Ironically, the higher prices make library book sales even more attractive as they limit the titles they accept for donation to not older than 2010. The book I’m reading was published in 2008 bought at a thrift store.
If a book is ragged, very low value , not a first edition, then I might use it for crafting making. I believe around 1939 printers stopped using lead in ink. One of my projects is a redo of circa 1950s metal office cabinets that I use for art supplies, by decoupaging a 1936 second reprint of Walter D. Edmonds book, Drums Along the Mohawk.
Reading e-books has changed the great landscape of book publishing that is a rich part of our history. A great part of our human heritage is discarded in favor of technology. What about bookshelves? What will they be for? Shoe racks?
Bookshelves will always be for books in my household (as well as the bins beneath our bed!). I tried reading e-books when covid first happened and decided they are simply not my thing. I want a real honest-to-goodness paper and ink book in my hands. Luckily there's a little 'library' in our building laundry room and we get (and donate) a lot of books there for free. I have two friends who are happy to trade books around and once we've all read them, they are either put down in the laundry room or I take them and donate them to the Friends of The Library for them to sell. The only time I buy a new book is at Christmas when the RC and I treat each other to a new one - but even those are purchased at a discount.
ReplyDeleteMaryanne,
DeleteSame here. A bookshelf is a bookshelf.
May
I love my bookshelves full of books. I only read on my e-reader when I travel. Reading, for me, involves the tactile feeling and smell of the book, and the rustle of pages when I turn them. I do buy books at used bookstores. I'm especially fond of older books that my library no longer carries.
ReplyDeleteLorrie,
DeleteThere’s no technology that can replace holding a book.
May