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Sometimes it's as simple as "Once upon a time ... " These Carter books always had Edgar Rice Burroughs as a narrator in it.

So many books about war say the same thing, that nothing brings people together like war.

But you see those books you just signed for my wife and my three daughters?"

Ladies and gentlemen, I have devoted the past 25 years of my life to designing books.

And lo and behold, soon enough, I was able to put this theory to the test on two books that I was working on for Knopf.

Not long after it came out, Augusten was waylaid in an airport and he was hiding out in the bookstore spying on who was buying his books.

Do you know what John Updike used to do the first thing when he would get a copy of one of his new books from Alfred A. Knopf?

All those years, all those books, he never got tired of it.

And sometimes afterwards I'll stick around and sign books and take photos with students.

And a lot of us resonate with this phrase, we see it in religions and self-help books: money can't buy happiness.

They post projects like, "I want to teach Huckleberry Finn and we don't have the books," or, "I want a microscope to teach my students science and we don't have a microscope."

It helps them suggest books for me to read or movies for my family to watch or friends for us to connect with.

And as a result of that, I grew up with books everywhere around the house.

And I mean books everywhere around the house.

And that's actually a shop in Calcutta, but it's a place where we like our books.

But growing up as a child with the books around everywhere, with people to talk to about those books, this wasn't a sort of slightly learned thing.

By the time I was 18, I had a deep passion for books.

We've all trained ourselves to perform these utterly miraculous feats of memory using a set of ancient techniques, techniques invented 2,500 years ago in Greece, the same techniques that Cicero had used to memorize his speeches, that medieval scholars had used to memorize entire books."

We spent an afternoon together in the Salt Lake City Public Library memorizing phone books, which was scintillating.

Early digital culture, and indeed, digital culture to this day, had a sense of, I would say, lefty, socialist mission about it, that unlike other things that have been done, like the invention of books, everything on the internet must be purely public, must be available for free, because if even one person cannot afford it, then that would create this terrible inequity.

If books cost money, you can have public libraries.

So if you're in book publishing, you thought you were in book publishing because of these things called books.

Well, you can still sell novels without books.

So there's about 130 million books that have been written since the dawn of time.

I'm not just talking about laws on the books, but laws as they are enforced on the streets and laws as they are decided in the courts.

Everything we know about Archimedes as a mathematician we know about because of just three books, and they're called A, B and C.

He erased all of their texts, and then he cut the sheets down in the middle, he shuffled them up, and he rotated them 90 degrees, and he wrote prayers on top of these books.

He did this because he understands data as well as books.

Now the thing to do with books, if you want to ensure their long-term utility, is to hide them away in closets and let very few people look at them.

Now, I gotta tell you, I'm always reading books about explorers.

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