/lit/ - Literature

A couple are okay looking.
The Arabian Nights, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Illiad and Odyssey, and the Hans Christian Anderson,
They're still very ostentatious and flashy, but not sickeningly gaudy.

I wouldn't pay the extra money for them to look like this, but I wouldn't begrudge them, if I got them as gifts. And I've had times in the past where I've gotten ornately bound "for show" books secondhand, and I admit that I like that they look nice on the shelf.

It's dumb, but fairly harmless.
And we don't often complain about people collecting old weathered editions for show.

I dunno.

Anyone collecting old books here?