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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
The last several books I've purchased in print I've also had to get the ebook version, just so I could read it. One book I'm struggling through (on comparative fairy tales) is 400 pages of maybe 7-pt type on paper so thin that you can see the text from the other side of the page as you're reading - and that one isn't available in eformat.
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*Shudder*
I read The Lord of the Rings first time like that, in Dutch. The book was recommended to me by a friend, and this version was the cheapest hardcover version the bookstore could order.
It was as small as a normal paperback, and only 850 pages or so for all three books including appendices (my later English hardcover version was 1402 pages), and it reads like a freakin' bible.
With some effort you could probably read page 100 through page 98/99 if you wanted to, and the fontsize would be comparable to somehting like Baskerville Size 2, maybe even 1, on the Kindle.
Can't check it though; I gave away all of my Dutch books when I shifted everything over to English and did a complete re-read.