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Originally Posted by Cthulhu
@Yvan: a knife to read books? Thought that all the cellulose-devotees were big on preserving books. ;-)
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Books used to come "uncut" -- that is the pages were not separate from each other at the edges. In order to read them you had to cut the pages apart.
Have a look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:U...k_p1190369.jpg, and here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book#Bookbinding