Hardcover Books

Last updated on 29 August 2016

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While I’m more of a paperback kinda girl, there’s something grand about a hardcover. It’s like it’s superior in some way to the other books, whose spines get crinkled and wrinkled, and whose covers bend with time and age. Sure the hardcovers that are so loved that they’re read every year will have mishaps, and it’s true, my last 3 Harry Potter books are hardcover and held together with tape…but most of the time they stay together, pretty and solid on the shelf.

I don’t have many hardcover books, but the ones I do (minus Harry Potter 5, 6, and 7) are still intact, some of them waiting to be read. I thought one day last week as I saw them scattered around on my shelves, that hardcovers hold a secret…a secret that they don’t share with the paperbacks, and hardly share with us readers, unless we go looking. Hardcovers have covers, a mask if you will, but the real book is underneath the paper façade, and I decided to uncover it (pun intended). So I took down my very few non-paperbacks and took a peak beneath the covers (another pun intended)…and this is what I found.

An array of pretty covers, hidden beneath their paper cases. Some were the same as on the outside, some had embossed titles, some were plain. But all were pretty, and all were hidden from sight. One shouldn’t have favourites (heh. Said no one ever), but these three truley were pretty: