IceMaiden, that's a very weird article, very controversial I dare say.IceMaiden wrote:It wasn't a tongue-in-cheek suggestion, it was lroper advice from an interior decorator to make the room look tidier! Having looked a bit further, it's an actual craze, known as 'backwards books' . As one comment I saw made said "I bet the sort of people who do this have put all the tins in their kitchen cupboards on their side too so the ends look neater than the labels!" .
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What a strange way to look at books and to decorate apartments!
For centuries people have collected books and built up beautiful private libraries and all this shall be a thing of the past in just one generation of e-books?
Of course we still need physical books, because e-books still have not figured out a way according to my husband who reads lots of e-books to attach illustrations and photos (autobiographies).
I've read more than 5.000 books in my life and do re-read about 1.500 of them on a regular basis plus many new novels from the public library in-between (I wish I had more time to read). Luckily I still discover books that I enjoy so much that I purchase a used copy from amazon only to be able to re-read it.
I wonder why this blogger only re-read 20 of her books?
What a dull life she must be leading!
Sure, there are many boring books out there, but there are many compelling books out there as well and it's hard NOT to find them.
Through all those 52 past years since I've discovered EB and the joy of reading, I've considered books my friends and when I enter one of our rooms filled with books it's like seeing old friends...it puts me in a good mood.
So how could I turn around the spines and not recognize anylonger at which books I'm looking? Doesn't make the least sense at all to me. Sorry.