If you’re a bookaholic, chances are it’s not just because you like stories. You probably also just love the physicality of books themselves. Those papery book smells: the crumbly mustiness of old library tomes as well as the glossy mass-produced fragrance of the new volumes lining the shelves of the local book megamarket. The way it feels to run your hands over a fancy embossed book jacket. The array of colors and shapes books come in, and the designs emblazoned on their covers and backs. Books are art.

But some creative people build on that concept, further pushing the idea of book as art — both of the folk and high variety.

After the jump is a brief roundup of book art links for your weekend perusal.

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