The Booklover and His Books: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Booklover and His Books, credited to Henry Lyman Koopman, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Booklover and His Books by Henry Lyman Koopman. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. This book about books was written by Harry Lyman Koopman, who served as the head librarian for Brown University from 1893 to 1930. Published in 1917, the volume is dedicated “To the authors and their printers who have given us the books that we love.” A collection of essays about many different aspects of books, Koopman describes it this way in the preface: “The following chapters were written during a series of years as one aspect after another of the Book engaged the writer's attention. As they are now brought together, the result is not a systematic treatise, but rather a succession of views of one many-sided subject.” Any booklover will enjoy browsing this wide variety of essays that range from a discussion of the value and privilege of reading, to spelling reform, to aspects of the book as a physical object and a work of art. - Summary by Verla Viera

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Booklover and His Books
• Author credits: Henry Lyman Koopman
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 5:34:33

Catalogue topics

• books
• reading
• booklovers
• book design
• spelling reform

Track guide

1. 01 - Books and Booklovers — 10:19
2. 02 - Fitness in Book Design — 8:45
3. 03 - Print as an Interpreter of Meaning — 8:34
4. 04 - Favorite Book Sizes — 17:49
5. 05 - The Value of Reading, to the Public and to the Individual — 9:39
6. 06 - The Book of To-day and the Book of To-morrow — 9:44
7. 07 - A Constructive Critic of the Book — 12:45
8. 08 - Books as a Librarian Would Like Them — 10:08
9. 09 - The Book Beautiful — 24:39
10. 10 - The Reader’s High Privilege — 31:28
11. 11 - The Background of the Book — 22:32
12. 12 - The Chinese Book — 9:23
13. 13 - Thick Paper and Thin — 10:05
14. 14 - The Clothing of a Book — 12:15
15. 15 - Parchment Bindings — 4:48
16. 16 - Lest We Forget the Few Great Books — 24:54
17. 17 - Printing Problems for Science to Solve — 9:05
18. 18 - Types and Eyes: The Problem — 24:34
19. 19 - Types and Eyes: Progress — 10:25
20. 20 - Exceptions to the Rule of Legibility — 8:54
21. 21 - The Student and the Library — 10:36
22. 22 - Orthographic Reform — 13:01
23. 23 - The Perversities of Type — 19:51
24. 24 - A Secret of Personal Power — 10:20

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