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<\/p>\nI was quite a curious child. My restless mind was the reason why I was the first among my peers to notice that <\/p>\n
the librarian of our school stamps every book or text book exactly on the seventeenth page.<\/p>\n
It became interesting to me why on the seventeenth, not on the first or, for example, on the twentieth, <\/p>\n
but on the seventeenth. I asked this question to parents, teachers and even the technicians at our school. But no one could give me a clear answer.<\/p>\n
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Many may ask why I didn’t immediately ask the librarian for clarification. Such a question can be asked only by those who were not familiar with our school librarian. <\/p>\n
The problem is that this woman had such a stern look that sometimes my knees even buckled in fear. I later learned that this is a fairly old tradition<\/p>\n
The first printed paperback books had a non-standard cloth format of four pages by four, for a total of sixteen pages. <\/p>\n
It was customary to consider such a number of pages as one bound author’s sheet, while the second set of pages began on the seventeenth page.<\/p>\n
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In the event that the first block of pages with the book’s title and author’s name was lost, a library stamp that could help identify it could always be found on the seventeenth leaf.<\/p>\n
I can also add to your knowledge box that if you look closely at any book in the library, you will find the exact same stamp on page thirty. <\/p>\n
Small reading booths most often stamp on page seventeen. On the seventeenth page, in addition to the stamp, you can also find the inventory number of the book.<\/p>\n
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