no. 1126

 For living beings like us who live for only around 100 years and die, there’s the need for something that connects the past and the future.

Fortunately, people have writing.

When only relying on passing it down orally, there’s always the fear of turning it vague and changing the past and thinking it is the reality. 

By recording it in books, a lot of knowledge can remain into the future. 

That’s why books must not be disposed of like old tools and unnecessary things, and the people who are in charge of them must be specialists.

Therefore, libraries and librarians are necessary, and even librarians shouldn’t be choosing which books are useful and which are useless.

But well, it is true that there’s a limit to how many books a library can hold.

So there will be selectiveness by necessity though.

If reality could be ignored and we could take ideals, librarians would definitely want to have an infinite collection.

It goes without saying, but the action of deeming a book unnecessary or burning it because it is of a specific genre or ideology is not a good thing.

Azumi Kei, from the web novel Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu