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How a handful of activists trying to get books to one jailed friend became thirty thousand books a year, and why that floor is now cracking.
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On the people who keep culture, and the machines learning to help.
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A high school counselor said the loan would outlive her career. The milk carton agreed. She became a librarian anyway.
By Karin Wannerud · 4 min
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