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Even the most avid bibliophile is a customer first and a bibliophile second and to expect them to ignore the great strides taken forward in other areas of bookselling, from the pile'em high bestseller approach of Waterstones et al to the long tail of Amazon is to push back against the tide with an old mop.— Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
While cutting old books apart might seem a bit sacrilegious to a bibliophile, the results are so delicate and beautiful - so suggestive of the other worlds that good books make real - that you'll easily forgive the iconoclasm.— The Millions

Century Dictionary (1)
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