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Cool Book Stuff!

29/11/2015

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I was surfing the net this week, when I found a post about funny, cute, and weird things found in books. Whether it be at a garage sale, or in a library book, a previous owner or reader of the book had used something special or different to mark their page.
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Why was I looking for stuff about hidden book treasures?
I have my own story to tell.

One afternoon while sitting in a school library, I had a box of new books at my feet.  I was visiting from Beattie & Forbes Booksellers and had just shown the librarian through the selection I had for the month.

While she went to check something on her computer, I picked up a book at random and absently ran my thumb across the pages, flicking through it while I waited. To my surprise, I saw something as the pages flicked by - and this is what I found.
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May you be blessed with everything good - peace, love, happiness, good health and prosperity!

Who left it there? I never found out of course.
I still have this note which I keep in my office, and I still have the $5 Australian Dollars which is worth much more to me as a good luck charm than the $ worth.
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Amazing.....

28/11/2015

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I am a lover of books and although I discourage even the bending of a page corner to mark your place, this work is spectacular.

After working in a bookstore, and talking with 1000's of customers, I know how many books can accumulate and then are sold off at book sales or dumped, or just sitting sadly on a shelf gathering dust in a garage.

This art gives unwanted books a new lease of life!
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    There's so many funny, clever, inspiring, thoughtful, things out there about books, reading and writing -         I thought I'd have somewhere to save and share the best ones....

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