Stumbled across this image of an abandoned library in the former Soviet Union, on Gawker.com
Imagine having to preserve and catalogue all of those books!
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The Library of Digress 
I am getting very sad as it just looks like a onderfully exciting challenge to me now! We should get a team of volunteers together for a trip and create order out of chaos in no time.?
Can we not just make something pretty out of papier mache?
I have happy memories of making a piggy bank in primary school with newspaper, PVA glue and a balloon…think how many piggy banks we could make from that lot of paper!! 😀