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One for the BOOKS

Years ago, I bought an old, illustrated book from our General Assembly Library in Melbourne, of all places, puzzled at what a book with such a fancy library stamp was doing there.

That’s what we do with old books our taxes paid for, I realised. We delete them. Quietly.

A book on peasant costumes in France from the 1930s had no world-shattering reason

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