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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 1536 Views
Zadie Smith - White Teeth. Legolas - 06/02/2011 11:31:06 AM 1395 Views
Spring Snow looks good, thanks. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:32:51 PM 600 Views
The question is not what you have read, but what you enjoyed reading... jh - 06/02/2011 12:57:01 PM 1339 Views
Re: The question is not what you have read, but what you enjoyed reading... Dreadlord - 12/02/2011 09:24:55 PM 1240 Views
I recommend.... LiterateDog - 06/02/2011 02:41:48 PM 1494 Views
Sounds fun. I'll check it out. Thanks. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:27:48 PM 573 Views
+1 random thoughts - 07/02/2011 02:10:27 PM 1267 Views
Short fiction. Chas - 06/02/2011 03:49:50 PM 1239 Views
Have you read Foucault's Pendulum? That's been translated into English. Tom - 06/02/2011 05:09:55 PM 1142 Views
I keep starting it and having something else come up. Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:25:30 PM 1351 Views
I am with Tom on this one Camilla - 07/02/2011 01:00:21 PM 1076 Views
The Black Prism by Brent Weeks was pretty good *NM* Fox and Ravens - 06/02/2011 09:20:58 PM 560 Views
Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow. Novo - 06/02/2011 09:52:43 PM 1130 Views
Sold me on the Jesuits. I'll check it out. *NM* Ghavrel - 07/02/2011 12:25:25 AM 585 Views
Maria V Snyder - Poison Study *NM* Yunalesca - 06/02/2011 10:03:51 PM 869 Views
Different things. Decadant things. Larry - 06/02/2011 10:10:52 PM 1120 Views
Haven't read any Vandermeer, actually. You recommend him? Ghavrel - 07/02/2011 12:26:35 AM 1203 Views
Jeff is a friend of mine, so of course I would recommend him Larry - 07/02/2011 08:33:41 AM 1335 Views
I'll put him on the list. Ghavrel - 07/02/2011 08:50:15 AM 1194 Views
Good Larry - 07/02/2011 09:21:59 AM 1174 Views
I've been looking for a hardcover edition of Là-Bas in French. Tom - 07/02/2011 06:05:27 AM 1150 Views
I get the sense that would be very expensive if found Larry - 07/02/2011 08:38:37 AM 1269 Views
Might as well ask American publishers where the obsession with hardcovers comes from. Legolas - 07/02/2011 09:32:50 PM 1133 Views
Don't libraries as a rule have hardcovers? jh - 07/02/2011 09:56:07 PM 1142 Views
Not really, no. Legolas - 07/02/2011 10:04:52 PM 1195 Views
Huh. Belgians. *NM* jh - 08/02/2011 07:23:05 AM 544 Views
irish libraries are probably 2/3 paperback to 1/3 hardback *NM* Stephen - 09/02/2011 12:00:11 AM 587 Views
I think you have two different questions there random thoughts - 07/02/2011 10:08:40 PM 1166 Views
Yes, but those are matters of what one is used to, like I said. Legolas - 07/02/2011 10:23:32 PM 1189 Views
so they are buying paperbacks and turning them into hardbacks random thoughts - 09/02/2011 03:14:55 PM 1193 Views
Yes, that's definitely a factor. Legolas - 09/02/2011 07:30:14 PM 1227 Views
Re: Yes, that's definitely a factor. Camilla - 09/02/2011 07:39:25 PM 1205 Views
Have you tried Anne of Green Gables or Middllemarch? Tashmere - 07/02/2011 01:16:51 AM 1133 Views
Have you read The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss? *NM* Tashmere - 07/02/2011 01:18:30 AM 587 Views
Anything by PG Wodehouse, Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett. Stephen - 07/02/2011 03:21:43 AM 1136 Views
Or, indeed, Malcolm Pryce's Aberystwyth books Camilla - 07/02/2011 01:01:15 PM 1075 Views
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You might like Quicksilver. *NM* Camilla - 07/02/2011 07:09:32 PM 681 Views
Pretty much anything by Neil Gaiman, esp. Good Omens (w/Pratchett). More recommendations inside ... Bookwyrm - 08/02/2011 05:43:22 PM 1365 Views
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