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@@ -33,8 +33,6 @@
     <p>This text has been edited with the intention to be published in a very specific form; a hyperlinked index of the <a href="Tasks_of_the_Contingent_Librarian.html" class="alert-link" target="recto">tasks of the contingent librarian</a>. These tasks, performed on the site of contingencies, the bootleg library, are described on the obverse, and related images and links to snippets are on the reverse.</p>
     <p>Please read it while flipping through, shuffling and reordering them, making your own text as you read.</p>
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@@ -44,31 +42,22 @@
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-  <p>*A note to the reader:</p>
-    <p>This text has been edited with the intention to be published in a very specific form; a hyperlinked index of the <a href="Tasks_of_the_Contingent_Librarian.html" class="alert-link" target="recto">tasks of the contingent librarian</a>. These tasks, performed on the site of contingencies, the bootleg library, are described on the obverse, and related images and links to snippets are on the reverse.</p>
-    <p>Please read it while flipping through, shuffling and reordering them, making your own text as you read.</p>
-</div> -->
+            </div>
 
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+    var listoftasks = ["Acquiring_Removing", "Administrating", "Amateuring", "Annotating", "Being_kind_to_the_reader", "Bootlegging", "Cleaning_up_text", "Consulting", "Digitising_Printing", "Diversifying_through_use", "Downloading", "Editing", "Finding_texts", "Glossing", "Human_reading", "Human_writing", "Including_Excluding", "Indexing", "Inter-depending", "Inviting", "Keeping_private", "Machine_reading", "Machine_writing", "Making_it_public_Keeping_it_private", "Making_public", "Meeting_in_small_rooms_in_small_groups", "Multiplying_form", "Networking", "Open-sourcing", "Producing_texts", "Professionalising", "Proprietorising", "Reading", "Reading_Writing", "Rebinding", "Repaginating", "Reprinting", "Republishing", "Rereferencing", "Scanning", "Searching_Browsing", "Skimming", "Skimming_Scanning", "Technologising_the_word", "Trusting", "Typing", "Understanding_texts", "Uploading", "Writing"];
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