Friday January 12, 2007
We got books for the kids from Amazon. I realized as I unpacked them that our family has odd quirks that affects our book buying.
I can’t stand paperback books. Softcovers I can deal with if it is the only option, but paperback books bother me in several ways. First, makes me nuts to get ink on my hands. I also hate the feel of the spine as the glue snaps when you hold it open. I hate bent covers. Plus, my eyes are getting bad enough (although still good by my families definition. lol) that I have to work a lot harder to read them. I don’t like the feel of the paper either and paperback books never smell ‘right’. Total weirdness, I know.
Zane has serious issues with dustcovers. If there is a dustcover on the book, he can’t pay attention to anything else. If the dustcover has the smallest imperfection, it will get picked at. I finally realized it wasn’t worth it and pull all the dustcovers off of books the second I unpack them. I keep the covers in hopes of being able to afford to frame them and use them as art in the future. Along the same lines, we STILL can’t have rip lift the flap books. It is the same compulsion. It has only been very recent I have seen him able to cope with a flap in a book, but I still wouldn’t leave him alone with it. Let’s not talk about pop-up picture books. Oy!
Me, neither! The paperbacks anyway.
You mean tear-out books!
That’s a good idea to save the dustcover and frame them!!
Psssst, I tagged you.
I hate dustcovers. In the trash they go.
I hate dustcovers, too. But I like paperbacks because they fit in my purse and they’re lightweight. My books must travel with me or they never get read!
I’m a dustcover hater too. They always seem to be in the way and I’m a bit OCD, so if they aren’t centered and slip up on the book it drives me crazy. I agree with you on paperbacks too. {v}