{"id":418,"date":"2008-07-10T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2008\/07\/10\/permanent-ink-tattoos-for-readers\/"},"modified":"2008-07-10T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T08:10:00","slug":"permanent-ink-tattoos-for-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Permanent Ink: Tattoos for Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I’m very entertained by the idea of this temporary tattoo booklet from PatinaStores.com<\/a>. You can view a close-up of one of these beauties at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories<\/a> or click on the photo below to see smaller versions of all the tats to be found in this booklet.<\/p>\n

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Most of the tattoos in this booklet, though, aren’t half as interesting or entertaining as the real-world booklover tattoos I’ve seen. Max from Where the Wild Things Are<\/em> brandishes a fork on my friend Tim Scarlett’s ankle. My pal Janet Potter has a beatiful ampersand on her hip. As I mentioned once before<\/a>, lexicographer\/editor Steve Kleineder has the phonetic alphabet chart tattooed on his back. (Not that I’ve seen it, mind you.)<\/p>\n

A search for "tattoos" and "book" on Flickr yields a clever Vonnegut salute<\/a>, and (holy cow!) a winner in the Connect-the-Dots<\/a> category. There’s also an open book<\/a>, splayed pages<\/a>, books on a shelf<\/a>, a fiery typewriter<\/a>, a reference to To Kill a Mockingbird<\/a><\/em>, a tribute to Snape<\/a>, Harriet the Spy<\/a><\/em> (!), an ant traveling by tesseract<\/a>, another ampersand<\/a> fan, and (my favorite) an image adapted from the cover of Ann Fadiman’s Ex Libris<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

We book lovers are so attached to the objects of our passion that it make sense to me that some of us would want to wear those objects in a literal, permanent fashion. Are you one of those folks? Or do you WISH you were brave enough to be? If so tell us about your real-life book tattoos, dream-life book tattoos, or book tattoo sightings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m very entertained by the idea of this temporary tattoo booklet from PatinaStores.com. You can view a close-up of one of these beauties at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories or click on the photo below to see smaller versions of all the tats to be found in this booklet. Most of the tattoos in this booklet, though, aren’t half […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}