LibraryThing, the online cataloguing platform that’s an alternative to Goodreads, offers a ‘Legacy Library’ feature where one can see which books one’s library shares with the libraries of famous or historic people. The second most shared book in mine is Lord Chesterfield’s Letters to his Son Philip Stanhope, which is also one of the most controversial …
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