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# How to turn your books into time capsules – Austin Kleon
- URL: https://www.matthewbogart.net/2020/01/29/how-to-turn-your-books-into-time-capsules-austin-kleon/
- Published: 2020-01-29T18:43:50.000Z
- Updated: 2020-01-29T18:43:50.000Z
- Author: Matthew Bogart
- Tags: # Personal, # Austin Kleon, Feelies, Incredible Doom, #wp

> Years ago I borrowed this copy of Italo Calvino’s If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler from my father-in-law, and when I opened it up I found Calvino’s 1985 NYTimes obit and stories from a 1983 Harper’s.I was so surprised and delighted by these unexpected artifacts that I decided to start saving clippings in my own books.

via [How to turn your books into time capsules – Austin Kleon](https://austinkleon.com/2020/01/29/how-to-turn-your-books-into-time-capsules/?ref=matthewbogart.net)

I love this idea. Even better is that issues of *Incredible Doom* come with artifacts of their own right [from the start.](https://www.incredibledoom.com/news/2018/1/12/announcing-feelies?ref=matthewbogart.net)

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