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Have you ever been curious about libraries? Have you ever wondered when the first public library was founded? Which are the oldest in the world? Have you ever been curious about the books in the library? Would you like to know what the first books published in given language were, or perhaps what are the oldest extant written texts in a given language?

Facts such as these, and more besides, including when the first computer database was used in a library, the titles of varying books of different shapes and sizes, the most costly books published and, of course, the...

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