Andrew Carnegie

Round-Down: Reading As Luxury, or Necessity?

Round-Down: Reading As Luxury, or Necessity?

  Garbage collector Jose Gutierrez gives new meaning to the phrase “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” The 53-year-old Colombian man has been collecting children’s books out of dumps for the past twenty years in order to provide a makeshift library to the city of Bogota. He now houses over twenty-thousand titles rescued from…