#library is a place for books!

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hanja on the en side of the vocab set has backfired, by now i actually recognize a good chunk of them so i read the prompt and know which word it is just from the characters.

[escapismsworld]

The Vibrant Doors of Lisbon

[gluten-free-lap-dances]

Cuypers Library, Amsterdam

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@ Francis Meslet

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best notification possible

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ig credit: _bibliotherapy

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When I was little, we got a huge custom library to hold all our books, and we had to measure the books for the right sizes to fit in the shelves.

Parents tried to stick to categories, like the Pratchett’s, Neil Gaiman’s, Political, Czech and Comics, but we also ended up with categories like small books and big books.

From that I learned multiple things.

The Neil Gaiman books were much more fun to sort through when I could see them all, and I started to read them with almost the same enthusiasm as the Discworld series

The Big Books were usually scary and boring, and hard to hide under the bedsheets when it was past my bedtime and parents came to check what the light peeking from under the door was.

The small books were fun. They were all old, and thin, and some even fit in the pocket of my shirt. I could never finish them, but I felt smart reading them, and people didn’t notice when I read them, so they couldn’t tell me that I was too small for them.

(my parents never did say that. My mum still remembered when she had to borrow books for her younger sister of seven years, because the librarian wouldn’t let her read them as she was “too little”)

The last thing I learned was that gravity still works even for little kids, and it hurts a lot when you fall from the chair you’re standing on with a stack of books on you.

The thing I’m learning now is that I’ll never read all the books we have, because there will always be more, and I’m mostly okay with that.

[wayward-banana]

second play through going well. very serious game

[arc-hus]

Grand Canyon Bookstore, Nujiang, China - TAO (Trace Architecture Office)

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Sensory Overload.jpeg

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[escapismsworld]

The Vibrant Doors of Lisbon Part 2

[gluten-free-lap-dances]

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 01.2025

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Trinity College Library

Dublin, Ireland, 25 VI 2023

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Apparently in the Middle Ages they used to draw these little pointing fingers in the margins of books called “manicules” that would highlight important passages. These are rad we should bring this back.