Judging a book (bag) by it's cover- by Caitlin Phillips

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by Caitlin Phillips

by Caitlin Phillips

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Keep in mind, this is NOT my craft. I just wanted to share this with everyone because I thought it was just so creatvie and so great. 

I came across this story a few days ago.  My mom had told me she heard about it on NPR so I went to go and take a look at it on their website.  Here's part of the story but I'll post the link so if you're interested you can go read the rest.  There's also a video too! Hope you all enjoy as much as i did!

Caitlin Phillips goes through 500 to 750 books every year. But not because she's a speed reader. Instead, she cuts out all the pages and replaces them with beautiful fabric, to transform old books into stylish purses.

"Sometimes people are like, 'I can't believe you did that to a book!' " says Phillips, who admits that it was a little weird at first to take a utility knife to novels, encyclopedias and textbooks. "It's very subversive."

Growing up, Phillips read constantly and was taught to treat books as almost sacred. She would never write in the margins or dog-ear the pages.

But then a job at a used bookstore taught her that every year, huge numbers of out-of-date or damaged books are just tossed in dumpsters.

"It kills me to throw anything away," Phillips says, "and throwing a book away just seems like the worst thing ever." Especially when many of these obsolete books had beautiful covers that looked like art.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103327927

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