Guess what we find in books (2016)

The introduction to the edition of The Leopard that we have remark that the author and his wife were used to stashing important papers--letters, high-denomination bills, what have you--in their many books. Some they then forgot and lost.

I did once find a $20 I had left in a book; movie tickets and a postcard are about all I can remember finding of someone else's leavings.

Did you fold the bills so that you could slip them down between the cover and the spine?

Good point about the spline edge this is a peeve of mine as well. I do like that most databases store book height which is really useful imo.

1. It's written specifically to one Jacob Watson, whose signature appears on the back like a modern personal check. The written amount is $5500--, and below that is added "5000 discounted", which I take to mean the note was already (mostly?) cashed.

2. I used to follow someone online who worked as a scanner for IA and sometimes posted behind-the-scenes stuff including a few weird finds. (I can't name-drop since she hasn't worked with IA for a few years now, but maybe somebody else knows someone.) That might be the best bet since the process is largely automated and there's not a lot of time to document and compile incidentals like that.