Talk:Stripped book

Sources

I found some sources, but I'm not sure if they're good enough. [1] [2] [3] [4] Alexbook (talk) 17:26, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Improvement for this Article

"Unsold and Destroyed" should redirect to the article, don't you think?

Done. Rob T Firefly 20:42, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

US only?

Does any of this article apply outside the US? jnestorius^(talk) 04:32, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't think so. Shadwell Munch (talk) 21:23, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Variations

Not all publishers use the same warning message. Some only say that the book "may be" stolen property, or that its sale "may be unauthorized." Alexbook (talk) 17:26, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Which is quite sensible, as the front cover can sometimes come off from normal wear-and-tear. It would also be sensible to add "This book will self destruct.", as such books eventually do start to lose pages :-) --SamB (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:21, 7 December 2010 (UTC).

Redundant

It seems to me that the intro section and the book pulping section overlap quite a bit. For instance, the first sentence of the last paragraph of the intro ("Hardcovers are usually disposed...") and the second to last paragraph of book pulping ("Unsold hardbacks or...") are nearly identical. If nobody has any objections, I think I'll just remove the repetitive areas. Jfmantis (talk) 15:31, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Stolen property?

Does this warning really mean that if you are found to be possession of a stripped book, you can be charged with possessing stolen property?--Auric (talk) 01:07, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Doubtful. There'd be no way to prove that someone didn't just tear the cover off after the book was sold at retail. Canine virtuoso (talk) 23:03, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Stripped books are often sold?

@Jim Henry: I have been getting books from garage sales, thrift stores (including the ones run by hospitals), friends of the library sales, and used bookstores for many years. I've never seen a stripped book for the sale nor have I ever seen a stripped book in areas where books get swapped for free such as senior center reading rooms. I also volunteered at a local friends of the library from 2015 to earlier this year. We'd get hundreds and sometimes thousands, of donations each week and I don't recall ever seeing a stripped book in the incoming stream. There were many junk books, books in poor condition, some ARC books, but only saw one, maybe two, stripped books in the year I was dealing with the books.

Thus I'm wondering how accurate this statement from the article is: "Coverless paperbacks are often found for sale in thrift stores, charity libraries (in hospitals, for instance), flea markets, and the like; sometimes even in used bookstores." I'm in the San Francisco bay area and my observations are limited to this region. Jim Henry, I pinged you on this thread based on your comments at Talk:Remaindered book. The other editor in that thread, AlainV, stopped editing in 2014.

I wish this article noted when the practice of stripping started. A bookstore near where I lived stripped books in the early 1970s. --Marc Kupper|talk 06:06, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

I'm not seeing stripped books in thrift stores and charity sales as often as I used to, but I definitely saw a lot of them in my childhood and teen years, and into my twenties -- around the late 1970s to the mid 1990s. Maybe it's a regional thing; I mostly grew up in Georgia. Maybe as more people learn about what book stripping means, more thrift store managers started to tell their employees to throw out such donations, or publishers or big bookstore chains cracked down on new bookstores donating stripped books to charity? --Jim Henry (talk) 22:49, 4 June 2017 (UTC)