Holy hell, I had no idea Phillips was Russian-owned these days. Yikes. And - yeah, I really hope that in every single case, the Russian people in question are being looked at in a manner proportionally related to how pro-invasion/pro-Putin they are, not just because they're Russian with a history of not being publicly anti-Russian-govt. That could get very ugly very fast (and I'm sure is doing so, in plenty of places). Sigh.
Those tiny books are everything to me today. Everything. Thank you. I'm obsessed. I've always loved the old fit-in-a-small-pocket style of 17thC-early 20thC books, with their creaky, bendy leather covers & barely-there tissue-paper pages. (I dream of having a house with a room completely filled with them. FILLED. Or maybe just one wall, and the facing wall is all the National Geographics to date.)
But what I would really, really love is for someone to be republishing modern books in this exact style. Tiny books of modern classics, turned into "antique" objects of literary beauty. Pls? Someone? *scoops up some money and throws a handful at laptop screen*
The envelope ring 🥲
Holy hell, I had no idea Phillips was Russian-owned these days. Yikes. And - yeah, I really hope that in every single case, the Russian people in question are being looked at in a manner proportionally related to how pro-invasion/pro-Putin they are, not just because they're Russian with a history of not being publicly anti-Russian-govt. That could get very ugly very fast (and I'm sure is doing so, in plenty of places). Sigh.
Those tiny books are everything to me today. Everything. Thank you. I'm obsessed. I've always loved the old fit-in-a-small-pocket style of 17thC-early 20thC books, with their creaky, bendy leather covers & barely-there tissue-paper pages. (I dream of having a house with a room completely filled with them. FILLED. Or maybe just one wall, and the facing wall is all the National Geographics to date.)
But what I would really, really love is for someone to be republishing modern books in this exact style. Tiny books of modern classics, turned into "antique" objects of literary beauty. Pls? Someone? *scoops up some money and throws a handful at laptop screen*
That amethyst ring 😮😍 And I see it sold for $12k!!
THE TEENY, TINY BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!