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Not really, no. Legolas Send a noteboard - 07/02/2011 10:04:52 PM
Something about books falling apart otherwise?

Our libraries have plenty of pockets (plasticized, of course), and many of the hardcovers that they do have are books in which the hard part of the cover was added afterwards - it often makes the edges of the cover disappear, true, which doesn't look very fancy, but it's rather less fragile than original hardcovers of which the spine can, after all, break easily enough.
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I need a book. A good book. A book that I will enjoy. Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:25:51 AM 1601 Views
Zadie Smith - White Teeth. Legolas - 06/02/2011 11:31:06 AM 1470 Views
Spring Snow looks good, thanks. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:32:51 PM 627 Views
The question is not what you have read, but what you enjoyed reading... jh - 06/02/2011 12:57:01 PM 1400 Views
Re: The question is not what you have read, but what you enjoyed reading... Dreadlord - 12/02/2011 09:24:55 PM 1292 Views
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Sounds fun. I'll check it out. Thanks. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:27:48 PM 602 Views
+1 random thoughts - 07/02/2011 02:10:27 PM 1325 Views
Short fiction. Chas - 06/02/2011 03:49:50 PM 1303 Views
Have you read Foucault's Pendulum? That's been translated into English. Tom - 06/02/2011 05:09:55 PM 1207 Views
I keep starting it and having something else come up. Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:25:30 PM 1424 Views
I am with Tom on this one Camilla - 07/02/2011 01:00:21 PM 1139 Views
The Black Prism by Brent Weeks was pretty good *NM* Fox and Ravens - 06/02/2011 09:20:58 PM 590 Views
Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow. Novo - 06/02/2011 09:52:43 PM 1196 Views
Sold me on the Jesuits. I'll check it out. *NM* Ghavrel - 07/02/2011 12:25:25 AM 612 Views
Maria V Snyder - Poison Study *NM* Yunalesca - 06/02/2011 10:03:51 PM 905 Views
Different things. Decadant things. Larry - 06/02/2011 10:10:52 PM 1185 Views
Haven't read any Vandermeer, actually. You recommend him? Ghavrel - 07/02/2011 12:26:35 AM 1268 Views
Jeff is a friend of mine, so of course I would recommend him Larry - 07/02/2011 08:33:41 AM 1407 Views
I'll put him on the list. Ghavrel - 07/02/2011 08:50:15 AM 1262 Views
Good Larry - 07/02/2011 09:21:59 AM 1227 Views
I've been looking for a hardcover edition of Là-Bas in French. Tom - 07/02/2011 06:05:27 AM 1206 Views
I get the sense that would be very expensive if found Larry - 07/02/2011 08:38:37 AM 1337 Views
Might as well ask American publishers where the obsession with hardcovers comes from. Legolas - 07/02/2011 09:32:50 PM 1204 Views
Don't libraries as a rule have hardcovers? jh - 07/02/2011 09:56:07 PM 1211 Views
Not really, no. Legolas - 07/02/2011 10:04:52 PM 1254 Views
Huh. Belgians. *NM* jh - 08/02/2011 07:23:05 AM 573 Views
irish libraries are probably 2/3 paperback to 1/3 hardback *NM* Stephen - 09/02/2011 12:00:11 AM 619 Views
I think you have two different questions there random thoughts - 07/02/2011 10:08:40 PM 1230 Views
Yes, but those are matters of what one is used to, like I said. Legolas - 07/02/2011 10:23:32 PM 1249 Views
so they are buying paperbacks and turning them into hardbacks random thoughts - 09/02/2011 03:14:55 PM 1255 Views
Yes, that's definitely a factor. Legolas - 09/02/2011 07:30:14 PM 1289 Views
Re: Yes, that's definitely a factor. Camilla - 09/02/2011 07:39:25 PM 1277 Views
Have you tried Anne of Green Gables or Middllemarch? Tashmere - 07/02/2011 01:16:51 AM 1203 Views
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Anything by PG Wodehouse, Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett. Stephen - 07/02/2011 03:21:43 AM 1203 Views
Or, indeed, Malcolm Pryce's Aberystwyth books Camilla - 07/02/2011 01:01:15 PM 1147 Views
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You might like Quicksilver. *NM* Camilla - 07/02/2011 07:09:32 PM 725 Views
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