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Originally Posted by Jellby
I'm with b0ned0me in that I often notice bad typography in printed books. Not only bad printing, but bad hyphenation, wrong choice of characters (dashes, hyphens), absence of ligatures (clash in "fi" or "fl"), wrong letters or combinations ("ø" as a combination of "o" and "/", which noticeably do not match, an up-down "e"), etc.
Books can be nice works of art, but most books are not.
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When given a choice between different editions of books, I'll check to see if there is a colophon (actually, I check most books I buy anyways). While it may not necessarily mean that the utmost care was taken when designing the book, it's almost always a sign that someone was paying
some attention during the design/layout process.