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as one so afflicted, here's a group for people who use books for mail art purposes or even just labor under the yoke of book addiction, those yearning masses who amass books intended for reading but which, mostly just pile up.

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Latest Activity: Oct 26, 2022

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Vertical or horizontal? 3 Replies

What is better, to have a Tsundoku pile or line up your books along a shelf? My Tsundoku are on the top of my chest of drawers, but I have also a smaller collection on a pile inside a bookcase. I…Continue

Started by Mail Art Martha. Last reply by Mail Art Martha Jan 10, 2021.

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Comment by Debra Mulnick on April 3, 2019 at 9:03pm

One more postcard made from a neglected book

Comment by Debra Mulnick on April 3, 2019 at 8:50pm

Reincarnation for this thrift store book.  It will now travel through the mail to a new home on the planet.  Saved!!!

 I will be attending our Library’s used book sale today - which is a huge Bi-annual event.  

A gold mine if there ever was one for mail artists.

Comment by Ficus strangulensis on March 3, 2019 at 7:26pm

Comment by Ficus strangulensis on February 22, 2019 at 1:52pm

I just ordered Chambers "The King in Yellow" after seeing it at Neal Wilgus' blog.

Comment by Ficus strangulensis on February 22, 2019 at 1:51pm

Cool atlas. Love the climate map of the world's coloring!

Comment by Bonniediva on February 22, 2019 at 2:19am

My latest junk book is this school atlas from 1982!

Comment by Bonniediva on February 22, 2019 at 2:18am

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Comment by Ficus strangulensis on February 13, 2019 at 4:58pm

'My' library, the S. Charleston, WV pub lib is where I give all my books after reading. [Blush! I USED TO keep all the 'good' ones, now, recognizing my mortality I mostly donate and send a few to mail artists.]

I wd think being a hoarder and working in a library is a deadly sweet combo!

I also find books in the Paper bins at the Kanawha County Solid Waste Authority [the recycling center] and sometimes bring them home to read or as part of my tsundoku or for my Beloved, Shirley.

Y'r ol' Bud, Fike

Comment by Ramona Adams on February 13, 2019 at 3:44pm

My sister is a hoarder who works at the local library.  People donate all kinds of books to the library but for some governmental reason, they cannot catalog and use them so they either sell them to help their "friends" group, give them away or send them to the trash.  They also discard perfectly good books that have not been checked out in xxx number of months.  So, I have several shelves of really awesome books that she scarfed for me.  I set of encyclopedias from the early 1960s, great children's books, etc.  I have used a few of them in making ATCs and stamp art.  I absolutely love old books...and new books....and books that have yet to be printed.  :-)

 

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