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Plain Values Podcast

Plain Values Podcast

On Books and the Library of Congress - Minute with Marlin EP #18

Plain Values Podcast · Sep 8, 2026 · 1:58

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A tech company is scanning millions of old, rare books and then destroying them in the name of technological advancement.


What happens when we destroy real things and replace them with digital versions? We will never again know the originals.


Marlin shares of his love of books and the libraries that hold them. The Library of Congress is the biggest library in the world with 164 million items preserved in its walls.

Marlin hopes to walk amongst those pages one day and would love to know which of his listeners have already been.

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