The Doodads Tucked Inside of Books

While I was out walking my two miles (doctor's orders), I thought of the different books I've opened, and the different items tucked inside their pages. For example, recently a list of heart meds/times a fellow was taking filtered out of a Western I'd checked out from the library. The list was a Xerox, and he'd obviously cut out a bunch of them as reminders. Then once I found the crayoned pages torn from a kid's coloring book lodged in a novel I'd purchased in Bermuda. The page may've had sentimental value for somebody in the past. I've heard of absent-minded folks sticking banknotes and checks into books, though none of those have come my way. Cardboard bookmarks are fairly common. Or those crinkly paper slips of the titles printed out by the other library patrons. A business card for a tree service came from a book along with chewing gum wrappers, both used as placemarkers. I've even run across the lucky four-leaf clovers pressed between book pages.
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Published on January 28, 2011 01:55 Tags: books, libraries, reading
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