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Dressed Up Reference Books

When the internet came along, many of us forgot about our bound versions of resource materials. The days of flipping through well read pages to find the definition of a word, or the geography of a country, seem long gone. But these beautiful reference books from Graphic Image are bringing more than sexy back...

 
 

Graphic Image carries everything from Dictionaries to Address Books and then some. But we are particularly smitten with their new line of bright and metallic, leather bound reference books. There's Atlases, Dictionaries, Thesauruses, and Trail Guides. All of which would make any shelf a bit more beautiful.


(via: The Bright Side Project)
(Image: Graphic Image)

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i attempted to order one of their dictionaries two years ago from a vendor. The order was delayed so many times that i ultimately had to cancel. I was so disappointed.

posted by tallen5 on September 3rd 2009 at 12:02pm
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I really, really try to look past errors in spelling and grammar because I know you folks post a lot. I can't, however, get over the use of apostrophes to indicate plurality.

It's atlases and thesauri or thesauruses.

That said, I'm grateful for this post. I'll definitely be adding some of these to my wish list. Thanks!

posted by accidentalvermonter on September 3rd 2009 at 12:13pm
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i absolutely love these. they are beautiful and not unreasonablt priced for what they are.

i think they'd make a great gift, as a single book or a whole set, and i think they're a nice reminder that even though you can do everything virtually and digitally, there is sometimes value in choosing not to.

posted by honey living on September 3rd 2009 at 12:31pm
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Now that I have been teased please tell me where the pale blue robin's egg blue book in on their website. Looked and cannot find. This is a great source for gifts, thanks!

posted by LoriSF on September 3rd 2009 at 12:31pm
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Me & my partner are translators, so we have 3 long shelves full of dictionaries, grammars, punctuation and style books. I wish they looked half this great! If only they were all the same size...

posted by xieta on September 3rd 2009 at 12:36pm
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You can also find some of these at Kate's Paperie (in NYC, anyway), and online at seejanework.com.

posted by shanti on September 3rd 2009 at 3:11pm
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Would anyone know of an equivalent resource in the UK? Not just due to postage considerations, but also for spelling...

posted by nephster on September 4th 2009 at 8:42am
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Remind me never to visit Vermont.

posted by hrhprincessfiona on September 5th 2009 at 5:54am
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