News Summary

• Satyajit Das is a former banker and author of numerous technical works on derivatives and several general titles.
• His latest book is on ecotourism – Wild Quests: Journeys into Ecotouristism and the Future for Animals.
• His books are cheap paperbacks.
• Some are second hand often discarded library copies as these institutions ‘revitalise,’ reducing holdings transforming into community centres or internet hubs for office-less digital piece workers.
• For some, a library is for display rather than the reading.
• There are arty bookshelves and bookends costing hundreds and thousands of dollars; stone ones with satin white speckle glaze, black-and-white marble cut at a 45-degree angle, optical glass polished to create distorted reflections depending on viewing angle.
• The shelves are utilitarian white melamine covered medium density fibreboard.
• The bookends are standard library powder coated metal fare.
• My interest is solely the content.
• It has never been about entertainment or passing time but about knowledge.
• As an emigrant who has left a life behind, I know the only thing you have is what you know and can transport within the confines of your brain.
• Everything else is transient.