Monday, August 18th, 2008
When you spend a lot of time looking at books like commodities, as I do in our business, sometimes you sort of forget that the books have things in them. Things like information, sometimes true and sometimes false, heartrending, well-told stories and trite, really badly told stories. When I go home and pass my bookshelf [...]
More on trashing books…
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008One of my first college writing teachers asked us to do the following exercise: choose a page in the grammar book assigned for the course and write in a page margin the worst thing you’ve ever done, then tear out the margin where you wrote it and throw it away (or eat it, if you [...]
Turn books into a different kind of art?
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008When my friend saw online instructions for a project turning an old book cover into a purse and asked for my help I thought it was a fairly clever idea. We found some pretty book covers on hardbacks that weren’t worth much as books anymore, went to the craft store for glue, the fabric store [...]
Who writes this stuff?
Friday, June 6th, 2008Yesterday our e-mail queues were assaulted by several e-mails which we believe to be pranks. Please see a sampling below and let us know if you have any clues about the perpetrator… “i think you guys should have a mascot or something: BiblioMan. and he could visit classrooms and stuff, always fighting ignorance with books. [...]