Not gonna lie, I’ve always adored a good compendium. You’ll find an ecclectic assortment of collected works and unabridged journals on my shelves—Shakespeare, Borges, Plath, and Leonardo da Vinci come to mind. I was trained on the Illustrated Wildlife Treasury—a green plastic box of collect-them-all animal cards in the 1980s. After reading, alphabetizi…
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