Loved to Death

[Lip Service]

A book about pictures of library books that have been discarded after heavy use

https://hyperallergic.com/403659/loved-to-death-a-photographers-tri...

[Ursula]

One can only hope that new editions of these much-loved books were acquired to replace them.

[Lyn]

wow, I had never really contemplated this

Lyn

[Ioruach]

I have a couple of books that are starting to look like those in the pictures. One of them is my original college text book for English 101. It covers all (or at least most) of the basic rules of writing. As an English major, I still like to look up some of those rules. That goes back to the year 1956 so the book has become somewhat tattered. Another is The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. The biggest drawback to reading that one is that it is very heavy!

[Lyn]

I have only two original books, both children's books.  The big gray bridge and carbonel!  

Lyn

[Angharad]

An interesting concept for a book of photography. I love how good photographers can find beauty in the shabby, dilapidated, bedraggled, and decrepit, and allow us to see that beauty.

Sometimes, if a book was too far gone to donate, I would disassemble it and use the pages as art--perhaps frame them, or decoupage passages from them, use them in assemblages/collages, or even in my pottery. Books that had a particularly spiritual meaning to me would find their way into a raku (pottery) firing. That way the spirit of the words was both imprinted, in some way, on the fired pieces, and set free by the flames.