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bibliophibious:

This strikes as being very accurate indeed.

I’ve helped at least four of the five pictured here.

bibliophibious:

This strikes as being very accurate indeed.

I’ve helped at least four of the five pictured here.

(Source: imabookglutton)

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    Not pictured: Civil War reenactor.
  7. szerepportal reblogged this from bibliophibious and added:
    Book lovers are strange :-)
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    I’ve helped at least four of the five pictured here.
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    This strikes as being very accurate indeed.
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    i like to think that i’m a weird librarian and some of my patrons are pretty weird (especially this past week or maybe...
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Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈnɒvlti/ , U.S. /ˈnɑvəlti/

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French novelté new situation (c1160 in Old French), Middle French, French nouveauté innovation, change (1280), character of that which is new (1280), something new (end of the 14th cent.), fashionable finery or fabric (1694), (plural) fabric of an unusual colour or design (1868) < novelnovel adj. + -té-ty suffix1.

a. Something new, not previously experienced, unusual, or unfamiliar; a novel thing.

b. A new custom or practice; an innovation.

c. Usu. in pl. News; tidings. Obs.

d. Innovation in thought or belief; heresy; (also) an instance of this.

e. An often useless or trivial but decorative or amusing object, esp. one relying for its appeal on the newness of its design.

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