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It’s what I’m doing ! Reading.

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I loved covering my textbooks as a schoolgirl. Why is it that Capote and Nabokov are exposed? Hmm..

Love the image! I used to do that to my books all the time, but not so much anymore. I’ve recently started doing a lot of reading again and I loved finding out that my local bookstore was doing clearance on some pretty interesting books.

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In the embassy school I used to attend, we always had to cover our books with brown paper. I actually used to love doing that. Thanks for bringing back a nice memory. :)

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That used to be so fun when I did it for school! Cover and then bedazzle :)

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In cold blood : Un de mes livres preferes a lire en anglais, of course.
Quant aux livres recouverts, ceci me rappelle ma petite enfance ou nous devions tout recouvrir, y compris les cahiers, de couleurs differentes et apposer une etiquette avec nos coordonnees. Nous avions egalement un uniforme, meme en ecole publique. C’est bien loin……..

Recently I struggle to read books umming and ahhing over which one to read from my bookshelf- maybe I should cover them all and pick randomly!

On another note I have some well read books by me all my sisters over the past decade and the covers are terrible & falling apart, I can’t bear to throw away and repurchase new copies.

I should cover those books! Thanks for the inspiration Garance! X

j’aime l’idée de recouvrir de papier, un ça donne une touche deco ecolo à la bibliotheque, et deux on a toujours une surprise quand on prend un bouquin!
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Love it!
If you are into book shelfs… you should have a look at the site bookshelfporn.com!!

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Hmm don’t like the brown paper

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Excellent taste in reading material from what I can see and that may be the point. The others are not for prying eyes for whatever reason the owner has or maybe just for aesthetic reasons, who know. Cheeky brown covers (dirty material?), I might use more colorful ones.

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I like this picture!!!

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Wow, ça a l’air mystérieux, j’imagine que cette personne n’a plus besoin de voir le titre du livre. Elle sait selon la largeur, l’épaisseur et la hauteur du bouquin emballé de quel titre il s’agit. Est-ce l’âge qui est derrière cette maîtrise ou la passion pour les livres? Ou les deux :)

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love!
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I want to know which are the packed ones :))) because from the books that i can see all of them are maybe the best for reading

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Garance is this your biblioteque? I love covered books. I use Trader Joe’s paper bags (inside out) to cover them. Highly durable plus it lends an air of mystery to my library. For splashes of color, once in a blue moon, I treat myself to handmade colorful paper. Incredible the number of people to make a beeline to my bookshelf. Glad to see I am not the only one. Take that electronic readers!

very cool photo Garance. Haven’t done that since high school days;D Stop by and read about the TWO HITCHHIKERS I picked up…yikes! http://lisapetrarca.blogspot.com/2012/07/we-picked-up-two-hitchhikers-last-night.html

an interesting idea!

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Je suis une lectrice compulsive et ça ne me viendrait pas à l’idée de couvrir mes livres !
Le possesseur de cette bibliothèque doit avoir honte de ses goûts ou ne considérer ses livres que comme un objet de déco.
Bref, joli, mais pas pour moi.
Merci Garance pour ces inspirations qui créent le débats…

Nice pict!
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I know someone who arranges his books by the colour of the spines, which looks very good but I don’t know how he finds anything. I do mind ugly colours (penguin had a long phase of orange which I disliked and I was shallow enough to replace some favourite books when th new edition was a lovely acqua) and have my bookshelves in the corridor of my flat so the colours of the rooms aren’t compromised. I do still love real tangible books though.

Tant de livres, si peu de temps!
j’adore la photo!

The look of this bookshelf must be very chic and minimalist, but I think it would be very impractical. You can’t read any of the titles!

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This reminds me of a photo I recently saw with all the book spines facing in so the viewer only saw the ends of the books. It created a lovely muted neutral along a bedroom wall. Perhaps best done with those books you don’t need to find in a hurry!

Ha, I bet you left all the Nabokov’s and Capote’s out and wrapped away the E.L. James’ and Stephenie Meyer’s of the shelf. A bit suspicious though that 80% of your shelf is wrapped away ;)

Lovely! Now I want to cover all my books in white and bleumarin wrapping paper :)