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Unusual Bookmarks

From the NYTimes Paper Cuts blog comes this amusing story about unusual items left in books:

A few weeks ago in the Book Review, Henry Alford wrote about strange things found stashed (and smashed) inside books, from money and photographs to baby?s teeth, insect corpses and pieces of superannuated bacon.

Bacon. Really?

Out in the blogosphere, there seems to be a lot of skepticism about the bacon bookmark meme ? or ?urban legend,? if you prefer. The most detailed discussion I could find, a 2006 essay on the aptly named site Bibliobuffet, mentions numerous sightings of errant breakfast meat in libraries from Florida to Nebraska (the earliest known bacon-in-books sighting was in an Omaha library) to Washington State and beyond, but no first-hand accounts from librarians, let alone testable lab samples of ?book jerky.?

Read more at the Paper Cuts blog.

Full post as published by LexLibris on January 16, 2009 (boomark / email).