From the guests 'comments, we can summarize a few key points. In Taiwan in the 1940s and 1950s, there were great material shortages. Chiang Ping-kun, who studied amidst air raids in WWⅡ, mostly borrowed books from people; he would read all night, because he had to return them the next day. This kind of childhood environment made him cherish books like gold, and treat time as something precious.
台灣社會的富足隨時間而成長，從訪談中可以歸納出，三十年代至四十年代的台灣，物質最為困乏，江丙坤曾在空襲中念書、也曾向人借書閱讀整夜，因為第二天必須歸還，這樣的成長環境使得他惜書如金，也惜時如寶。