Wallpaper: Love It or Hate It. Actually, it's less about this link than the memory that it sparked. During middle school and high school when the teachers would instill the fear of whatever-it-is into the students for scratching and damaging textbooks on loan, everyone one scrambled around to get book covers. I would get the cheap-o crazy wallpaper at the local Old Time Pottery--fifty cents a roll--and make my own book cover. And it was unique. No confusion over all the other textbooks covered in brown paper or neon plastic!