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A Guide to Booklegging: How (and why) to collect, preserve, and read the printed word
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A Guide to Booklegging: How (and why) to collect, preserve, and read the printed word

Semantic mountains, mind communion, and building your book monastery

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The Parisian Novels (The Yellow Books) by Vincent van Gogh, 1887

The bookleggers smuggled books to the southwest desert and buried them there in kegs. The memorizers committed to rote memory entire volumes of history, sacred writings, literature, and science, in case some unfortunate book smuggler was caught, tortured, and forced to reveal the location o…

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