Friday, July 24, 2009

Bookcovers?

It's not about books but it's about books somehow...

When I was young, I used to cover all my text books and notebooks by color-paper or used calendar paper. Some kinds of monthly calendars were made of very good quality paper, they were durable, resistant and had colorful pictures on them. The book covers helped me keep the books as long as possible (longer than usual since I have this tendency keeping my books in very good sharp even though I often take notes between the lines). Later, I changed the covers into this kind of transparent plastic since the books and notebooks had more and more beautiful covers and I liked them too much to hide them.

Since graduation, I stop covering my books since I have no more text books and I love my fiction books cover and they now usually have this thin plastic layer on the cover to keep them from many kind of dust and all. And I also notice that nowadays, the publishing houses pay more attention to the cover art so most of recently published books have very good quality covers.

Today I stumble over this piece of ad on book cover. Hey, the cover is very simple and are made of this kind of brown paper (from the past, remember?). But I think that simple and the brown paper is exactly what drew my attention the first hand. Nostalgic? I don't know. I think I always have this thing with that brown paper. I think the problem with this cover is you can not keep yourself from scribbling something on it once you have it for your books. Wanna bet? Ok, check it out here.

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