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📚 **16th-Century ‘Bookwheel’ Solved the Age-Old Problem of Reading Too Many Books at One Time**
Regina Sienra
"_Centuries ago, academics had an alternative to juggling several tomes and propping them open all over a table. They used the bookwheel, a rotating device that allowed people to browse multiple books at once, allowing them to go from one text to the next without even having to stand up._"
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#Image attribution: Gaspard Grollier de Serviere, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grollier%27s_Reading_Wheel.jpg.
