Posted by: Nick Norelli | July 4, 2009

The Only Thing Worse…

…than finding a crusty booger in a used book is finding a crusty booger in a new book.  I don’t know who’s working in these book mills, but c’mon!

B”H

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  1. I don’t do boogers. Had I seen that, I would have hurled the book across the room with no apologies for hitting an old librarian squarely in the forehead and then demanded to be examined head-to-toe by those clean-room guys in yellow suits.

    By: Jessica on July 4, 2009
    at 6:11 pm

  2. At least it’s just a booger……

    By: allthatswrong on July 4, 2009
    at 6:12 pm

  3. They’re moveable punctuation.

    By: Donald Mills on July 4, 2009
    at 7:44 pm

  4. Donald, ha! That beats the comment I was going to attempt to make.

    My silence betrays my utter respect!

    By: John Anderson on July 4, 2009
    at 8:53 pm

  5. Ewwww! Makes an e-book reader like Kindle seem positively worth the cost…*; )

    By: Nancy on July 4, 2009
    at 10:45 pm

  6. That defeats the purpose of buying a new book. When I have a choice between “new” and “used” on Amazon, and the price for the “new” looks reasonable, I think, “I’ll go with the new because at least it won’t have a booger in it.” But you shattered that for me, Nick!

    By: James Pate on July 4, 2009
    at 11:44 pm

  7. Jessica: Would that I could do that to a poor defenseless book, but alas, I can’t. I just have to find something handy to scrape it off with, read the page as fast as I can, and keep it moving.

    allthatswrong: Yes, I suppose it could be something much worse, although at the moment I can’t imagine what.

    Donald: I take it that you’re a ‘glass is half full’ kind of a guy. ;-)

    Nancy: Yeah, until one of your new books gets downloaded with a digital booger!

    James: That was always my thought process as well. I suppose it’s a chance I’m going to have to continue to take! ;-)

    By: Nick Norelli on July 4, 2009
    at 11:51 pm

  8. Nick: Whatever did you do to Amazon to have all these troubles?

    I’ve never yet had any of these problems, and as you know, I order enough from Amazon to be a Prime member.

    In fact I’ve got a list of pressing things to buy now…

    By: Chuck Grantham on July 5, 2009
    at 12:22 am

  9. Chuck: This particular book came straight from Zondervan so I can’t blame Amazon for that one. And you might like to consider purchasing your items through my widget. :-)

    By: Nick Norelli on July 5, 2009
    at 12:31 am

  10. Nick,

    At least it was crusty and not fresh!

    By: Jason on July 5, 2009
    at 12:50 am

  11. I’m sure you’ll alert us, but have you received your copy of The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown?

    Jason

    By: Jason on July 5, 2009
    at 12:59 am

  12. Jason: If it were fresh then at least I’d know where it came from! ;-)

    I haven’t received it yet. I thought that it wasn’t published until August. I was surprised with how quickly you got yours. How did it come (USPS, UPS, FedEx)?

    By: Nick Norelli on July 5, 2009
    at 1:05 am

  13. Nick, I think that I’d rather find a booger than what I found in the copy of Reading German that I got from Barnes and Noble several years ago. The shrink-wrapped book had a huge, smashed horsefly right in the middle of it. And, of course, bug spooge was spread all over the facing pages. I got the bug out, but the stuff that soaked into the pages wasn’t going anywhere. My wife thought I confirmed my obsessive compulsive nature when I packed up the book and returned it for another copy.

    By: Ed Komoszewski on July 5, 2009
    at 2:15 am

  14. Ed: That’s nasty! I can’t blame you for returning it.

    By: Nick Norelli on July 5, 2009
    at 2:17 am

  15. I believe it was FedEx. It was in good shape except for a slight crinkle on the base of the spine. Guess I’ll let that go since it was free and all!

    By: Jason on July 5, 2009
    at 8:51 am

  16. Jason: Yeah, you can’t really complain about free books. I’ll give it another week or two before I check up on my copy.

    By: Nick Norelli on July 5, 2009
    at 10:07 am

  17. “Bug spooge.” I never knew what to call that stuff, but now I do. Thanks, Nick!

    By: James Pate on July 5, 2009
    at 2:15 pm

  18. James: All thanks is due to Ed who went through such a horrible experience. ;-)

    By: Nick Norelli on July 5, 2009
    at 4:50 pm

  19. Nick…maybe, just maybe it wasn’t a dried up bugger at all…It could have been a glob of clean bugger colored binding glue…

    By: Nancy on July 6, 2009
    at 12:05 pm

  20. Nancy: Highly doubtful since glue usually has a greyish tint to it. This was green and brown. Eww… I just threw up in my mouth.

    By: Nick Norelli on July 6, 2009
    at 1:32 pm


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