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"What good is a book if it doesn't have any pictures or conversations?"
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"fisherman casts his net into the sea by moonlight - what he finds"
the more you look, the more you see
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"Hand of dead man writes"
"These things it’s likely may seem Minute and Trivial, but without ‘em great Things cannot subsist."
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“a strange half-mad world of quasi-material substance”
Please hold
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Libraries are for Snooping
Junk drawer, sock drawer, medicine cabinet... commonplace book
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Slow Your Roll with the Infinite Scroll
Fun with form and function!
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Here's Looking at You, Kid
Getting under the skin of rare books and manuscripts
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