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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
Not so with the HP's I'm rereading now.  |
Yeah, I'm not fond of oversized paperbacks, either. Some of the last SF books I've bought have been just plain massive, hard to keep open, heavy to hold... who needs it? The bigger those books get, the more I'm convinced that we'd all be better off with e-books!
I've heard recently that publishers like thicker books, so they have room to put a picture on the spine that is displayed at the store. (Also, so they can justify charging more.) Here's a better idea: Interactive search kiosks that allow you to search by author, title, genre, sub-genre, theme/idea, and shows entire covers. Heck, I'd love a bookstore where I come in, sit at a kiosk, and scan about for books to download, instead of doing the crooked-head walk through shelves and shelves of identical-looking book-spines.