You might tell an unwanted guest to take me, yet every autumn you rake me into piles. Books hold hundreds of me, and a reformed person turns me over anew. What am I?
A leaf
Plays on idioms: 'take your leave', raking autumn leaves, the page/leaf of a book, and 'turning over a new leaf'.
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