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The article reports on a June 2010 conference of the History Seminar at the University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland, and the Art History Institute of the University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, on the theme "Book Practices and Book Lore 1450 -1757." The focus of the meeting was on the contents of books in the pre-modern and early modern eras and how to deal with the flood of books and information from the 17th century forward.