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Please, please tag each batch of books with a unique lot number, so they can be associated with a specific estate or deceased bookstore. One or more humans spent a lot of time curating those collections. If one of the lots was well curated, then anyone who finds a book that they like will want to see the other books in that lot.

Source: people who have spent years trying to find the names of the 8,000 books in R.A. Lafferty's personal library, lost after he died. About 300 title names have been recovered, https://www.ralafferty.org/tulsa-books/



This would also be good when you inevitably find letters or photographs tucked between pages.




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