Loved this - it was the perfect video to keep me going while rocking the baby to sleep! I have a similar outlook when it comes to mu book collection. I love Everyman's Library, Folios and the like, but I'm fairly content with the fact that most of my books will be paperbacks. And it's all the same on the inside anyway!
Rocking babies to sleep is hard work so I'm glad my video could be a support for you. Many was the time I thought my girls were asleep only to somehow see them use their sixth sense and know they've been tricked into sleeping and immediately punish me for my woeful effort at slinking away like a ninja.
Hi K. How did you come across that edition of the book? And what book(s) did you cover as a student? Possibly unusual we had Lord of the Flies and Of Mice and Men (not sure why our curriculum that year omitted the usual Shakespeare option).
There's true pleasure in a well-made book. The paper of the book goes a long way toward making it last--resistant to the yellowing. Nowadays it seems like yellowing begins after 5 years. I've had 50 year old books with less yellowing than a 10 year old book because of the quality of the paper. But let's face it. I need publishers to keep books affordable and I personally am not likely to last another 50 years so I have to side with the cheaper built books.Still, a well made book is such a pleasure.
Affordability I think is likely everyone's concern with the exception of a few people who can likely afford top tier production right off the bat. I realise also that I did not touch upon e-books at all. I don't have any e-books and I rather dislike reading online compared with real books. It's a noted distinction that I think in this area I am talking about books and not stories. I remember seeing an e-book of a deluxe graphic novel which I happened to have from DC - the e-book literally can't do what the hardback did as it was oversized and improved paper quality - how can a Kindle do the same?
Hi Dale. I don't think I have any of those and now through no fault of your own I have some book buyer envy at having missed out on something. I do tend to buy secondhand books - what period were they published in?
Loved this - it was the perfect video to keep me going while rocking the baby to sleep! I have a similar outlook when it comes to mu book collection. I love Everyman's Library, Folios and the like, but I'm fairly content with the fact that most of my books will be paperbacks. And it's all the same on the inside anyway!
Rocking babies to sleep is hard work so I'm glad my video could be a support for you. Many was the time I thought my girls were asleep only to somehow see them use their sixth sense and know they've been tricked into sleeping and immediately punish me for my woeful effort at slinking away like a ninja.
That edition of "The Lord of the Flies" is the one I read on my own out of school (never read it as a student).
Hi K. How did you come across that edition of the book? And what book(s) did you cover as a student? Possibly unusual we had Lord of the Flies and Of Mice and Men (not sure why our curriculum that year omitted the usual Shakespeare option).
There's true pleasure in a well-made book. The paper of the book goes a long way toward making it last--resistant to the yellowing. Nowadays it seems like yellowing begins after 5 years. I've had 50 year old books with less yellowing than a 10 year old book because of the quality of the paper. But let's face it. I need publishers to keep books affordable and I personally am not likely to last another 50 years so I have to side with the cheaper built books.Still, a well made book is such a pleasure.
Affordability I think is likely everyone's concern with the exception of a few people who can likely afford top tier production right off the bat.
I realise also that I did not touch upon e-books at all. I don't have any e-books and I rather dislike reading online compared with real books. It's a noted distinction that I think in this area I am talking about books and not stories. I remember seeing an e-book of a deluxe graphic novel which I happened to have from DC - the e-book literally can't do what the hardback did as it was oversized and improved paper quality - how can a Kindle do the same?
I still miss the old Penguin Classics when they were a sort of khaki and white with sewn bindings.
Hi Dale. I don't think I have any of those and now through no fault of your own I have some book buyer envy at having missed out on something.
I do tend to buy secondhand books - what period were they published in?