# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/61 "2018-05-10T14:56:40Z")
“Gone with the Wind Part 2” - Reconstruction to the Present Day ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/62 "2018-05-12T04:56:13Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Whoopi Goldberg: A Nude Pictorial Mmm. Whoopi Goldberg. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/63 "2018-05-12T05:00:31Z")
_The Wit and Wisdom of Kellyanne Conway_ ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/64 "2018-05-12T06:22:37Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > _The Wit and Wisdom of Kellyanne Conway_ See the comment above about too thin a book. How about bound volumes of _The Watchtower_? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2018, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/65 "2018-05-12T06:46:07Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Slight hijack from the OP maybe but --------- my Dad knew he was going to die but he never told the rest of us or our mother. He and I were pretty close and he knew me very well. When I got over the house I went into his den/guest room and started looking over his desk to see what needed attention right away and what we could ignore. My eyes fell right away on a volume about the history of vampires in the folk-traditions of the Rusyns. Well, I have GOT to check this one out. Inside were little post-it notes ---- all they said were things like – the bookcase, my old portable radio, where we fixed the plumbing. Each place was a hide-away with money or valuables and projects I had helped him with or would remember. Some of the things had real value and some just family value that mother may have destroyed (my mother is a little crazy like that) but I would cherish. I can imagine him, having gotten the news from his doctor, saying to himself “when the times comes where is the first place Kopek is going to look ----- what will he just have to pick up that his mother will never look twice at” and then composing cryptic little notes and making them blend in. Dude was a helluva guy and guessed damn well. > > Second thing – a friend runs a business that recycles and deals in old books. It isn’t just paper money between the pages; he wands the spines of anything much before 1930 and visually checks almost all the spines. He has a “collection” of coins and currency he has found tucked away there with about 20 nice pieces of gold among them. The thought was that some crooks are going to rifle the pages but who is going to look in the spines? Bibles are one of the better old books to have things hidden there from what he has said. That is so cool of your Dad. I always inspect old books wherever I go. Flea markets and junk stores, garage sales. I have yet to find much more than weird book marks or pictures, but I keep looking. ---
**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 12, 2018, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/66 "2018-05-12T15:04:09Z")
Dumbest purchase in recorded history: As a pre-teen, I bought a bookshelf safe (one of those thingies you [used to] find on the back of comic books). It was a plastic box with book spine and covers; the back cover and spine were glued on–the back cover was the wall of the safe. The front cover hid a plastic door with a combination lock, which I immediately forgot. It had all the rigidity of a Kleenex box. “Secure” is not a word you should use in describing this doohickey. Next: Full size Frankenstein (monster) “statue.” ---
**Author:** ![snowmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@snowmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowmaster)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/67 "2018-05-13T00:45:24Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > 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._ 🆒 You were right, warden, salvation lay within. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/68 "2018-05-13T00:53:13Z")
!959 Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia, L-M. ---
**Author:** ![Santelia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Santelia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santelia)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/69 "2018-05-13T01:01:00Z")
Anything by Clive flipping Cussler ---
**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 13, 2018, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/70 "2018-05-13T02:12:13Z")
> [@Santelia](#): > > Anything by Clive flipping Cussler Is there any reason for anyone to ever pick up “Raise the Titanic” again? ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842/71 "2018-05-13T03:29:44Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > 744502 was one of the best developed characters in literature. Wait, that’s not random! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-book-to-hide-stuff-in/813842.md?page=3)