wrapping books in tissue paper

[keziak]

Do any booksellers routinely wrap books in tissue paper? when in a box or bubble mailer? Do you think it adds a nice touch? I'ts not a waterproof method. 

I would not even ask the question except I came across a listing on FAcebook Marketplace for a whole lot of the stuff.

[wastingtime101]

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@fern*wood wrote:

I love silly putty and liked to smell it --- I guess that's another issue.

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As long as you're not eating paste? 

😂

[fern*wood]

Not lately!😋

[1786davycrockett]

@keziak 

The procedure which I learned over 60 years ago (from Buccaneer Books in Florida) is to enclose the book inside a plastic bag or wrapping; then sandwich between two pieces of cardboard; then wrap in a double layer of newsprint; and finally mail the book inside grocery bag paper.

Some of the printing ink used in the 1960s and 1970s has a tendency to cause "flashing" -- when the ink from one paperback cover adheres to the ink on a separate paperback cover -- causing hundreds or thousands of tiny "flashing" marks to be raised from the covers (one of the reasons to wrap inside a plastic covering).

Tissue paper just seems to me to be too thin to be used for protection for book covers, unless my buyer was doing an in-person purchase.