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Stuart Kells

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8 months

Found our #Yes sign in a bush down the road. Over three nights it has been been pulled down, stomped on and screwed up. Each time we’ve put it back up with stronger ties. When I put it up this time, am thinking of adding another sign, about the security camera

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Nice light in the library this morning

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Nice light in the library this morning

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11 months

Starting to look tidy. #amreorganising

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5 months

Nice light in the library this morning

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5 months

Sainsbury’s Books in Camberwell, always worth a visit

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10 months

Nice light in the library this morning

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3 years

Nice light in the library this morning

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6 months

Nice light in the library this morning

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11 months

The library at night. #LibraryPlanet

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30 days

Also found a copy of Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges …, in this Bloomsbury series that is one of my favourites

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3 months

Sci-fi shelfie

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3 years

Victorian and Edwardian decorative cloth bindings

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2 years

Grace Tame emerges as the star of a rebellious writers’ week #Radelaide @TamePunk #JaneSullivan @theage @MichaelWestBiz @SDHamiltonVIC

Grace Tame emerges as the star of a rebellious writers’ week

Over and over again, audiences applauded speakers who didn’t like where our political leaders were taking us.

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Stuart Kells

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3 years

Book reorganization continues. Another progress report. 📚

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4 years

History is under attack in ways we might never have foreseen even a few years ago. We need libraries and archives to act like ‘blockchains of truth’, to make it much more difficult to purge people, ideas and crimes from the historical record. #Archives .

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3 years

Nice light in the library this morning

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6 months

A very Australian scene on the walk today

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3 years

Morning in the library.

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8 months

‘One of the crown jewels of Doull's shop is this wall dedicated to Penguin Books, featuring hundreds of paperback editions from the publisher. “I've been a Penguin fancier more than half of my life,” he says.’ (Andrew Sampson/CBC)

Sherri Borden Colley

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8 months

Do you suffer from bibliomania? John W. Doull does — and his Dartmouth bookstore proves it | CBC News

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3 years

Nice light in the library today #coldstart #Melbourne

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11 months

#AmOrganising . A work in progress

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3 years

Hot off the press, advance copies of ‘Sold’. Great to see these in the flesh. This book has been a terrific collaboration with ⁦ @SDHamiltonVIC ⁩ & the team at ⁦ @text_publishing ⁩. Scott and I heard so many great and moving stories from people in the Murray-Darling Basin

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2 years

Little bit of organising today, in this region of ‘books about books’. #booksaboutbooks #shelfie #libraries .

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2 months

A few roos on the walk this evening

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2 years

Morning in the library #AmReorganising

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2 years

Found this today when reshelving and reorganising: a brilliant photo of my late mum with her two younger sisters, in Melbourne c.1960

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4 years

Nice light in the library this morning. #Spring #Melbourne

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3 months

On the desk today 👀

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1 month

Faber & Faber shelfie #Plath #Auden #TSEliot #Faber ⁦ @FaberBooks ⁩

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2 months

My new book ‘Alice’ is coming out tomorrow. Excited to see this extract in @guardian @GuardianAus : ‘is it time to reassess the very concept of money?’ @MUPublishing @latrobe

‘Outdated and misleading’: is it time to reassess the very concept of money?

It’s regularly being created and destroyed – and economic models that don’t reflect that fact are not even slightly useful

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

Making progress. #ROTJ #StarWars .

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10 months

A Sunday Shakespeare shelfie

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2 months

Available via Penguin Random House @penguinrandom : the US paperback edition of Shakespeare’s Library #Shakespeare #ShakespearesLibrary

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4 years

Some Pans from the stacks. #Pan #pulp ⁦ @julesburt ⁩ ⁦ @arkhamlibrarian ⁩ ⁦ @Pulpcurry ⁩ ⁦ @richard_overell ⁩ ⁦ @JAStokesNJ ⁩ ⁦ @StevieRae1666 ⁩ ⁦ @ron_clinton ⁩ ⁦ @SSheil ⁩

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5 years

In Warrnambool, Victoria, a bookshop customer found this inside a copy of Alice in Wonderland: a 1583 deed relating to the transfer of land in Gildersome. #ElizabethI #AnythingcanbeAnywhere #AliceInWonderland

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2 years

Nice light in the library this morning

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3 years

No electricity or internet for most of today. Perfect conditions for some reshelving. #AmReorganizing #books

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9 months

#shelfie

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10 months

On the desk today: Hilary Spurling’s portrait of Sonia Orwell. #Penguin #booksaboutbooks

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2 years

Pretty excited about this: a preview of the cover design for the Beijing United Publishing Co edition of ‘The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders’ #libraries

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2 years

Pretty excited about this. #LibraryPlanet is coming to Melbourne. Honored to be the new editor & custodian of #LibraryPlanet . Huge thanks to @clauersen and @MarieeEiriksson , two library legends. ‘From Denmark to Melbourne: A new Captain on Library Planet’

From Denmark to Melbourne: A new Captain on everybody’s Library Planet

Back in 2018 Marie and I launched Library Planet – the crowdsource travel guide to libraries of the world. Since then so many fantastic libraries from French Polynesia to Sweden has been …

libraryplanet.net

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4 years

Good light again today #autumn #shelfie

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4 years

I normally tweet 20th century book design & pulp covers from the Kells collection, but here are some 17th & 18th century volumes from our shelves.

