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In the late Middle Ages, books were so valuable that libraries would chain them to the bookcase.

"In the Middle Ages, when monasteries were the closest equivalent to a public library, monks kept works in their carrels. To increase circulation, these works were eventually chained to inclined desks, or lecterns, thus giving ownership of a work to a particular lectern rather than a particular monk."
Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/libraries-used-to-chain-their-books-to-shelves-with-the-spines-hidden-away-4392158/


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