Booking Through Thursday: TLC

[parelle]

Booking Through Thursday

What kind of care do you take of your books? Let's review, shall we?

1. Are you careful with the spines? Or do you crack your books open to make them lay flat?
   I should be more careful, but I'm afraid they do crack.  xallanthia knows perfectly well that I can be a danger to books - to the extent that I've bought over one set of her

Comments

[bunrab]

I use anything-flat-that's-to-hand for a bookmark, myself. Frequently blow-in cards from magazines, paper napkins, paper straw wrappers, and corners torn from newspaper pages.

My friend Cindy-the-librarian once did a display case display at the central library in Austin, of things she had found in returned books that had apparently been used as bookmarks. The expected photographs, utility bills, old love letters, of course, but also Sweet-n-Low packets, shoe insoles, ancient computer punch cards, gift wrap, guitar strings... (and a few items that good taste prevented her from displaying...)

[tungol]

I think if I make any difference in care between hardcovers and softcovers (which I'm not sure I do), I treat the softcovers better than the hardcovers, because I think of hardcovers as being more durable and softcovers as being more delicate.

[zukiraphaera]

Would you mind if I snitched this and answered the questions in it over on my myspace?

I know I haven't said hello in a while, but I've been thinking of you. Hope all is well.