Who remembers
Motherfucking Scholastic
Book
Orders
And then the magical travelling romani circus of scholastic would randomly show up and you’d never care to buy any books but they had AWESOME gadgets and toys for sale
at the motherfucking BOOK FAIR
homie I wanted every damn book ON there. ok not true, I wanted all the ones by jacqueline wilson. WHERE’S MY BOOKFAIR, ADULTHOOD
had no idea they had this in america too!
a lot of the times, yeah. lool.
i would rather the artist had defaced their face with a black marker, than this book.
Maybe. Maybe it wasn’t a good book.
It’s still a book!
*sigh* ok. I’m going to explain my opinion on this, because I know you won’t jump down my throat for it!
My “books aren’t sacred” tag has a few posts in, and they all reflect my desire that books be taken off the pedestal they’ve been put on by some. They are considerably less expensive and difficult to produce than almost everything we use in daily life. In each case, the owner of the book has decided that they want to turn it into a piece of art rather than read it again. That’s their call to make; whether the resulting art is better than the book is entirely debatable (in this case, I feel that it was somewhat lazy).
Thing is, I know why people get so angry about it. Some of us so define ourselves by our love of good writing that this kind of pantomimed response is required, to further prove to the world that we are ‘book people’.
But an object is not the same as the story. The story is still out there, can still be bought and read and loved. It’s not years of a scribe’s life this person scrawled on; it’s a few £’s worth of paper and ink.
WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING
STUPID HIPSTERS BURNING BOOKS
the world is not running out of Hemmingway.
When printing presses are uninvented and people have to write them out by hand, I will concede you have a point, but not until then.
I CAN’T, YOU CUT UP MY FREAKING BOOK.
Actually, I think the pages were folded…?
…It looks folded to me…
Even folded the book will never be the same.
Some books really aren’t worth keeping pristine. My housemate had one that was dire so she cut a secret cubby hole in it… and I used the removed pages to make poetry. Everyone’s a winner!
ok dude I hope you don’t mind but I’m using these pics to fuel my librophilia over at Pinterest.
This book was basically the aquatic version of Elmer the Elephant and I LOVED IT.
“We took American Gods - a book that was still selling, and selling very well - and for a month [my publisher] put it up completely free on their website, and you could read it, and you could download it, and what happened was sales of my books through independent bookstores (‘cause that’s all we were measuring it through) went up the following month [by] 300%.”
A new vending machine has been released which can print any book within minutes.
The Espresso Book Machine has access to 500,000 different books - the same as 23.6 miles of shelf space - and can even churn out a fresh copy of Crime and Punishment in just nine minutes.
Pages are printed at a rate of over 100 per minute and are then pressed, glued and cut to produce a pristine book.
Users simply pick the book they would like on a screen and wait for it to be printed … it certainly is a novel way of getting a new book.Oh my god I think I just died
um wow
GIVEAWAY, GIVEAWAY, GIVEAWAY!
I am giving away ‘The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Barnes & Noble Leather-bound Classics). The new film ‘The Raven’ is coming out soon, so I just wanted to put that in there. :D It is brand new, and I thought a bigger fan would love to have it.
- Reblog as many times as you want.
- Just liking doesn’t count.
- Giveaway ends January 10th or sooner.
I would honestly kill for this beautiful book.
would you LOOK at this
