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There’s a letter today in the New York Times, responding to Sergey Brin’s op-ed from last week:
To the Editor:
Re “A Library to Last Forever” (Op-Ed, Oct. 9):
Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, writes, “Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice — fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.”
Fly??? I’m pretty sure I can e-mail a reference librarian and ask her to check holdings before I do anything so drastic as fly. Hasn’t this guy ever heard of the Internet?
Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Danbury, Conn., Oct. 9, 2009The writer is a novelist.
I wrote in, too, but they picked the right letter.
Hat tip: Michael Froomkin