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2 years

In my happy place ⁦ @ReadingsBooks ⁩ #ReadingsCarlton #Penguin ⁦ @penguinrandom ⁩

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3 years

With shops closed and so on, haven’t been able to do much treasure hunting lately. But chuffed about today’s ‘hard rubbish’ find

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1 year

Pretty excited about this; first sighting in the wild, at Readings in Carlton #MUPhistory ⁦ @MUPublishing ⁩ ⁦ @ReadingsBooks ⁩ #booksaboutbooks #publishinghistory

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9 months

#shelfie . This section needs a tidy up

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6 months

Melbourne sunset

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3 years

The Yarra flowing fast and strong at Warrandyte today. #Yarrariver #ducks

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4 months

Very grateful to Becca Whitehead @littlewordier and Books+Publishing @BplusPNews for this thoughtful and insightful pre-publication review of my forthcoming book ‘Alice’ (MUP, April 2024) #AliceTM @MUPublishing @latrobe

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Stuart Kells

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5 years

1/2: The moment when you've won the Ashurst prize and you can't quite believe it.

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5 years

These arrived just now: author copies of the Japanese edition of ‘The Library’ beautifully published by Hayakawa with colour illustrations of #libraries and #rarebooks . #Hayakawa .

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3 years

Lockdown serenade. A family of currawongs has moved in to the backyard. #Melbourne #birdlife

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3 years

A Reader's Life: memoirs of reading, bookstores and libraries, and lives spent between the pages of books. @PeaceLibrarySys #amreading #TheLibrary

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4 years

Pretty excited about these: first pages of ‘Argyle’. ⁦ @MUPublishing ⁩ ⁦ @latrobe ⁩ ⁦ @LaTrobeBusiness ⁩ #PublishingInLockdown

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3 years

A Virginia Woolf shelfie. #Woolfie

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9 months

My sister sent this photo of Fiona and me with our nephew Jack; taken 2009 in our kitchen in #Bendigo , where I wrote my first solo authored book, at the kitchen table. Jack is now a teenager and as tall as me

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4 years

Pretty excited about this. Apart from a publication date (3 March 2020) we now have a cover! #TheConvent ⁦ @MUPublishing ⁩ ⁦ @TheConvent ⁩ #Melbourne .

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3 years

Beautiful day in Melbourne today. So here are some Hogarth Press covers. #HogarthPress #VirginiaWoolf #Vita .

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5 years

3/3. And here's my Guardian essay on the secret life of libraries. Only when I'd finished writing 'The Library' did I know what it was about. This essay is the key.

Blood, bookworms, bosoms and bottoms: the secret life of libraries

Their history is full of remarkable discoveries that go well beyond the books themselves – they contain our flesh, our souls and ourselves

www.theguardian.com

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Stuart Kells

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2 years

Adams, Green, Haigh and Kells. 'Water trading in the Murray Darling and a dissenting Doc Evatt.' @PhillipAdams_1 @GreenJ @SDHamiltonVIC @text_publishing #SoldDownTheRiver @latrobe @LNLonRN @RadioNational

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Stuart Kells

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3 years

My local library in Ivanhoe, Melbourne, has been rebuilt and reopened. Can’t wait to explore it properly and to send images to ⁦ @clauersen ⁩ and ⁦ @MarieeEiriksson ⁩ for ⁦ #LibraryPlanet . #LoveYourLibrary .

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1 year

In my happy place. Coffee and Openbook. Congrats and thanks to ⁦ @pipmcg ⁩ and ⁦ @statelibrarynsw ⁩

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2 years

Night in the library

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4 years

And before Penguin there was Albatross

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1 month

Alice officially launched at Readings Carlton this evening! Huge thanks to Esther Anatolitis @_esther , Melbourne University Publishing ⁦ @MUPublishing ⁩, Readings ⁦ @ReadingsBooks ⁩ and to everyone who came along A delight to celebrate this book and the Alice story

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10 months

Sci-fi shelfie

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4 years

Morning in the library. #Shelfie for #LibraryLoversDay #librarytwitter

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3 years

Nice light in the library this morning

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7 months

A few things on the #reshelving shelf.

