Preserving all of history

Joe Palca of NPR did an interesting story a few weeks ago regarding Dan Lewis, Dibner senior curator of the History of Science and Technology at the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif. Lewis and the library are preserving old books, keeping them as they are — dog-eared pages and all. As Lewis puts it in the interview, seeing what pages the great scientists and philosophers dog-eared is a way of seeing what information they found to be most important, most meaningful. I would recommend listening to the 6 minute piece, downloadable at the link provided above.