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"michael adams" wrote in message ...
"Bill Palmer" wrote in message m... [...] There may be around 10 or so books current at any one time I might add, but the clingfilm is removed when they are "finished". A rather childish concept perhaps, but there you go. A fair proportion of which will be re-read - and thus temporarily recovered. I've never given any great thought to the more tactile aspects of the long chain polymers myself, but a tightly clingfilmed volume does attain a certain charm all of its own. Clingfilm is the generic UK name for very thin polythene film you use to wrap sandwiches in, btw. Maybe that is different than the things I have seen pulled over cloth boards. The coverings I am referring to are made of a heavy plastic, rather like what you see over seatcovers of some old cars, and which was in vogue, as I understand it, on auto seatcovers in the 1960's. Basically, it is nothing but a sort of sheaf of clear heavy plastic. These things are worse than tacky-looking, they are horrible. Of course, if the cloth is stained and bubbled, I guess it would not matter. TDhe whole thing gets into the differing philosophies of collectors. For instance, I think those Scribner reprints from the 1980's with the N. C. Wyeth illustrations are superb. Yet, a certain type of collector would rather have a stained, shaken, bubbled-up 1915 "first edition" of one of those than a lovely reprint. On top of that, even if that same collector has one of the firsts of those Wyeth Scribners in anything close to as good condition as the reprints, then they have a book worth hundreds of dollars that they have to take very special care of and probably worry about. So, getting back to my main point, I guess if someone is the sort of collector who will keep ratty looking books around simply because they are firsts, old, whatever, than I suppose those detestable heavy plastic sheaths could actually improve the looks of his or her book collection... But over respectable board cloth? No way. Mr. Palmer Room 314 michael adams Mr. Palmer Room 314 michael adams Mr. Palmer Room 314 |
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"Allan Adler" wrote in message
... The other issues that have been raised in this thread are interesting from historical points of view. Regarding the matter of saving every scrap of paper, there is a Geniza somewhere (Jerusalem?) where scraps of paper were saved for centuries under the rationale that it was forbidden to throw away anything on which the name of God might be written. The result of centuries of this scrupulous scrap saving was a major historical treasure trove. You're thinking of the Cairo Genizah: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Taylor-Schechter/ Since that discovery, others have been looking for similar tombs of books, like he http://www.morasha.it/zehut/mp06_italian_ghenizah.html William M. Klimon http://www.catholicbookcollector.com |
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Allan Adler wrote in message ...
(Bill Palmer) writes: In fact, you have almost brought me to the point where I will visit the chemistry department of U.C. San Diego and see if I can get a couple of volunteer grad students to run a test on my book and then determine if there is even potentially enough bleach remaining at those page edges to cause any future damage to the volume. Have you considered setting up a website describing in detail your techniques for improving, in your perception, the appearance of your books? [...] I appreciate your sharing your interesting thoughts, and I have only trimmed them here to save space since they were so recently posted on this thread. Essentially, though, I am just not interested in devoting the amount of time to the matter (of making alterations and improvements in defaced books) as I think your notions would require. You can even put designs on all the spines of your reprinted books which, taken together, make your bookcase look like a mural from Pompei, or whatever you like. And this can all be presented at your website, along with pictures. Clever idea, but it just isn't something in which I would like to invest my time. In the first place, the only books I was talking about working on were those already defaced, either by libraries or by other owners, such as those who are not the authors of the book but who write -- expecially those who SCRAWL -- inscriptions in the front of the book. In fact, my original post could as well as have been "Dealing with the unfortunate results of book defacement" as "Making book your own." I guess there is one other newsgroup you might find useful for the kinds of things you are trying to do, namely one devoted to crafts, such as rec.crafts.misc or rec.crafts.bookbinding (if there is one), or maybe on one devoted to interior decorating. People there are pretty knowledgeable and there the topic might not ruffle as many feathers. Well, I have been ruffling feathers since I got on the net. Can't think of a more amusing pastime. Whee... Just my two cents. In Usenet, where nobody gets paid for his or her contributions, Reader Time Invested (RTI) is the coin of the realm. I want you to know that my reading time was well-invested in your comments. How wonderful to encounter genuine thoughts, instead of quips which have already been repeated hundreds or thousands of times. Mr. Palmer Room 314 |
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