How Ben Franklin Invented the Library as We Know It. Books were rare and expensive in colonial America, but the founding father had an idea. by Sariel007 Related: How do YOU rate books? Replay – Ken Grimwood 1986 – Book Club Questions [spoilers] Looking for a book since 7 years Doing an audiobook of ‘Ulysses’ by James Joyce – 9 hours into it (struggling a bit to get through it) here are my thoughts so far… Famous authors getting invovled in translations of their books?