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oouu, so many opinions. oouuu, sookie stackhouse…. oouu, a sense of dry humor so caustic it really is funny.

I disagree that all that matters is the content. At the risk of appearing small-minded and superficial - no need to respond to that !! - I assert that packaging, look and feel, matter a lot. At least to me. There are different roles of "book user" being confused together here. One role is as collector of things (actually owning things), where to a collector with a large and growing collection packaging usually matters a lot. Another role is as a reader in many different flavors of reader. For example being unfamiliar with a particular author, where the packaging factor at least had to be partially successful in helping reader choose the book. The role of buyer - the process of evaluation and selection from all the reading material available.

My OP media-choice dilemma resides in choices of packaging and the potential of *un-standardizing* a mostly standardized collection. For which content is mostly irrelevant. If it didn't have the content I was interested in, I wouldn't have acquired it (or even wanted it) in the first place.