Estonian MFA 🇪🇪 | 🌻 #StandWithUkraine(@MFAestonia):What happens when Estonians really love a book? It turns into a cabbage. 🥬 Well, at least in our language. A book read so many times that it becomes worn, soft and frayed is “loetud kapsaks” – literally, “read into a cabbage”. Now the expression has been cast in bronze: a giant cabbage at the Estonian National Library, soon to be unveiled as the “Monument to Books Worn to Shreds”. Only in Estonia? 🇪🇪

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2026.09.25 11:41

What happens when Estonians really love a book? It turns into a cabbage. 🥬 Well, at least in our language. A book read so many times that it becomes worn, soft and frayed is “loetud kapsaks” – literally, “read into a cabbage”. Now the expression has been cast in bronze: a giant cabbage at the Estonian National Library, soon to be unveiled as the “Monument to Books Worn to Shreds”. Only in Estonia? 🇪🇪