What is a prized possession that you have that has little monetary value in the real world?
For me, it is a small blue hardcover edition of the Westminster dictionary, wrapped in two layers of brown paper, decorated by a faint trace of sandalwood paste mark on the front cover. I almost never use the dictionary now, like everyone else, looking up meanings of words online when I do so. However, its use had diminished even before the advent of online search.
To describe what the book means to me, I have to start at the very beginning…
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