THIS IS THE PLACE

If you’re a Reader with a capital R.

 

If you’re curious.

 

If you have scraps stuffed into drawers and pockets and notebooks because something about the words or the paper or the font or the smell just grabbed you. If you like colorful illustrations or stark black-and-white line drawings. If you ever needed to know how exactly to make Grandmother Fairbanks’ Orange Cake (Warning: You’re going to need three tins). Or what time Engine 3558 left Reading Station on May 1, 1932. If you wondered what really happened at the proceedings of the North American Hawk Migration Conference of 1974. If you want just one more edition of Little Women. If you can’t bear to throw away a bookmark. If you want a gift for someone that says “I found this and thought of you because I think you’re pretty awesome” and not “I bought this in Aisle 17 which is why it reeks of sadness.”

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But especially if you’re a Reader.