Additional and often most attractive protection can be applied with custom made, e. Should you? It depends. To fulfill its protective role, any blank wrapper of archival paper will serve a good purpose.
A copy of the original dust-jacket, or facsimile will protect just about the same and that should be about where it ends. Any reputable vendor or collector will clearly mark the facsimile dust-jacket itself as a reproduction to avoid a book being passed on and the last innocent recipient not being able to differentiate it from an original without expert help. In summary, the dust-jacket is an integral part of the book in your collection and deserves the same care and conservation as the book itself.
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Master Content Brain. I suppose colored covers are similarly marked but the marks are less noticeable. So rather than being a dust cover, it's a "fingerprint cover". Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. The reasoning behind book dust jacket while there is a hardcover Ask Question.
Asked 7 years, 8 months ago. Active 6 years, 4 months ago. Viewed 21k times. I have some books on my shelves that have dust covers - most of them are already torn somewhere, some severly, which makes them look bad: in case of some or these, the hardcover below has exactly the same visual on it, so by getting rid of the dust covers, I would achieve more neat look of these, unfortunately, in case of some other ones, the hardcover below is different , less descriptive and elegant; in case of these, removing the dust cover would deteriorate the recognizability of them.
So, I find the situation like this: if a dust cover shows the same picture as the hardcover below - it deteriorates the design, as in fact user ends up with a less durable outer part of the book, responsible for the visual presentation of it. So, what is the point of dust covers?
Improve this question. Dominik Oslizlo Dominik Oslizlo It has a dust jacket. Books had these to protect the covers. That was before dust-repellent paper. Ha, nice one L. If you want to reduce wear and tear on paper dust jackets you can buy the same sort of plastic protective material that libaries typically use: ex amazon.
To protect the whitewalls they'd be paper wrapped to reduce returns from scuffs during shipment. They opted to wrap all tires so the process was simpler. As time went by they kept selling more and more blackwalls but continued to wrap all of the tires.
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. PatomaS PatomaS 4, 19 19 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges. This is interesting and, indeed, explanatory.
However, I do understand the historical point; the thing is it does not seem to provide an extra value any more. As you mentioned, there is a strong influence of tradition and expectations, so in fact it may be more skeumorphical. The real question is, though, if it is reasonable any more, as the function is in question here, in my eyes, in times when books are cheap and have strong hardcovers.
Feb 28, AM. Ron wrote: "Seriously, the dust jacket makes a great bookmark. I love a book that looks and is well used. Mar 01, PM. I'm crazy ocd about dust jackets. A few years ago I sold my Wheel of Time hardbacks. I like to take a chance on new authors and hardback first editions. Gaylord dust jacket protectors are cheap, make your bookshelves look awesome and give you options if you need a bit of cash in a few years time. I'm reading posts from to. If it's not paperback, dust jacket stays on while I read the book.
Carefully hold the book to make sure there aren't any marked, tears, creases etc. When I'm finished all my books get shrink wrapped. There is a horrific reason long story behind the shrink wrapping part, but they look new a Beautiful on my shelves.
Throwing the dust jacket out?? Apr 01, AM. Throwing away a dust jacket is like throwing away a child. You just don't do it. Apr 03, AM. I use the dust jacket for a bookmark, but it does get annoying sometimes! Lilo wrote: "Ron wrote: "Seriously, the dust jacket makes a great bookmark. You dog-ear your pages?
That annoys me so much! I spend a lot of time un-dog-earing the books at my school! Apr 05, PM. Heidi wrote: "I use the dust jacket for a bookmark, but it does get annoying sometimes! May 23, PM. I use to hate dust jackets because they slid off, but now I just fix them at the perfect angle and put a piece of tape onto the book from the side of a flap.
Now, I can read without it bothering me. Jun 13, PM. Dust jackets are a cheap and horrible thing. I have been getting more and more annoyed with them and starting today I'm throwing all of them away. Once you get rid of the dust cover life gets better and you realize that the way to read a book is without the dust cover.
If we all start throwing them away then maybe publishers will start upping their game and making 'real' hardcover books. Add a reference: Book Author. Search for a book to add a reference.
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