June 22, 2007
New Damage
With regards to everyone who sent me a link to today's xkcd, thanks. I laughed. In a kind of evil way, evilly. Because, well, it turns out that, as I have discussed previously, a large part of my job has me acting as what amounts to the curator of a death camp for books. If there are ever war crimes trials for this, I'm probably going down. Because, let us examine:
Here's a typical box of children's books that comes to me for disposal. I like dealing with these because they're lighter to move and generally can be disposed of faster.
This is a box of oversize books. I don't like these as much because, while there are less books and each book is more interesting (I dispose of a LOT of Rennaisance art books), they're all bloody well heavy.
Note the Russian art book there in the blue.
Here's the damage from one box. Top one looks ok except for a bit of wrinkling and the fact it's bowed into a U shape now. Book under it would be ok except for the interior staining and wrinkles. Book under THAT dissolved, and the rest are water damaged pretty badly.
There's the bottom book a little more closely. It's done. You're not ever reading that again without some effort.
This interesting book on manuscripts is not only very badly stained, it rips apart easily.
That having been examined, there are upsides to the thing, such as seeing this sort of highly System of the Worldesque guy here:
There are also various other entertaining titles, but I shall save them for a later post.
Segueing into more pictures...
[23:11] TontoMarius: And I found out a bunch of boxes I thought I had to do were actually all journals. FTW.
[23:11] serenadingwords: journals!
[23:12] TontoMarius: *is awash in journals*
[23:12] serenadingwords: journals!
[23:12] TontoMarius: Why are journals good?
[23:13] serenadingwords: To read.
[23:14] TontoMarius: Uh, what the crap journals do YOU read?
[23:14] TontoMarius: All mine usually suck. :|
[23:15] serenadingwords: What're you reading?
[23:15] serenadingwords: Well, you're talking to the girl who likes reading letters, so.
[23:15] TontoMarius: Nothing in particular.
[23:15] TontoMarius: Letters != scholarly journals.
[23:16] serenadingwords: oh, scholarly journals.
[23:16] TontoMarius: Not like, "I sat down today and drove across 200 miles of prairie to Oregon" journals. Journals full of scholarly articles.
[23:16] serenadingwords: i thought you meant like diaries.
[23:16] TontoMarius: No.
We gots journals and journals and journals. This used to be a cafeteria, by the by.
And this is the kitchen, where the people sorting books into the live and die piles work.
Book. It's what's for dinner.
Posted by Dwip at June 22, 2007 12:33 PM