Note that the author is claiming the 100 ‘most influential’ books, not the best (which is subjective anyway). I got annoyed with the arrogance of the author. He writes with a palpable disdain for anything he doesn’t like, particularly religion. (I mean, we get it – you’re…”

APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
July 22, 2025
Words
256

“First of all, what a terrible name for a book. I mean, I get the acronym, but still – why call a book this? That said, this is a great book. It’s as practical a guide to writing and self-publishing a book as you’re ever going to find. It’s not a motivational book, either – it assumes you can write…”

BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
November 10, 2015
Words
98

“This book is a vague manifesto for change. The author is a lawyer that was appointed to some commission to study libraries, and this book feels like the result of his research. He’s essentially pushing for libraries to de-emphasize physical collections, and emphasize the role of librarians and…”

Bookshops: A Reader’s History
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
April 21, 2023
Words
323

“I really tried with this book, but I had to abandon it. This is one of those books that doesn’t really have a point. It’s just a meandering journey through one guy’s love of bookshops around the world. He apparently visited 1,000 of them. I read his Wikipedia page , where I found this: He uses to…”

Bookstores: a Celebration of Independent Booksellers
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
May 23, 2021
Words
96

“Lovely coffee table picture book of independent bookstores from around the world. The writer/photographer spent a lot of time in several major cities – San Francisco, NYC, London, Paris, Vienna, and some smaller cities in Germany, Portugal and The Netherlands. Each bookstore gets a small essay from…”

The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
November 3, 2019
Words
115

“This was written in 1994, just when the web and hypertext were showing up. The author is concerned about a diminishing ability of students to read long-form, static text. In addition to hypertext, he points to DVD and audiobooks. Clearly, his perspective would be wildly different now. ebooks didn’t…”

The Gutenberg Revolution
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
April 30, 2017
Words
71

“I love the subject but just couldn’t connect with the writing style. I found it confusing. Not an entirely bad book – it presents Gutenberg as a businessman (and not a very good one), and covers all the religious and political conflict in Mainz, Germany that helped the printing revolution along….”

How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
August 8, 2024
Words
255

“This is kind of a depressing book. It’s about local bookstores and how they’re under incredible threat from Amazon and – the book claims – the Right wing of American politics. The author is the owner of a small bookstore in the college town of Lawrence, Kansas. Each chapter is a discussion with…”

Libraries
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
May 27, 2024
Words
145

“This is a very (very!) big coffee table book of library photography. I’m not sure there’s much more to say than that. It’s enormous. It probably weighs 10 pounds. The photography is amazing. The pages are so big, it’s absorbing. However, it’s worth pointing out that a lot of libraries are very,…”

The Library: A Fragile History
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
April 8, 2023
Words
219

“This is exactly what it promised – a long, detailed history of libraries, from scrolls in chests to books on the shelves. Libraries really started with the church. They were first repositories of books, and they grew from there. Back in the day, books were expensive because mass printing was in its…”

The Library Book
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
December 30, 2019
Words
152

“I thought this was a novel. It’s not. But it’s wonderful. It’s the story of: The 1986 fire at the Los Angeles library and its subsequent investigation and aftermath The larger Los Angeles library system and its history The future of libraries in general The three topics interweave throughout the…”

Life Lessons from Literature: Wisdom from 100 Classic Works
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
December 7, 2023
Words
258

“This is a very light, fun book that profiles 100 famous works from history and why they matter – what larger life lesson can we draw from them. Each work is given a quick summary of both the plot and the lesson. For example, here’s Crime and Punishment (a book I did not care for, incidentally):…”

The Lost Bookshop
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
April 8, 2024
Words
242

“This was a fun novel I picked up at Costco. These days, I’m kind of a sucker for the ‘magic book’ genre (see Cloud Cuckoo Land or The Midnight Library ). It’s set in Ireland, and jumps around in time between two periods and three characters. Opaline is a woman on the run from her maniacal brother…”

On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
May 2, 2024
Words
342

“This is an…eclectic history of paper. It starts where you would expect it to – somewhere in China, where paper was invented. The author traced the history while on a ‘paper history’ tour. But then the book goes to some fascinating places as it investigates the role paper has played in our lives, in…”

Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
April 5, 2024
Words
235

“I don’t really know what to do with this one. It’s a pretty unique book, but I really liked it. It’s fiction, but not regular fiction. It’s like a series of blog posts written in the first person by a man who went to work at an old book shop in London. Each post is some aspect of what it’s like to…”