Ageless Literature

This is what happens when a society stops reading:

A civilization that stops reading is easy to manipulate. This is why reading has always been more than personal enrichment.

Here is the irony: We no longer need tyrants to burn books. We are abandoning them willingly. We trade deep reading for endless fragments of content. We scroll instead of study. We choose distraction over depth.

This is what happens when a society stops reading:

We’re offering a Kelmscott Press treasures medieval legend:  Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile (1894), translated and printed by William Morris. A jewel-like small-format book, beautifully preserved in original boards, capturing Kelmscott’s revival of medieval printing.

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