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barbara fister
RT @striphas: RT @alexismadrigal: There were only 500 bookstores in 1931, none in 2/3 of American counties. http://www.theatlantic.com/technol... It was an elite's game.
June 9, 2012
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That makes sense. The so-called golden age of *reading* involved a lot lower percentage of people. Look at public library stats from the Good Old Days, and publishing stats. It's a wondrous literate past that never actually existed.
- Walt Crawford