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PugJesus@piefed.socialM to HistoryPhotos@piefed.socialEnglish · 4 months ago

Archivist with giant books at the Clementium, Czechia (then Czechoslovakia), Prague, 1958

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Archivist with giant books at the Clementium, Czechia (then Czechoslovakia), Prague, 1958

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PugJesus@piefed.socialM to HistoryPhotos@piefed.socialEnglish · 4 months ago
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    IIRC these are choir books. You put them in front of the choir gor everyone to see. It was cheaper than having a small book for everyone.

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      I was guessing it was a Brandon Sanderson book

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      Maybe a very small choir? One in which nobody was significantly near-sighted?

      But it does make sense I guess, before printing presses were more commonly available. Or something like that.

    • HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social
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      Definitely looks like sheet music. I kinda want one.

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    I like big books and I cannot lie
    The librarians won’t deny

  • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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    Every so often I see something wild from Prague like these giant books or that crazy filing system and feel like I have a slightly better idea of why Kafka was writing about these crazy bureaucracies

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      This is just the folio size section of any research library holding old books. There is nothing specifically Czech about that picture, it could have been taken in any research library in the world.

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    Maybe someone should admit he needs better glasses before printing books at 300% zoom?

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    Wearing a suit when a gym outfit might be more fitting for the heft of that book.

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    Okay, but why does it look like he could be in Alice and Wonderland with his huge those books are?

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      He’s incredibly late

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