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Originally Posted by rhadin
I have hardcover books that I bought 10-15 years ago and read that if you looked at them and even opened them, you would swear they had never been previously opened and certainly never read. I also have some older paperbacks that look like theyu have not been read except for a narrow crease in the spine.
I think it is a matter of how you handle pbooks. My son handles books much more carefully these days than he did in his teens. In his teens, once he read a book it was ready for recycling (not book recycling, garbage recycling); today he at least is careful with my books.  |
And I have a paperback of James Sheehan's latest work that is printed so tightly (probably to fit under 400 pages) that I'll have to crack the spine to read the first few letters of each line. And my thumb simply cannot help but cover some lines' last characters. I measured - it's set at 1/4-inch margins, top, bottom, left and right.
Yeah. Right. That book is NOT going to last more than a few months.
Derek