Introduction

Network is both used as a writing strategy and subject of narration in this publication. Interlinked narratives about institutions that present rigid and flexible qualities interweave to each other. Public library, privately-held bookstores, printshops, and readers are nodes within networks, in context of a lived, social reality. I attempt to address concerned topical interest in the Special Issue 08: network contingency, dependency, and autonomy by lense of lived stories. The vivid narratives reveal network and nodes as entities elusive to define. Rather, it's the inter-layering topological quality that defines their nature.