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Library Lives CTB The world’s most famous jiltedLibrary Lives plots the lifelong love affair between one particular bookworm and the John Rylands Library in Manchester, its collections drawn from every corner and period of the textual and meta textual world. How do we read and what can we read from a potsherd, a locket, a fragment of papyrus, a gorgeously illuminated medieval manuscript, an envelope, a seemingly ordinary book? Stella Halkyard, one of the library's erstwhile archivists, tells the