'Nothing More than Dust Jackets for Books': Tumblr Users Remember Ray Bradbury with Book Covers

Ray Bradbury once wrote that "We're nothing more than dust-jackets for books, of no significance otherwise." The author of Fahrenheit 451 and other science fiction classics passed away on Wednesday at the age of 91. More than a few book lovers in the Tumblr community lamented the news, but in true photo-blogging form, they said it with Instagram. Now Tumblr has all the dusty charm of the sci-fi section at a used bookstore.

Ray Bradbury once wrote that “We’re nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise.” The author of Fahrenheit 451 and other science fiction classics passed away on Wednesday at the age of 91.  More than a few book lovers in the Tumblr community lamented the news, but in true photo-blogging form, they said it with Instagram. Now Tumblr has all the dusty charm of the sci-fi section at a used bookstore.

Through their Tumblr photos the readers revealed not only which books were their favorites, but how long the copies they read were in circulation.

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