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Twitter as a Research Tool?

In the summer of 2014, my Twitter feed was peppered with images of old and interesting books. Drawings of leaves by Ben Franklin, philosophical marginalia, Massachusetts psalters... They were all being posted by a friend of mine, whom I assumed was on a research trip at an archive and was posting all of her interesting finds. That turned out not to be the case.

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