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The reaction to Nancy Pearl’s shock bestseller Book Lust was astounding: the Washington librarian actually became the model for the now-well-known Librarian Action-Figure. Pearl’s encyclopedic but discerning filter was everywhere welcomed by readers on books worth reading, as how old they are) became a typical MO and her Guideline of 50 (provide a book 50 pages before deciding whether to keep; but readers over 50 must-read exactly the same quantity of pages.