Wednesday, 19 September 2007

Well, that elicited a reaction

I was reinforcing and mending a whole load of large print westerns today. Often readers will leave their mark on the book, intials, circling the fifth letter on the first paragraph of the first page, a special symbol. Usually fairly benign, even if misguided: we get multiple copies of the same book, and editions that may have differing covers and titles depending on country of origin.
Sometimes a book will inspire a special reaction. Like the Rolling Stone magazine cover of Billy-Joe Armstrong on which someone scrawled "Sexy Biotch". Today, leafing through the books I found someone had been roused by "Black Jo of the Pecos" by Jeff Blaine. The reaction was swift and negative. Pure Rubbish. Don't bother reading it.
I had to rip out and replace the page, which is now housed in the Bindery Annals.

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