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2008-11-16

We at Plucker Books realize that perhaps in the past we have given the "it's all good" alert a few too many times. This time, though, we are entirely sincere. (Not that we weren't before. It's just, well, we're human.)

We've made a number of site updates, including fixing a number of outstanding (and annoyingly recurring...) site navigation issues. These should be fixed for good now. We apologize for any inconvenience.

We've also taken the time to add a few improvements to the site, including some more prominent syndication links for the various RSS feeds we offer, indicated by the little orange icons that look like this: – as well as some ShareThis links to allow you to submit your favorite Plucker Books links to various social media sites.

We hope you enjoy these enhancements. Thank you for your continued support of Plucker Books.

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You see, books contain the thoughts and dreams of men, their hopes and strivings and all their immortal parts. It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is.

Haunted Bookshop, The
by Christopher Morley

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“...private libraries, however large, are apt to contain only the classical works of quite exceptional men and the less important works which happen to be specially interesting or useful to the owner. But in a public library the treasures and the rubbish of the literary world are alike hoarded; and the works of exceptional men whom everybody remembers are lumped in with the works of all their less distinguished cousins and great-uncles, whose names the world of readers has forgotten.”

— John Fiske, “A Librarian's Work”
The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XXXVIII
Issue CCXXVIII, Oct. 1876, p. 485

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