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1:57 PM

@Bobbie: I think that's a good idea. Wikipedia only has a page for "printer's key" in Polish and Chinese, and googling images using the Polish term for "printer's key," "Oznaczenie numeru druku," only gives me books in English and German, so I strongly suspect that this method is only used in a few languages, not including French. — Peter Shor 20 hours ago

Does that mean he will ask or I should ask? (Just saw the message since it pinged me wrong)

Tsundoku

2:55 PM

I have tweeted the recent Tintin question from the Twitter Control Room: twitter.com/StackLiterature/status/1448662259622764563

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Bookworm

9:16 PM

Q: Count of Monte Cristo - Chapter 51 - confused by references to Valentine's "mother-in-law"

In the translation of The Count of Monte Cristo I am reading, I noticed in Chapter 51, in the exchange between Valentine and Maximillian, Valentine makes repeated reference to her father's second wife as her "mother-in-law". Wouldn't this be her step-mother? Your mother-in-law would be the moth...