The idea of this research (research-in-practice) derived from an intuition: once recognized as separate autonomous unite any collective or personal practice or experience that has hitherto been seen a indiscernible component of other practices or experiences, to certain degree remains under a threat of being incorporated and hereafter forgotten by a simple virtue of distantness of the anthropological optics, unless it is routinized.

The collection of “Things Found in Books” from the Library Company of Philadelphia represents such practice. Along with highlights and notes on margins, the ephemera in the most broad sense that constitutes the collection, must be seen as a case of largely underappreciated and yet universal cultural behavioral stance. I propose to perform an act of care in "returning" the artifacts' replicas into the contexts they were withdrawn from. Replicating original hand-made and mass manufactured objects respectively in a manner that would favor imitating original procedures and inherent logics rather than literal likeness, and bringing them in the libraries across the City of Philadelphia according to wide literature categories they are affiliated with, I hope to initiate aforesaid routinization of the very practice and not merely material residue.

As it is virtually impossible to attribute exact provenance of most artifacts from the collection, the choice of targeted books is based on these rare ones from Library Company whose "inserts" have been preserved in place or on actual librarian notes about alleged origins of certain objects.