Unutterably Silly 101 uses for a p-book

[Barcey]

78) Give them to Sony owners so they can change fonts easily
79) Ripple the pages for air conditioning on a hot day

[BookishDreamer]

In case anyone is tired of searching back through the posts to see if your idea has already been used, here's the current list.

(I used the original numbers, so there are a couple of duplicates.)

1. Door stop
2. Administrator persuasive
3. Book-end holder
4. Emergency toilet paper
5. Fold down the pages, then spray paint red for a lovely holiday bell decoration.
6. Soak up wet spills.
7. Table leveler
8. Kindling for starting a fire
9. Fuel for bonfire
10. Protective wrap for your electronic reader (when you cut out the pages, see #8 and #9 above for use of removed pages)
11. A source of gambling income
12. Play Jenga with something that can hurt when it falls on you
13. Soak it in water and make paper mache pinatas
14. Run it through an office shredder and make mulch for your garden
15. use the pages to decorate your walls. after all, people are always saying how paper books are such beautiful objects.
16. Stop Bullets.
17. Cut out words for use in ransom notes.
18. Camera level adjuster (in the absence of a tripod).
19. Isolation Chamber.
20. Hold down the corners of your map on the hood of the car while you curse, scratch your head, kick the car tire, and wonder where you are.
21. Intruder alert. Place stacked books (topped with something that makes a shattering/clattering sound when it smashes to the floor) strategically in front of a door.
22. Fallout Shelter
23. Armchair.
24. Purse - Remove the interior pages of one hardbound book. Insert fabric lining, attach handles, and add button closure.
25. A place to hide your money. "No one in this town reads!"
26. A new house for the 4th Little Pig
25. for pressing leaves
26. Image: the right books project the right image and all that old fashioned stuff
27. Hiding place for dust bunnies
28. Weapon (Would you want to be hit over the head with an atlas?)
29. swatting flies and other creepy crawlies
30. filling up bookcases (of course)
31. Book toppling - Line the books up like dominoes, give the first book a tap, and watch them all fall down. Repeat as desired.
32. Ammo.
33. Paper cut scarification - the 'duelling scar' of the dedicated reader.
34. For attaining good posture at Miss. Smith's finishing school.
35. To hide rock hammers for use in escaping from prison.
36. for reading when the book you want isn't out in your favourite format....
37. for artistic endeavours....
38. Build a wall. Useful when two kids share a bedroom room and the duct tape line on the floor isn't a sufficient divider.
39. Build a maze. Books are easier to maintain. You won't need to hire a gardener to plant, water, and trim the hedges.
40. Play table-tennis.
41. The courtroom. You have to have a book to throw at people.
42. Clamping caul for gluing loose kitchen chair rung.
43. Overvalue them on your tax returns after you donate them to charity
44. Use them to provide the orbital counterbalance for your space elevator. (You may need more than one, unless your counterbalance is really, really long.)
45. Use them to actually read
46. Use them to get the ISBN number from so you can then go and complain why aren't these books eBooks?
47. Use them to put un a big pile and say that your to read pile is just too big
48. Put them in your bookcases so you can justify having so many bookcases
49. Read them when you are on a plane and you are on takeoff or landing since you have to turn off your eBook reader but you have to also have the same books as eBooks so you can continue on your reader
50. Put all kinds of incorrect highlights/notes in textbooks and sell them next year to kids who will get all the wrong answers
54. Use pages for coffee filters when your in-laws visit
55. redevelop your basement...trust me - stacks of books are easier than drywalling. Insulate better too.
56. Soak up unexpected flash flood water. (Can be an effective filter of toxic runoff.)
57. Single volume encyclopedias and large dictionaries make good instant booster seats for visiting children, especially if your small-town phonebook is too thin to provide sufficient lift.
58. Use as raw material to feed your scanner to produce ebooks you will actually read.
59. Breeding ground for mold, dust mites, etc.
60. Glue them together into a full size sculpture of a tree.
61. A place to hide important things like IRS refund checks until they are stale dated or old love letters until the wife finds them. But they should be safe forever as no one reads pbooks any more.
60. Use the pages to wallpaper the bathroom
61. dot all the ts and cross all the is
62. Send them to the Cedar Rapids Public Library when they are able to accept donations.
63. Weightlifting. You don't need no stinkin' trainer!
64. Weigh-down blow-up bookshelves.
65. shred them and use the shredded books as confetti
66. Give them to a homeless person who can the build shelter
67. Donate them to the poor (those without a reader)
68. Donate them to Gen3 owners so they know what it's like to be able to turn pages
69. Give them to people with Kindles so they have something attractive to look at and read.
70. Paper weight
71. Stand for an electronic reader (Stephen King's "The Stand" works the best)
72. Tie a string to them and fish for bookworms in front of the library
73. Gives them to Kindle & Gen3 owners so they get actual working page numbers
74. Throws them at book publisher yelling "It would not hurt as much if this was an eBook!"
75. Build a kite from the pages.
76. Riffling through with your thumb so as to blow cool, kind of papery-smelling, air on your face on a hot day.
71. Make into pinwheels.
77. Give them to Sony owners so they can change fonts easily
78. Ripple the pages for air conditioning on a hot day

[JSWolf]

80. Give them to Gen3 owners cause books actually work

[daffy4u]

80. Making stick figures you've drawn on the outside margins move like a cartoon when you fan the pages.

[BookishDreamer]

81. Make a bookshelf.

Dreamer

[RickyMaveety]

82. Shred them and use the shredded paper as cat litter.

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by Patricia

How did it take us so long?

http://www.bhg.com/crafts/weddings/c...heels-project/

Oh, yes! I'm going to do that with The Sea, The Sea and pin them up at Hell's Gates wheeling out at the the sea, the sea.

Originally Posted by BookishDreamer

81. Make a bookshelf.

Dreamer

Hey, I like that one, and I'm due for some new bookshelves.

83. Line a budgie cage with them.

[RickyMaveety]

84. Dog chew toy.

[Patricia]

A book would make a lot of pinwheels. If we could harness the electricity generated by their wind-power then we could re-charge our readers.

[RickyMaveety]

86. Lots of paper planes and boats!!

[Patricia]

Make papier mâché animals.
Here’s a picture of 1600 papier mâché pandas outside the Hôtel de Ville, Paris.
from
http://flickr.com/photos/17367038@N08/2658049271

[daffy4u]

88. Kids jokes. What's black and white and red (read) all over?

[Barcey]

87) Rolling paper for wacky tobacky
88) Build a pirate ship and sail the high seas
89) Find a vacant street corner... build a publishing house... sell e-books

[Barcey]

90) Build a book light --> http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/ls_lam...268395,00.html

Disclaimer: Barcey will not be held legally accountable for any resultant fires

[RWood]

91. Put them in courtrooms. Who ever heard of "Put your hand on the Sony and repeat after me, 'I do solemnly swear that the testimony I am about to give ....'"