What really fucks me off is when publishers decide on a really fucking ugly colour for
This is how books should look, no fucking argument.
Hardcovers with dust covers removed and stored, standing upright. Paperbacks can be upright on lying down. But should be plain. No bright colours, stupid fonts.
Spines under 300 pages should not be broken.
Old blue penguin classics, vintage, and orange penguins are fine to read but shouldn't be shelved.
Bookshelves are for books, no fucking pop figures, picture frames, knicknacks, only maybe a lamp and plain book ends if necessary.
New leather-bounds, Folio and arranging by colour is for austists.
Penguin classics, Oxford World classics, everyman's, arion are God tier.
What really fucks me off is when publishers decide on a really fucking ugly colour for... their colour scheme*
Daniel Foster
Literally all I want in a book. Just give me a plain colored spine, white preferred, a decent cover and consistent sizes. I've honestly just started pirating everything until I can find a cheap copy with a decent aesthetic. Something like pic related is ideal.
Folio, Easton and Franklin are bad, but Everyman is God tier? What are you talking about? Everyman's Library editions are ugly as sin and printed on tissue paper.
Jason Nelson
They're cheap, cloth bound, good translations, good clear print and I don't mind about the thin paper, keeps big texts light and thin. Name another publisher which makes hardbacks like that without trying to make decorations.
Austin Smith
In other words, you think graphic design is meaningless and tawdry and irrelevant to the appreciation of literature? If only this were a board where people loved to read, my pitiful brother, you would find many allies. This is where people who listen to podcasts and watch youtube videos all day come to roleplay as "literate men".
Yes, you're correct in spirit. Yes, they all deserve to be shot like lame mules. No, they won't shut up and fuck off to hang themselves, even though it would be doing the world a favor.
Remain steadfast, OP. You were less of a faggot than I expected.
Dominic Harris
Yeah, they're definitely light. If that's an important feature for you because your arms are toothpicks then I guess they're a good choice.
Given the choice I'd take EP/Franklin/Heritage/LEC/Folio any day over EL. Not that they're always lookers either, but at least they're printed on quality thick paper, in reasonably dark text; and while sometimes garish they're not on the same level of ugly as EL.
>Old blue penguin classics, vintage, and orange penguins are fine to read but shouldn't be shelved. What do you mean by this? Where are you supposed to put a book that you own after reading it if not on a shelf?
Lucas Harris
Hide your shame.
Dominic Gomez
Why would you take off the dust jacket? Your book’s gonna get dusty bro
Joseph Parker
To keep jacket dust free.
Colton Cox
That’s kind of a wacky, zany cover though. Something like that makes me feel goofy all over and ready to read The Divine Comedy and laugh.
Jacob Young
This is autistic as fuck but I will say my only peeve is that so few publishers print on acid fast paper these days. Even new fancy covers use cheap paper that will start to break down in 50 years or less. I want a library that my grandkids can enjoy.
sure, you may have your preference. and I may even agree on you with that. but ultimately, what is the point? who is looking at your personal library? i can think of maybe 3 or 4 people that have seen my books.
Benjamin Johnson
Kill yourself OP. You sound like an absolute faggot, and you have really shit taste in books.
Brody Edwards
having worked in charity shops and regularly shopping in second hand book places I'd recommend you leave he dust jacket on unless your books are stored in a dark closed cabinet. the spine fades and falls apart faster without the jacket. those covers were disposable like 100 years ago when they were actually made of thin paper, not so now.
Easton Anderson
what's the consensus on the norton critical series? do they belong on the shelf or do they expose one for compensating for a lack of formal education?
t. finds norton criticals very useful because i didn't study literature at school and thus has fair amount of them.
I have their edition of Moby-Dick, the footnotes/essays/supplementary material is all great but I don't understand why they printed it on such thin paper. Whenever I read it I feel like I'm going to rip one of the pages.
Lucas Butler
They're top tier when it comes to content. Sadly the physical quality has fallen a lot over the years, very thin pages.
William Miller
This. I've probably had more people in my house who haven't seen my books than people who have. And they're not hidden away. They're on bookshelves in the den right next to the kitchen in a rather small house with an open floor plan.
Dominic Wilson
My books are haphazardly strewn about the floor in various rooms in my house, in true autistic fashion.
Carson Martinez
Reminder that if you dont hand transcribe the entire book in the store and shelve your manuscripts at home you are a larping printalist
Jayden Murphy
this. i fucking hate pleb colors so much.
acceptable base colors: >black >white (if white as a base color, no other accent colors should be used accept for red) >darker shades of grey, charcoals and onyx's >lighter shades of grey if they have a metallic finish, no mattes or glosses >ivory/beige/almond >red, but only deep crimsons, garnets, bricks etc.
acceptable accent colors: >gold, silver, copper >white >off-white/ivory if the base color isn't black >red, darker or lighter shades, but no candy reds or anything that strays into pink >green, but ONLY if the base color is ivory/beige/off-white >in certain cases, piercing blues or navy's can work. again no gay shades, such as baby blue or sky blue >neon colors of you're going for that aesthetic and it actually looks good
anything leather is also acceptable. most people have such shit taste in aesthetics its disgusting. who the fuck wants to read an orange book? why are you wearing a fucking purple tie?
Christopher Cooper
the only real no-no is buying translations to be honest
Oliver Morales
I've just looked at your results. Bad news I'm afraid; you're retarded.
Nathan Brooks
how good is your ancient greek?
Blake Martin
>Reminder that if you dont hand transcribe the entire book in the store and shelve your manuscripts at home you are a larping printalist Reminder that if you don't exclusively pirate books and print them in your own custom format for your personal library with volumes for large books so they are all the same size your a plebian.
Sebastian Moore
>he doesn't know about the library of america collection
How do you plan on having grandkids? As I understand, most posters need to "have sex"
Grayson Hill
>American authors No thanks
Kevin Morgan
Sup pseud
Liam Wright
Another reason Dover is GOAT, apart from the new blue covers
Gabriel Johnson
Donate them, sell them, put them in a box. If you think you're going to keep it either buy a nice copy to start with, if you just want to read it first then buy the cheapest format you can, if you want to keep it afterwards then FOLLOW THE RULES
Because dust jackets are ugly as sin Most importantly, I will be looking at them and I take some pride I'm my home. My girlfriend sees them. We regularly have guests and discuss books. "not on the same ugly level" fuck me, if you think any of those publishers are good looking yiu are the problem.
Everyman's designs books to be read, it's function making form. Everything else you listed is purely form with no function.
>>Pic related This is good besides top shelf and the hardback on its cover
>Everything else you listed is purely form with no function. Everything else I listed, regardless of aesthetics, is of much higher quality than Everyman's Library. EL is hobo tier.
Luke Cox
Literally all their books look the same. Look up the books of Foucault or any other french philosopher.
Austin Rodriguez
This looks like a prison library, or like they were bought from a traveling encyclopedia salesman's trunk.
Josiah Allen
i think they had the wrong Prince in mind
Noah Ross
kek
Michael Sullivan
The absolute state of Yea Forums is having only 14 books
Isaiah Morris
use some common sense. obviously just used a few books to illustrate a point
Levi Phillips
The absolute state of Yea Forums not being able to count to 15
