Inkygirl: Daily Diversions For Writers

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• Lydia // Mar 14, 2008 at 10:36 am

  How in the world…?
  On the second picture…how did he get the books in the archway to stay there?

• Tasha // Mar 14, 2008 at 4:35 pm

  using a keystone (or book). it’s mostly done with pressure and gravity. They do the same thing with some stone arches and/or bridges.

• Tasha // Mar 14, 2008 at 4:38 pm

  Of course, that’s assuming he didn’t use glue or any other adhesive. I was just stating that it can be done w/o ruining the books.

• Poggi // Mar 15, 2008 at 2:54 am

  We actually build towers out of books in the bookstore I work, but most of the time we use the copies of the same book, and maybe at the maximum ot 300-500 copies of it (OK, that is, except for Harry Potter where it was about 3000).

  Still, this seems kind of bizarre

  Makes me think of those rare and entertaining kind of customers, who come in the shop with the height and length of their new bookshelf, and who would like to have books of a specific size and/or color and/or binding

• Debbie // Mar 15, 2008 at 8:07 am

  Lydia and Tasha: I was wondering exactly the same thing (if he used any adhesive). If he didn’t, I hope those book towers were guarded from vandalism.

  Poggi: Are there really customers like that?!? Who choose books based on APPEARANCE rather than content?

• Poggi // Mar 15, 2008 at 5:02 pm

  Of course there are. I didn’t beleive it, actually when I was in training, but since then I’ve seen quite a few of them over the years.

  However hard it is to take, books are object, which can have aesthetical value just as well. And some may use them as decorative objects - why not?

  For us in the store if they pay for what they take with them, it’s fine.

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