Dust Covers

sassypants527 · August 2013

When reading a hardback, do you typically remove the dust cover while you're reading it?

sassypants527 · August 2013

It posted before I could give the Special Snowflake option and proofread it, and I can't see how to fix that.

brie&drew · August 2013

In general, we don't keep the dust covers for hardback books. If I do keep them, I usually take it off to read because I don't want to damage the cover. The only ones we have with the covers are specific sets where the cover design is part of why I bought those particular copies.

ThisModernLove · August 2013

I love the library dust covers with the plastic. The sound has always been like music to my ears since I was young.

I said it depends because it depends on where I'm at. If I'm taking it out of the house or in the tub, the cover comes off.

RevJen · August 2013

I leave them on and use them as bookmarks.

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EliStar · August 2013

I don't keep dust covers on, but not because I want to preserve them - just because it's a pain to keep it on while reading.

julie37619 · August 2013

I don't just leave mine on, I typically use the flaps as a bookmark.

booknerd226 · August 2013

I take them off to preserve them. I get irritated when I accidentally bend them.

jlq2005 · August 2013

I hate dust covers. They really annoy me. Especially on library books since they can't be removed.

If I could remove them from library books, I would. At least while reading.

AshleyT121 · August 2013

I remove them for two reasons. 1 - to prevent damage 2- because they drive me effing nuts while I'm reading.

kinmir30 · August 2013

EliStar said:

I don't keep dust covers on, but not because I want to preserve them - just because it's a pain to keep it on while reading.

Exactly this!

PhoenixRising11 · August 2013

I didn't even know that people took dust covers off of books before they read them. I leave them on, and I also use the flaps most often as a bookmark. I do currently have an actual bookmark I am using though (Keep calm and eat a cupcake!), so in my current hardcover, I am using that.

I used to dogear pages to whatever book I was reading, but I stopped doing that in books that are hardcover or trade-sized. I do sometimes still do that to mass market paperbacks, however.

mrsvedo · August 2013

RevJen said:

I leave them on and use them as bookmarks. )

Ditto

MrsJenE · August 2013

I take them off to keep them pretty.

ewill7911 · August 2013

EliStar said:

I don't keep dust covers on, but not because I want to preserve them - just because it's a pain to keep it on while reading.

This.

funkypineapple · August 2013

I take them off to preserve them but mostly because it gets on my nerves while reading.

Passanie · August 2013

EliStar said:

I don't keep dust covers on, but not because I want to preserve them - just because it's a pain to keep it on while reading.

This.

Pebble_Cafe · August 2013

jlq2005 said:

I hate dust covers. They really annoy me. Especially on library books since they can't be removed.
If I could remove them from library books, I would. At least while reading.

As someone who works in a library and has to mend books/re-tape dust covers...
:-w

kaylynne · August 2013

dust jackets are the best bookmarks, they almost never fall out.

Super_Librarian · August 2013

funkypineapple said:

I take them off to preserve them but mostly because it gets on my nerves while reading.

Same here!

Raeily · August 2013

I have to take them off. It's a pain in the butt to read with them on.

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