What do you guys do with dust jackets? I don't like to read my books with them on, and I generally don't like them on my books when they are on the shelf. You would think that I would just throw them out, but I can't bring myself to do that. Instead I throw them on top of one of my bookshelves -- I've accumulated quite a pile. I tell myself that the book is worth more with the dust jacket, but then I go and mark up my books. Help me figure out what to do.

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Scott Roper
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Winston-Salem, NC

I don't know; on the one hand, if you mark up your books, I'd say throw them out; on the other maybe some day the dj will be worth more than your marked up book, if someone really needs it for their pristine copy without a dj.

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This is what I have done for many years ...

I usually take the dustjacket off ... Cut off the parts that give the book and author description (very, very neatly of course), then tape the book and author description inside the front or rear of the book.

Personally, I do not like dustjackets at all. So this method has been working for me for years ... all the beauty of the book (without/dj) and all the info of the dustjacket inside the front or back cover of the book.

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Anthony Beadles
Christ The King Presbyterian
Clearwater, Florida

It's all simply personal preference. I'd toss them, myself.

But if it's a dilemna for you, just put them in a box and put the box somewhere out of sight. Attics are pretty good for this sort of thing.

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Providence Reformed Baptist Church, Tacoma, WA

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I find myself in the exact same sitauation

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Milwaukee, WI

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Off while reading, on while on the shelf

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John Knox PCA
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I read my books often while working out. I store the dustcover on the shelf until I'm finished with the book and then put it back on.

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You need the dust-jackets to keep the dust off. Though I remove them when reading.

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Daniel Ritchie
Saintfield, Northern Ireland - Queen's University, Belfast:History/Politics
Member of Dromara Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland (Covenanter)

You guys forgot an option...clear plastic/mylar dust jacket protectors. Brodart has a great assortment of options. One of these days when I'm rich enough to hire a librarian to take care of my books I will have them do this to them.

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Will you adopt me when you do and take care of my library too?

My Pastor actually takes clear contact paper and covers all the dust jackets of his hardback books and then tapes them permanently to the book. If it is a soft cover book, the contact paper is applied directly to the cover. He's been doing this since seminary. You should see his library. It looks like the furniture in George Costanza's Parent's house.

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I jacket mine.

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Hey! Don't go trashing contact paper! I do that as well, with the exception that I don't tape the DJ to the book afterwards.

If any of you were at the BoT Ministers Conference in May, you will remember the gentleman from BoT talking about how he just doesn't understand why Americans seem to hate dust jackets. He lamented how much work goes into them; to make the aesthetically pleasing as possible, only to be thrown away by us!

I assured him that I LOVED the DJs, keep them coming. I have LOTS of contact paper!

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Riverside Advent Christian Church
Fort Worth, Texas

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Sydney, Australia
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I keep mine on all the time. This does tend to wrinkle and tear the dust jacket though, so if you're really persnickety about your dust covers you might want to do what alot of the folks here have all ready said. Off while reading, on while on the shelf.

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Donald Jacobs
Marysville. WA
Cascade Church (CRCNA)

Cum vero infirmor tunc potens sum.

Ditto again.

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I severely dislike dust jackets for the most part.

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Covenant Fellowship Church
West Chester, PA

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What have dust jackets ever done to you?