/lit/ - Literature

Reaching out to other classicists here...where do we go for long lasting print versions of the classics in Latin and Greek? There's Loeb's but they have essentially double shelf space with the facing pages in English.

I started collecting some of the Oxford Classical Texts but ran into the following:
- older print runs have excellent print quality and binding, but acidic paper which is already yellowing and will disintegrate in another 50-100 years
- newer print runs on higher pH paper, but print quality is utter trash and the bindings are just glue

I've started collecting nicely bound, archival quality books for modern Western classics (Easton Press...yes I know, don't start), but there's nothing equivalent for antiquity in the original. It's beyond alarming to think these works may only survive (for a short while) going forward as digital scans.

I'm honestly thinking about getting into bookbinding, to make small runs of leather bound archival quality "forever editions". As we descend into Idiocracy, the leather to ensure the books get passed-on and survive, and archival quality paper to ensure there's something left of the book to rebind in 500 years.

I'm know I'm schizo but at the rate we're going, The Classics may only survive 200-300 years from now on some weirdo's hard drive, with the 70 IQ masses going "hurr durr dead languages".