Our container of 50,000 books landed in Yangon’s pouring rain, then trucked to Myanmar Book Centre and eased up tightly against the building. Day laborers clambered inside each giant gaylord box and passed books to waiting hands which deftly sorted them into subject categories. An efficient operation, it exhausted our volunteers and paid staff. They must sub-divide the great stacks into numerous smaller piles for bagging and distribution directly to town and village libraries, and set-aside books suitable for the [...]