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Found in Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel* by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Found in Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel* by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Found in The Rationalists: Descartes: Discourse on Method & Meditations; Spinoza: Ethics; Leibniz: Monadology & Discourse on Metaphysics*

Found in Poems From the Sandskrit*, Penguin Classics L198.

Found in Alice Im Wunderland* by Lewis Carroll

I just came across a new book called Forgotten Bookmarks.* It is a collection of bookmarks found over the years by a book dealer named Michael Popek.

He also has a blog with images of some of these bookmarks. So my “things found in books” is hardly original. Since I have found different things in my books, it seems worthwhile to post them anyway.

My friend Matt keeps track of what he uses to mark his books

Hmmm … it turns out several people have at least been listing the things they have found in books:

• geekchick
• swissarmylibrarian

And if you happen to leave something in a book you return to the Burlington Massachusetts Public Library, they may mount it on a bulletin board so you can claim it the next time you are in. But they do not display “inappropriate pictures.” Alas. Something tells me a librarian in Burlington is collecting these for private use.

Found in A Light in the Attic* by Shel Silverstein.

Found in A Light in the Attic* by Shel Silverstein.

Found in My Life* by Leon Trotsky.

Found in The Cinema as Art* by Ralph Stephenson and Jean R. Debrix.

Found in Player One* by Douglas Coupland.

Found in The Cinema as Art* by Ralph Stephenson and Jean R. Debrix.

Found in The Cinema as Art* by Ralph Stephenson and Jean R. Debrix.

Found in War and Peace in the Global Village* by Marshall McLuhan

Found in V. (Perennial Classics)* by Thomas Pynchon.

Found in Young Adam* by Alexander Trocchi