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Originally Posted by MattW
I am amazed at the lack of quality of American mass-market paperbacks - sure, they are cheap, but, boy, do they look ugly. E-Ink isn't that much worse, but since I mostly read hardcovers and trade paperbacks, contrast is important to me.
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I recently bought a hardback - so-called "collector's edition" - of a book I liked. What it boils down to is, I guess, the normal hard-cover in a slipcase and with the authors's signature, but anyhow... I knew paperback was bad, but I think this is the first time I've bought an English language hardcover book, and I was quite disappointed. Thin paper and tiny margins. If I compare it with a few recent Danish trade paperback I own, it loses hands down (trade paperback is hardcover quality printing with a soft cover). Overall quality seems to be going down, also for hardback/trade paperback.