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Contes pour les bibliophiles (1895) is a collection of short stories by French writer Octave Uzanne and illustrator Albert Robida. The collection features the cult novella The End of Books, a story about a post-literate society.

The Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("List of Prohibited Books") is a list of publications which the Catholic Church censored for being a danger to itself and the faith of its members. The various editions also contain the rules of the Church relating to the reading, selling and censorship of books. The aim of the list was to prevent the reading of immoral books or works containing theological errors and to prevent the corruption of the faithful.

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A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side, and within protective covers. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a sheet is called a page. Book may also refer to a literary work, or a main division of such a work. A lover of books is usually referred to as a bibliophile, a bibliophilist, or a philobiblist, or, more informally, a bookworm.

Forbidden books

• List of banned books
• List of authors banned during the Third Reich
• The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France