Unless they're shit books.
Then it's not really worth it.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:11, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

well yeah but that's the risk you take
last time I played book roulette with my friend in Waterstones I got Hunter S Thompson, but he got a fiction with a baby shoe on the front about some woman's struggle with a still born or something dreadful like that. He refused to buy it.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:14, Reply)

I got the missus an excellent Jewish cookbook from there once for £3.
The irony that it was (a) bought as a Christmas present, and (b) about £27 cheaper than it should have been is not lost on me...
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:17, Reply)

Unless...
you can build a fort out of them.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:21, Reply)

that's true of anything though really

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:26, Reply)

True enough
though books - particularly hardbacks - tend to make better building materials than, say, cats.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:27, Reply)

Unless you glue the cats together first.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:28, Reply)

Ah, nobody mentioned adhesives!
For 'twas with the advent of Araldite that cat and glue did take the place of the artful skill of building a solid dry-book wall.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 20 Dec 2010, 9:36, Reply)