i have a thing for paperbacks. i like how they're soft, the comfortable weight of them, the way they bend and their covers fold over time. i like them with white space & i like when their pages yellow over time like teeth. i like that the fonts are ever au courant, ever aging, ever easy on tired eyes. i like them with notes tucked inside them, with inscriptions, abandoned to thrift shops and library sales. i like them in messy little stacks, tucked into corners of rooms, left on chairs, thrown into canvas bags, gathering sand in the summertime.
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such lovely books :D and the photos are lovely too..you just want to read the books when you see your photos :)
we love catcher in the rye over here!!!
So many pretty covers and wonderful reads. Just beautiful.
Lovely photos...I prefer paperbacks to hardbacks as well, they're more personal.
Beautiful words! I definitely agree!!
~Sara
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I love paperbacks myself. They're so quiet and detailed. They don't scream, "I'm here! Read me!" but they give a soft call that beckons you to their side.
Yet I love the feeling of a thick hard cover in my hand with the words printed neatly over the cover and tiny letters scribbled inside.
xoxo
~Brooke {via The Dove Tree}
Same here. I still prefer paperbacks to ebooks. There's nothing like turning the page of the book, highlighting lines that really mean something and writing a few notes here and there on paperbacks. =)
gorgeous. i love paperbacks. love all of these.
K
there is something romantic about a paperback that you loose in the sophistication and sterility of a hard cover.
i.do.too.
Love these pictures of them;)
i also have a thing for Hallmark books, I collect those!
love this so so much. My bibliophile-ness is having a heart attack with this.
Ditto- to everything you said! I just read Catcher for the first time- the same little paperback you have. Love love.
xoxo
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Perfect. So many wonderful books. Although I have an eReader, they will never take the place of actual books.
I love this.
I love paperbacks too. I cannot buy a book on my ipod because I just think I would hate reading a book on there. I neeeed to have it in my hands, to see how many pages are left, to see how far I have read and like you said, see it stacked somewhere. However, I will get the sample of a book on my ipod so i can read the sample of a book first to see if I will like it, but that is as long as I can last. There are a few books I want to read and I am torn because I don't want to buy the actual book because that means that will be one more book to ship when we move to the States, but I also don't want to read on my ipod. Such tricky business.
Speaking of novels, i just wrote you one.
i love the smell of paperback books :)
So happy to find so many people loving a book the old fashioned way.. though I prefer the hardcover without the cover.. strong and bound.
there's something irresistible about old paperbacks with good covers! I love A Winter's Tale :)
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xx
Lovely post :) I love to read too, and most of my books must be paperbacks. Just found 4 more (thrifted) books last week ^^ They're even greater than any new ones.
Satu
Indie by heart
love your photography! definitely remember catch in the rye from high school <3
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I like paperback too! And yay, of Mice and Men is one of my favorite books ever.
Awww, your blog is adorable. i loved it after just reading the top paragraph! ;)
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Paperback books are my favorite as well!
And I love all these photos - something about pictures of books...so darn pretty.
Agreed. Hardcover is so overrated. ;)
xo
these pictures are just absolutely gorgeous! i love them, seriously!
I love paperbacks too. And Catcher in The Rye is one of my favorite books. :) <3 xx http://lightbuffcolour.blogspot.com
I know what you mean. I love folding them when I read. I hate hardcover books, I always try to find them on paperback.
I keep meaning to pick up a copy of catcher in the rye--really need to remember.
In this ever changing digital age, you can't beat a wonderfully old and worn paperback. When buying them secondhand, it's nice to wonder about the people who held it before you and what they thought of it. Now, if only I had the time to sit down with a good paperback!
how true. they are just full of past memories and lost imaginations
xo dana
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Such pretty photography. Your blog is so adorable! Thanks for your sweet comment on my blog! xo
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Such gorgeous classics. WOW. Love that they're all the vintage ones! xoxo
I really loved this post, cute photography, sweet words... wonderful on a Saturday afternoon in the sun. Thank you. Love Elle xo
I love paperbacks as well, I have yet to catch on to the e-book trend.
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I love book covers! Those are some beauties.
i'm a proud book slut and the smell of books never fails to excite me. you've photographed some of my most favorite books. beautiful post! :)
Salinger is one of my favorite authors... And I love paperbacks too! I'm resisting the e-reader, they don't smell the same ;)
Kitty
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Beautiful! I love paperbacks, too. It's like holding something so special when you're reading.
weirdo warning -- i really want to sniff these. i grew up with two voracious readers as parents. i have images of them sticking their noses into vintage books and taking deep breaths and find myself continuing the habit as an adult. no better smell in the world!
beautiful shots! *swoons*
The way you write things is just plain beautiful. You have a way with words my friend.
I adore paperbacks. There is just something so special about them.
Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely. You've captured it. <3
xx.
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