>>46769863To my brain, to use "leathery" as an adjective would be fine, but to refer to leather as an actual material is not. Am I just - well okay I KNOW I'm autistic where do you think we are - but is it so strange to take issue with it in such a specific manner? Leathery is a quality that evokes specific sensory memories in the reader; leather is a very specific material made by treating the flesh of a dead aninmal. Ya know? We're dealing with some kind of freaky Necromonicon here, not your regular dusty old tomes.
