BEAR MAKING A REFLECTION EXCITED ABOUT THE BOOK The most important thing a book is what the book says. How he says it also has an interest. Little should we care if what is written is written on toilet paper with pictures ceradecor. A little?. We recognize the difficulties inherent in handling, reading and preservation of, say, the complete works of Erasmus scrawled esobre Colhogar rolls. It necessarily follows that the physical body of the book is not without functional significance. Everyone knows the uncomfortable feeling of being behind sheets of those horrible books botched broadsides under a glossy cardboard glued to, acting as cover, arches, wrinkled and cracked, and eventually give up miserably, falling down behind the book shelves and leaving bare unwashed and torn. Descojonado, in a word.
We thus, by sheer utility requirement, the need to provide books, a "hardcover". Clear title, because the contents of the book cover, and is tough. Tough as it can to ensure he received a bunion on the "Ulysses" Joyce, artfully focused their weight (not its weight) on one of its corner. The hardcover release us also the acquisition of those awful gadgets supposedly called decorative bookends. Advantageously these monsters can be replaced by placing two estratética quartos thick hardcover and respected (eg the same "Ulysses", but has gone out the window, and something like "Philip II" Fernandez Alvar. Two men bricks including other housing feed more discreetly.
Of course, there are books and books, as there are cats and cats, and ladies and gentlemen. No one should be thrown into the fire (perhaps a cat itself), but recognize that there are printers who strive, choosing good roles, beautiful typography, and sophisticated presses (or whatever they call the sugar now used for printing), and others printed thus caught, on what they catch, and tight with a shoe. So then spreads out. One smooth, neat, clean as a baby's face (if not eaten biscuits), with all the little letters arranged in rows, without errors, and other facts about foxes, with escurriduras, chorretones, the words to Virula, with blank pages, folded, mustaches and even splotches of chorizo. These past no one the ennobled. Tolerated, but not displayed. The first deserves attention, respect and love. If an exact match and beautifully crafted and a noble speech, that attention is required.
can spend a fruitful life to exercise the noble art of bookbinding. I'm not a bookbinder, but beautiful book lover, and I have moved to these reflections a frayed reports that Amazon (pronounced "ameison", do me a favor, not to seem garrulos) has sold more electronic books that cover books hard. Archives for electronic book, is understood to be the electronic book itself a kind of pileup to be connected to the computer to download the file in question and display it on a visor.
I, personally, I refuse absolutely to do without the weight, volume, smell, touch, of the glorious prone to dust (the dust, the prosecutor, is spread when a book is opened after a long sleep). I refuse to I renounce the sensations to browse, browsing, jumping from book to book, to have two, three, seven open at once, seeing as I call it from the shelves, as each of them, with the single, fleeting glimpse of the back, I remember a time, place, company, a conversation in which, pedantic or timely, jumped the appointment.
Other tasks we have taken hours, strength and hope. Above all hours. No quisera read everything, and what I read is much less than they should, but will not allow what little I read, I'll manage it like a suppository, as a drug, like a porn movie. I do not want to steal the carnality, the delicious heat from a book as before.
NOTE: The illustration which heads these lines is the cover of a book bound in Grolier style, French Renaissance. In this link, which I strongly recommend, reviewed the work of absolute genius binding, Emilio Catalan Brugalla. Behold his work, and gauging how one should love the book to design and implement such wonders.
