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From: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: dust jackets
Message-ID: <322@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Nov-85 13:47:39 EST
Article-I.D.: mmm.322
Posted: Mon Nov 18 13:47:39 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 19-Nov-85 04:27:07 EST
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Reply-To: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard)
Organization: 3M Company, St. Paul, Minn.
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In article <180@pluto.UUCP> warren@pluto.UUCP (Warren Burstein) writes:
>What do you folks out there do with dust jackets?

Dust jackets were not born into this world for nothing.  They have a
purpose in life... two purposes in fact.  The number one or main
purpose is, as their name implies, to protect the cover of the book
from dust and other substances.  The other is to help sell the book.
Since I don't really care much if my books get dusty, and since I have
already bought the book, I usually throw the dust jackets away.

   Sometimes, though, the title of the book is not writ on the binding,
or is writ very small or very faint, and then I keep the dust jacket on
it so that I can tell at a glance what the title of the book is.  I
don't put on a plastic cover or tape it in place the way libraries
do... I just put it aside while I'm using the book and put it back
before it goes back on the shelf.
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