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#192060 07/25/2010 6:49 AM
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I don't usually approve of making books unreadable but I love this artist's work.
Never mind, I couldn't make the link work. I will try again when i figure it out.

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Let's try [url=www.flickr.com/photos/lizbits/sets/72157603338469464/]this[/url]

Nope.
Anyone know if it is because I am trying to link to flickr?

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You had an extra http// in there. Still kinda slow coming up. It is rather heavily photo-laden.

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Great Zed! How many priceless irreplaceble manuscripts have been worked into this? (joking). Lovely obsession. ;~)

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[Weep]

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Now, Avy, there comes a time in every book's life when the content is of no use any longer. (Though I do sympathize: I once had to throw away some books that had gotten mildewed, and I felt like a traitor.)

Zed, this is one of those things that makes me think: how did anyone DO that?? Or think to do that?

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there comes a time in every book's life when the content is of no use any longer.

[Weep]

Jackie #192119 07/28/2010 8:00 AM
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Originally Posted By: Jackie
Zed, this is one of those things that makes me think: how did anyone DO that?? Or think to do that?


I suppose it starts with origami and silhouet clippings. Then one day you see an old telephone guide and all hells break loose. Bookart is a widely practised form of art, hobby, artisanat. +- 111.000 results.

brace yourself!

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I guess it's the best burial you can give a book. I am a pack rat where it comes to books. I live in a largely empty house filled with books.

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Originally Posted By: Avy
I guess it's the best burial you can give a book. I am a pack rat where it comes to books. I live in a largely empty house filled with books.


Me too!
If I took out the bookshelves and books my house would double
in size, but then, I'd have lost many of my friends.


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LukeJavan8 #192142 07/30/2010 12:12 AM
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Me, too, to all the above. Part of my library is a small collection of old-to-very-old natural history books, and whenever I see one of their plates for sale somewhere, I think first, "How could they do that to a beautiful old book?" and, second, "Although it's tragic, my intact copy is now that much more scarce."


"I don't know which is worse: ignorance or apathy. And, frankly, I don't care." - Anonymous
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did anyone ever make Reader's Digest angels and choir when they were kids? Where you fold the top of each page into the spine and then spray paint it.
I have also seen a lamp base made by drilling through a pile of books to run a pipe and wire through. Several titles looked interesting and it did feel like litericide.

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Like this you mean? Like this?

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It was an inevitable project in scouts.


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I'll bet that hurt. It was bad enough with books.

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Ha!

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[squawk!] Do they have ANY idea of the trouble it'll be to DUST that thing???

[squawk again!] From Zed's link; emphasis added: Shauna Smith Duty is a freelance writer with a penache for writing... I had hoped this might be a deliberate wordplay, but I think not, given that this was also in the article: Have a bunch of old books laying around that you're not interested in reading?

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A penache from writing would have been a good one.


"I don't know which is worse: ignorance or apathy. And, frankly, I don't care." - Anonymous

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