How Long Till Death Revokes Your Library Card?
You Can Only Read So Many Books in This Lifetime. What if You Knew How Many You Had Left? Would It Matter?
“So many books, so little time,” Frank Zappa supposedly said. You can take it as longing or lament or both. Of the countless millions of books in circulation you’ll only read a fraction.
Italian novelist and polymath Umberto Eco died in 2016 at the age of 84. He owned a library in Milan that housed 30,000 books and another outs…
