What is the best book you have ever read?
Since the very beginning of their circulation in Europe, books have represented an incomparable good.
Be it for academic purposes or just leisure, books accompany us in our everyday life.
Let’s celebrate #WorldBookDay with some of the most beautiful libraries in our Union!
@EU_Commission Go tell it on the mountain by James Baldwin is beautiful and gets a regular reread.
Ulysses still near the top of the list 30 years after I first read it.
@EU_Commission
Well, European authorities certainly did not believe books were "an incomparable good" at the beginning. European authorities then, as now, tried desperately to regulate the new medium of print, appointing censors, banning and burning books and authors as well as printers (i.e., platforms), holding intermediaries responsible. I look forward to the EU of the year 2600 celebrating #WorldNetworkDay.
(I write about this in my book: https://gutenbergparenthesis.com/
