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 | But the common element was a sense that someone's book collection is an intimate portrait of their interests and/or aspirations, and can have a profound effect on others' perceptions - to the point of being a romantic deal-breaker. |
| This narrative pits books against the internet, as though the latter either follows the former in some ineluctable evolution, or else the latter is a predatory force out to destroy culture as we know it. |
| The cultural currency of books should not be conflated with the economics of producing them, such that a challenge to the latter is narrated as a collapse of the former. |
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Book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2908 words) |
| A book may be studied by students in the form of a book report. |
| This greatly influenced the importance of books through the Middle Ages, and is why the clergy were the predominant readers of books. |
| While a small collection of books, or one to be used by a small number of people, can be stored in any way convenient to the owners, including a standard bookcase, a large or public collection requires a catalogue and some means of consulting it. |
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