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Ruth wrote: "I once found a slice of bacon. Bookmark?"
Oh my gawd, Ruth! You totally lived this comic strip!
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I just had my library replace a book for $6.50. A bargain! And I told them that since they were replacing the book I wanted the damaged one. Double bargain!!
Hello to Kathrynn. I once found an airline seat stub for someone going to Europe in a paperback I bought at a Salvation Army store.
Also have bought a used book or two with a dedication written on the inside cover. We have over the years purchased some older print books and that seemed to be much more of a fashion in days gone by.
Then there was that time I found the $100 monopoly bill as a bookmark left behind.
Has the amount people read increased or decreased over the last 10 years? I bet it has increased, i.e. the total word-count average per reader from all content, printed and electronic, increases year-over-year.
My library used to accept a replacement if you lost a book, but now you can't do that so I have to fork over $25 for the copy of Brave New World that my son lost. I'll KILL him! Actually I'm forcing him to pay it, he needs to learn.
To the good point I think we are reading more, I think to the bad we are probably reading less of books and magazines and newspapers than we did before the internet became full bloom.
I think the written word is in a new vehicle what with on line books and such.....just hate taking the laptop to the beach....
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