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My name is Olivia Sacks.

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I give away books at the end of the year.

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I keep them in a stack in my house and kind

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of like visualize the progress of like reading every year.

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If it was a good book and I really enjoyed it,

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instead of just like keeping it on my shelf and like looking at it,

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I could give it to someone else who would also enjoy it.

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The act of like passing.

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Things on,

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you know,

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if you have something that you love,

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you should share it with other people.

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Just holding on to it doesn't really do you any good.

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We send a lot of memes and videos and stuff to each other like

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virtually all the time now and everybody gets like way too many emails.

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Passing along a good book

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is a way to just like stay connected with the people that you care about.

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sharing books,

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we are widening people's perspective of what the world is,

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and

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not many

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places,

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you know,

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have

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as free of press as we do and as free of a right to read.

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That to me is what the freedom of Americans is,

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is to like pass around these ideas.

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I hope people read more.