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I picked up my Rumer Godden book from the library yesterday, and it came out like this:

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As far as I can tell, the book is structurally sound: not even any pages falling out. It looks like they just wanted to tie the book up like a present.

Date: 2013-12-05 11:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anait.livejournal.com
Now that's a special book!

Date: 2013-12-06 02:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] osprey-archer.livejournal.com
It felt like getting an early Christmas present. :)

Date: 2013-12-06 01:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-los.livejournal.com
AWH. It is lovely!

Date: 2013-12-06 02:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] osprey-archer.livejournal.com
All holds should come with special wrapping!

Date: 2013-12-06 02:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-los.livejournal.com
Today another phd student, my new flatmate, told me that the British Library has a venerable hook up tradition! At first I was like 'bullshit' but then I remembered what my friend Hetta said about having been propositioned there a few times when she doesn't get that much, and new flatmate also had some anecdata. Humanities 1 for the general hook-up, Humanities 2 for serious study, and Maps for 'freaky shit'. I guess this is where holds with 'special wrapping' might come into play. :/

Date: 2013-12-06 02:58 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ladyherenya
Oh wow. I'm impressed. They're treating an old book like something to treasure!

My local library removes old books from its shelves, because they are bizarrely convinced that if books looks old no one will read them...

Date: 2013-12-06 03:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] osprey-archer.livejournal.com
The public libraries around here do that too, which frustrates me no end. I suppose they need shelf space, but...isn't there some other way?

This book is from the university library, which never seems to get rid of anything. They have a lot of Stella Gibbons books, too.

Date: 2013-12-07 10:59 am (UTC)
ladyherenya: (Default)
From: [personal profile] ladyherenya
Ahhh, that makes sense! University libraries are very good in that respect. I miss having access to one.

I think public libraries should put old books into storage and make them available upon request. That way, the books wouldn't be taking up premium library shelf space but those who don't care about the book looking old could still read them...

What did you think of A Fugue in Time?

Date: 2013-12-07 05:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] osprey-archer.livejournal.com
I'm losing access to the university library soon, so I've been reading madly all the mid-century British authors whose books are hard to find elsewhere. Why did this not occur to me sooner? Alas, alas...

And I agree, it would be great if public libraries would put old books in storage so interested readers would have access to them.

I liked A Fugue in Time, though not quite as much as An Episode of Sparrows. I figured out that Verity was Grizel & Masterson's son about ten pages from the end, which I think is the perfect time for something like that to come clear: early enough that it made me feel clever, but not so early that I felt impatient with the book.

And I do love books about houses.

Date: 2013-12-06 02:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
This is lovely--so care-full, so nineteenth-century.

Date: 2013-12-06 07:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] osprey-archer.livejournal.com
It is a bit, isn't it? I could imagine a nineteenth century bookseller tying up packages of books, just so.

I tied the string around it again before I turned it in. Next time someone wants the book (it may be decades, but still!), it will be wrapped up for them.

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