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In Mozart’s 1787 opera Don Giovanni, the eponymous libertine’s servant Leporello delights in reading from his little black book: the pages unfold like an accordion to reveal a vast list of his master’s conquests. The term leporello has since been used to refer to a folded book that can be read page by page, or displayed in concertina form.