Book Collecting Now: The Value of Print in a Digital Age - Softcover

Budman, Matthew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1633980642 ISBN 13: 9781633980648

Publisher: Chatwin Books, 2019

Synopsis

With millennials unexpectedly discovering print books, suddenly book collecting has a future, not just a past. In Book Collecting Now: The Value of Print in a Digital Age, Matthew Budman offers a concise, engaging guide to building a book collection and celebrates the young, diverse collectors revitalizing what he calls "the world's greatest pastime."

Book Collecting Now examines the changing demographics of modern-day book collectors and demystifies the process of starting a collection. Budman's guide explains fundamentals like: identifying first editions, how to get the best deals, understanding the value of autographs, care and repair of books, and the history of book collecting.

Recognizing the sea change already sweeping through book collecting, Budman writes to the new generation of young and increasingly female collectors. He encourages readers that anyone, regardless of budget or experience, can build a collection. It's simple: if you love books, you are ready to be a collector.

Novices and experienced collectors alike will benefit from Budman's up-to-date materials, while booksellers and librarians will find his observations on changing trends in book collecting particularly informative.

About this title

About the Author

Matthew Budman lives in Manhattan with his wife, political theorist Cristina Beltrán, and all the books they can squeeze into their apartment. Budman has previously published Collecting Books: Instant Expert (House of Collectibles) which sold almost 10,000 copies.

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Defying stereotypes and predictions, young people are increasingly enthusiastic about print, both as readers and collectors. And after years – centuries! – of being treated as second-class collectors, women are finally full-fledged equals in bookshops, at antiquarian fairs, and everywhere else.

So I wrote this guide mostly for you: a real person who loves books and is curious about how to take her relationship with them to the next level. Sure, value is important, but collecting should be mostly about fun – and whatever books make you happy to see every day.

No matter what changes your attitude toward books – from straightforward content-delivery devices to tactile objects loaded with history and humanity and value both monetary and personal – you never again view them in the same way. Plenty of animated readers would call themselves book lovers, but only some of us are collectors, and we collect in any number of different ways.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chatwin Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1633980642
• ISBN 13: 9781633980648
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 167