Librarian finds a modern cookie in a 16th-century book

Having a snack or your lunch right now?

Please don’t leave any remnants of it in a library book.

You might think this is an unnecessary PSA, but a Cambridge University librarian would disagree.

The librarian found a chocolate chip cookie inside a rare sixteenth-century book recently, reports NPR.

So here’s a friendly reminder that Cambridge and most other libraries can provide a bookmark, if requested.

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