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[Laurence Horn]

> On Jul 17, 2019, at 4:11 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> I don't quite understand the logic of "needing books to fill our shelves.”

They could have followed the old tradition of new money and fill the shelves with handsomely bound sets of “hollowed out decorative faux books" (cf. e.g. https://tinyurl.com/y69hyj7u).  But I agree that this is a much better solution to the problem. 

LH 

>  Typically a library would distribute the empty space over many shelves and be happy that they don't have to worry about running out of space for a long time.
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> As a coauthor with Wolfgang on the Dictionary of Modern Proverbs, I can attest that he is as great a person as he is a paremiologist.  I am glad that his book collection is being preserved.
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> Fred Shapiro
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