Books and Their Uses
N the last resort, if books are quite unreadable they can be used as footstools or doorstops, as missiles, or as things for drying botanical specimens between the pages of. The ancient Chinese, intelligent people that they were, took the thing a step further and printed many of their books on ‘fice paper, which was edible. The idea may seem extravagant to us at first blush, but it’s sensible enough if you stop to. think about it. For example, a man who had to eat his words might do so in tolerable comfort-from an NZBS Book Shop programme,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 21
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102Books and Their Uses New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 21
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