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A review by birdwithsword
Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge by Richard Ovenden
informative
inspiring
sad
slow-paced
3.25
Interesting topic, but can slip into droning a bit, although it improves as the book goes on. Could also have done without many of the endless references to the Bodleian. Still, I learned a lot about libraries I'd have never heard of otherwise.