{"product_id":"the-dark-library-paperback","title":"The Dark Library - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCyrille Martinez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJoseph Patrick Stancil\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLibraries are magical places. But what if they're even more magical than we know?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Cyrille Martinez's library, the books are alive: not just their ideas or their stories, but the books themselves. Meet the Angry Young Book, who has strong opinions about who reads what and why. He's tired of people reading bestsellers, so he places himself on the desks of those who might appreciate him. Meet the Old Historian who mysteriously vanished from the stacks. Meet the Blue Librarian, the Mauve Librarian, the Yellow Librarian, and spend a day with the Red Librarian trying to banish coffee cups and laptops.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThen one day there are no empty desks anywhere in the Great Library. A great horde of student workers has descended, and they will scan every single book in the library: the much-borrowed, the neglected, the popular, the obscure. What will happen to the library then? Will it still be necessary?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dark Library\u003c\/i\u003e is a theoretical fiction, a meditation on what libraries mean in our digital world. Has the act of reading changed? What is a reader? A book? Martinez, a librarian himself, has written a love letter to the urban forest of the dark, wild library, where ideas and stories roam free.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.5 x 4.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 10, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769087394080,"sku":"9781552454077","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/fc6af2ce4bae92341016125b7c7ec4f2.webp?v=1780342115","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-dark-library-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}