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re: condition
People have widely varying positions on book condition.The only safe way and the polite way is to fill condition notes for your books, and to look for them when you mooch. There is a lot of good advice in this thread!
I don't mind much about condition if I want to read a book as long it is readable. However there are two things I don't like, one is a strong smell of tobacco on books, it makes me feel ill; the other is bookcrossing labels defacing what would otherwise have been a good book. A neatly placed label inside the front cover is fine. Pen markings all over the page ends, across the front cover and several spread over the title etc. not acceptable to me. If a book is marked as a BC book I don't mooch it.
We listed 1000 books when we joined and put condition notes on all of them and reviews on many. I have also listed a book as having "an extremely artistic but fragile cover designed by long defunct silverfish larvae (bookworms)" - which received a very nice piece of positive feedback!
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Bookmooch Journal Library Charity
11 years ago
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