Book lovers look away

Now I don’t know if this is an abomination or a thoughtful recycling idea.

We were in an upscale gift shop today and in one place they had these journal notebooks that had been made from old books.

Someone removed the hardcovers front and back, and added a few of the inside pages like the table of contents. Then they added blank white sheets of paper and rebound the whole thing in this type of binding.

They look like beautiful old books of all kinds. Kids books, mystery books, text books. Then you open them and they are empty white pages. Lauralea and I agreed that they were too precious to use for lists or messy note keeping. But what could we use them for??

For $20 we weren’t willing to buy one, but mostly because we didn’t know what we would want to put in them.

We still aren’t sure if it’s an abomination or a thoughtful recycling idea.