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Originally Posted by queentess
I love this and am horrified at the thought of putting screws into a book. Even an arguably worthless one like that.
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The World Book Encyclopedia is worthless?
Granted, it has to some extent been superseded by the Intarwebs, but still
. Many a good childhood afternoon learning from those ... *sigh*. I wish I still had my Childcraft books - the hand-drawn art in it (especially for
Our Universe) was just magnificent.
In any case, I could never do anything like that to a book, even trashy ones. Respect for books was too deeply ingrained in me by my dear mother
. That's why even the idea of ripping apart a book to scan it (though it
is sort of a kind of immortality for the poor martyred book and intellectually, I know it's not a big deal) makes me a little queasy at times
. Still, to each his own I guess.