No I am not a member of a shady BDSM club, so put that out of your mind right now.
Leather Bound Spine, refers to the spine of a good old book, as real leather is rarely used anymore. The title was chosen because as a reader, and a writer, I prefer real books, in this blog you will never hear me talking about the latest 'Kindle Edition' of a book I have read. I strongly dislike this move towards technology, now don't get me wrong, I LOVE technology, I build my own computers, I upgrade constantly, and my phone has the most recent version of Android (2.2 Froyo) which makes me very happy. But I really love books, especially the old ones. My best friend got me a 70-80 year old edition of Robinson Crusoe for my birthday, and a 100 year old edition of Hamlet for Christmas. And even though Crusoe and Hamlet aren't necessarily my most favorite books, the fact I own editions that old makes me giddy. I even love the smell of old books, my friend and I are actually taking the time to develop our sense of smell to determine the age of a book, my friend can guess withing about 10 to 20 years, but his nose is more developed than mine as I usually get as close as about 40 to 50. Yeah, we are dorks.
So, that is me, and this is my blog. Thank you for visiting, and if you stick around, welcome to my world, its both new and old, and I enjoy it here.
Oh, and by the way, if you think my friend and I are crazy with our nose training, I would like to point you to an article from Wired magazine that discusses the science behind it. You can find the article here.
You are most definitely not alone in your bizarre affection for old books. When I was ten years old, I visited an antique shop owned by a friend of my dad. This guy saw me flipping through the pages of "Tom Brown's Schooldays," apparently one of the original British "school novels," and just gave it to me. Since then, without much seeking-them-out on my part, I have come into possession of many volumes, the oldest being a Mennonite seminarian's prayer book printed in Elkhart in the 1880s.
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