"You can imagine the way your heart skips a small beat when you put a book under a chopper like that," he said. After the volumes are scanned, workers reattach

"You can imagine the way your heart skips a small beat when you put a book under a chopper like that," he said. After the volumes are scanned, workers reattach the spine to the pages, encase the book in shrink-wrap and, he said, "put it back in the depository for the apocalypse."