Make a secret hollowed out book NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW
possibly bigger version if the above doesnt work out so good
Nice. I've always wanted to do this. I have to find a book now.
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The guy who wrote Ecclesiastes was pretty on the ball.
I have no books I'd be willing to sacrifice in order to do this! 
... I don't even know if I have hardback books, haha.
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I did this when I was 12 with an old Reader's Digest condensed book collection thing. I've probably still got that around here somewhere. I don't even know what condensed books were in it that I cut out and lost forever!
parker, i wouldn't worry about it because i threw away probably thousands of the fuckers when i cooked books at the goodwill.
i used to make and sell these books to people i knew. Just go to junk shops and find old dictionaries or encyclopedias. Most all of those are hardback and its no great loss to the literary world.
The used bookstore dumpster is full of Reader's Digest Condensed Books. I don't know why they keep buying them if they're just going to throw them away like that.
The thing is though, if you're going to use it to actually hide contraband, you need to do it with a good book/one that you'd have a reason to have with you most times. Who's going to believe that you need to carry around some Encyclopedia from the 70's or a Reader's Digest condensed book?
Just use one of the Twilight books. Burglars, the feds, etc. will be too busy laughing to look for stuffs inside.
did they even make those in hardback?
I would rather be caught with drugs then one of those books.
That's just dumb! if it gets me out of being pinched with an 8-ball i'd carry the book and wear the eyeliner and Team Edward t shirt and everything! Going to jail sucks way more than Twilight sucks.
If you are going to carry it with you, I would choose a locking diary. You have a reason to carry it with you (it's a diary!) and it has a lock on it so your contraband doesn't fall out if you drop it.
Gravedigger, when you dig my grave, could you make it shallow so that I can feel the rain? - D. M.
The guy who wrote Ecclesiastes was pretty on the ball.
That book is so existentially depressing.
My brother makes hollowed-out books and sometimes rebinds old books with blank pages. Any bookstore you go is going to have weird crap like "Flora and Fauna of Western Michigan." They often have cool covers and they're way too boring for anyone to actually browse through. I have this one right now:
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It was a joke. I would carry around ever twilight book if it kept me out of jail. I've done far stranger things to avoid the cops and jail.
Oh god, he sucked Frankie's churrito!
This is a cool idea Spike, but I have nothing cool to put in there.
Why's it gotta be churrito, dude?
She meant "churrotote".
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If you get one of those big coffee table books you could hollow it out and then put your favorite book inside.
I LOL'd
You could hollow out a big book and put a little hollowed out book inside and inside that maybe a little GI Joe doll or something
That's what I used to put in mine. It was a perfect fit!
I did some of these, only I cut the cover too and made shadow boxes for my Tim Burton figures. I painted the books and added some things here and there for a collage as well. I had lot of fun decorating them, but it was a TON of work cutting the pages out. I got impatient and tore some pages, but they still ended up looking pretty good.
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Thats pretty cool stuff Chenoa. I'd be great for a kids room decorations too.
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A friend of mine has a penchant for dressing up as a priest and hanging out in taverns. He often carries around a hollowed-out (hallowed-out?) Bible with a flask full of Jameson's. He actually met his former girlfriend in costume when she was dressed up as a Catholic schoolgirl.
What are the odds?
Gravedigger, when you dig my grave, could you make it shallow so that I can feel the rain? - D. M.
Fuck it, I'm thinking I'll just go balls out and hollow out one of these fancy shmancy first editions laying around here... Just to be destructive.
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Atta girl.
I did this once with Tammy Wynette's "Stand by Your Man". It's not just a song, it's a book. I Fed Exed weed back and forth from New York City to Santa Fe, NM in it for a whole summer. This was pre-9/11. I don't think that would work out very well now.
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I used to go around as a priest. One day this girl came by and she was dressed as a nun. She says to me, "Oh, god! We just have to fuck, don't we?!?"
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Wow. Those are really cool. I was thinking about how I could use the hollowed out book project and work it into something artsy and great to give as christmas presents and your books/sculptures/display things have given me some excelent idea directions just now.
I'm taking a girl out for her birthday in November, she likes reading and she'd love a gift like this, especially if I made it myself, she always makes the gifts she gets me.
I just need to find a book I can cut up, any recommendations?
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I'm taking a girl out for her birthday in November, she likes reading and she'd love a gift like this, especially if I made it myself, she always makes the gifts she gets me.
I just need to find a book I can cut up, any recommendations?
Is it the Scottish way to book a date two months in advance? I like this culture.
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True story.
I'm kind of surprised and proud that we were able to make this into an actual thread and stayed somewhat on topic! Bravo Cult!
I'm taking a girl out for her birthday in November, she likes reading and she'd love a gift like this, especially if I made it myself, she always makes the gifts she gets me.I just need to find a book I can cut up, any recommendations?
Is it the Scottish way to book a date two months in advance? I like this culture.
Where do you live? We usually schedule birthdays a full year in advance here.
I just need to find a book I can cut up, any recommendations?
You can find Bibles anywhere, probably the most inexpensive book you can find. That is if your not worried about going to hell and all. I would just try to find some good hardbacks at a yard sale or something, but something uninteresting as to not waste it, like a Bible.
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See, if I made one now, I'd want to use as interesting a book as I could find.
Maybe find some ornately designed Bible with a bunch of gold leaf or something.
Well I was really thinking of a title, something witty about hiding secrets or something to that effect. I might even screw on a little padlock to go with the book, but a bible might work.
And yeah it's a whole night planned, we're going out to dinner, then we have tickets for a concert, and then we're going to stay in a hotel.
Come to think of it this might be better as a christmas gift as I haven't yet decided what to get her for Christmas.
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Maybe find some ornately designed Bible with a bunch of gold leaf or something.
I was thinking that if they wanted to something more like Chenoa did and not just the secret book compartment thing. But just for the regular secret compartment I'd agree.
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Obvs.
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or you could go the Shawshank route and start hollowing out the Bible at Exodus.
I like that idea Nate, she likes the movie and she considers herself an athiest so the bible route is best. I even found a copy of the King James bible, 1152 pages though it'll be a hell of a project
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Finally, a use for the bible.
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