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Which version does /lit/ go for? Hardback or paperback?

>> No.6557437

Who /paperbackmasterrace/ here?

>> No.6557445

fucking paperback who the fuck wants to read from a hardcover book. unless it's a textbook then it should be hardcover

>> No.6557447

>>6557403
Paperback4lyfe

>> No.6557450

Hardcovers look nicer on the shelf, but the best kind of book is the kind I can stick in my back pocket and take with me.

>> No.6557472

>>6557450
How fat are you you can fit a fucking book in your back pocket?

>> No.6557481

>>6557472
>not having a copy of book of the new sun on hand at all times

>> No.6557486

Paperback, because I am poor.

>> No.6557507

PaperWhite Elite.

>> No.6557539

>>6557472
I'm fairly skinny, actually. A combination of small books and utilitarian manpants allows me to take books on the go.
Try wearing something besides skinny jeans, you hipster troglodyte.

>> No.6557541

>>6557507
Lol theres nothing elite about reading on an atm machine.

>> No.6557548

>>6557539

Have fun with War and Peace

>> No.6557555

>>6557541

atm machine!

>not carrying a library in your coat pocket

How IS the stone age?

>> No.6557558

>>6557403
paper back, so I don't feel bad about soiling it with underlines and shitty notes because it'll end up being pulped anyways.

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>>6557472
Not having pockets large enough to carry a book, a sandwich, and a passport at all times

>> No.6557569

>>6557403
the cheaper

>> No.6557577

>>6557561

>carrying your passport with you at all times.

>> No.6557579

>>6557548
I don't follow. I'm reading Thucydides now, but maybe I'll read that next.

>>6557541
>actually buying e-books
Get one 1GB epub torrent and you've got enough reading material for a year in a package that weighs like an ounce.

>> No.6557588

Give me one example of good design of cover on paperback

>> No.6557592

>>6557579

Make sure you're wearing a belt mush/

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>>6557403
paperback, because it's cheaper

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6557606

>>6557588
The Dune books.

>> No.6557608

>>6557403
Paperback. It's way easier to hold comfortably, and it's easier to go back and leave a note tab on a page I hastily bookmarked with a nearby slip of paper.

I also have a kindle, but I prefer paperback. I use my kindle when I don't have the money to buy the books I'd like to have on a shelf.

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>>6557588

>> No.6557612

Paperbacks are cheaper, so them. I sometimes like to get hardbacks for really important works (e.g. Yeats, Joyce)

>> No.6557618

>>6557403
Whatever is cheaper

>> No.6557619

>>6557612
>(e.g. Yeats, Joyce)
Literally who?

>> No.6557624

>>6557592
Usually. Thucydides is pretty small, about 4x6x1.5 inches. Dense as hell, though.

>> No.6557924

>>6557403
Paperback. It's cost-effective and is usually more frequently in print than hardback.

>> No.6557959

Big books hardback; Small books paperback

>> No.6558119

>>6557472
I knew a dude who carried a book around in a pocket he sewed on the inside of his battlejacket.

>> No.6558539

>>6558119
Did he often parade a big unkempt neckbeard and a fedora?

>> No.6558547

>>6557437
>Who /paperbackmasterrace/ here?
I /paperbackmasterrace/

>> No.6558654

>>6558539
He was a pretty cool dude, actually.

>> No.6558684

Great books I know and love that I want to own and reread for years or decades: Hardcover
General books that I can pirate: E-book.
General books that I can't pirate: Paperback