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5680132 No.5680132 [Reply] [Original]

Am I the only one who wishes that books didn't feature cover/jacket art? I would prefer if all of my books were plain colored with the title and author listed on the spine - that's it.

Is it just me? Can books like this be found anywhere?

>> No.5680138

>>5680132
Rebind your own.
Start your own company.
Create your own solutions to problems you create.

>> No.5680143
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5680143

Penguin classics??

>> No.5680150

>>5680132
You'll outgrow it.

>> No.5680187

I'm just sitting here and making nice brown covers for all my books. It doesn't take that much time, and the result is great. I like to have the title and author's name on the front as well tho.

>> No.5680197
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>>5680132

Gallimard edits this iconic collectionfor classic literature.

>> No.5680208

>>5680143
Those are way too colourful for me.

>> No.5680319

>>5680132
There exists e-books for those of us not concerned with the superficial.

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5680427

You sound like a faggot. Ornate books are the best.

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>>5680197
These are god tier.

Also La Pléiade
>>5680427
these are retarded

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>>5680487

No, they're amazing.

>> No.5680508

Just take off le dust jacket.

>> No.5680540

>>5680501

I saw the Jules Verne one at my uni's bookshop. These are some sexy books.

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>> No.5680560
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>>5680132
Try everyman's library OP, pic related

>>5680501
these exemplify gaudiness

>> No.5680562
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5680562

The B&N leatherbounds are cheap imitations of Folio Society books. Pic related.

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5680576

Everyman's Library is good for sensibly priced hardcovers if you don't want to spend as much as the Folio Process or the Easton Press demands, or if you simply like a less fancy book. The thing is, some people have been reporting glued bindings on their newest EL purchases. In fact, I just bought the Divine Comedy from them, and the binding is glued. With other books it's still sewn, but no one is sure what's going on w/ them. They say any book over 400 pp. should have a sewn binding, but this isn't the case.

>> No.5680582
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More Folio Society. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. (I don't work there. I'm just a fan.)

>> No.5680583
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5680583

Here's their War & Peace. Pevear & Volokhonsky translation.

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5680593

Also: OP, for classic American authors, Library of America publishes omnibuses in well-made hardcovers that look the way you say you want. If you're a subscriber, the books come in a slipcase. If you buy them from a store, they come with a dust jacket, but you can take it off and it looks like this underneath.

>> No.5680594

I throw out dustjackets as soon as I get the book. They just feel silly when I'm reading and I agree that they look better without them.

>> No.5680605

>>5680593
oh yes, I've seen those before.
Seem very good quality, but was put off by their bible-thin pages

>> No.5680641

>>5680605
I wouldn't say the pages are Bible-thin, but you're right that they're thinner than usual. But it is high-quality acid-free paper that won't yellow with age. Also, the paper is thinner because they pack 800-1600 pp. in a portable volume. Many volumes contains four or five novels. It's sweet.

>> No.5680769

>>5680427
I have a bunch of those shitty books from B&N, including the book pictured, and I feel like a retard for spending money on them. They looked nice in the store but fuck man, they're so tacky. Dune is the only one I don't mind.

>> No.5680775

Who /kindlemasterrace/ here?

>> No.5680791

>>5680132
I agree, it's a hit and miss, and when it's a miss, it usually cheapens the whole book imo. And this happens most of the time.

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Like this?

>> No.5680914

>>5680560
I love everyman's library

>> No.5680932

penguin did a series of books with no cover design with the idea that you could draw your own cover
but you could obviously just not draw anything

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>>5680487
>tfw all the comèdie will be never translated in my native language in my lifetime

>> No.5681032

>>5680605
>>5680641

the problem is the pages are nearly transparent and the text bleeds through.

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>>5680501
>>5680427
>B&N leatherbound classics

I cringe every time.

>> No.5681044

>>5680973
Translate it yourself.

>> No.5681048

>>5680973
>not just learning French

Come on, it's the easiest language to learn if you already know English. You have no excuse.

>> No.5681056

>>5680132
This is the most autistic thread I've ever seen on /lit/.

>> No.5681113

>>5680594
You're supposed to remove then when reading you sperg.

>> No.5681120

>>5681113
You're supposed to keep them on and then use the flap as a bookmark.

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5681138

Many books from the German classic publisher Reclam must be OP's dream

>usually no cover picture
>always identical size

Here's the translation of Caesar's De Bello Gallico.

