On Feb 24, 4:53*pm, "Francis A. Miniter"
wrote:

In fairness to the dust jacket concern, most people would pay a lot less
for a classic car, say a 1963 Cadillac Eldorado, if it had all of its
chrome removed. *The car would not be a complete entity. *The same for
books without their dust jackets. *They are not complete entities as
originally sold.


That's a great analogy. In line with other comments, of course one
could drive it just as well without the chrome, if that were your only
reason to own it...