Judging a Book By its Cover
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004
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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.
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concurring in part and dissenting in part from the views of Polytropos’ 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.
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Hey, that reminds me? Did you ever find time to read it?
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Buying Books
Related to the hardbacks v. paperbacks kerfluffle (responses are here, here, here, here, and here): Amber Taylor has a lovely post on a strategy and philosophy of book-buying. Such philosophies must be individuated of course (taking into account one’s …
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