I don’t know about red, but I have an anniversary edition in gold.
I like to read old paperbacks, where the pages fall out as you turn them. This is partly because of the consequent feeling of urgency to finish, and partly due to the pleasant feeling of consuming the book that it brings.
I use to buy only Hardcover books! They look beautiful and are more easy to read on a table and can “live” more years than papperback books! long time ago i was thinking on buying leather bond books from Easton Press! I still sometimes wonder if it would be right to buy one of their books?
the problem is that if i buy a leather bound book, i feel i am not doing well for the planet, you see leather is not good for the environment:
and i feel is not right for the animals also!
Please any comments to my feelings? it would be great to talk about it!
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So… you just throw the skin away? 
I like all types. I have a nice leatherbound set of Jules Verne for display, and lots of hardcovers. But paperbacks have the advantage of being easy to stick in ones pocket when going out, being lighter when traveling, and taking up less space, which is fairly important when you have 2600 books (and an additional 3,000 sf mags.)
Paperbacks look just as good on the shelf, especially when you arrange them by publisher and publication date, as someone I know did.
I typically prefer paperbacks. Smaller, easier to handle, and easier to store. I just wish modern paperbacks weren’t made so shoddily; I have plenty of old paperbacks I inherited from my mother that are in better condition than modern ones only a few years old.
I like mass-market paperbacks.
- Cheaper - more books for your buck
- More portable - I do a lot of my reading on public transit, while walking, riding in cars, etc.
- Takes up less shelf space - this is crucial. I don’t have enough shelf space for the books I have, if I’m gonna buy another one I’d prefer it be smaller so I don’t have to worry about making room for it.
You’re still new here, DarkLord, so you’re probably getting used to how we do things here. If you’d like to discuss whether the use of leather, for books or whatever, is moral or not, please start a thread in Great Debates. Also, please don’t use links to blogs or other discussions elsewhere: we are not here to feed traffic to those sources.
Thanks,
twickster, Cafe Society moderator
How many trees are you killing for the book paper? Aren’t trees living things? When’s the last time a cow has said anything smarter than a tree? Trees breathe in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen so they’re far more critical to our existence than cows.
You’re mooing up the wrong tree, my friend. If you really wanted to be friends with the environment you’d have a leather-covered e-reader.
Books I buy I intend to keep. Thus it’s leatherbound if possible an dnot too expensive; heardback otherwise (and more frequently), inspecting the binding beforehand.
If I don’t intend to keep the book indefinitely, I usually check it out from the library. The exception would be hte occasional airport bookshop purchase, but those are rare as I try to sleep one board planes.
E-readers are not my friend.
Depends on what format it is in when I want it, and how desperately I want it. If it is an author I really like and the newest book came out in hardback, I but it. But usually I just get the paperback version