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Originally Posted by WillAdams
Yes, when the publisher will let me, for series which I've been reading in paperback and want to compleat the set of. Poster child for this is Steven Brust's Dragaera / Vladimir Taltos novels --- started buying these when _Jhereg_ first came out and have all of them on a shelf, sized for small paperbacks --- unfortunately, starting w/ _Iorich_ they've started publishing them in hardcover first, then in the larger ``trade'' paperback size and it seems that there will never be a printing in a size to match the ones which I already own.
End result is their sales are reduced by one (at least) and I'm reading these from the local library.
William
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I thought I was the only one who had to have a series all in the same format. It really bugs me if they're not all the same size/shape.
Yep, I buy paper books all the time. We're very lucky where we live and have quite a few thrift stores and the most I have paid for a paper book was something like $6 for a kids educational book. Normally I pay about a dollar and a half for hardback, and somewhere from 60 cents to a dollar for any book.
Some stores have the buy x books and the next one is free. As I said, very lucky.
My kids get all their books this way too, unless we go to the library or their grandparents buy them books.
But, I don't have an ereader yet.
Oh, and I did get whatever the new book mil wanted for the holidays in hardback. She's impossible to shop for so . . .