I hate special editions. I hate sprayed edges. I hate soulless clipart decals on covers. Special editions are exclusively bought as social signifiers and glorified paperweights. If I see Penguin clothbound classics on someone's shelf they're either a woman or a pseud. Oftentimes both.
>>24817082What? Penguin Clothbound has nothing to do with the clipart shit you posted. I have a Penguin Clothbound Classic of TBK because I wanted it in hardback and it's the translation I enjoyed the most. Nothing to do with being a pseud.
>>24817097Caring about translation shows your pseudness, sorry bud.
>>24817126You are retarded.
Penguin clothbounds are okay looking but they are awful quality if you actually want to read the thing. The cover designs rubs off quickly, the paper is cheap and glossy, and the cover feels like its made of fragile cardboard.
>>24817082What do you think about book jackets? Like the cheap plastic ones that fall off while you are trying to read a hardcover?
>>24817082I cried so much the first time I read Pride and Prejudice. Read it cover to cover in one sitting. Like I was happy in the end but it was a wild ride.
>>24817213Whoever decided to print VINYL decals on CLOTH covers has no foresight and ought to be lynched. Yet people eat that shit up, glorified paperweights. I'm already seeing penguin clothbounds in second hand bookshops with illegible faded spines and covers. >>24817223I own comparatively few hardbacks, and only one of them has a plastic protector. If I'm reading a hardcover, I take the dust jacket off. When I'm done, I put the dust jacket back on. Simple. I read paperbacks if I can help it. Hardbacks are too cumbersome.>>24817309If you're crying over Jane Austen, wait until you read some real books.
>>24817309based and sovlfvl
I love special editionsI collect La Pléiade editions and Everyman's Library are cheap and cheerful, Library of America is also good My Pléiade collection serves as a sort of altar to French literature and France in general as I am too poor to justify visiting France and as a kitchen hand I have no hopes of working thereI have bought some Folio Editions before but they're just too big to read comfortably which is a real shame since they're made to a decent standard and I like how varied they are The Penguin Clothbound classics are glued, not sewn which instantly makes me not want a single one in my libraryThe Macmillan Collector's Library are nicer imo even if they're cheap
>>24817335>If you're crying over Jane Austen, wait until you read some real books>Dostoevskychecks out
>>24817428Kek
>>24817409I have to agree with you on Everyman's Library, borzoi very cute, very nice. I'd be fascinated to see your Pléiade collection, they're not commonly sold where I live. >>24817428Gobble me.
>>24817097Why would you buy a clothbound edition of The Butt Knockers? That book was shitty enough as a paperback.
>>24817126Genuine idiot.
>>24817145>>24817792
>>24817082They make for great presents, fag.
>>24817082I hate book like this. I can imagine that the usual demographic will look at this on some popular bookstore on the popular literature section and screamed with those calarts ●○● expression about how 'cute' and 'aesthetic' looking these books are; and then the usual demographic will record herself entering the bookstore in portrait mode (with her iphone of course, not samsung or android but just iphone because that's what these people love) and put her stupid phone in one of the racks, filming herself taking one of those pastel colored, edge sprayed, pride and prejudice or whatever jane austen virginia woolf sense and sensibility novel in there and pretend to be shocked in front of camera - covering her gapped mouth (but not fully gapped, just half gapped because otherwise it'll ruin make up, hair, eyebrows et cetera) with her hand while showing her newly painted fingernails along the way. Then the usual demographic will took her phone, filming herself paying for these stupid pastel colored book on cashier (dont forget to film the fingernails!) and back to the her stupid excessive bedroom or apartment, and the usual demographic will 'unbox' it and make a little montage to appreciate the book cover aesthetic; tilting, panning, filming the sprayed edge, those glittery looking typography and that little house graphic, and the usual demographic will edit the video herself, trimming each clip, finding the best shot that could show her face, put her storytelling voice over about how she found this book 'randomly' but oh, oh! Before the usual demographic could press 'export' she will first post that thing on instagram so that people, her fellow 'usual demographic' friends, can look at her post about her newly pastel colored book -with some self-made cup of latte next to it- with envy, and then the usual demographic will post her video to tiktok and farm some internet likes from it to fuel her narcissistic peacock-like desireI know about this I ALWAYS knew
>>24818165hehheh
