Stickers!!

I am rather frustrated by something that I see more and more. This is the curse of stickers. Now I am not opposed to stickers in general, as a matter of fact, I love them. They can be shiny or fuzzy or politically incorrect or... you know what I mean. But there are some places such sticky backed items are not to go. And that is a book. On books or in them I see these random blemishes. And half of them have to do with movies.

Allow me to set the scene. You are calmly perusing a bookstore, secure in your literacy. Then you remember. Ah! I have ten dollars in my pocket and that book just came out in paperback. So you mosey on over to the section where said text is to be found and you pull it from the shelf, feeling its weight reassuringly in your hands. You turn it over to view the lovely cover art and ... BANG! KAPOW! NEON GLARE! Half of the title has been covered by a painfully fluorescent sticker announcing:

Soon to be a major motion picture, summer of...

Heart heavy, you purchase it and bring it to the solace of your home. After peering at the sticker for the entire ride home you are well aware that there is to be a movie in the summer of ... so you suppose it is time to scrape the offender from the surface. But when you try the label is obstinate and only half tears away to leave icky white refuse on your cover. You settle in to read the novel and enjoy it thoroughly, but are always faintly aware of that obscene mark on the front. Not like I've had any experience like that. Now tell me dear readers. Am I crazy (don't answer that Medeia)? Or does this bother you as well?

Scraping book covers,

Aella Siofra