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Rehoming 4 million books in Wallingford!
Have you ever wondered what happens when you throw away a book?
Turner-nominated artist David Shrigley made the news for pulping 6,000 copies of Dan Brown's best-seller The Da Vinci Code and republishing them as George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The artist sourced the books from Awesome Books in Wallingford - a company saving secondhand books from landfill and finding them new homes.
Someone who LOVES to read is reporter Anna Gray - so we sent her down there to check it out.
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