I dislike hardcovers immensely. There has to be a really compelling reason for me to consider buying one, even at a sale.
Mal: Which one you figure tracked us? Zoe: The ugly one, sir. Mal: Could you be more specific?
'Out Of Gas'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
brenda m - Apr 12, 2008 9:55:08 am PDT #5463 of 28344
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Amy - Apr 12, 2008 9:58:03 am PDT #5464 of 28344
Because books.
Really? I know they take up more room, but they seem so much more ... permanent and long-wearing.
brenda m - Apr 12, 2008 10:01:59 am PDT #5465 of 28344
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Yeah, but they're so much more uncomfortable to read and carry around. I do like trades, though, as a sort of more substantial seeming happy medium.
Dana - Apr 12, 2008 10:34:32 am PDT #5466 of 28344
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Hardcovers don't fit in a purse, and it's hard to take three hardcovers with you for a weekend trip.
sj - Apr 12, 2008 10:39:59 am PDT #5467 of 28344
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
There were two books in question and I decided to get rid of one and keep the other. Thanks for helping me make the decision!
I have another sort of odd book question. Does anyone have an absolute favorite bookcase for storing mass market paperbacks, so that they can be stacked on their sides to maximize space?
Atropa - Apr 12, 2008 10:59:27 am PDT #5468 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I'm of the all-one-type school. All hardcovers, or all trades, or all mass-markets, whichever.
See, I don't care. Of course, I have a different problem, which is if I find a different edition of one of my favorite books, I feel compelled to own it. Let us not speak of how many different versions of Something Wicked This Way Comes are sitting on my bookshelves. Let's just say that every time I go to Powell's, I go to the rare book room to ogle the 1st edition hardback of Dark Carnival (the original title of SWTWC). Someday it will be mine. Someday.
Laga - Apr 12, 2008 11:01:35 am PDT #5469 of 28344
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
One of my Harry Potter books is large print and it kind of bugs me (it was the only one they had!) but not enough to buy a replacement.
sj - Apr 12, 2008 11:02:51 am PDT #5470 of 28344
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I have a different problem, which is if I find a different edition of one of my favorite books, I feel compelled to own it.
I have this problem too. TCG never questions my book obsession, except for questioning just how many different editions of Middlemarch one person needs.
erikaj - Apr 12, 2008 12:37:28 pm PDT #5471 of 28344
Always Anti-fascist!
my collection is so haphazard. except the forensic books...they don't come in paperback, and could be used as the most ironic weapons ever.
Sue - Apr 12, 2008 2:56:33 pm PDT #5472 of 28344
hip deep in pie
I have no book fetishes. No that's not true. I would love to find LM Montgomery's books in the first edition that I read them in. Also, I hate musty books. So if choosing between editions in a used book store, I will always pick the newest one. And you will often see me smelling books to see if they would drive me crazy when I read them. I look at leather bound books and only see future red rot.
When I was a small child I was very aware that library books pass through many hands and was pretty much compulsive about washing my hands after touching library books.