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10. Other publications would interpret the usefulness of ‘useful knowledge’ in different ways. Priced slightly higher at sixpence and twice as long at 32 pages, the Library of Useful Knowledge (London: Baldwin and Cradock; Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd; Glasgow: Robertson and Atkinson; Dublin: Wakeman; New York: Carvill, 1828) also aimed to capitalize on the growing market for cheap literature. However, ‘published under the supervision of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge’, a middle-class Christian reform organization, the utility of the Library is moral and religious in a way that Popular Annuls is not.