Hello to both lists, Comments on the handling or care of books or other materials. Back for some months there was discussion among some people on the Muhlenberg list on the exchange of books, & how to do it. I believe you'all dropped it in favor of keeping your books, but agreeing to do lookups. Beautiful. Don't ever give up your books, even to friends. Amen. Except at death, will them to a caring library that has a well known Genealogy Section. Background. I am a retired Rotogravure Press Operator & Offset Pressmen. Among a few jobs I once was a supervisor on the monthly printing of National Geographic Mag. For many yrs. we lived in CA.(San Fernando Valley where for awhile I was Head Usher of a large independent Baptist Church(10,000 plus members)and among many things turned in at the close of Sunday services were many bibles over the years. I believe many were simply stolen, used for awhile, then left in the pews with the front ID pages cut from them. As a rule bibles not taken, were those who had their name embossed on the front covers. How can this all happen? Even your so called 'good people' have 'sticky fingers' when it comes to borrowing, stealing, etc. good books. I'll bet you any good library will tell you that since they now 'tag' books' they don't disappear as often. Conclusion. It's better to do some look ups for folks, rather than doing 'exchanging' You'll feel better about it in the long run. Amen Regards from Clark Hime of sunny Folsom, CA