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I do love second-hand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day came he opened to “I hate to read new books” and I hollered “comrade!” to whoever owned it before me.
I love inscriptions on fly-leaves, and notes in margins. I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.
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