Seen in Print

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[HONDO74]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Cute photoshop job. Or, is that just a sad photoshop job.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[J. S. Bach]

What a ruination of a good book!

[chuck]

What a ruination of a good book!

While I don't ordinarily condone the destruction of books, this appears to be a dictionary, an old one at that AND that is some extremely clever carving.

As an artistic endeavor, I am impressed!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

What a ruination of a good book!

While I don't ordinarily condone the destruction of books, this appears to be a dictionary, an old one at that AND that is some extremely clever carving.

As an artistic endeavor, I am impressed!

Exactly why I posted it.

As for destroying books, when they closed my labs, the library in my office ended up in a dumpster. Could not give them away......and the institutional library had zero interest.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[chuck]

Clever. Just need to add a couple of face masks!

[HONDO74]

[rogruth]

When I lived in Ohio and Kentucky I would give books to the school and public library and find them on the shelves and in use.
This was 1956-1975. Since then I have lived in Georgia and the local libraries are not interested and the schools have to see if they are approved.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Since then I have lived in Georgia and the local libraries are not interested and the schools have to see if they are approved.

Sad. County library here loves to take donations either to buy new books, but they were running a used book sale 3-4 times a year -- 3 days of packed rooms full of books and people and the proceeds all going to support the library. Not having that income has severely impacted their new book buying budget.

Whenever schools have to approve books is when this country is on a seriously bad path.

[rogruth]

Since then I have lived in Georgia and the local libraries are not interested and the schools have to see if they are approved.

Sad. County library here loves to take donations either to buy new books, but they were running a used book sale 3-4 times a year -- 3 days of packed rooms full of books and people and the proceeds all going to support the library. Not having that income has severely impacted their new book buying budget.

Whenever schools have to approve books is when this country is on a seriously bad path.

In this case in our area they had to have an approved faculty member read them.
I was never able to find out what they were looking for.
In OH & KY they were glad to get anything and if they didn't have it it was put on the shelves.
Some places needed multiple copies for bookmobiles and the like.
I gave the local school system and library 500+ books when I left in 1969 partly just because
I was tooazy to load them on the truck. I moved myself.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[rogruth]

No way to tell but I wonder if it was posed or accidental?
I like his shoes and socks.