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The Library as a Tool: Notes in the Margins

The Library as a Tool: Notes in the Margins

Exhibition

The Library as a Tool: Notes in the Margins

Ivan Franko Literary Memorial Museum24 June 2026 — 24 June 2027Літературно-меморіальний музей Івана Франка

Books in several languages with working annotations. Here the library is not decoration but a workbench: the pages that mattered are looser than the rest.

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Reading as Work, Not as Leisure

This library is closer to a workshop than to a drawing room.

The Question Mark Appears More Often Than the Underline

The commonest note is not agreement but doubt.

The Notes Were Neither Erased nor Restored

The pencil is fading, but reinforcing it was refused.

A Dictionary Whose Consonant Pages Are Loose

The wear is uneven, and that in itself is evidence.

The Library as a Tool: Books with Their Owner's Notes

Two hundred volumes in six languages, and almost every one carries pencil in the margins.

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