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"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. "--

Book history --- Antiquarian booksellers --- Bookmarks --- Lost articles --- 028 --- Articles, Lost --- Lost objects --- Objects, Lost --- Personal belongings --- Treasure troves --- Book-markers --- Book-marks --- Bookmarkers --- Books --- Antiquarian book trade --- Antiquarian bookstores --- Secondhand book trade --- Secondhand booksellers --- Secondhand bookstores --- Used book trade --- Used bookstores --- Antiques --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Secondhand trade --- Book collecting --- Bookstores --- Out-of-print books --- 028 Lezen. Lectuur --- Lezen. Lectuur --- Want lists --- Popek, Michael

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"At the end of the eighteenth century, noblemen and revolutionaries spent extravagant sums of money or precious military resources competing to acquire old books, which until then had often been regarded as worthless. These books, called incunabula, achieved cultural and political importance as luxury commodities and as tools for mastering a controversial past. Men of different classes met in a new, shared marketplace, creating a competition for social authority, as books were no longer seen merely as sources of textual information but as a way of controlling the past in the service of contemporary concerns. The old books themselves were often changed to meet new expectations of what important historic objects should be. Focusing on Paris and London, but taking a resolutely pan-European view, this book examines the emergence of this commodity and of a new historical discipline created by traders and craftsmen"--

Book history --- Book acquisition --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- 093 <09> --- 093 =20 --- Geschiedenis van de incunabeldruk --- Incunabelen. Incunabelkunde--Engels --- 093 <09> Geschiedenis van de incunabeldruk --- Antiquarian booksellers --- Book collecting --- Books and reading --- Enlightenment --- Incunabula --- Printing --- Printing, Practical --- Typography --- Graphic arts --- Early printed books --- Cradle books (Early printed books) --- Incunables --- Books --- Appraisal of books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Bibliophily --- Book selection --- Collectors and collecting --- Bibliomania --- Antiquarian book trade --- Antiquarian bookstores --- Secondhand book trade --- Secondhand booksellers --- Secondhand bookstores --- Used book trade --- Used bookstores --- Antiques --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Secondhand trade --- Bookstores --- Out-of-print books --- History --- Social aspects --- Social aspects&delete& --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Want lists --- Europe --- Intellectual life --- book history --- reading culture