Get Your Literary Thumbprint

Now I know fingerprints are not usually associated with the most positive of activities but artist Cheryl Sorg has come up with what might be the best use yet.

Your own thumbprint transformed into a visual representation of the highlights of your reading life.

Here’s how it works:

The artist will send you ink and some cards
you stick your thumb in the ink and apply to card
mail inked cards back with
a list of up to 50 of your favorite books

Wait a few weeks and your three foot high thumbprint portrait will arrive

Here’s Sorg’s homage to Haruki Murakami:

and if that’s not cool enough for you Sorg has also devised this end table:

Both items retail for $400 each.
Thumbprint portrait
end table

Thanks to Ebook Friendly for the lead