A self explanatory title there
Paper back or hard back books?
A self explanatory title there
Paper back or hard back books?
"Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day"
Oscar Wilde [The Picture of Dorian Gray]
Erm mine is always "Hard Backed"....they last longer...I hate dog ears on paper backsOriginally Posted by LadyW
A self explanatory title there
Paper back or hard back books?
I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my Soul return'd to me,
And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell :"
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What Are You Crazy!!!
paperback =)
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Hardcover. Especially if I don't like it. I can get more money by selling them than paperbacks. Also, they make for better door-stops.
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I think I'm more into paperbacks...
Haha I just read that and laughed at how sad it sounds
"Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day"
Oscar Wilde [The Picture of Dorian Gray]
Oh, I love both, really I cannot choose one over the other. I admit, though, that paperbacks are more convenient.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
-Goethe
It really doesn't matter to me which kind it is. Hardcover books are certainly nicer. But paperbacks are cheaper. So, I certainly have many more of those. As for choosing one kind, I suppose it would be paperbacks. That is mainly because of the fact that they are more affordable. I wait for so many books to be released as a paperback because the hardcover book (though I would like to have that kind) is just too expensive sometimes.
Paperback, of course...
I find them much easier to bring from one place to anothr, being considerably lighter than their hardbound counterparts... aside from the fact that they're much, much cheaper. Hardbound books make great collectors' items, though
I buy my books in second-hand bookstores where they sell good books for very cheap prices, so what really matters is the content and not the manner of binding.
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Wish hard enough, I could turn it to what I like.
Fall Out Boy, "Tiffany Blews."
I agree with you amalia. Hardbacks are nice to have, it's more difficult to ruin them (although I don't tend to use them as door stops, Dori!) but they're also heavy so I don't tend to take them with me. And unless you're bying second-hand, hardbacks are double the price of paperbacks!!
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Mark Twain
Yes, exactly. You know, last summer, I had the "clever" idea to take three hardbacks with me on vacations...I agree with you amalia. Hardbacks are nice to have, it's more difficult to ruin them (although I don't tend to use them as door stops, Dori!
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
-Goethe
Even my library % 90 paperback I like both. But i would like a third one, if possible "spiral" back. Sounds not costly advantegous but may much easier to read than others.
"an artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it." paul valery
Hardback for books I am especially fond of want to keep good. Paperback for general reading
There once was a scotsman named Drew
Who put too much wine in his stew
He felt a bit drunk
And fell off his bunk
And landed smack into his shoe ~(C) Ms Niamh Anne King
I prefer hardcover. Usually I can buy only second hand hardcovers though, and buy newer books as paperbacks. The oldest paperback I own is from 1926 - and you can really see its age, while similar hardcovers and even much older books still look good.
Čłowjek je dwójny, te sam sebi. Tysacy słowow sym ka paćerki stykał na swoje lĕta a na kóncu spóznał, zo ani jednoho słowa njeje, kotre by jeho w ćĕle a dui we wej wĕrnosći wĕrnje pomjenowało.
I agree with you amalia. Hardbacks are nice to have, it's more difficult to ruin them (although I don't tend to use them as door stops, Dori!What books are you guys (ladies) carrying around? Fully annotated editions of Shakespeare's collected works?Yes, exactly. You know, last summer, I had the "clever" idea to take three hardbacks with me on vacations...
Being a student, I suppose I'm used to carrying 1-2 textbooks with me (much heavier than your average hardcover.
No offence, by the way. I'm just pulling your chain.
com-pas-sion (n.) [ME. & OFr. <LL. (Ec.) compassio, sympathy < compassus, pp. of compati, to feel pity < L. com-, together + pali, to suffer] sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another or others, accompanied by an urge to help; deep sympathy; pity
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