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1 month

I very much enjoyed speaking to Esther Anatolitis at the launch of #Alice . Huge thanks to Esther @_esther , Readings Books ⁦ @ReadingsBooks ⁩, MUP ⁦ @MUPublishing ⁩ and everyone who came along. Here’s a video excerpt expertly filmed by Scott Hamilton ⁦ @SDHamiltonVIC ⁩

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3 years

Signed copies for the launch

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10 months

Three shelves of (mostly) Penguins and Fawcett Gold Medals. #amreorganising #paperbacks #Sunday #bookshelfie

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2 years

Evening in the library, Sept 2022

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1 year

Pretty excited to see these: advance copies of the centenary history of ⁦ @MUPublishing ⁩, Australia’s first university press. Huge thanks to the MUP team and designers Pfisterer + Freeman. Publication date is early February

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4 months

Great day for #bookmail , from MUP and MonUP ⁦⁦ @MUPublishing ⁩ ⁦ @MonashPub ⁩ #Alice #AliceTM ⁦ @UniMelb ⁩ ⁦ @MonashUni ⁩ ⁦ @latrobe ⁩ ⁦ @BplusPNews ⁩ ⁦ @d_raff_c ⁩ #AdvanceCopies

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2 years

Wet grey day in Melbourne. Perfect weather for reshelving. #AmInTheLibrary .

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1 year

The Voynich Manuscript at the Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut #Voynich @lisafdavis @BeineckeLibrary @Yale #manuscripts #LibraryPlanet @latrobe

The Voynich Manuscript at the Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

A Library Planet post by Stuart Kells The Beinecke Library at Yale is a marvel of library architecture and indeed of all forms of architecture. A temple of rare books, it was designed by architect …

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11 months

On the sorting shelf today. A few recent vintage sci-fi finds plus a few other pulpy things.

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1 year

Working today in an extensive private library that includes, among much else besides, a shelf of very familiar titles (Fiona and I were the Australian publishers of Colin Franklin’s memoir). #LibraryPlanet #libraries

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10 months

Some vintage Penguin and Puffin goodness

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5 months

Beautiful afternoon in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne

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4 years

The Yarra today, near the Abbotsford Convent. Hard to believe this is only a few kms from Melbourne CBD. A magical place. #TheConvent

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2 years

Great to catch up with ⁦ @Pulpcurry ⁩ today to talk books & to trade for a few choice #pulps , including this Orwell getting the pulp treatment; & Hammett in mapback; & a classic Fredric Brown… #pulpscore #PocketBooks #Dell #Ace #Avon

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10 months

Got this today for out the front. #Yes

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6 years

Over the moon about the handsome US edition of The Library. Huge thanks to teams at @CounterpointLLC and @text_publishing . #libraries

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5 years

Nice light in the library this morning. Perfect for a Virginia Woolf/Hogarth Press shelfie.

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2 months

Great to see Alice in excellent company on the new releases shelf at the Hill of Content ⁦bookshop @hillcontentbook ⁩ ⁦ @MUPublishing ⁩ #Alice

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2 years

Always a pleasure to drop by ⁦ @ReadingsBooks ⁩ in #Hawthorn . #Bookshopping

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Stuart Kells

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3 years

Huge thanks to whole team at @LTUlibrary for this new La Trobe eBureau publication "Australian pulps 1939–1959: You go high, we go low". I'll be tweeting Australian #pulp covers between now & the online launch on 18 May. @latrobe @fiSalisbury @StevenPChang @Pulpcurry @latrobenews

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2 years

A friend having a clear-out: You’re a Penguin person, aren’t you? Would you like some Penguins? Me: 🐧 #Penguin #PenguinFounders . ⁦ @penguinlane ⁩ ⁦⁦ @_L_Lane ⁩⁩ ⁦ @Pulpcurry ⁩ ⁦⁦ @julesburt ⁩ @bookcoverlove ⁩

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8 months

A book bundle on the desk today. #PenguinFounders #MUP #Argyle #SoldDownTheRiver

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9 months

Morning in the library. #libraryplanet

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7 months

This photo of Fiona and Charlotte popped up in my phone’s ‘memories’ just now. Is from 2016, a year before we set out on our world tour of libraries. #LibraryPlanet #thebeforetime

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11 months

Beautiful down near the river today. Saw a few kangaroos and a noisy flock of yellow-tailed black cockatoos. #Melbourne #Yarra

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Stuart Kells

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2 years

Nice light in the (untidy) #library this morning. Perfect for some #shelfies . #LibraryPlanet #Ardizzone #booksaboutbooks #livingwithbooks .

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2 months

Dropped by ⁦City Basement Books @citybasement ⁩ and now am in my happy place #scifi #RobertHeinlein #DoorIntoSummer

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1 year

The structural problem inside PwC & the rest of the Big Four: ‘In their book, Gow and Kells predicted that the world’s four big consultants would eventually be brought to their knees by the very risk-taking that has fuelled their growth’ ⁦. ⁩

The structural problem inside PwC (and the rest of the big four)

The author of a seminal book on the big four accounting firms says the PwC scandal should prompt regulators to rethink their “too big to fail” view of the businesses.

www.afr.com

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3 years

Thanks in large part to the Lane family archive, now at the University of Melbourne, my history of Penguin Books paints a new picture of this fabled publishing house. The book reinstates Richard & John Lane as the literary and commercial prime-movers of Penguin in the early years

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