A fascination with endpapers

Lately I’ve rekindled a fascination with endpapers –  the paper pasted to the inside cover that holds the book together. I’ve always felt they were a ‘secret’ additional source of information, whether it was the map of the island/world the book was exploring, or silhouettes of Nancy Drew solving various mysteries. Every day I’m inundated with massive doses of digital text that I quickly skim and then move on – endpapers are just the opposite, they invite me to stop and study their content and its relevance to the book, making reading that book much more of a therapeutic leisure activity than an information-gathering exercise. Both are valid activities, but oh, so different

Here’s one great resource for endpapers: Drawger.com