Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel’s 30,000-Volume Library

My library is not a single beast but a composite of many others, a fantastic animal made up of the several libraries built and then abandoned, over and over again, throughout my life…a sort of multilayered autobiography, each book holding the moment in which I opened it for the first time.

30,000 volumes worth of moments…think about it.

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