That's spelt wrong!

[greek_jester]

Symmetrical book-stacking?

Buying books for the look of the thing has been around for a long time! Back in Victorian times (possibly before too, I can't quite remember) you would buy books minus their covers. You would then send them to your local book-binder, who would bind them with the size/colour/style covers that would fit into your library. Families would have entire walls of books by various authors all bound in exactly the same way, so good organisation was essential (if you actually read them!) If you bought off the shelf bindings you were considered a little down at the heels.

[AccountingDrone]

I have been slowly scanning/ocring in my paperbacks as they reach the ends of their poor little lifespans. Poor little things, cheap paper, cheap glue, abandoned by the printers to never see a reprinting *sob*

[Dreamstalker]

A bookstore across the river in Cambridge has a print-on-demand machine. I recently discovered that one book in a series I love apparently had a very short print run and is not to be found...probably time for me to pop over there and see what they can do.

[Beckduer]

A bookstore across the river in Cambridge has a print-on-demand machine. I recently discovered that one book in a series I love apparently had a very short print run and is not to be found...probably time for me to pop over there and see what they can do.

If you know the name, would you mind sharing it? I have some books I would love to share with people, but refuse to loan out my only copy since I can't get another. This may be the answer!

[Beckduer]

This business exists. http://www.booksbythefoot.com/ is one of many.


-K'Z'K

Actually, if you go to their main web page, you can request specific books. I just found 14 that my mom's been looking for and the prices are pretty good! I'm impressed. I think I'll have to hop over there and check out one of their retail sites!

[BeeMused]

We found an early 1910's eugenics book in the attic of my grandparents' house. Nothing to do with Nazis; it seems to be a general treatise printed before that period of history. Interesting but not worth a hell of a lot.

We still have it, more as a curiosity than anything else (I've been trying to ferret out if it had belonged to anyone in Grandma's family; had to, as the house was purchased new).

The idea of eugenics (the improvement of the human aka white race thru artificial selection) was quite popular worldwide during that time. Racial purity was a big item. People with genetic or other defects often were sterilized all over the world. Being a-social or a poor alcoholic could have the same results.
Later the Nazis took the pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics one step further, they killed them right away unless they could be used as unskilled workers.

Finding "Mein Kampf" in old attics is quite common in Germany, because every couple married during the Third Reich got it as a wedding present from the state. And most people never read it, it's an extremly tedious and boring read, but if you manage to read it without at every other page, you'll find all the ideas spelled out. If only more people had read it before voting for the Nazis.

[Jay 2K Winger]

You're right. No human would stack books like this.

Listen! Do you smell something?

[Shalom]

Back in Victorian times (...) families would have entire walls of books by various authors all bound in exactly the same way, so good organisation was essential (if you actually read them!)

They also would not put books by male and female authors side by side on the same shelf, unless the authors were married to each other.

[greek_jester]

They also would not put books by male and female authors side by side on the same shelf, unless the authors were married to each other.

You know, I'd completely forgotten that! Must have made for interesting filing.

The Victorians did have some strange ideas. Like putting skirts around the bottoms of cupboards, pianos, etc so that men wouldn't get excited over seeing bare legs

[EricKei]

A bookstore across the river in Cambridge has a print-on-demand machine. I recently discovered that one book in a series I love apparently had a very short print run and is not to be found...probably time for me to pop over there and see what they can do.

If you know the name, would you mind sharing it? I have some books I would love to share with people, but refuse to loan out my only copy since I can't get another. This may be the answer!

Actually, the local Libraries have been getting in machines that can do this (New Orleans Public Library system) -- I think it's only for for both Public Domain and certain Copyrighted books, but you can print up just about any such book you can find online, or that you have written yourself and have on disk, for about six bucks a pop in trade paperback form.

http://bestofneworleans.com/gyrobase...id=oid%3A60960

Listen! Do you smell something?

THANK You ^_^ I figured if anybody would catch that (perhaps mutilated) reference, it woulda been Dreamstalker...

[Andara Bledin]

A bookstore across the river in Cambridge has a print-on-demand machine. I recently discovered that one book in a series I love apparently had a very short print run and is not to be found...probably time for me to pop over there and see what they can do.

There is a fantasy series that's supposed to be quite good, but the first book had a short print run and will likely never be re-printed, with copies running at around $150.00 last time I looked. I'd love to make a few fair-use copies of that thing just so more people (such as myself) would at least have an opportunity to read it.

^-.-^

[Imogene]

all diseases are caused by constipation and can be cured by giving enemas,

Dr. Kellogg? I'm pretty sure most of that info can be found in Road to Wellville. I use Dr. because he was running a sort of sanitarium, so, I imagine he had a degree of some sort.
Speaking of: Did you know he invented corn flakes to curb masturbation tendencies?

[Mikkel]

Speaking of: Did you know he invented corn flakes to curb masturbation tendencies?

It doesn't work!

[Dreamstalker]

If you know the name, would you mind sharing it? I have some books I would love to share with people, but refuse to loan out my only copy since I can't get another. This may be the answer!

Harvard Book Store (I think the gizmo is called Expresso). I'm finding the online title search to be a pain in the tail, you might be able to email them with the title you're looking for.

[Imogene]

It doesn't work!

Blergh! TMI!

There is a fantasy series that's supposed to be quite good, but the first book had a short print run and will likely never be re-printed,

Is a bookbinder, his daughter, and the magnificently evil bastard who popped out of said book on the road to find either every last copy, or just to find one copy (depending on which side they're on)?