While my favorite books, both LE’s and hardbacks, are on a shelf above my bed, the rest of them are still sitting inside their shipping boxes in a case in the spare bedroom. Until I get something better suited for all of them (plus we are planning on selling our house in the not too distant future) I see no reason to risk damaging them beforehand. Even the ones I have on display still have the boxes nearby for safekeeping, plus it also feels like it’s part of package. My wife tossed my The First Wall LE box years back and I still wish I hadn’t let her do it.
Well I learned something new today! I would always carefully peel the sticker from the wrapping paper. This has occasionally led to tearing of the tissue paper. But now I know that you can (usually) slide the book out carefully without too much worry of tearing the paper. I generally keep the box and paper, so that was helpful!
while the question of keeping the paper is common enough, it should probably be noted that the tissue paper is so fragile that it can't often be removed at all without tearing, making it impossible to read, display or even check the book while keeping the paper in perfect condition. I think the vast majority of BL collectors are already well aware of this, but I wouldn't be surprised to see newbie collectors (particularly those coming from TCG or comic collecting spaces) to have different assumptions. that's honestly probably one of the major factors that make the tissue paper/box lean more towards the worthless side than not - the tissue paper is far different from a dustjacket which can and should be kept in perfect condition.
While my favorite books, both LE’s and hardbacks, are on a shelf above my bed, the rest of them are still sitting inside their shipping boxes in a case in the spare bedroom. Until I get something better suited for all of them (plus we are planning on selling our house in the not too distant future) I see no reason to risk damaging them beforehand. Even the ones I have on display still have the boxes nearby for safekeeping, plus it also feels like it’s part of package. My wife tossed my The First Wall LE box years back and I still wish I hadn’t let her do it.
Well I learned something new today! I would always carefully peel the sticker from the wrapping paper. This has occasionally led to tearing of the tissue paper. But now I know that you can (usually) slide the book out carefully without too much worry of tearing the paper. I generally keep the box and paper, so that was helpful!
while the question of keeping the paper is common enough, it should probably be noted that the tissue paper is so fragile that it can't often be removed at all without tearing, making it impossible to read, display or even check the book while keeping the paper in perfect condition. I think the vast majority of BL collectors are already well aware of this, but I wouldn't be surprised to see newbie collectors (particularly those coming from TCG or comic collecting spaces) to have different assumptions. that's honestly probably one of the major factors that make the tissue paper/box lean more towards the worthless side than not - the tissue paper is far different from a dustjacket which can and should be kept in perfect condition.