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Reading Between the Lines
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Reading Between the Lines

There is an intimacy in reading a book that’s already been read. As if you’re tracing the ghost of someone’s thoughts, placing your hands on the pages where someone’s fingers once lingered, reading the same words that possibly moved them. Every crack on the spine, even dog-eared page, every occasional scribble of thoughts on the margins has another story to tell. The scent of the old pages carries the minds of the people who wandered through the same chapters, of hands that held it before yours. To read a used book is to read two stories at once, to inherit the remains of someone’s emotions, and to revel in the experience of someone you perhaps never knew.

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