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Archivist with giant books at the Clementium, Czechia (then Czechoslovakia), Prague, 1958 (infosec.pub)
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[โ€“] jqubed@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Every so often I see something wild from Prague like these giant books or that crazy filing system and feel like I have a slightly better idea of why Kafka was writing about these crazy bureaucracies

[โ€“] Darnton@piefed.zip 2 points 2 days ago

This is just the folio size section of any research library holding old books. There is nothing specifically Czech about that picture, it could have been taken in any research library in the world.