First kind of Kindle? Researchers at University of Leeds find what is thought to be first travel-sized library

Librarians at the University of Leeds have dusted off what is thought to be the one of first portable and travel sized library of books.

Long before books were stored on a Kindle, smartphone or tablet, the Jacobean miniature travelling library was the only way literature fans could carry a large number of books.

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