Ramsgate, not Rumsgate: sorry! According to the one newspaper story I've found that explains this photo, the woman with her back to us in the photo lost her job at a bookshop, so set up a competing lending library: a "walking library," as she called it.

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Truly, what an honor to be part of this cohort of books—every one a banger. We’re all celebrating together on Oct. 23 with the American Studies Association’s DH Caucus. Come join!

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Dr. Olaf Senftleben, Leiter des Instituts für Aussichtstürme

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s/scribant/scribunt/g (Transcription error)

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The scribe Eadberct's complaint: "Qui nescit scribere putat hoc esse nullum laborem: tres digiti scribant, totum corpus laborat." St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 243; Collectio canonum hibernensis; 1st half of the 9th century; St. Gall; p.254 (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

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