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Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paperby Nicholson Baker

✍ Scribed by Review by: Bruce Krajewski

Book ID
125785522
Publisher
JSTOR
Year
2001
Weight
408 KB
Volume
66
Category
Article
ISSN
0277-335X

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