tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777155480744657476.post1208467103617088439..comments2023-05-08T06:00:34.117-05:00Comments on She Carried a Watermelon: Biblio-blasphemyAmyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822088574795909869noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777155480744657476.post-60710714958031795842009-10-13T14:10:17.066-05:002009-10-13T14:10:17.066-05:00Thank you, thank you, thank you, for this post. I...Thank you, thank you, thank you, for this post. I always find it disheartening when someone who calls himself a "book collecter" means just that - he's collecting the physical aspect and NOT a story. To me, it's what's inside the book. Yes, I do love certain covers on certain books, but only because those are the covers that were on the copies of the books containing the STORIES OR POEMS I love.<br /><br />It makes me sad that I have to know the entire printing history of a nineteenth-century novel in order to enjoy the language and characters and plot. It's one thing to understand the history behind the time period and the writer to understand the book. It's another to know what kind of paper it was printed on and how it was bound. That stuff is good for people interested in printing and bookbinding history - which is itself interesting - but that's different from the history of a book.<br /><br />Once again, thanks. This is something I've found irksome for awhile now.Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10600936401721897615noreply@blogger.com