Bookplates

Who uses bookplates, as a means of identifying their books?

Do you use them ? Do you apply them to all your books, or just a few ?

Where did you get them ? Buy them or make them ? Did you have them
printed to your own design, or overprinted with your own name ? Plain or
coloured ?

Are they decorative or simply functional ? If they're decorative, what
sort of style?

Where do you place them in a book ?

How do you attach them ? What sort of glue/gum?

Do you write on them separately? Do you write inside the book too ?

Andy Dingley wrote:

Who uses bookplates, as a means of identifying their books?

Do you use them ? Do you apply them to all your books, or just a few ?

Where did you get them ? Buy them or make them ? Did you have them
printed to your own design, or overprinted with your own name ? Plain or
coloured ?

Are they decorative or simply functional ? If they're decorative, what
sort of style?

Where do you place them in a book ?

How do you attach them ? What sort of glue/gum?

Do you write on them separately? Do you write inside the book too?

I do! I do! I love short shorts too

I apply them to all my books and to every book I borrow.

I make my own out of recycled beer bottle lables...Bock's books is my
best so far!

I place one in the front of the book, and one in the back, in case
someone opens it the wrong way round.

I use freshly rendered glue from only the very best horse fat & hooves.

I do indeed write on them, usually a little inspirational poem about
frogs. I also sign my name in a variety of styles, colored inks, and
flourishes on every single page of the book, just in case the bookplates
should fall off ( its so hard to get really good horse-squeezin's these
days ) or most of the pages get torn out by a poetry fan.

oddly, despite all my attempts to embellish and enliven their dull
prose, I never seem to get offered all that much for my books when I go
to sell them. Philistines!

--
Never lend book, for no one ever returns them - the only books I have in
my library now are books someone has lent me. - Anatole France