Inside Jacket

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The world’s largest book, “Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom,” by Michael Hawley. It’s five feet by seven feet (roughly the dimensions of a ping-pong tabletop) and weighs more than a hundred and thirty pounds. You can purchase it on Amazon for thirty thousand dollars.

Photograph by Jason Unbound, CC BY-NC 2.0

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Crafty book earrings, with instructions for making your own.

“Book Earrings” by Dvortygirl, CC BY-SA 2.0

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Over at Design Observer, there’s a very interesting short history of the dust jacket. They were originally meant to be protective wrapping for books made out of delicate or fine material, and were typically discarded. Above, a dust jacket believed to be one of the oldest in existence, discovered this April at Oxford University’s Bodleian Library.

Photography courtesy of Bodleian Library, Oxford University.

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Vintage Penguin Classics paperbacks.

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A worn, hand-me-down softball next to some vintage cloth-covered books.

“How to spend a lazy Summer afternoon” by Patrick Q., CC BY-NC 2.0

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