[Stormflame]

HHmmm...these threads keep getting weirder and weirder, lol. Uhm, no I don't use the protective covers. I have several books from the 1800's. A few have the penmanship of people who had owned them and wrote things in them. Many of these scribblings are dated, like August 5, 1898. Cool, huh. I often set and wonder how and who these people were as I gander at their penmanship. They were people just like us, lost to time, and now, as if it were only a blink, I am looking at something they wrote when they were ontop of the world...

Anyway, no, covers remind me tooo much of school, as stated above by someone else. I like my books setting on the shelves nakes. It sets the mood in my living room, and also, poses questions from visitors....