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A RARE-BOOK collector met a guy who said he’d just thrown out an old Bible that had been packed away for generations. “Somebody named Guten-something had printed it,” the man explained.

“Not Gutenberg!” gasped the book lover. “You’ve just thrown away one of the most famous books ever printed. One copy recently sold at auction for over $4 million!”

The other man was still unmoved. “My copy wouldn’t have brought a dime,” he said. “Some guy named Martin Luther scribbled notes all over it.”

(トークラインのご利用者様にお送りしている8月7日付のHANDOUTの一部で、The Reader’s Digestからの転載です)