Summary Of Never Do That To A Book By Fadiman

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Fadiman Introduces her opinion of various styles of the physical interaction with books in her autobiography Never Do That to a Book. During a family trip to Copenhagen, Fadiman's older brother left an open book face down on his night stand. When the family returned to the hotel from an outing, they found the book sitting on his bed. The book was closed and held a chastising note from the chambermaid on how to handle a book. Fadiman uses that memory as an opening example to how people treat their beloved books so differently. Fadiman recalls on how her family treated books in her home growing up. Describing how each altercation done to the book marks the special event that particular book was involved in. Fadiman recalls another memory of

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