There is a craft practised by librarians throughout the
land, bloggers, of which I know little.
I’m talking about book-binding, that practice of discarding the old
boards from a book and mounting the pages in a new cover. I assume that this is done to books that have
worn and knackered boards or are otherwise unusable. Take a look at these two library re-bound
books that have just arrived:
Neither
have the original illustrated boards; one has green cloth boards and the other
has light brown ones. If you look
closely, you may notice that one of these books is a different shape and size
from the other. It appears that while
the first one has been re-bound in boards that are of similar size to the
original, the other one has been re-bound in boards that are shorter and
wider. The pages have been cropped to
fit the new binding, resulting in a strange hybrid large hardback that is
somewhere between the size of a normal large hardback and small hardback. The moral of this story, bloggers, is that
when you are buying an ex-library book, make sure it hasn’t been bastardised
the way these ones have. Just a shame
the story isn’t as interesting as the boards the book was bound in eh,
bloggers?
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