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The Post-it Note Began as a Glue That Would Not Stick Properly
A chemist trying to make a super-strong glue made a very weak one instead, and it took a choir singer with runaway bookmarks to work out what it was for.
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The Library Book That Came Back Forty-One Years Late
A book about birds, borrowed in the spring of a year nobody at the library could remember, arrived back through the returns slot with a very long letter tucked inside the cover.
Fiction Useless Inventions
The Plant Pot That Reads Bedtime Stories
A glazed ceramic pot with a tiny built-in speaker that reads your houseplant a soothing story every evening, so you no longer have to feel guilty about never talking to it.
Fiction Made-Up Words
Pagedrift
(n.) The quiet exit of your attention from a page your eyes keep reading anyway, noticed four paragraphs later when you have to go back and find the last sentence you can honestly claim.
Fiction Tiny Stories
The Bookshop Chair Nobody Owns
There is one armchair in the shop, in the corner by the poetry, and thirty years of customers have worked out the rules without anyone writing them down.
Fiction Useless Inventions
The Rewinding Bookmark
A silk bookmark that creeps three pages backwards every night, on the grounds that you were not really paying attention the first time.
Fiction Tiny Stories
Walter the Library Cat Has His Own System
Walter has lived in the Hartwell Memorial Library for nine years and has, in that time, developed strong opinions about returns.