Les désordres de la bibliothèque presents a set of manual photomontages of private and public libraries, accompanied by a preliminary text from Christian Prigent and an essay on the first published photograph of a library, made by W.H.F. Talbot in 1844. What is the meaning of a library image, if not the intimate portrait of a reader and the cartography of their wanderings? In the digital era, against an academic vision of reading, the book asks: what does it mean to read today?