Against Amazon : and other essays /
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| Language: | English Spanish |
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Windsor, Ontario :
Biblioasis,
2020.
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| Series: | Biblioasis international translation series ;
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Against Amazon: Seven Arguments · A Manifesto
- I. Because I don't want to be an accomplice to symbolic expropriation
- II. Because we are all cyborgs, but not robots
- III. Because I reject hypocrisy
- IV. Because I don't want to be an accomplice to a new empire
- V. Because I don't want them to spy on me while I am reading
- VI. Because I defend being slow yet quick, and relatively close
- VII. Because I'm not ingenuous
- Best Bookshops in the World Aren't the Ones You Think They Are
- Journey to the End of the Light: Walking around London with Iain Sinclair
- I. Home
- II. Stroll
- III. Taxi
- World's Most Important Libraries Aren't the Ones You Think They Are
- Before and After Borges
- I Dismantle My Library
- I. First Library
- II. Universities
- III. My Library is falling to pieces but it is still my memory
- Legendary Bookshops of David B.
- From Little Havana to Miamizuela
- My Bookish Buenos Aires: An interview with Alberto Manguel in the National Library of Argentina
- That Conundrum We Call a Bookshop
- Fictional Libraries
- I. Common Heritage
- II. Library of Alonso el Quijano, el Bueno
- III. Library on the Nautilus
- IV. Library of Babel
- Dogs of Capri
- I. Selfie House
- II. Under the Volcano
- III. Sea in Miniature
- In Defence of Bookshops
- Bookshops: Second-hand Versus New · A Conversation with Luigi Amara
- Bookshops Are Being Reinvented in Tokyo
- Against Bibliophilia
- Where Does Paper End and Screen Begin? A Journey to Seoul Beset by Questions
- Future of Libraries
- I. Book Burning
- II. Social Vocation
- III. Future I sin the Past.