Saturday, January 08, 2011
It never ceases to astonish and disgust me
. . . where some people put stickers on paperback covers. I just had to razor-scrape a piece of masking tape (that served as a price tag) away to uncover the main part of a beautiful painted illustration of naughty stewardesses. If some fucking idiot had to slap a piece of masking tape on the cover at all, it didn't fucking have to go right smack in the middle of the fucking illustration. Naturally, there's still a big spot where the glue discolored the ink.
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I go to a place where even though its clearly stated all books are a dollar. They still put supermarket like price tags saying 1 dollar. Usually right smack dab in the middle of a cover. I spend about thirty minutes when I get home carefully peeling them off.
check out "adhesive remover", it's like $1 or less, it works marvels; i used it all the time when I buy old vhs and dvd's from stores, it's light, and won't damage the paperback
My favorite book-defacement policy is marking out the original price with a sharpie or better yet scratching it out (!) with a pin. I assume the reasoning goes like this: if the original price was 95 cents your average schmuck off the street won't want to pay a buck fifty for it. But how many average schmucks are looking for 40 year old paperbacks nowadays? Phooey!
This is also one of my biggest pet peeves.
try heating it up with a hair dryer and peel it off sloooooowly. I find this works with even the oldest stickiest tags.
Try using a carpenter's pencil. (They're the big flat ones from lumber companies/hardware stores with no edge that need to be sharpened with a knife.) When I worked in a lumber yard, we had to remove price tags from cardboard backings for merchandise often, and it's fragility is very similar. Start by pressing at the edge of the sticker, then moving up as it trying to use the blunt edge from below. If you don't have a carpenter's pencil, try using a wooden ruler.
Good luck.
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