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Archivist with giant books at the Clementium, Czechia (then Czechoslovakia), Prague, 1958 (lemmy.world)
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[-] atocci@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

My first thought was that it looked like something AI would generate, but it's all too coherent on a closer examination. Distinctly bound pages in the book, shelves that appear to converge to the same vanishing point, consistent scale, etc. Hopefully those things stay reliable identifiers...

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