books – Page 4 – Dumpling in a Hanky

Law books ain’t cheap

Certain old law books are very, very expensive (like this one).

Certain new law books are also very, very expensive. This book has slipped from its original publication date by about 3 years so far, so there’s no guarantee that it will actually be coming out in November this year, as currently promised. But just look at that price.

£785.

Yes: that’s not a typo. It actually costs £785 for a single volume of a single book.

It has 568 pages.

That’s £1.38 per page.

Law book prices are just insane sometimes.

5 candles. Not 4 candles..or fork handles.

5 candles on my blog birthday cake, on its fifth anniversary*!

I’ve done quite a bit since I started this blog up: Chartered, (hopefully) Revalidated, been a Committee member, been a Convenor, organised training events, gone to training events, formally and informally mentored other information professionals (and been mentored by them in return), set up the UK Library Bloggers wiki, pottered about the edges of interesting projects like the Library Routes and Build India A Library initiatives, been involved in the setting up of various wikis for various purposes, taken part in a course of online study, attended formal conferences and informal unconferences (that is such a horrible word!), and along the way, found a ton of entertaining book-related gifts on Etsy.

In other words – good lord, I got professional! And it didn’t even hurt! Keeping the blog going (despite long periods where I’ve thought “I really have nothing to talk about”, or “I have loads to talk about, but I’d probably be fired if I did”) has been less traumatic than I would have though, and I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to type all my highbrow and lowbrow thoughts (admittedly, it’s generally more of the lowbrow), and see if anyone else shares them.

So, happy birthday dear blog, may we have many more years together 🙂 And if you’ve tolerated reading this for any of that time – thanks too, especially for not laughing too loudly when I’m being utterly dim 😀

All birthday gifts gratefully received….

*Well, it was on the 17th of June – I’m not so hot on dates sometimes.

The book…stuff

This is the post of oddments, strange bits, and things that I accidentally missed from the other posts, and expands slightly beyond “books” into “books and library ‘hings”. I think it’s best that I don’t even try to explain some of these….

Kusudama flowers are pretty, easy to make, and look kinda funky when made from old book pages:

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They’re also nice in a bunch:

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And as roses too:

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Books can have all sorts of covers, as these show:

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Make sure the books stay on the shelf with a bit of punctuation geekery:

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You could carry your books about in a bag…with a picture of books on it:

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Make sure you never lose your place again, with some unusual bookmarks:

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Some more necklaces here:

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Badges are also a good wearable way of showing your book love:

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If you need to get yourself organised, this library card catalogue style box could be just the thing:

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And every library needs its own bookworm:

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That’s it, folks! I hope you’ve enjoyed my Etsy goodies posts, and maybe been inspired to pick up some nice things. I’ll try and put some more together before Christmas again…and always remember…

LOVE [the] BOOK

Looking and quoting

You won’t want to draw the line at just showing book bits around your home, do you? You want images and art for your walls, and cards to send to all and sundry, featuring books and book quotes in all their formats? So feast your eyes on these!