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The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future (Perotti)

 

Now that anyone is free to print whatever they wish, they often disregard that which is best and instead write, merely for the sake of entertainment, what would best be forgotten, or, better still be erased from all books. And even when they write something worthwhile they twist it and corrupt it to the point where it would be much better to do without such books, rather than having a thousand copies spreading falsehoods over the whole world.
-- Niccolo Perotti, (1471 -- soon after invention of printing press). quoted in The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future, By Robert Darnton (2009).
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