Careers for bookworms and other literary types

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If you answered yes to any of these questions, your career choice. Maybe its the smell of an old book or the story inside that transports you to another time or place. Do you look forward to long waits in the doctors office so you can catch up on your magazine reading. Literary agents and managers sell their authors books to publishers, and. Fix books that have suffered tears, stains and other types of damage. You are a bookworm if you relish days lost in the library stacks somewhere between sase and sesi. Heres the best jobs for book lovers and what you can expect from each. Careers for writers and others who have a way with words. Turn the page on a new career and live your passion do you know the dewey decimal system by heart. Some jobs let you spend your workday with your nose buried in books, scholarly works, or historical documents.

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