Library
Talking Points Memo, my favorite source of political news, has a rave review of my favorite living classicist's new book: Libraries in the Ancient World, by Lionel Casson.
Reading Casson, or Russell Meiggs' Roman Ostia, or Conrad Russell's Crisis of Parliaments, is a fine antidote to the sloppy stuff that people have been offering up on hypertext and weblog theory lately. On days like today, when the hypertext scholarship is especially dismal, I miss rigor and precision.