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Reader, interrupted: pick up where you left off with a bookmark that reminds you why you were reading in the first place.(O to Go)(Brief Article)

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From: O, The Oprah Magazine
Date: 20040601
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"Books have been to me ... what new fields are to the explorer."

--Margaret E. Sangster

"Read in order to live."

--Gustave Flaubert

"Novels ... teach you the secret, that the best of life is conversation."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A good book is the best of friends."

--Martin Tupper

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