You’re So Vain: Book-Related Vanity License Plates

by Travis Jonker | Blogs
May 21, 2018 | Filed in News & Features
I was in the car yesterday when I spotted this while waiting for a red light: Nice work, fellow driver! It got me thinking about people I know who have book-related vanity plates. My friend (and world-class school librarian) Cindy Dobrez has one (she credits Little Brother by Cory Doctorow as inspiration): John Schumacher has […]

I was in the car yesterday when I spotted this while waiting for a red light:

Vanity Plate

Nice work, fellow driver! It got me thinking about people I know who have book-related vanity plates.

My friend (and world-class school librarian) Cindy Dobrez has one (she credits Little Brother by Cory Doctorow as inspiration):

R3AD

John Schumacher has one too:

I Read

Do you also have a book-related vanity plate? Let’s hear it in the comments.

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