Weekly Writers: Random Digressions

I do love a good digression ... or even one by Karl

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Random Digressions

When I was doing my MSc in librarianship I learnt about the five laws of library science proposed by Ranganathan, and the second and third stuck in my head. “Every reader their book, and every book its reader.” A good library will help the reader find the exact book they need. You can replace “library” with “bookshop”. The problem for librarians and booksellers is that it’s impossible for us to know about every book, and therefore the perfect book for me as a reader may be one I don’t know about. But that won’t stop my quest to find it. And the next. And the one after that.