Hard covers and lack thereof

[Paul Mackin]

On Sep 8, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> Keep in mind, though, y'all are likely buying
> primarily novels and/or big name press products,
> whereas the bulk of my collection is university press
> nonfiction.


University press stuff I pretty well stay away from with some  
exceptions. Depend on the New York Review of Books  to  comb through  
the little of it I'm interested in. Almost never want the full book.   
Read NYRB on line for a few dollars more a year (if you're a regular  
subscriber too). Can make the print as big as I want.


P.
>   Better-made pbks (LOC standards rule,
> okay), sometimes available simultaneously with the 1st
> ed., and FAR cheaper (by half to a fourth) than cloth
> ...
>
> But I'll get anything in cloth if that's the only way
> I can get it, esp. upon publication, so ...
>
> Seriously, though. YOU try moving a two-storey house
> full o' books, sans the house ...
>
> --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> I almost never buy paperbound books, like to get
>> things when they are brand new, and in the U.S.
>> new eschews paper. More's the pity.
>
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