puppy-dog book
a used book (overall condition unimportant) that an avid reader “rescues” from a library sale, used-bookstore, clearance shelf, or home of a downsizing relative, without any immediate need for it but in the fear it will be pulped otherwise. the term puppy-dog comes from the similarity to rescuing an animal and taking it home to a house already full of cats and dogs, for fear it would otherwise be euthanized.
“did you really need to buy discourses on livy by niccolo machiavelli?”
“well . . . it’s a puppy-dog book to me. it’s a good clean copy, it was cheap, eventually i may find time to read it, and most of all i couldn’t bear the idea of it hitting the recycling bin and sent to print heaven.”
#used-book #rescue animal #recycling #euthanasia #b. byrd #bargain-hunter #bibliophile #guilt #downsizing #digital revolution #public library #de-acquisition #pulped #avid reader
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