Can books be too gorgeous to read? I would say yes, but I still want to leaf through them and feel bad about not using them. A book may be too pretty to read, but ink, no matter where it’s printed, is meant to be read. So I suppose pretty books should have blank pages.
Or be written in languages you don’t read, as all the decorative books in my parents’ house are …
Yeah, that’s a good idea. Still, those words could be read by someone.
I have to admit…I have a hard time reading my gold leather 50th anniversary edition of The Hobbit. Even my boxed LOTR hardbacks seem so…chaste.
It’s a lot less stressful to snag my ten year old’s Goodwill paperbacks for my annual reread. 😉