| | How do you know a book is loved?
Is it by how worn out it is?
What about how neat it's condition is?
Wear or preservation: which means the book is loved more?
Something I've noticed, I re-read just about all of my books. I have a group of books that I read a couple of times a year. Some of them were new when I bought them, others were used. I guess it can't really be helped that objects (like people) age. I remember my new books have white sides, an unbent spine, and no creases on any of the pages. They remained in that condition even after I read them the first few times. Years later, I still treat them with the utmost care, but their pages have yellowed, the spine has so many creases it's almost impossible to read the title on it, and, somehow, the pages have gotten bent.
But this is over years of being read by me.
I'm assuming the same thing happens to library books except it's amplified due to the hundreds of people who read the books. I guess it's possible for a book that has been in-print for less then a year to have more wear then the books I have owned for more then 10 years. It's probably true that most people aren't has obsessed with keeping the books in the best condition they can.
What I really don't get is how a book, that has been on the shelves for less then 6 months, has managed to get water logged, pages crumpled almost up to the spine, food spilled on it, and the cover is almost falling off.
Does that mean the book is loved and people are reading it? Or does that mean that people are just careless?
...yes, this rant is over a book. |
| | Posted 3/24/2009 1:59 AM - 2 Views - 0 eProps - 0 comments
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