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<p>[QUOTE="Snowman Cometh, post: 10432657, member: 83302"]That's bizarre. But, that looks like it was pasted onto the outside. I never knew printing houses used old paper to use with the spine. I guess if you took the front apart, it'd be under the cover also. What's cool about the one I picked up is it's PT Barnum's book. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I thought they only sold clothing. That's pretty neat. I gotta say, it'd be annoying to buy a book from a store and have their name stamped all over the book. It's on quite a few pages. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Until I got that book home and looked, I had no idea. But, I do only read books. I'm good in thrift stores to only look for signatures from certain authors. I've seen people going through each book, some looking for stored money. Imagine how much time you'd have to waste going through hundreds of books. </p><p><br /></p><p>There's also the people using their phone to look up every book. I truly want to smack the phone out of their hand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Snowman Cometh, post: 10432657, member: 83302"]That's bizarre. But, that looks like it was pasted onto the outside. I never knew printing houses used old paper to use with the spine. I guess if you took the front apart, it'd be under the cover also. What's cool about the one I picked up is it's PT Barnum's book. I thought they only sold clothing. That's pretty neat. I gotta say, it'd be annoying to buy a book from a store and have their name stamped all over the book. It's on quite a few pages. Until I got that book home and looked, I had no idea. But, I do only read books. I'm good in thrift stores to only look for signatures from certain authors. I've seen people going through each book, some looking for stored money. Imagine how much time you'd have to waste going through hundreds of books. There's also the people using their phone to look up every book. I truly want to smack the phone out of their hand.[/QUOTE]
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