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Popek, Michael.
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Popek, Michael -- Blogs.
Bookmarks -- Miscellanea.
Lost articles -- Miscellanea.
Antiquarian booksellers -- United States -- Blogs.
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Popek, Michael.
Popek, Michael -- Blogs.
Bookmarks -- Miscellanea.
Lost articles -- Miscellanea.
Antiquarian booksellers -- United States -- Blogs.
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Forgotten bookmarks : a bookseller's collection of odd things lost between the pages /
Michael
Popek
.
by
Popek
,
Michael
.
Perigee, 2011.
Call #:
790.132 P826f
Subjects
Popek
,
Michael
-- Blogs.
Bookmarks -- Miscellanea.
Lost articles -- Miscellanea.
Antiquarian booksellers -- United States -- Blogs.
ISBN:
9780399537011
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
ix, 182 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Summary:
"It's happened to all of us: we're reading a book, something interrupts us, and we grab the closest thing at hand to mark our spot. It could be a train ticket, a letter, an advertisement, a photograph, or a four-leaf clover. Eventually the book finds its way into the world-a library, a flea market, other people's bookshelves, or to a used bookstore. But what becomes of those forgotten bookmarks? What stories could they tell? By day,
Michael
Popek
works in his family's used bookstore. By night, he's the voyeuristic force behind www.forgottenbookmarks.com, where he shares the weird objects he has found among the stacks at his store. Forgotten Bookmarks is a scrapbook of
Popek
's most interesting finds. Sure, there are actual bookmarks, but there are also pictures and ticket stubs, old recipes and notes, valentines, unsent letters, four-leaf clovers, and various sordid, heartbreaking, and bizarre keepsakes. Together this collection of lost treasures offers a glimpse into other readers' lives that they never intended for us to see. "--Provided by publisher.
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