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Anonymous Sat Oct 23 07:57:23 2021 No.19274918 [Reply] [Original]

Does lit ever buy premium editions of books?

They come with illustrations, hardcover, better quality paper etc.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 23 08:00:45 2021 No.19274924 >>19274918 Not that sort of premium; though I did buy a Norton Critical Edition of Tolstoy's short stories for an essay by Eikhenbaum.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 23 08:03:14 2021 No.19274929 The dune deluxe edition is fun https://youtu.be/GGsjrbOVQyI

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 23 08:04:25 2021 No.19274932 >>19274918 I will never love a book enough to justify folio prices

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 23 08:09:28 2021 No.19274947 >>19274918 Yes

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 23 08:20:10 2021 No.19274981 >>19274918 I buy expensive hardcovers of books I love, but they're books like the Divine Comedy and not pulp trash like GRRM or Harry Potter. I did all smaller reading on an e-reader though I'm going back to paper.

Anonymous Sat Oct 23 11:41:01 2021 No.19275649

>>19274918
I generally don't buy 'premium editions' but I do try to buy first editions when possible when purchasing literature (less so for non-fiction/history/philosophy/etc).

I did get the Folio Society's edition of Plutarch's Lives, but they idiotically arranged them chronologically instead of in the parallel sequence Plutarch had intended, so in hindsight I wish I hadn't bought those.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 23 11:45:44 2021 No.19275664 >>19274918 If I had $270 AUD I wouldn't be spending it on one book, I could buy enough for 3 months with that much. All high quality translations and Routledge shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 23 11:49:23 2021 No.19275676 >>19274929 what the fuck are those nails? his fingers are disgusting. ew.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 23 12:08:39 2021 No.19275738 >>19274929 the dust cover front art looks awful

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 23 12:11:18 2021 No.19275747 File: 63 KB, 736x616, 1603698000825.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19274929 Never link to a shitskin booktuber again. Only waifu booktubers are allowed here.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 23 12:23:59 2021 No.19275792 >>19274918 For the most part I'd say they aren't worth it full price, but if I can find them used or on sale I like when they have sewn bindings instead of glued.

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS Sat Oct 23 13:06:49 2021 No.19275959 >>19275747 Don’t get racist, waifuboo

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 23 14:41:08 2021 No.19276438 File: 184 KB, 960x960, nerd-lady.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19275747 I get more nerd-lady pics from 4chan than everywhere else combined.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 23 15:13:24 2021 No.19276615 >>19274918 I have the Folio Dune, Stranger in a strange land, Rendezvous with Rama and the Silmarillion. I love them all but the Silmarillion is my least favorite of the group

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