Virtual Libraries Quotes

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

It's not progress to take books off shelves. If one more person says this [ebooks] is the new Gutenberg, I will probably commit homicide, because the whole point of Gutenberg was to put books on shelves, not to take them off.

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.

The Internet is merely a new means of communication, that's all it is. It serves the purpose of getting information, which it is fantastic at. I mean, I live by the Internet in terms of research and it's incredible - there's nothing that you can't find out about. It's not stopped me going to bookshops but I must say that I don't go into as many because any book I want.

I read loads. There's quite a lot of stuff online.

Technology has such an impact on libraries in the last 20 years, and the last 10 years in particular.

Books which are no books.