I often see these book cases being sold on RPG-related events (like the RPC, for example, or the "Spiel International" board games/RPG/comics fair).
I guess they have a certain amount of customers among LARPers, too.
I once followed a guided tour through a university library … The guide said that with hose medieval leather-bound heavy books one could rather kill a person than the book would go kaputt. They are indestructible - almost. No-one knows leather bindings of today, but I guess the guide's right : those are gold worth in terms of stability. The only problem comes if a book's paper contains too much acid - that simple destroys the paper in the course of the decades, and that's a *uge* problem in libaries here now. That, and the so-called "Tintenfraß", the dissolving of paper through acidid ink. Many original manuscripts suffer from that (Bach, or example).
I guess they have a certain amount of customers among LARPers, too.
I once followed a guided tour through a university library … The guide said that with hose medieval leather-bound heavy books one could rather kill a person than the book would go kaputt. They are indestructible - almost. No-one knows leather bindings of today, but I guess the guide's right : those are gold worth in terms of stability. The only problem comes if a book's paper contains too much acid - that simple destroys the paper in the course of the decades, and that's a *uge* problem in libaries here now. That, and the so-called "Tintenfraß", the dissolving of paper through acidid ink. Many original manuscripts suffer from that (Bach, or example).