tsundoku

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I can't walk by a library book sale or thrift store book section. I have to have them! I have been trying to limit myself, but who are we kidding? LOL! I love them even more when they're free! 

Would any of you like some random book pages?

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Free, or next to free?  Often, the Salvation Army nearby has a 5 or even 10 for 99¢ sale.  I've bought up to 70 books at a time.  They even give you boxes to put them in.  One lady saves ones she knows I'll like and points them out when I walk in so I don't miss 'em.  To think I bought the Palmer Method of Business Writing, 1901, for a max of 50¢.

Hey! Wonderful picture. As if from another world, about 120-years different!

Hey, Bonnie! Re: y'r book page offer...

Looks like this could be a mail art project in which you send out pages [even unasked for] and tell people they can alter and return them, then publish, reuse as art supplies, further alter, use as rolling papers, read to an audio recorder, etc., etc., etc.

Hey Fike! Great idea! You're adorable! "rolling papers" LOL!

Ficus strangulensis Tsundoku, gyotaku...you're turning Japanese, I think you're turning Japanese, I really think so...

(Peas)

Ah, so!

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.  :-)

'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

My latest junk book is this school atlas from 1982!

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

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