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6276954 No.6276954 [Reply] [Original]

What the fuck is wrong with Penguin? Why do they think people will read an extremely oversized paperback just so they can have 250 pgs. worth of footnotes? I just want to read some Chaucer in the original verse but my fingers are practically falling off trying to hold this shit.

>> No.6276975

Get a knife, divide it up between tales, stop being a whining idiot.

>> No.6277006

>ANTE DIEM XVII KALENDAS APRILES MMXV
>still using hamplanet space-consuming physical books like a faggot
>not turning paperless like a true post-modernist

>> No.6277013

>>6277006
(You have no excuse now to go digital with the advent of e-ink readers. No excuse.)

>> No.6277039

>Penguin Canterbury Tales

Remember when OP showed his plebicity on /lit/ by reading a book that "translates" English into English?

>> No.6277051

>>6277039
it is the middle english version you faget
>I just want to read some Chaucer in the original verse

>> No.6277080

>>6276954

Why Penguin though? I found the Norton version much better

>> No.6277124

get a load of this small handed faggot

>> No.6277179
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6277179

>>6277006
> "turning paperless"
> true post-modernist

pls..

I know you're trying to be funny.

>> No.6277614

why are tradepaper and mass market paperbacks the best choices for books?
hardcover is ridiculous

>> No.6277773

>>6277614
wha

>> No.6277775

>tfw fingers are too weak to hold hardcover books so lie on bed and even then it's still too hard
why is life so fucking hard man

>> No.6277825

>reading the complete works of Suzanne Collins
>book is too heavy to hold
>rest book on lap to read
>two chapters later my legs feel funny
>take off pants and my legs have turned black from loss of circulation
>try to rub feeling back into my legs to no avail
>call paramedics
>they have to amputate
>lose both my legs
>in hospital recovering I have lots of time to finish reading
>cant hold book so put it on bed
>matress breaks and catapults me through a window
>get an ereader
>now I'm a cripple and a faggot

>> No.6277831

Are you the guy who was complaining about Infinite Jest being too big?

>> No.6277850

Do your homework on different editions. Stay away from inferior translations. Also,

>penguin

>> No.6277851

>>6277614

Hardcover w/ dust jacket > mass market paperback > Hardcover w/o dust jacket > ebook

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6277860

>>6277825
>matress breaks and catapults me through a window

>> No.6277925

>>6277851
>getting your dust jackets all torn up