BANGKOK — A prominent state university in Thailand is frantically buying back 3,000 kilograms of rare books and magazines that it mistakenly sold as recycling materials to a vendor for 6,000 baht last week.

According to Matichon, library staff at Silpakorn University’s Thapra campus arranged for a recycling truck to pick up piles of books and magazines that were marked for disposal at the library on 30 June.

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