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Books to bud vases

September 16th, 2008 · No Comments

By John DeFore

Though bibliophiles instinctively recoil at the idea, the fact is that some books are good for nothing: outdated science texts, surplus copies of bestsellers everyone owns, current-events hack jobs by disreputable writers looking to make a quick buck. If you can’t even give a book away, what’s to be done with it?

While it is possible to recycle old books, you likely can’t do it in your curbside bin: The glues and binding materials don’t play well with the machines used by most municipal programs. If you’re graduate designer Laura Cahill, you make furniture out of them.

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