/lit/ - Literature

>>20160029
Lovely shelf, anon

Library of America <img class="xae" data-xae width="32" height="32" src="https://s.4cdn.org/image/emotes/c69a1ef1_cia.png">

>>20160029
Do you go out of your way to avoid the doorstoppers?

Hackett and Oxford

>>20160029
Gaudeamus.

Arktos

>>20160029
Generally it's a bit weird to be bothered about publishers, but I do like Oxford Classics. They usually have good translations and the introductions are often interesting too.

>>20160029
Penguin and Everyman's for the way they look, Oxford for the way they feel.

>>20160029
Wordsworth classics are cheap and cheerful, I also like Norton Critical Editions.

>>20160029
patrician taste

>>20160029
>Who's your favourite publisher

Whichever one has the best translation. And if doesn’t need translated, the cheapest.

>>20160029
bantam and roc

>>20160029
What is with them and The Landbreakers, my copy is also taller, not just wider than the rest of their books. Copy I saw at the book store the other day was the same size as the rest of their books. It has no need to be wider or taller, just has bigger outer margins.

Was gonna make my own thread, so I'm glad this one is here. How to decide which version to buy? Is there a /lit/ approved version, or should I just go with the cheapest? Not just for this book, but in general.

>>20160029
Macmillan collectors library because the books are small enough that I can take them wherever I go

NYRB and Penguin Classics Deluxe

>>20162076
Get a hardcover version from Everyman's Library. Modern Library either if you can find one. Don't buy a bunch of paperbacks, take your time and get nice hardcovers, you'll be glad you did.

I have a huge collection of paperbacks and am slowly repurchasing certain titles in hardcover; wish I'd just done that first time around.

For older UK books, Gollancz, Faber, Cape. For paperbacks, older orange Penguins. Dover for cheap yet durable and well-made stuff of various genres. US publishers are generally all crap, except maybe for Knopf. Japanese books are all a notch above anything else in quality. This is all just about the quality of the book btw, not about the contents.

>>20160029
Based. Same. I have an obscenely large library of Everychad’s books (probably ~100).
I also have an obscene number of NYRB editions (~50) but those didn’t cost me nearly as much since I scavenged most of them from Half Price Books. I had to get most of my Everyman’s from Abebooks. Out of everything I have ever spent large sums of money on my Everychad’s collection is the one thing I have zero regrets at all about

>>20160029
Angelico Press

whatever I can get for a decent price at my local used bookstores.
t. poorfag

>>20162400
If you're that poor just read them on your PC and save for decent hardcovers of your favourites when you can. I know it seems overly precious to do this but I'm telling you in a couple of years you will want to repurchase all of them anyway; it's actually cheaper long term.

>>20160029
One of the used book stores in my city has a gigantic shelf of nothing but NYRB books in great condition that I can pick up for like ~$6 a pop. Been meaning to check some of their stuff out.

What are the essentials?

>>20160029
Word on Fire.

Gallimard

>>20160029
Waste of money buy a p78 pro ereader a 1tb sd card and you have 1 million books, in a good readable e ink paper

>>20163009
Only Textbooks and Scriptures and special literature are worth having physically.

>>20160029
Sophia Perennis

>>20162997
that is fkn sexual
mad jelly

>>20161502
>cheapest
so wordsworth or dover thrift pretty much

>>20160029
is the NYRB magazine any good? considering switching to it over the New Yorker. Love the New Yorker but it gets exhausting trying to read them every week

>>20162125
I love these little niggas like you wouldn't believe.
>>20160029
Oxford and MacMillan are my favorites.