Wednesday, June 29, 2011

It's not every day that I get to rip a book up

Yeah, that's right, I ripped a book apart today.  Is your jaw on the floor?  It was totally sanctioned and my boss even gave me the instrument of destruction: a letter opener.  Ok, ok, I was tearing it up because the pages didn't get cut apart when it was printed so they were all folded up on each other.  So really I was helping the book out.  I'm not gonna lie, it was kind of fun but I was glad that the book was only about 80-some-odd pages as it got kinda old after the first 70.  I found a couple of other neat books today, too.  One was just postcards.  It wasn't really bound, but rather in a sort of portfolio kind of thing with 7 postcards in it.  The other book find of the day was a book that had 2 original lithographs in the back of it.  Needless to say, that got added to the rare books collection

Today's mileage: 3.01 mi

3 comments:

  1. It's a good thing we don't live in the 18th or 19th centuries, when books were commonly sold to readers uncut. http://www.library.yale.edu/BeinCatM/notes/uncut.htm It would be so tedious! So hey, when are you coming back to G'ville? I was thinking of getting a group together to see Anything Goes at the GCP--Tomás is the male lead!

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  2. Ooh, nice find, Tomiko! I will be back August 13th - will the play still be on then?

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  3. Darn, no...I think it runs only until the end of July. There will be other plays to catch him in, I'm sure!

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