Mommy, where do books come from?

...then I'm all for joining the land of Geekdom!  Honestly, I think it's fascinating.  I don't know about feeling the Mr. Rogers vibe, but the pics of the of book-making process made me drool.  Where's my bib?   

Thanks for sharing the info and pics, Ellen! 

Restraint...if I was there that word would definitely not be in my vocabulary!!

I guess we were posting at the same time.

beside the bin until I'd finished one of each book in it

which begs the question

How big was that bin?

Sadhbh 

You should write an article for RWR -- that was just really neat to see. Thanks for sharing!

Sam 

don't read that . . . so I'm still voting for something accessible online. :)

Penn, "just" a reader 

Thanks for the tour via pics. I guess I'm a book geek. I would to take that tour.

I went to college when I was 16...Not a brilliant age for me (another story)...I was in the library archive looking for microfische, for a term paper. Someone opened the door and said library is closing in 10 minutes... needless to say, I didn't make it out of the archive until after the lights went out and by the time I bumped my way around to the front door I was locked in. From 10pm to 6:30am...

The lights in the bathroom work on a different light switch than the keyed main lights. I spent the night running from shadows and picking books at random to read a chapter of this and a chapter of that. It was spooky as heck in there. But what a great time reading... to myself, aloud and to the shadows. (By the way, did you know that when you open a can of warm soda it erupts out of the can? Also, it sounds like a gunshot in a dead quiet library.)

The librarian almost passed out when she opened up in the morning and found me in there. But surprise changes to angry rant pretty quick... She made me put back every book I had stacked up by the bathroom.

They changed policy after that. The rooms all had to walked through before she could close at night and I PERSONALLY had my own sign in/sign out sheet for about a year.

I dont know if watching CD's being made would have the same thrill. I know todays 11 year olds, have probably never seen a vinyl record (unless their parents are music geeks like me). 

Some where in my belongings  I think I still have a hardened glob of the stuff that records are (were?) made of.  It is a nice tear shaped shiny smooth rock.  100 years when the do an archeolological dig of my house site, they will find this odd rock and future scientists will have no clue about this foreign sustance.

The same could be the same for books.  It could be likke on Star trek, where everyone reads books on some kind of reader, except for Captain Pickard, who loves the feel and smell of actual physical books.

if they do this in the Mississauga(Toronto)warehouse too or if the books are shipped there and then distributated to consumer here in Canada.

Just loved the pictures. I really love having a brand new book that no one else has read. It would thrill me no end to smell all the new books. Sensory overload for sure. I agree that bookstores and libaries are great places to go to relieve stress.

I'm a geek too becasue I loved the pics and wish I could tour a warehouse like that!

Dr. Keel - too funny about being locked in the library overnight!

Ellen - so you're from the Pittsburgh area too? How cool! I grew up in Bethel Park and while I never swam in the Rogers-McFeeley pool (didn't even know there was one) we did drive through the neighborhood one time so we could see it. I still to this day think it was pretty cool that Mr. Rogers and company were from Pittsburgh. I can't count the number of times growing up when we'd be at a parade or something and got to say hi to Mr. McFeeley in person. I don't remember if we ever got to meet Mr. Rogers though so I'm thinkig probably not becasue I'd likely remember such a momentous occasion as that! LOL

Thanks for sharing that.  I think it's fantastic.  I've seen large presses that print from rolls of paper, then collators and cutters.  I'm in the printing business but we use small presses that just print 8 1/2 x 11 and 11 x 17 stock.  But it's still fascinating to watch.

Penn has the right idea a video of the making of books and distribution of them would be great.

I agree with Sadhbh, I'd take a seat and read right there, the smell of ink and paper - what better incentive.

I have a picture of my middle dd (the one with Down syndrome) being held my Mr. McFeely. Our DS support group had invited Mr. Rogers to come up (Albany, NY) for a DS awareness day 20 years ago. At the last moment he had to sub Mr McFeely. Every child received autographed pictures of Mr Rogers and Mr McFeely. My dd never watched TV when she was little, except for Mr Rogers. Other children's shows had too much bombarding her sensory system, so she would leave the TV area, but she would hear the Mr Rogers theme song and come running in and flop in front of the TV. It was the only time of day I could get her to sit still for 30 minutes. All the rest of her time she would be too busy.