My preferred method of reading is to escape from life's problems and minutae. If things are going well, and I want to read, I start an argument with the wife (which I lose every time by the way).
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Yes, library books are nasty. As a librarian my coworkers knew I went through Clorox wipes like my life depended on it. Fun game: guess the mystery stains...and hairs, gag. Sorry...I've found cigarette ashes, dead roaches, used kleenex, and other oddities. NN is right.I like to hold a book best of all. I like to breathe a book. Sometime will just open it to the middle and smell it. The Binding.
This is something I do not with a library book!
Err on the side of caution, there.
Yes, library books are nasty. As a librarian my coworkers knew I went through Clorox wipes like my life depended on it. Fun game: guess the mystery stains...and hairs, gag. Sorry...I've found cigarette ashes, dead roaches, used kleenex, and other oddities. NN is right.
Yeah, I'm very selective when buying used books. Thankfully, not many people return books in these conditions. But some are oblivious. I'm like...really?! Yes, I guess a better person would avert their eyes, lol.Well, at least people are reading..... Oh my never anything like that! Once found money and a couple of love notes that apparently were never delivered.
Stains yea. Turn page carefully avert eyes and try not to think about it. Been awhile since I have gotten library books, thou. Things could be different now.
Funny - I never have had that problem with used books from a goodwill or thrift shop.
I wrote a letter to the editor about cigarette ashes in books. I opened a book one time and couldn't believe how many ashes were in it! My letter started out with concern. I told the name of the book and the week I checked it out and said that whomever had the book before me needed to get to the doctor as soon as possible because, as much ash as I found in the book was proof that this person had to have a tumor the size of Billy Barty just lurking in their body. It got published too.Yes, library books are nasty. As a librarian my coworkers knew I went through Clorox wipes like my life depended on it. Fun game: guess the mystery stains...and hairs, gag. Sorry...I've found cigarette ashes, dead roaches, used kleenex, and other oddities. NN is right.
Lmbo! Incredible!I wrote a letter to the editor about cigarette ashes in books. I opened a book one time and couldn't believe how many ashes were in it! My letter started out with concern. I told the name of the book and the week I checked it out and said that whomever had the book before me needed to get to the doctor as soon as possible because, as much ash as I found in the book was proof that this person had to have a tumor the size of Billy Barty just lurking in their body. It got published too.
I wrote a letter to the editor about cigarette ashes in books. I opened a book one time and couldn't believe how many ashes were in it! My letter started out with concern. I told the name of the book and the week I checked it out and said that whomever had the book before me needed to get to the doctor as soon as possible because, as much ash as I found in the book was proof that this person had to have a tumor the size of Billy Barty just lurking in their body. It got published too.
I am thinking about Frannie reading the diary with the chocolate thumbprint.
I like to hold a book best of all. I like to breathe a book. Sometime will just open it to the middle and smell it. The Binding.
I removed your links. People can pm you for that information or can go find it themselves.I bought a Sony Reader PRS-T1 a few years ago and rarely buy the pulped vege matter ones, unless it’s a rare 15th – 17th century didactic (yet even these can now be found for free download.
There is a certain romance to reading a paper book, but (for me) it’s only viable when nesting in a favourite chair, with a bottle of Lochan Ora or Casa Noble Añejo Single Barrel and tumbler—no ice—nearby.
A heavy hardback tome from the likes of King, Martin, Gurnall orCarson don’t fit easily into a rucksack without getting damaged, and aren’t as easy to manage on a long train ride, or a general practitioner’s waiting room, as the electronic version.