Fri, 04 Aug 2006

Was human skin really used in book binding?

Apparently this wasn't as uncommon as I supposed, or as the original article from Yahoo! (now unavailable, apparently) made it out to be. So I stand corrected.

The use of human skin to bind books would disgust us today, but it was fairly widely practiced up until about 200 years ago, particularly with medical books.

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On 8/4/2006 15:19:34
sari0009 wrote

Ewwwwwww

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