Why keep one?
Mar 17, 2022
1 minute
▶ Early scrapbookers believed you read more attentively for keeping one. US president Thomas Jefferson and novelist Louisa were early enthusiasts. The latter claimed her copious clippings helped inform her novels: “The habit of reading with a pair of scissors in my hand has stood me in good stead for much of my literary work.”
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