"I'm cataloguing the books I bought in Hay-on-Wye, which we visited at the midpoint of a round-the-world trip. There are 27 to enter on the database. Fifteen are first editions. Only on our return, when I open the sack of 50 books (23 are my partner's) shipped from the Welsh border town, do I realise I have gained possession of so many gems in that day-and-a-half raid on the famed 'town of books'."

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