Making books your own

"michael adams" wrote in message ...
"Bill Palmer" wrote in message
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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
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