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The Care & Feeding of Books

October 2, 2011January 27, 2021 ~ Kana Smith ~ 9 Comments

"Their schooling over, readers were presumably qualified to make their own additions to the books in their care."  --H.J. Jackson, in Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books "books as pets--pet dragons, maybe, or something exotic--care & feeding of your book"  --scribbled note in my own (heavily annotated) copy of Marginalia I used to starve my books, … Continue reading The Care & Feeding of Books

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