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Over the past several years, we book lovers have endured quite a bit.

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God bless the childless.)

Theyre reading, but suggestively.

We want you to see our learning indulgently spilling out behind us.

And behind it all: books, functioning lately more as backdrops than props.

Though still tokens of intellectual yearning, theyve now been completely anonymized.

The page-out Scandi aesthetic has been taken to its logical, denatured extreme.

These photos are not inviting you in to enjoy or critique or loathe or interrogate the books.

Theyre not even telling you thetitlesof books.