Readers long agoSourced
Didn't like those chapters?
Glue the pages shut.
An eighteenth-century reader objected to parts of Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey. They glued pages together, later pulled them apart and blacked out passages they disliked.
A personal copy became
a record of its reader's protest.
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