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Nicholson Baker is best known as a writer who?s generated controversy with the explicit novels ?Vox? and ?The Fermata.? His newfound passion is preserving old newspapers. He discovered that almost all major libraries have been microfilming old papers and discarding the originals. He believes part of our history is lost in the process. Baker?s new book, ?Double Fold,? is an attack on the high-tech orientation of major libraries. He?s created the American Newspaper Repository in an old mill building in Rollinsford, NH as a place to store old papers that would otherwise have been thrown away or sold for profit.