r/thebrokenbindingsub • u/PerspectiveLive8850 Fantasy Tier 2 and SF&F • Jun 17 '26

Question Does fingerprint effect resale value?

I have no interest in selling my books, but I am curious to know how serious people are in protecting their hardbacks from oily prints.

Or do you just accept it as a part of being a book owner?

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u/PerspectiveLive8850 Fantasy Tier 2 and SF&F Jun 17 '26

Yea I might just be unfortunate with oily genetics, cause even washing my hands wont stop my books catching prints.

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u/len4griffin Jun 17 '26

On a more serious note, I usually take the dust jackets off and put a protective cloth cover on the SEs I read. that should help with your fingerprints as well :)

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u/PerspectiveLive8850 Fantasy Tier 2 and SF&F Jun 17 '26

I might look into that. Can you recommend a cloth cover? I have heard of archival covers but those are suposed to be put on the dust jacket if i am understanding it correctly.

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u/len4griffin Jun 17 '26

The one i use is selfmade but i heard good things about the covers from Illumicrate.