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Granger's book. Rebinding might be necessary just because the book gets too thick, but also the act of binding is a way of showing like that the book is important to you and it gives it a really personal flow. Because I'm sorry, but if you picked this book up, you would not think anything of it apart from, wow, somebody did a really, really bad job of the binding. However, I look at this and I think, oh my gosh, I remember making this and it took me absolutely ages and it doesn't look perfect, but it's kind of as part of its imperfection that it has more of a story for me. Adjacent to that could be illustrating the books yourself, like adding little decorations, even fore edge painting, but customising the title page would be a lovely way to add a little bit more personality to it once again.
I feel like you're similarly making your own paratexts. And paratext helps us as a reader to frame and interpret what we are about to read. It does like change the way that we then read it, like knowing that Margaret Atwood has also written all of these famous books might help us to go, oh wow, she's a very significant author. Even just having her name, Margaret Atwood here, we know that she's written The Handmaid's Tale, we've even got a reminder that she was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, which again means that when we pick this book up we're thinking, okay this is going to be a good book. And the paratext is changing then the way that we read it. And similarly if we are adding illustrations, if we are adding prints, if we are adding thoughts in the margins, I wonder if that too becomes a form of personal paratext where when we next read it we're kind of reading it with all of those things in mind. And the fact that we ourselves as a reader have put the time into creating and customising the book in that way, it kind of tells future us that it is a really important book and it's kind of worth reading and that there's a lot of value in it. Yeah, I've been thinking about that a lot. It does also as a practice just to encourage us to be more synoptic thinkers because we're combining the text with something from elsewhere, like a quote from a commonplace book or a painting, but two things that don't necessarily always go together. So it kind of encourages the same sort of synoptic thinking that the commonplace book encourages. So I think even when we're not grandeurising a non-fiction book, there is still value being bestowed and it can still enhance our reading experience. But anyway, thank you for watching this video. I hope you found it interesting.
I'm just you guys, put your phones down and start, like, pick a book up.
You guys, put your phones down and start, pick a book up.
You see this book up here? This is my favorite book in the whole wide world.
You see this book up here?
Hold your book up.
Hold your book up.
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If you want to head somewhere specific for lunch or dinner then you'll probably want to reserve a table in advance as many places book up completely especially during school holidays and at weekends.
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it's like a tradition that's beloved across London, so all the best places will book up really quickly.
So they're opening the book up.
So, they're opening the book up.
So let's say you knew a specific book that you wanted to read, you could use the computer to look that book up and it would say it's in this section, under this author's name.
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