I love books. I love looking at them, reading them, and of course, buying them. I tried estimating how many books I own, and gave up when I started getting to scary numbers. I picked up a copy of a first edition of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at an estate sale not long ago. It was two dollars, so I figured I couldn't get hurt. It had no dust jacket, and the owner's name scrawled in front, so it turns out it is worth about what I paid for it. It was written, by the way, by Ian Fleming, of James Bond fame. Now, there's a writer who could move from genre to genre.
I wish there were a place that I could get a good scan of an original dust jacket. I know that there websites where you can order a replacement dj, but the cost would be prohibitive. Wouldn't it be nice if we could help one another with that, share our dust jackets? Two problems, of course. First, most of us don't have a scanner big enough to scan an entire dust jacket. And even if we did, we don't have a printer big enough to reprint one.
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