A Guide to Booklegging: How (and why) to collect, preserve, and read the printed word
Semantic mountains, mind communion, and building your book monastery
The bookleggers smuggled books to the southwest desert and buried them there in kegs. The memorizers committed to rote memory entire volumes of history, sacred writings, literature, and science, in case some unfortunate book smuggler was caught, tortured, and forced to reveal the location o…
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