Judging a Book By its Cover
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James Joyner | Wednesday, May 12, 2004 |
Will Baude defends the virtue of the paperback book from the aesthetic snobbery of Amber Taylor, concurring in part and dissenting in part from the views of Polytropos’ Nate.
I prefer hardcovers for books that I collect and intend to display on my shelves–”shelfworthy,” indeed–but rather prefer paperbacks for utilitarian books that I intend to annotate in some fashion. It just feels somehow wrong to defile a hardcover editon with flourescent yellow highlights and marginalia.
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Marginalia. Heh.
concurring in part and dissenting in part from the views of Polytroposâ Nate.
But was this opinion distinguished from Taylor v. Baude?
As long as we're going through the legalese, I figured you might as well go for the whole enchilada.
Hey, that reminds me? Did you ever find time to read it?
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