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Article: BOOKS ON THE EXCESS OF BOOKS.(TRAVEL-BOOKS)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 4, 2004
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Byline: Hartford Courant -
The huge number of new books has even spawned its own books, thereby adding to it.
In September, Mexican essayist and cultural critic Gabriel Zaid published ``So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance'' (Paul Dry; 160 pages; $9.95). His short and thoughtful book points out, among many other things, that complaints about overproduction have been going on since Ecclesiastes 12:12, which reads in part: ``... of making many ...