On the other hand (there are a lot of hands)
old obscure books that were once hard to find are now easy to find in e-book format.
On FB there is a very active Lutheran / Calvin discussion group, and I personally help translate Luther quotes from
more obscure books for a Calvinist, when he needs that in his research.
Food historian Dave DeWitt has
searched obscure books and magazines to uncover the story of BBQ that most people don't know about.
If we have all of those books available and available at reasonable prices and to everyone across the world and on most platforms where reading is possible — Well, that would mean a lot more than having 20 million
obscure books available in a context that is not suited to reading.
He was an essayist, writer of manifestos, commender
of obscure books, critic of the New York Times, chronicler of the passing scene, defender of the magisterium, and, above all, teacher of the gospel.
I can't believe that CNN's lead article on Easter is about an idea from
an obscure book that hardly anyone will read.
• José Maria de Eça de Queirós, The City and the Mountains: Perhaps not
an obscure book or author at all, but generally overlooked in the Anglophone world; a wisely humorous and lovely paean to the Portuguese countryside, and the final great work of a majestically talented novelist.
A fan of independent films and
obscure books.
It's not as if Mr. Griffin was
some obscure book; it had been tapped for NBC movie treatment in 1997 (airing six months before I Know opened) with a cast that included TV veterans Scott Bairstow, Amy Jo Johnson, Mario Lopez, Jay Thomas, and a not yet famous Michelle Williams.
As for his methods, he wrote, «It is my habit to buy cheap editions of old,
obscure books and see what I can discover there.
You can download
an obscure book, but how would you know to?
Obscured books, construction supplies, and other objects are stacked and framed carefully, with hints of domestic space and narrative lurking behind each.
The clue to those being dead ends came from
an obscure book chapter written by science historian Naomi Oreskes».