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How to keep a book looks like new forever.

abecedarian said:
Too many books? Is that possible :eek:
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It can be, especially if you have several copies of the same book (I have 4 copies of one particular book :eek: )
 
abecedarian said:
Sounds like you need to start a face to face reading group:D
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:p That was somewhat accidental. I had bought two copies of the paperback as it was a series I wanted to collect. I then found a hardback copy in America so bought that one too. A couple of years later some one close to me gave me their first edition hard copy :)

I do regularly have two copies of the same book though - it was worse when Phil and I got together, we seemed to have similar tastes and had multiple copies of several books :rolleyes:
 
Ice said:
:p That was somewhat accidental. I had bought two copies of the paperback as it was a series I wanted to collect. I then found a hardback copy in America so bought that one too. A couple of years later some one close to me gave me their first edition hard copy :)

I do regularly have two copies of the same book though - it was worse when Phil and I got together, we seemed to have similar tastes and had multiple copies of several books :rolleyes:
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I have multiple copies of some titles too. Mostly because I needed one for the kids' school, and forgot or misplaced the first copy. If I had a dime for everytime I searched the house over(and over..) for a book "I KNOW is here, SOMEWHERE" I could have a great shopping spree at Borders! My variation of Murphy's Law is: If I buy another copy, the original will show up." And it's true! Once I was frantically searching for a book, and was trying to remember who I could have loaned it to; called my neighbor even. I didn't bother the kids..they wouldn't want What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Perimenopuse;) and finally bought another copy. Less than a week later, out of the blue a totally different friend told be she felt bad about keeping my book for the last year:rolleyes: I told her to pass it on and share the wealth.
 
For bus rides, etc., my husband prefers to read tattered paperbacks, tearing off the pages as he goes, so that the books he's carrying gets lighter and lighter, and the top page is always the one to resume reading on (no need for a bookmark).

I've seen people looking at each other nervously, and even moving away from him. I think they're afraid that if he can do violence to a book, he might be the type to do other violence as well.
 
astralKnight said:
This is a good idea, too.

I wonder why no publisher ever invent plastic pager book, they will last forever and not afraid of grease, how is this for an idea?
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You'd get worse cuts then paper cuts, and it wouldn't be comfortable, or even smell like a book. There's nothing like the smell of a new book. I'll take that any day over a new-car smell. :)
 
abecedarian said:
Too many books? Is that possible :eek:
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Whenever I got a book I really fond of, I will get two. You know how I learned my lesson for buying two books?

One time, when I was reading a book, and one of my friends came visit me. While I was not paying attention, he landed his coffee cup on my book. Imagining ....:eek:

So, now I come prepared. (I would have the second copy.) :D
 
:eek: I have lent people books, and if its one I really love that comes back tatty I replace it with a new one! How sad am I :confused:
 
astralKnight said:
Whenever I got a book I really fond of, I will get two. You know how I learned my lesson for buying two books?

One time, when I was reading a book, and one of my friends came visit me. While I was not paying attention, he landed his coffee cup on my book. Imagining ....:eek:

So, now I come prepared. (I would have the second copy.) :D
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Just read this post! Ah Ah I'm not as unusual as I though :)
 
astralKnight said:
Whenever I got a book I really fond of, I will get two. You know how I learned my lesson for buying two books?

One time, when I was reading a book, and one of my friends came visit me. While I was not paying attention, he landed his coffee cup on my book. Imagining ....:eek:

So, now I come prepared. (I would have the second copy.) :D
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Wow, you must have a really expensive set of coasters! ;)
 
I have a nice little collection of E A Poe poetry in a leatherbound edition from... about 1867, if I remember correctly. It's not actually worth anything, so far as I know, but it's a really nice book. I lent it to a friend, only to visit him one day and find it being used as a coaster for a can of cider!:eek: :mad:

astralKnight said:
Sounds familiar, like dating? This is how you should treat your girlfriend. lol
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Well, I read in the same place that it's advisable not to wrap them in newspaper, either, so the analogy still stands. :p

Too warm or too cold?
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More a matter of humidity, I think.
 
Doodle said:
:eek: I have lent people books, and if its one I really love that comes back tatty I replace it with a new one! How sad am I :confused:
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Now whenever my friends want to brorrow a book, I would ask a stupid question like "Would you guard it with your life?" and I usually get a reponse like this "For God sake, it is only a book." :D

pink shadow said:
Wow, you must have a really expensive set of coasters! ;)
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I need either expensive set of coasters or book lover friends. I have a friend is dramatic, he was reading my book and having lunch the same time. And a drop of French fry and a tiny grease on one page, he bought another brand new book to replace it for me, but how about the notes I wrote in there. :(

(And a girl's phone number, too.) Ah, now I see why he did not give me back the book. :eek:
 
Doodle said:
:eek: I have lent people books, and if its one I really love that comes back tatty I replace it with a new one! How sad am I :confused:
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:eek: If I lent someone a book and it came back to me all tatty, I'd never lend them anything again. :mad:
 
Another way to protect books is to not do what I did last night. :(

I put my hardcover (sans dust jacket) copy of Cell on the table, not realising I had put it on top of a wet kitchen cloth. :mad: This morning I picked up the book and got one helluva shock. There was a big wet patch on the cover, and even the first inside page had that wet look (all crinkled). :( It's all dried now, but it has left a big stain on the cover. :mad: Bah!!!! :mad:
 
angerball said:
Another way to protect books is to not do what I did last night. :(

I put my hardcover (sans dust jacket) copy of Cell on the table, not realising I had put it on top of a wet kitchen cloth. :mad: This morning I picked up the book and got one helluva shock. There was a big wet patch on the cover, and even the first inside page had that wet look (all crinkled). :( It's all dried now, but it has left a big stain on the cover. :mad: Bah!!!! :mad:
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Eww! That ranks right up there with finding your kid's library book floating in a puddle in the bathroom floor...but the worst for me was the time I was reading Miss Nelson Has a Field Day to the kids(brand new from the library) and my dear darling daughter barfed all over me and the book:eek:
 
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