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| Poor thing. |
Old books can be delicate. Their bindings get dry, their pages become fragile…they need treated with a little care and respect, if they’re to have a chance of surviving for another hundred years.
So what do they get? Post-it attacks, bent covers, and broken spines.
Another one in the mysterious series of art books has turned up, this time in the form of a dragon in an egg, nestled into a copy of Ian Rankins Knots and Crosses.
I love it, the dragon looks amazing…but I’m a bit concerned that staff are said to be “devouring Rankin’s Knots and Crosses”.
Surely that can’t be good for the digestion?
Meg mentioned in a comment on my previous drawing that I’d missed a couple of the other ways lawyers utilise expensive law books…so I’ve created an additional drawing to illustrate one of the other favoured approaches….
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| Problematic when pots leak |
I wonder how many other law librarians will find this situation familiar.
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| Lawyers and books |
It’s the one where you ask someone where the book signed out by them is, and they strenuously deny all knowledge of it…or even the existence of such a thing as a book…while surrounded by the things.
P.S. Dumpling is not very good at art.
Dumpling in a Hanky 