But in the world of big-and small-money map theft, it's more like taking candy from a baby--or in this case, a library: Simply walk in, slice 'em out of a book and walk out.

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And the library is also pursuing a civil case against Hakimzadeh, in an attempt to recover further items and to seek financial compensation.

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The book, which has been exhibited overseas on only three previous occasions, is normally kept on show in carefully-controlled conditions in a specially-built case in the Trinity College library.

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Together the Gillet collection forms what the French call a cabinet neither a library nor even a portion of a library, but a refined personal selection of souvenirs and rarities, that in Mr Gillet's case was first inherited and then enhanced over more than half a century.

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The British Library has since improved its security as a result of this case, with a "massive" increase in its CCTV cameras, and in the number of staff who walk around the library's reading room floor.

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We're sure if our Vista machine would add our PS3-compatible H.264 encoded movies to the library that would be a different story, but unfortunately that's not the case, so we hit a wall.

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Nintendo introduced its first major revision to the Game Boy in 1998 with the Game Boy Color, which, not surprisingly, offered a color screen, case, and better graphics capabilities while still being backward compatible with the enormous library of Game Boy titles.

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