MORE WHAT IS A BOOK

Tortie Rye is responsible for the creation of the below books, except, some of them I'm fairly sure she just modified existing books, I could be wrong. The little round things in the picture below are described as 'Cactus Books', and unfold into, obviously, a cactus like structure. Aren't they cute?These are bauble decorations, but are still classed as books and are aptly names 'Bauble Books' again by Tortie Rye. They're very nice to look at, though from the picture I can guess that there is no text in these 'books'? Meaning that they are purely for aesthetic value.

Still lovely though.


Literal Book Bags

I remember seeing a tutorial on some forum or another on how to turn a book into a handbag, so I went looking for them and found this example on a website called 'The Bag Lady'. I assume she sells bags. Anyway, it's a good way of creating an interesting looking bag, and recycling a hard back book. If only I was a handbag carrying person, I would go and raid the nearest charity shop of their interesting covers and go completely nuts.



The following images are the work of Brian Dettmer, and they are referred to as 'Book Autopsies'. Sounds pretty morbid, but they look completely fascinating. I'm not even sure how he does some of them, but the end result is pretty interesting.






I'm not too clear on their 'readability', but they are still definately books.

-HJ x