I like big books and I cannot lie is priceless.
I'm torn. While I totally have a dictionary page with the TARDIS on it, and love it, I worry that we are too eagerly destroying old books and making fast, cheap art that we undoubtedly will rid ourselves of later in life. I think they're fun and cool, as long as the book is seriously on the verge of being destroyed and the binding is collapsing and half the pages are torn or gunky. Otherwise, I feel like we are needlessly destroying things that the next generation will miss out on. For instance, if my parents had taken old thrifted books and turned them into *something else* then I wouldn't be elated when I find super old books in a thrift store for 10 cents each (just happened today!) because they wouldn't really be there :/

Love them.

It's especially cool when the message matches the book page. #s 1 and 5 work beautifully with 'Last Days of Pompeii'. #2 is a FAIL. Lol.

The "I'm Outdoorsy" one is plagiarized from an old Someecard. Clever, but plagiarized.

@MRSBERG
One could always scan the book pages into a computer, and use a simple image manipulator to add the text. This way the book is preserved.

Rescuing a book to turn it into art is like rescuing a lamb to turn it into barbecue.

Not that I disapprove - the world is not short of obsolete and broken books that are more useful as art materials than they are as reading material - but calling these books "rescued" is just silly.

Oh, and that Outdoorsy one speaks to me like you wouldn't believe...

I just can't get into this trend. It seems that half the original artwork featured on Etsy uses old dictionary pages.

The first time I saw an exhibit of print work on vintage book pages, I thought it was clever and innovative. That was years ago. Now I find it fully as annoying as those Keep Calm and Carry On posters.

I recently bought two prints from this shop:http://www.etsy.com/shop/PRRINT

SO fun!

I love barbecued lamb.

I'm surprised by the negative comments about these. Like anyone, I think vintage and older books are wonderful things. But with how many I have seen at garage sales and junk shops, I think that be repurposing them, they're getting a new life. Some I've seen are barely readable, so wouldn't it be better to turn them into something fun than throw them in the trash, which is where I'm sure many end up... I think this lady did a great job at finding a new use for an older object. It would be the same as refinishing antique furniture.

And @CACTINA - posting competition to the comments advertising a shop is just plain tacky. Next time I see PRRINT blogged somewhere, I'll be sure to advertise all their competition from Etsy.

I can't stop laughing at the first one

@snowgods21> I'm sorry, I didn't mean it in anyway negative! I like prints on pages from old books, and since I bought two recently, I thought my comment would be relevant. Of course, I love these Ex Libris Journals prints just as much, I like the whole concept!

For the record, I do not know the owner of PRRINT from Eve, and visited the shop only because it was highlighted on Etsy and I clicked on the link.

You really cannot have too much happy :D

Meh.

You can't have too many cats either. I love this one: https://www.etsy.com/listing/103428090/draw-me-like-one-of-your-french-girls