Bookplates: Yes or No??

[srboone]

I never thought of it like that before. I've always avoided buying the books with bookplates in them and I've only put them in books that I don't want to sell (at least that's I tell mysself ). I have gotten some books with bookplates intact, but that's because it wasn't in the description. My copy of Pet Semetery has a bookplate in it and I got my money refunded and was told to keep the book becaue the seller hadn't been able to sell it (it had been bought and returned several times.)

[mhatchett]

Bookplates seem to have fallen out of favor lately. When I first started collecting books, the feeling seemed to be, as long as they were tasteful and acid free, they didn't detract from the value of the book. I enjoy finding good bookplates in the books I purchase. The other day I was perusing books in a used book store and I found one of my old books on the shelf with the bookplate intact. It was kind of neat to think that that book will travel on with my name in it. "Books are ships that sail the seas of time" kind of thing. I like seeing the twisty strange connections sometimes. A sort immortality.... And I like beautiful bookplates. For what it's worth.
MDH