Handling ATD

[Joe Knepper]

My copy from Amazon is in good shape.  A beautiful book, eh?  The pages are
smooth as silk.  The book has heft and character.

People have been more obsessed by a whole lot less, don't you think?

I love getting new books.

j


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Ande
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 3:30 PM
To: Henry Musikar; Pynchon-L
Subject: Re: Handling ATD

My copy arrived from Amazon, a gift--but I am very disappointed with 
it--the pages were wavy (maybe moisture damage from the insignificant 
packaging and high humidity and the cover had some surface 
irregularities--again maybe due to packaging--so I went down to the 
local independent book store and paid the full price for a better 
"shelf" copy--I'm glad, because I will be able to loan out the 
first....however I did make a book cover out of brown paper bag for the 
first copy--think I will decorate it with pictures from the wiki, etc


A.

Henry Musikar wrote:

>My ATD is not leaving the house or entering any rooms accustomed to high
humidity. I have removed the dust jacket so that it won't become dinged or
dingy, I make sure that my hands are clean before handling the book, and I
will soon make a book cover, much as we made for our text books when I was a
boy, but... of what material? Is the paper from brown paper bags/sacks okay
for archival/valued/cherished/valuable editions?
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>Please tell me that I am not alone in my respectful (neurotic?) handling of
the new "The Book."
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>Henry
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