You Never Know What You'll Find in a Book

An essay by Henry Alford in The New York Times about the stuff left in books (bookmarks, money, a baby tooth, bacon).

From the story...

Sherman Alexie figured out a way around botched safekeeping during his hard-drinking college days at Gonzaga and Washington State Universities in the 1980s. Fearful that he would spend all his money during a bender, he would “slide tens and twenties into random books in my apartment.” Months later, having forgotten about the money, he’d find it again. “It was like winning little jackpots,” he wrote in an e-mail message, adding, “I’m sober now, have been sober for many years, and I keep my money in banks.”