Posted on 09/18/2020 3:50:56 PM PDT by Fai Mao
That they’re easy to carry, often pocket-perfect and lightweight, inexpensive (or relatively so), and sold in drugstores, airport arcades, supermarkets, and many other venues outside the hallowed precincts of the glorious bookstore does not make them less worthy of a good life as a book. Many old and battered paperbacks are treasured by their owners, for content they can’t replace in another edition or for pure sentimental attachment. Who among us hasn’t got paperbacks that we can’t part with, even as we wonder what we can do to keep them going?
Paperbacks’ chief fault lies in the often low-grade (inexpensive) components that make them harder to preserve.
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I have the leather bound Louis Lamour collection. Well over 100 books.
At my mother’s assisted living location they have an entire collection, leather bound.
My mother tried to take the collection to send to me because she said she knows I love my Louie L’amour collection and by gawd, she pays enough monthly that the facilities collection belongs to her.
Almost let he do that. . .
Liked it too. Walking Drum
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