Suddenly a flurry of references to Flann O'Brien on here ?
"Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" mentions a service to make your books look like you read them & loved them. Do you hear a little bell ringing?
O'Brien aka Myles na gCopaleen wrote pages about his imaginary enterprise in +-1950s: your books dog-eared, coffee/wine-stained, smudged, marginalia
("Poor Joyce said the same thing to me once").
As ever, it's damned funny (his "Cruiskeen Lawn" column in the Irish Times for many years).
Do yourself a kindness, read "The Third Policeman".
"The Best of Myles" can be downloaded ...
You take it from there, never say I didn't give you something incomparable
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