I also bought some books from an estate sale and from my library's booksale recently but they will go in another post. The only one I have with me right now is the New York Public Library's Desk Reference, which I bought for work since it's a useful thing to have.
Also, Threadless.com has this Select collection (the book heart T-shirt I bought from them is from that collection) and they just came out with new stuff, including this shirt and this cardigan with a 'herringbook' print!!! So much want.
One of my birthday presents was this zippered pouch from Out of Print (another favorite online store. Everything has covers of classic books/literature on it), which I had actually contemplated buying. My mom went to a book/cooking store in NorCal with my brother when they were there for a wedding (my brother already lives in that area) and she bought it for me there. I love it. It looks like a library card!!!!! But at first I was at a loss as to how to use it since I'm no longer in school and don't need pouches to hold pens and such. However, I decided to stop carrying my purse around in my work tote bag (the idea had been for convenience; once I was done with work I could just pull the purse out without having to transfer everything) and use the pouch to hold things so that they don't get lost in the tote! And since my tote bag says "Trust me, I'm a librarian" and the pouch looks like a library card from inside a library book, it's all themed! (My other little zippered pouch that I'm using is a sort of coin purse my little brother bought me in Honduras and it doesn't match the theme but we'll ignore that.)
Oh, I also put my favorite pins on my work tote (UCLA Bruins pin from UCLA Alumni, WonderWoman pin I bought at the LA County Fair, small "Respect" rainbow pin that I think a sibling got from school eons ago). I have an "I Read" pin that I got from the LA Times Festival of Books a few years ago, but underneath it says "LA Times" and since I'm not sure if it says "I Read" or "I Read LA Times" and I don't do the latter, I elected not to use it. I had also bought an official LA Times Festival of Books pin with a dinosaur but I tragically lost it a while back (button pins have a really annoying habit of becoming undone and falling off. I almost lost my UCLA pin that way).
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