Bat Week: Libraries In Portugal Are Preserving Old Books With Help From Bats

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
05/12/2025 2 min

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This week we're replaying our favorite shows about winged mammals. In this episode from April 2023, we visit two centuries-old libraries in Portugal where bat colonies actually offer some pretty useful service in protecting their extremely rare old volumes. Plus: there's a library in Washington state that collects unpublished manuscripts. These Portuguese Libraries Are Infested With Bats — and They Like It That Way (Travel + Leisure via Yahoo!)The Brautigan Library (Futility Closet)Help us build our library of new episodes as a backer on Patreon

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