tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873009918100574338.post1667607211818870395..comments2024-02-05T09:17:53.322-08:00Comments on Adrian Barlow's blog: Re-reading Julian Barnes (i): Cover StoryAdrian Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04526714501872493961noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873009918100574338.post-20169784958569923552011-12-05T17:45:40.619-08:002011-12-05T17:45:40.619-08:00The first thing that came to mind as I read throug...The first thing that came to mind as I read through this blog was the expression ‘cooking the books’, which has nothing to do with literary appreciation but with bad accountancy. I found this account of Barne’s novel thoroughly enlightening and will now be able to re-read it with even further insight than that intended by the author. I ordered my copy online through Amazon.co.uk and received it through the post a few days later. Not quite an e-book, but then I now own a Kindle and have since discovered that I could have waited to buy the book to read using that, in which case it would have been in my possession within a matter of minutes. I find my Kindle very handy, which sounds like an attempt at a bad pun, but it’s true that I can now have as many books about my person as it will hold, which I understand goes into over three thousand. I used to have about five books in my briefcase to read on the bus and during my lunch half-hour when I worked as a young man in Nottingham. A budding bookworm. What the French call un rat de bibliothèque. Owning an e-reader has come as a relief in a sense in that there simply is no room on my bookshelves and the floor of my study is all the space available for any new ones. But I make an exception for Julian Barnes’ novel. It is a delight to own and to handle. Thanks to the flyleaf though. Once that’s removed it becomes an ordinary book, with a plain black cover, although the pages are black-edged. So once that flyleaf is worn and tattered and gone to where all flyleaves eventually go, there’ll only be the novel left. Which will be worth re-reading in years to come, even on an e-reader.Garry Headlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07741556616880181278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873009918100574338.post-48164705094930239302011-12-05T17:42:44.048-08:002011-12-05T17:42:44.048-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Garry Headlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07741556616880181278noreply@blogger.com