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"The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu" is not really about those librarians (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 month ago by howler@lemmy.zip to c/books@lemmy.ml

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It's mainly about the war in Mali, how it got to that point, and even some of the people that participated in it got more "page-time" than the librarians (around a 90% of the book, I'd dare say). Who are basically a single man.

I really wanted to read about saving manuscripts, so I'm very disappointed.

I wouldn't say that the book is bad, it's just that the title is clickbait material.

If any of y'all know of other books that REALLY talk about saving/protecting/restoring documents, please do tell me the titles!

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[–] howler@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Thank you!!!