Book Folding. What on earth is that all about?

[Sparklingbrook]

I do not understand the appeal. It seems very boring and complicated and what do you do with it when you have finished?

Sorry forgot a picture.

It's vandalism

I suppose you could give them to someone whose hobby is dusting?

It does seem like that. I hate it when people fold the corner down to mark their page, or write in the margin in pencil.

They just look like they would gather so much dust. I don’t get it either.

This one is a bit ironic. Nobody can read it now.

Vandalism. Why ruin a book?

Such a waste of time. I can’t get upset about the book itself as it could be a dreadful book with appalling views or zero plot but why bother?

It makes me really uncomfortable! How could anyone deface a book?!

I don't mind people writing on them so much - at least they're engaging with the text, and if can be interesting to see what someone else thinks. But that bollocks makes them unreadable. It's like... Like taking the keys off a piano, or hanging a painting so it faces the wall.

I have watched a You Tube video of how to do it. It was quite baffling and involved a lot of ruler usage.

We used to do this with our hymn book at school.pure boredom

Thing is, they sell for like... £25 but they take hours and hours and hours to make. The people who do this for a living must earn very very little.

I’ve seen this kind of thing before, several years ago. It was generally done with obsolete books eg old law volumes or out of date encyclopaedias and textbooks.

There is a secret book sculptor who used to leave artwork around Edinburgh - these are amazing though!

mymodernmet.com/chris-scott-anonymous-edinburgh-book-sculptures/

I have never seen it before and certainly couldn’t be arsed to do it myself but I actually quite like the Read one!

Horses for courses?
It’s actually very easy to do. Methodical
But not something I’d display or sell.

Nooo! I have banned my husband from turning the corners of pages down to mark his spot. I couldn’t stand that - its like those ornaments made out of pages from books - how could they?!

I write in margins and fold the corners of pages. Books are to be used, read and re-read. There’s a saying about ‘reading with a pen’ and with good reason.

Catalogues are a good alternative, see my Christmas tree, and it is relaxing to do.
However, not all books are good, so it is not really vandalism!
I made a fairy tree from one.

Oh sorry I didn’t mean to say they weren’t good - its just I have ingrained inability to do anything to a book, even textbooks or awful books! My mom would go spare!

There are books which merit this treatment, but I could never, ever bring myself to do it.

That's a good point Jamie, I have read a few howlers in my time.

I like your catalogue tree Cormoran, I am not sure I have the patience, but can see how that could be relaxing when you can do it well.

It is surprisingly quick to do @sparklingbrook

Won't I get all ratty if I can't get it right?