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Name:

bookwyrm

Location:

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Birthdate:

1975-08-11

Bio:

Once the bookcases were seated and screwed into the walls, out came the
books, thousands of them, tens of thousands of them.

Little kids' books with loose signatures, ancient first-edition
hardcovers, outsized novelty art books, mass-market paperbacks, reference
books as thick as cinderblocks. They were mostly used when he'd gotten
them, and that was what he loved most about them: They smelled like other
people and their pages contained hints of their lives: marginalia and pawn
tickets, bus transfers gone yellow with age and smears of long-ago meals.
When he read them, he was in three places: his living room, the authors'
heads, and the world of their previous owners.

They came off his shelves at home, from the ten-by-ten storage down on the
lakeshore, they came from friends and enemies who'd borrowed his books
years before and who'd "forgotten" to return them, but Alan *never*
forgot, he kept every book in a great and deep relational database that
had begun as a humble flatfile but which had been imported into successive
generations of industrial-grade database software.

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