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A pile of books and papers, compiled yet unread. Tsundoku (積ん読) is the phenomenon of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them.
Tsundoku is a Japanese practice that involves acquiring books—likely more than you could ever read—and letting them pile up around you. The term actually combines two different words: tsunde ...
The pile remaining after each division must contain an integral number of coconuts. If there were only one such division, then it is readily apparent that 5 · 1+1=6 is a solution. In fact any multiple of five plus one is a solution, so a possible general formula is 5 · k – 4, since a multiple of 5 plus 1 is also a multiple of 5 minus 4. So ...
After the book was added to the library in 1914, it was checked out and was one of a third of its books to survive a fire the next year. The book had been returned to the library in 1916. After its later century-long loan it was deemed too delicate to return to circulation. [50] Shakespeare’s Life of King Henry the Fifth: William Shakespeare
“The books are sitting out on tables, they’re being boxed up and discarded,” Ms Clark tells The Independent. “It’s just it’s a really sad sight. “It’s just it’s a really sad sight.
Because books are made from a variety of materials, conservators may also need to employ techniques and experience relating to the conservation of leather, parchment, papyrus, or fabric conservation. The main objective of cleaning is to achieve clarity of surface detail. [57] Books and documents may be subjected to different types of cleaning.
Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture. New York: HarperCollins, 2001. ISBN 0-06-019695-5. Among the Gently Mad: Perspectives and Strategies for the Book Hunter in the 21st Century. New York: Holt, 2002. ISBN 0-8050-5159-7. A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World ...
The Sailor's Word-Book of 1867 defines a bollard in a more specific context as "a thick piece of wood on the head of a whale-boat, round which the harpooner gives the line a turn, in order to veer it steadily, and check the animal's velocity". [1] [6] Bollards on ships, when arranged in pairs, may also be referred to as "bitts". [7] [8]