Book Covers

Because kids aren't typically taught and don't care to learn how to take care of their belongings, and so the books get dropped, stepped on, slid across surfaces, splashed on, spilled on, and generally abused during the course of a year in school.

We used to use left over wallpaper.

I have a stash of those huge wallpaper sample books that the local store was throwing away. They were discontinued patterns. Great for homeschool projects.

Pauline

I graduated from high school seven years ago, and I always used the paper covers. If I wanted to get fancy and make sure they lasted even longer, I'd slap a sheet of contac paper on top of whatever pictures or designs I had on them. I seem to remember those stretchy covers coming out around my senior year and being told not to use them, as they left some kind of residue on the books that the school didn't like.

The thought occurs to me that really, the school could probably just have the kids leave those stretchy covers on the books for whoever gets them the following year, but I'm sure then you'd have people freaking out because darn it, they shelled out the buck for that plastic cover, et cetera.

Not that this is a new thing, since schools have been making kids cover their books at least since my mom was a kid. Which isn't totally unreasonable, considering that most textbooks run at least $50 a pop (which is a whole different rant of mine).

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דעלך סני לחברך לא תעביד- זו היא כל התורה כולה, ואידך- פירושה הוא, זיל גמור.
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There are fights worth fighting, and fights that just use up your "capital" and make it harder to win the fights that matter.

Fighting about spending a dollar for a book cover falls into the second catagory, IMHO.

The fact is that everything was not, in fact, better in the old days. And one of those things is book covers. If I had a book to cover now, I would want the nylon, too.

Save your ammo for fighting about bare-midriff tops, juicy couture and piercings.