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October 14th, 2005

E-books displacing paper books at the U. Arizona library

By David Rothman

“Actual non-electronic books have been, for the most part, relegated to the upper floors of the library, but they’ve become the library equivalent of ghost towns where only those running away from something dare to tread.”- Arizona Daily Wildcat.

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