/lit/ - Literature

>>17700861

Black, but both aren't that great.

black but it's the older, smaller and more aesthetic penguins from the 70s

White, Oxford usually has better notes and translations, as well as intersting additions for some books

>>17700926
yet but those fucking astericks are gay as shit, what a stupid system

Green

>>17700912
this but especially the second part

>>17700861
Black, the orange is more noticeable

>>17700861
I FUCKING HATE IT WHEN THE NOTES ARE AT THE BACK
JUST USE FUCKING FOOTNOTES YOU NIGGERFAGGOTCUNTKIKESPICS

>>17701467
i used to be like this, but i now believe endnotes are truly patrician

I used to be a Penguinfag because the books are more widely available, but Oxford is better.
The Robin Waterfield translations of Plato are the best you can get in English. The notes and essays make the reading even comfier.

Oxford classics have the best new translations

>>17700861
Burgundy, navy blue, evergreen, brown, and slate grey. Clothbound, of course.

I'll go for the best translations, then the cover art. All else being equal, the Penguin looks cooler, as long as it's not the orange shit.

>>17701701
Do you mean these orange editions?

>>17701845
These ones. Art hoes always have a set of unopened classics in this edition

>>17701489
how so?

>>17700861
For aesthetics, black. The red stripe on the oxfords looks really ugly. As far as content goes, oxfords are usually better.

>>17700861
Oxford is more professional. Penguin is cheaper and bends easier.

University of Chicago books are for the true patrician.

>>17700861
Definitely not black

>>17700912
>>17701269
what is the great choice you would recommend?

>>17701586
Take all the covers off or put them all on dickhead

>>17700861
oxford, it's not even close
penguin translations are universally trash and the cover wears away very easily
and then there's oxford shakespeare (subseries of world classics): sewn binding, good paper quality, very detailed footnotes and introductions

>>17701489
It deppends on the author (they way he writes).

>>17702479
actually just niggas holding their books like retards it is not that hard to keep your copy from becoming like this

oxford is pozzed and often abridged

>>17703276
true

i like new york review books, very hip

>>17703296
As if penguin isn't
Oxford has slightly better editions overall though

both are great. oxford sometimes has end notes but are rarely useful. i like penguin intros better.

I think I prefer oxford, they have really great footnotes and extra materials to help the comprehension of brainless like me. Penguin can be a mixed bag, I read Ethics and it had great footnotes and appendices to give background information, but I'm reading Politics now and it sometimes has footnotes to clarify but also has references to much more scholarly works instead of providing extra information in an appendix.

>>17700861
may I see the cover of the idiot

Oxfords are better cheaper products
Penguins look better and have a better selection

>>17700861
For me, it's broadview

>>17700861
WHITE PRIDE WORLDWIDE.

>>17701886
Can confirm.
I'm a published writer who has been invited to a couple small literary festivals. Always get chatting to some art hoe afterwards. Get invited back to her place for "coffee" get there and there's a shelf of orange penguins visible. I know i'm getting laid.
Cumming inside art hoes is a fine sport for a literary gentleman.

the ink in oxford editions is more susceptible to smudging. so black

my brand new oxford book has a plastic film that is peeling off the cover after i read the book once and wasn't rough with it at all

>>17705726
pic related

>>17702479
That’s a book that got wet. Nothing else does that to a book

>>17700861
White, but I buy whatever is cheaper, or will actually try to get just about any other edition.

I don't like these people that exclusively buy one or the other and have literal shelves full of nothing but black or white.

A book shelf should look messy and unorganised (only look, they should obviously be organised properly), with books of every colour, binding, and size. Tall old tattared hardbacks should sit next brand new paperbacks no more than 5 inches tall. All arranged by type and name, as opposed to rainbow colours, or some other gay shit.