One of the more unusual juxtapositions of ideas I've had lately, and that's saying something.

[davywavy]

In a post yesterday, daegaer mentioned that she cannot stand to see books ill-treated, and when I replied that I'm an inveterate ill-treater of books she had a fit of the vapours and needed the stays of her corsetry loosened.
It's true. My library is fairly substantial and it's a rare book that I own which doesn't at least have page corners turned over to mark off interesting ideas or quotes. Sometimes I annotate the margins and I mark my place in books by putting them open, face down, which breaks the spines.
Some people, I know, go into conniptions at this sort of behaviour.

However, as I've been thinking about AC/DC far too much lately, this seems to have inspired me to song:

(To the tune of 'Heatseeker' by Angus & Brian. Apologies as usual).

Getting ready to read
Getting set to peruse
I'm gonna turn me a page
I'm gonna learn me some views
I gotta keep those pages turning
I gotta keep those words retained
I gotta keep those ideas burning
I wanna see some things explained!
And I'm a spinebreaker, using books like tools
And I'm a spinebreaker, and I, I don't need no page preserver
I just turn page corners down.
Page corners down

Getting ready to learn
Getting set to construe
I'm gonna annotate text
My library books - overdue!
You gotta keep those neurons firing
You gotta use those books like tools
You gotta keep knowledge acquiring
You gotta break those lending rules!
Cause I'm a spinebreaker, underlines the text
And I'm a spinebreaker, and I, I don't need no page preserver
I just turn page corners down.
Page corners down

I wanna pick up a book
See the lines of the prose
I'm gonna take me a look
At how pentameter flows!
And I'm a spinebreaker
I gotta keep those pages turning
I gotta keep those words retained
I gotta keep those ideas burning
I wanna see some things explained!
And I'm a spinebreaker, and I don't need no page place preserver
I'll just turn page corners down.
Page corners down.



Reading. It's rock and roll.

Comments

[mrmmarc.livejournal.com]

A book covered in notes, pages buffed, dog eared and dirty...

Its a sign of a well loved book!
The BOOK is not the sacred thing.

The sacred thing are the words. The book is merely the method to bring the words to you.

I write on books, annotate books, crease pages endlessly...

And I utterly utterly UTTERLY adore books.

Suffice to say there are two types of book lovers in this world...
Those who are VERY middle class and prim- who like to have tea with their books and get excited at the occsional glimpse of book ankle...

And those of us who get the book down on the floor and have a hand up its skirt within an hour. We are the ones who books remember- who leave our marks on the book as they leave their make upon us.

Polite book lovers- look to your bookcases- your books, your novels, you hardbacks and your references books- they DO like you... they DO... but they secretly long for owners like us!

:)

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for some of those mental images, little buddy.

[(Anonymous)]

I keep forgetting that all books secetly want to be slapped about.