Brown paper packages tied up with string
Dec. 5th, 2013 09:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I picked up my Rumer Godden book from the library yesterday, and it came out like this:

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.

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.
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Date: 2013-12-06 02:58 am (UTC)My local library removes old books from its shelves, because they are bizarrely convinced that if books looks old no one will read them...
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Date: 2013-12-06 03:26 am (UTC)This book is from the university library, which never seems to get rid of anything. They have a lot of Stella Gibbons books, too.
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Date: 2013-12-07 10:59 am (UTC)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?
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Date: 2013-12-07 05:51 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2013-12-06 07:30 pm (UTC)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.