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Old 12-08-2016, 04:47 PM   #25059
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I made my 2016 challenge a few books ago, but I'm still truckin'. I've got three books open at present:

Graphic novel collection - Elseworlds: Batman, Vol. 1. I've read several of these stories before, but getting the omnibus on sale was nice.
Ebook - The Union of Heroes. Barely into it, but looks like a nice take on superheroes in prose fiction.
Ent corpse - The Last World War. First of two, and reading this reminds me of all the little annoyances I'd forgotten physical books have.

The pages of my copy of TLWW are cut a little crooked, such that when looking at the right-hand page, the top margin shrinks from left to right as the bottom margin grows; the beginning of the top line is closer to the spine than the start of the bottom line. In addition, the last 64 pages and the back cover have a bit of the bottom corner shaved off, which looks really weird. It's not even uniform, but more like three rough chops to the last sections of the book.

Curiously enough, I'm due to pick up a package today which contains the movie adaptation of another poorly-made SF novel I once owned. My high school copy of The Andromeda Strain had a binding problem, where the pages were prone to falling out due to bad glue. (I forget whether there wasn't enough glue or if it wasn't properly mixed. All I remember is that pages fell out as I was reading, and other students' copies had the same problem.) Then there are the books where page sections were improperly collated, resulting either in one batch of pages appearing out of sequence or some pages being left out because one batch was duplicated.

It's a little late by the US calendar, but it's worth taking a moment to be thankful for the problems ebooks will never have. Sure, they have their own issues like bizarre formatting, but at least the one-off production bugs are gone.
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