I am quite the lover of books - I have always had books around me and don't think I could ever be without at least a small library nearby. New books can be nice (I'm reading one right now and it's fantastic!), but there's something really special about old books too.
A little worn and plenty loved, they hold a history in their yellowing pages. I love going to used bookstores and browsing until I find something that looks interesting - some of my best finds were books older than me that I've never heard of before! There's one store in particular I like to peruse when I visit my mom, and I almost always head back to the sci-fi/fantasy section, which is almost always a good bet to find something I'll like. (The only gift certificate I got this past Christmas was to a used bookstore. My mother knows me well!) Libraries have a similar something about them. The shelves upon shelves of books have a magical calming sort of quality to them. And as an added bonus, used books run one the chance of finding something interesting tucked inside.
I love finding little things left in old books! Inscriptions, bookmarks, receipts - even mundane items are fun to find, just to spend the time wondering about the person who left the item there. So it would figure that I adore the blog Forgotten Bookmarks. It has way-cool found-in-books stuff. Old postcards, pressed flowers, bookmarks, photographs, and recipes, just to name a few.
If you haven't seen the Forgotten Bookmarks blog already, I highly recommend that you check it out. I could stare at it for hours. The more I do, though, the more I am tempted to tuck little notes and things into my books when I put together a pile for donation or return a library book.. I think it would be fun, even to just tuck in a scrap of paper that said "I hope you enjoy!" or something like that. Who knows, even the smallest things can brighten a day sometimes.
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