Oh jeez, again with putting food in bookmarks! Get with it, food brands, stop trying to be cute or—wait, this actually wasn’t a food brand doing this, like Chex Mix, Oreos, Gushers, or freakin’ Vitamin Water.
This act of book defilement was committed not by any brand – this was done by someone IRL. To a local library book!
If you’ve seen my previous article about this new trend in which various food brands (e.g., the ones I’ve mentioned above) have participated by putting their products inside books to use as bookmarks, then this isn’t anything new. (And if you haven’t, check out my other piece here. Booklovers discretion is advised.)
Here’s a small taste (pun not intended) of what these food brands have been doing to our friends’ precious pages…
don't have a bookmark? try using vitaminwater instead. pic.twitter.com/ZqJnU8SJSY
— vitaminwater® (@vitaminwater) September 10, 2019
Now, imagine that same act occurring outside of social media, long before this madness started on social media when someone returned a book with a soft taco squished inside, seriously staining the pages with meat and cheese…
Don’t have a bookmark? Try using a taco. (Actual photo of an actual book found in the book drop at my library in Indiana a few years back) pic.twitter.com/yU9jrKoFkF
— Amanda Mae (@miss_amandamae) September 14, 2019
And when someone replied back to this librarian, complaining about how inconsiderate this was, she responded with this…
And you legit COULD NOT TELL! It was so flat in the book, it had to fall open to this page for it to be noticed!
— Amanda Mae (@miss_amandamae) September 14, 2019
Really. It was closed that hard? Wow…
In case you were wondering which book was victimized here, it was the sixth edition of Edward Lear’s Nonsense Songs And Stories, a children’s nursery rhyme book—of all books in the library!
The actual book (as well as its mutilated page) is presented in the follow-up tweet below…
I think I found the book! LOL I believe it’s called Nonsense Songs and Stories Illustrated by Edward Lear (6th edition) and I even found the page number it was on! I hope I’m not mistaken 😅 pic.twitter.com/Zcpe0A9pDk
— Ladybug_AS (@AnSotelo11) September 15, 2019
I mean, I haven’t heard of it before hearing about this piece of news, so it might be as totally well known as compared to many other books, but did a children’s book, one that’s intended to introduce kids to nursery rhymes during story-time either in class or in bed right before they drift off to sleep, deserve this cruel punishment?
So, don’t blame this violent crime on books entirely on food brands as part of some “trendy” social media challenge. We are all responsible for every single book’s wellbeing. It’s about time for people, avid-readers or not, to treat these delicate sources of knowledge and enjoyment with respect.
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