500 Characters

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Tsundoku and the joy of gifted books

The beauty of untranslatable words and the thrill of gifted books

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Jonathan Stephens
Jul 24, 2024
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I’m an avid collector, and a lot of my collections are connecting to writing & reading. Scaling from the smallest to the spacious—fonts, words, posters, books, and series. We’re around the 600+ count mark of our home-library; it continues to grow.

Today, I’m sitting at my local co-working community, removing myself from my normal to consciously & purpose…

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