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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no measure of limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an author; some out of vanity, to acquire celebrity and raise up a name, others for the sake of lucre and gain.

Martin Luther, Table Talk (1566)
2w ago

Gray literature's high and narrow window onto specialist processes is anathema to traditional general-interest non-fiction publishing, which delivers information like a tap dispenses safely managed water—filtered, chlorinated, and piped into your very own quarters. Gray literature is a sploshing bucket of someone else's water, murky with unfamiliar vocabulary, its means of application not always entirely obvious.

3mo ago

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