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Judging a Book By its Cover

· Wednesday, May 12, 2004 · 3 comments

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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James Joyner
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Comments

  1. Boyd says:
    Wednesday, 12 May 2004 at 22:51

    Marginalia. Heh.

  2. bryan says:
    Wednesday, 12 May 2004 at 23:07

    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.

  3. Kate says:
    Wednesday, 12 May 2004 at 23:46

    Hey, that reminds me? Did you ever find time to read it?

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