Here's the entire library: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reclam

>dat uniform color spectrum: yellow is German, Red is original foreign language, orange is German + foreign language, blue study guides, green is historical sources
>dat uniform size

>> No.5681143

>>5681138
Ah yes, addendum:

>dirt cheap since targeted at students and poor people
>mediocre print quality
>glue holds like a rock though

>> No.5681148

>>5680132
what you're describing is pretty much the way most serious books looked like back in eastern europe/ussr up until the mid 90s and yes they where really pretty

>> No.5681188
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>>5680132
what about scifi novel cover art? its so great.

>> No.5681847

>>5680187
Could you tell me how to do this, thanks!

>> No.5681884
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>>5680197
>>5680487
>>5680560
>>5680583
>>5680593
>>5680907
>>5681138

>mfw book-porn is a thing

>> No.5681897

>>5680907
came here to post this.

go to france op.

>> No.5681903

That is an american thing, where everything is a business so it can only be commercialized it if it shaped in a "selling" presentation.

Real countries have regular sober covers.

>> No.5681933

>>5681056
kek'd

>> No.5681961

>>5680560
I bought The foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov and got one of these. It looks beautiful with the classy red linen texture, golden letters, that attached golden linen thread you use as bookmark. (whatever it's called)

>> No.5681975

>>5680427
I have the Lovecraft doorstopper because purple is my favorite color and maddnesscraft's writing is wacky enough to justify it. I dont condone woning any other ones though.

>> No.5681978

>>5680501
>Dickens
>5 novels

why

>> No.5681985

>>5680550
nice

>> No.5681989

>>5681978
So you can own a tome hefty enough to murder someone with if you needed.

>> No.5682473

>>5681044
>>5681048
Ok fags, I've downloaded rosetta stone "french level 1-2-3". I hope it works, so I'll be able to read balzac in 1 year from now

>> No.5682563

Not OP, but thanks for the suggestion of Folio.

Easton press is beautiful but I can't afford to spend that much (plus I'm British so I'm assuming there are additional costs involved as they are an American publisher).

>> No.5682584

Most books with a dust jacket come blank under it. I've considered many times just dropping it but my silly ties with inert objects make it hard.

>> No.5682682

>>5680197
They're still doin it btw.

http://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Blanche

>> No.5682697

>>5681884

What's your problem?

>> No.5682699

>>5680576
That edition of the Faerie Queene is sex on legs

>> No.5682713

>>5682697
There's absolutely no problem, I simply realises it

>> No.5682717

>>5682713
realised*

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>>5682699
More Folio Society. Edward Gibbons's Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 1-4>

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5682738

Thus Spake Zarathustra

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TSZ opened.

>> No.5682751
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Orlando Figes's A People's Tragedy

>> No.5682759
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Seamus Heaney's Beowulf

>> No.5682764

>>5682738
that is a legit cover

>> No.5682785
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Finnegans Wake

>> No.5682788

>>5681903
>where everything is a business so it can only be commercialized it if it shaped in a "selling" presentation

that's a nice, coherent sentence.

>> No.5682792
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Asimov's Foundation Trilogy

>> No.5682793

>>5680560
>taking the jackets off

Like that they're pretty but naked and incomplete

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House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

>> No.5682803
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Inside ho7g

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>>5680562
>mfw this motherfucker will be in my hands in about a month

>> No.5682815

>>5682806
Lucky.

>> No.5682827
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Diarmaid MacCulloch's Reformation

>> No.5682831

>>5682473
Rosetta stone is shit, try Michel Thomas French

>> No.5682995

>>5682831
I can't, english isn't my native language

>> No.5683338

>>5682738
>spake
cut that shit out

>> No.5683474

>>5682738
whoa that's a good cover

>> No.5683491

>>5683338
it is spake

>> No.5683518

>>5682827
this looks gay

>> No.5683530

>>5683491
>clearly says spoke on the spine

>> No.5683555

>>5683530
spake sounds cooler

>> No.5683574

>>5683555
perhaps to those with excessive unkempt follicles beneath their chins and outdated caps of which they salute with

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>>5680132
these plain gray books always feel cheap to me

>> No.5683675

>>5683574
that sounds like me

>> No.5683837

>Easton Press has Fight Club and the fucking Divergent trilogy

>> No.5684539

Bump

>> No.5684571

>>5683837
They're not creating a canon with their selections.