大事な本

おわぁ、何、何、これ、ちょっと間があって、わかった新聞の切り抜き、Amazonで古書を購入したら挟まっていた。

昭和61年の切り抜き、この本の初版が昭和60年だから、新品で購入した前の所有者が挟み、そのまま、装丁も綺麗なので、本棚にあったか、書店にあったか、黄ばんではいるが、のり掛けしたようにピシッとした紙面、天声人語だから、朝日新聞か、そう言えば昔、毎日、天声人語を読まさられたことを、なぜか辛い思い出。

同じ本で、紙か電子かを選べるならば、必ず電子書籍を選ぶ、紙の書籍を購入する時は電子版が無いから仕方がない時で、知り合いの作家さんならば別だけれども、好んで紙の書籍を収集するような、全集を欲しがるような趣味は元々無いので、すぐに携帯で読めて、すぐに知りたい内容がわかり、どこへでも何冊でも持ち歩けて、見たい時にどこでも見られるから、いつでも読み返したい本や重要な内容の本や建築雑誌、座右の書なんてもう一冊購入して、背表紙を裁断し、自らスキャンしてでも、携帯に取り込んで持ち歩いている。

昔は本の間に新聞の切り抜き、その本が掲載されていた新聞広告を切り抜いて書店で探したりして、それを栞がわりに、昔はAmazonどころかネットすらない訳だから、もしかしたら、その当時の切り抜きがうちの書棚の本にもあるかもしれない。

この感覚、前の所有者はこの本を大事だと思っていたのかもしれない、切り抜きも几帳面に挟んである、内容ももちろん大事だが、本は単なる印刷物を超えて、本自体を大事にする感覚が昔はあった、今でもあるだろうが、紙としての実体の無い方が都合が良く、寿命の短い本が多くなってしまった。

単なるデータ、単なる文字情報の集合体が本と言えばそれまでだが、執筆途中はそれこそ今はデータだが、昔の作家の原稿が売られていたり、旧家の蔵から昔の原稿用紙が出て来たりなど聞くと、建築でも今は図面はデータだが、昔の手書きの図面が美術館の収蔵品になっているくらい、制作途中にも作家の痕跡があり、その痕跡自体が作品の一部であり、それが感じられたから、本を、紙の本を所有する喜びもあったのかもしれない。

断捨離なんて言わずに、一度大事にした本は一生持っていたいものだ、紙の本として、それが生きる喜びだと思う。

"An important book"

Wow, what, what, this was a little bit, I found out a newspaper clipping, and I got stuck when I bought an old book on Amazon.

The cut-out of 1986, the first edition of this book was 1985, so the owner before buying it with a new one was sandwiched, and the binding was also beautiful, so it was on the bookshelf, in the bookstore, it was yellow, but it was glued Because it 's so crisp, the Asahi Shimbun, the Asahi Shimbun, or so to speak, once a day, every day, I read the Tenshin Mandoku for a long time.

If you can choose between paper and electronic for the same book, be sure to choose an electronic book. When you buy a paper book, there is no way because there is no electronic version. There are no hobbies like collecting paper books or wanting the whole collection, so you can read it right away on your mobile phone, know what you want to know, take it with you wherever you want it, and take it anywhere you want to see it. Because I can see it, I buy another book I want to read back at any time, a book with important contents, an architectural magazine, and a book on the right, cut the back cover, scan it myself, and carry it on my phone.

I used to cut out newspapers between books, cut out newspaper advertisements where the books were published, and look for them in bookstores. There may also be a cutout in my bookcase book.

This feeling, the previous owner may have thought this book is important, the clipping is sandwiched between notebooks, the content is of course important, but the book goes beyond mere printed matter and takes care of the book itself Although there was a sense in the past, it will still exist, but it is more convenient to have no physical substance as paper, and there are many books with short lives.

Speaking of books, a collection of mere data and simple text information is up to that point, but in the middle of writing it is now data, but old writers of old authors are sold, old manuscript papers come out from old storehouses When you ask, the drawings are now data even in architecture, but there are traces of the artist in the middle of the production so that old handwritten drawings are a collection of museums, and the traces themselves are part of the work Yes, it may have been a pleasure to own a book, a paper book because it was felt.

I don't say that I don't want to divide the book, but once I have cherished it, I want to have it for a lifetime. As a paper book, I think it's a pleasure to live.