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I believe I accidently left a few hundred dollars along the spine of one hardcover I donated to Goodwill. Speaking of spines of books, last I saw it mentioned,
by a9h74j 4y ago
I believe I accidently left a few hundred dollars along the spine of one hardcover I donated to Goodwill.
Speaking of spines of books, last I saw it mentioned, archive.org apparently wasn't digitizing an image of the spline edge of books. If that seems like a missed opportunity to facilitate actual "bookshelf" views.
- cafard 4y agoThe introduction to the edition of The Leopard that we have remark that the author and his wife were used to stashing important papers--letters, high-denomination bills, what have you--in their many books. Some they then forgot and lost. I did once find a $20 I had left in a book; movie tickets and a postcard are about all I can remember finding of someone else's leavings. Did you fold the bills so that you could slip them down between the cover and the spine?
- a9h74j 4y agoYes, folded once between the cover and spine. My one consolation is that it was probably Jowett's translations of Plato -- on the possibility that that would have been less likely to go straight to trash at Goodwill.
- warbler73 4y agoGood point about the spline edge this is a peeve of mine as well. I do like that most databases store book height which is really useful imo.