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Small books, placed in dark corners. For borrowers.
The Borrowers
http://www.sfsite.com/09b/bor41.htm For Bristolz [yamahito, May 25 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
(?) The Borrowers
http://community.wo...olio/Borrowers.html for everyone [neelandan, May 25 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
(?) Pocket Books
http://www.octagamm...inibook/minbook.htm A short history of miniature books going back to the Middle Ages. [jurist, May 26 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
(?) Downsizing Your Library
http://www.tuttlebooks.com/minibooks.htm One place to start your collection of little literary gems. [jurist, May 26 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
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Until now they've been limited to reading the microtext on paper currency. |
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Maybe I haven't had enough sleep yet. I don't understand this one. |
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<later, after links were posted> Ah. Thank you. Looks like something my daughter would like. |
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With print that small, neelandan, I would hope that you'd move those mini-tomes to a better lighted spot. We don't want those Borrowers to sue you for malicious eye-strain. |
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I don't think they read these little books, they stand on them to reach stuff. |
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That would explain the literacy rate amongst Borrowers I have known. Somehow, I think Swift imagined a slightly more enlightened Lilliputian intelligentsia. |
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po: They have to start reading! This is an effort to make reading stuff available. |
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jurist: Borowers do not read those books on the spot. They borrow them, and will read them at leisure. And Mary Norton, not Swift. |
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