From the Book - First US edition.
Prologue: curating the ruins
Inception and survival. A confusion of scrolls ; Sanctuary ; Little monkeys and letters of gold
The crisis of print. The infernal press ; Coming of age ; Reformations
The new collectors. The professionals ; Idle books and riff raff ; Mission fields
Between public and private. Grand designs ; Cardinal errors ; The antiquarians
Fictions. Orderly minds ; Building empires ; Reading on the job
The war on books. Surviving the twentieth century ; Wrestling with modernity ; Libraries, books and politics
Postscript: reading without books.
