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A library

Chris Hall49 Comments

A library, a library, how exciting! Magnificent isn’t it. Beautiful, beautiful books, and so many too. Some of them are pretty old, and there are some rare ones as well.

We must be careful though. We don’t want to bend a book and we don’t want to crack a spine. Gosh, no!

So we will browse and wander around, and this will take a morning, or even longer if we want. There’s no problem, since we are pensioners, although we will need some lunch!

we are bookworm fans
it is such fun, all those books
let’s just read and read

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Image credit: Ahmet Yüksek @Unsplash

This image shows a section of a library, with multiple bookshelves stacked with beautifully bound books. There is a window next to the bookshelf with a white filmy curtain.

Written in response to Sadje‘s What Do You See #340 photo prompt.

What do you see # 340- 11 May, 2026

49 thoughts on “A library”

  9. Has lampmagician been talking to Frank? lol*

    He totally beat me to the smell of old books thing!

    Which, imo, is, next to bowling alleys, one of the most evocative and distinctive scents (not counting sandlewood incense in a 1970s college dorm room) available in the everyday world

    While I enjoy the convenience of my kindle, there is nothing like the smell of a library or a used-book store.

    *Frank so often ‘steps on my comments’ that I started taping up the camera in my monitor

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  13. Library is still refreshing for people like us. Though, the younger generation may be carried away by digital space, but physical library remains the best.

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  16. Books, books aplenty , … love the photo Chris, …and I actually cringed at the ‘crack the spine’ … yikes , … I’m sorry to confess I’ve done that as a child, …just to make it easier to read the contents, but my oh my,… never again, … 💙

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    • Tee-hee, those things we would do when we were young… 😊 But let’s not think about the past, just think about the ‘now’… and lovely, lovely BOOKS 📚 Enjoy, Penn ✨

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