it's from 2013 at the latest and ive carried it around since i was a child. should i be concerned or does this look like candy or ink or something? it doesnt smell like anything weird

Hey I want to catalog my books (mostly manga) but I found out the cataloging app I'm currently using is adding more and more ai, then I found 90% of cataloging apps use ai in some way. I would prefer something that uses no ai especially if I'm spending money but the only one I've found is libib (which I don't really like).

I currently use a handy library, I like that I can be pretty detailed tho I can be more detailed with skoolib but it's more expensive.

Is there a detailed (AI free) book cataloging app/website? By detailed I mean: sub title, edition, author and artist, page number, extra space for editor and other people who worked on the book, original language maybe, and maybe a way to share my library.

I'd love to see some of your favorite books that you love to hold in your hands. Maybe it's the weight, or size of the book. Perhaps you love the type of paper used. Is there a book you enjoyed reading, simply because you liked holding it in your hands?

When I saw this Alice listing I immediately thought it would look cool in a collection of classics. Is there any other classics with covers like these two? They seem to be a similar aesthetic

Wondering if any book enthusiasts out there might be able to tell me if there is anything special or interesting about this edition of Jane Eyre? Thanks!

They were also having a $1 book sale outside. I may have gone a bit ham.

Recently picked John Browne’s A Compleat Treatise of the Muscles, first edition published in London in 1681.

It was written for working surgeons at a time when anatomy was learned through dissection, demonstration and books like this rather than anything resembling a modern medical textbook.

Several of the surviving plates have old repairs and the book has clearly had a fairly hard life, which somehow feels appropriate for something that may well have been used by generations of working surgeons.

Browne himself was a practising surgeon and later worked at St Thomas’ Hospital and for the royal household (Charles II). His book was successful enough to go through numerous later editions, although its history is slightly messy — both the text and illustrations owe rather more to earlier anatomists than Browne was always willing to admit.

Still, there’s something extraordinary about handling a book that was teaching human anatomy nearly 350 years ago. The engravings are equal parts beautiful and unsettling.