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"The OPA man, Anderson Dawes, was sitting on a cloth folding chair outside Miller's hole, reading a book. It was a real book - onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent."
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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."
"Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try."
"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."
"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"
"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000."
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