# A book to hide stuff in. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 9, 2018, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842 "2018-05-09T04:17:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/21 "2018-05-09T07:59:00Z")
\*Reconstructing Policy in Higher Education: Feminist Poststructural Perspectives \* ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/22 "2018-05-09T09:31:50Z")
I never carry a wallet, and when I go oujt, I carry the cards I need. I had a habit of going to the library without my library card, so I picked out a suitable book from the stacks, and put my card in it. It was always there. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/23 "2018-05-09T10:43:51Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > I never carry a wallet, and when I go oujt, I carry the cards I need. I had a habit of going to the library without my library card, so I picked out a suitable book from the stacks, and put my card in it. It was always there. _Dumpster dinners and garbage gourmet_? ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/24 "2018-05-09T10:57:00Z")
I hollowed out a book (presumably it belonged to my parents) when I was a kid - it was ‘Venture to the Interior’ by Laurens Van Der Post. I chose it because of the apt name, but wish I’d read it first, in retrospect. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@Troy\_McClure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/25 "2018-05-09T12:11:48Z")
As a kid, mine was “Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children”. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/26 "2018-05-09T13:16:08Z")
Not quite what is asked, but related. I never was into mounting diplomas and such. So for the longest time I stored them in the biggest book we had - a historical atlas IIRC. One day I got a call from someone telling me they had all my diplomas, bar admissions, etc. Apparently we had donated a bunch of books to a used book sale at the library without checking to see whether anything was in them. Never got around to getting them back… ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/27 "2018-05-09T13:30:33Z")
I made one of these as a kid, too. Mine was one volume from an incomplete set of grocery store encyclopedias. Still seems like a pretty good book to not get picked up. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/28 "2018-05-09T13:43:10Z")
Whoopi Goldberg: A Nude Pictorial ---
**Author:** ![Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tired_and_Cranky)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/29 "2018-05-09T13:43:53Z")
Electrician’s Technical Reference: Variable Frequency Drives, 1st edition ([https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076681923X/ref=s9\_acsd\_zgift\_hd\_bw\_b23os\_c\_x\_w?pf\_rd\_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf\_rd\_s=merchandised-search-3&pf\_rd\_r=55N5DY5K410EY2R61HY4&pf\_rd\_t=101&pf\_rd\_p=25b62b40-a1eb-5451-a8a9-a136000eba99&pf\_rd\_i=491342](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076681923X/ref=s9_acsd_zgift_hd_bw_b23os_c_x_w?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&pf_rd_r=55N5DY5K410EY2R61HY4&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=25b62b40-a1eb-5451-a8a9-a136000eba99&pf_rd_i=491342)) From the first page of Amazon’s engineering textbook section. The whole section is a gold mine of stuff no one will want to idly read. How about the EMI/EMC Computational Modeling Handbook? ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/30 "2018-05-09T14:22:37Z")
[The History of Mathematics](https://www.amazon.com/History-Mathematics-Carl-B-Boyer/dp/0470525487) ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/31 "2018-05-09T14:33:34Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I was thinling more along the lines of ‘The book of Mormon’. Or _Dianetics_ ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/32 "2018-05-09T14:34:20Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Whoopi Goldberg: A Nude Pictorial I wouldn’t put anything in that. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/33 "2018-05-09T14:45:25Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#): > > The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Hey that’s probably a good one because everyone has read it already and won’t be picking it up to see “hmm what’s this about?” Just be careful if you have anyone under 18 in the house, they might nab it for a school assignment. > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I made one of these as a kid, too. Mine was one volume from an incomplete set of grocery store encyclopedias. Still seems like a pretty good book to not get picked up. Sorry but that’s gonna be super obvious. I just felt very smart thinking to myself “Hmm, which could it be…? Hey! Why does this library have a lone book, H through K, of the 1982 Funk & Wagnall’s?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/34 "2018-05-09T16:06:57Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Whoopi Goldberg: A Nude Pictorial LOL But the problem with such a book is that too many people would be tempted to burn it, purely for humanity’s sake ! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/35 "2018-05-09T16:29:34Z")
Taking a page, as it were, from Lord Vetenari: _Annals of the Great Accountants, Volume Three_ ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/36 "2018-05-09T16:38:09Z")
> [@cormac262](#): > > LOL > > But the problem with such a book is that too many people would be tempted to burn it, purely for humanity’s sake ! [You’d think so, right?](https://youtu.be/nIYc1IPA-08?t=25) ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/37 "2018-05-09T16:50:44Z")
_The Art of the Deal_. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/38 "2018-05-09T16:51:46Z")
The … Encyclopedia, Vol N-O. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/39 "2018-05-09T16:58:36Z")
I actually have one I made myself gluing the pages together and making it hollow on a band saw. Erskines Speeches It blends in well with all the various Colonial history titles. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/40 "2018-05-09T17:09:20Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > I’m surprised The bible wasn’t in the first 5. Slight hijack: I just watched a Youtube clip from _The Shawshank Redemption_, where the warden discovers where Andy hid his rock-hammer that he used to escape: in a Bible…Exodus. _Nice._ 🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842.md?page=3)