[mountainbunny]

This is neat, but the article's title isn't honest. Harvard discovers three of its library books are bound in human flesh. They didn't "discover" anything of the sort. Harvard has known this for many, many years. The Harvard article linked in this article indicates that they've known about one of the books since the 1930's.

I've read previously that this practice reached its apex during the French Revolution, when there were plenty of corpses to go around.

Also, anthropodermic bibliopegy is an awesome term. Scrabble-worthy words.

[dangus]

If you can spell “anthropodermic” with your seven scrabble letters, you’re cheating ;^).