are their books supposed to feel like shit to hold in your hand?
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are their books supposed to feel like shit to hold in your hand?
are their books supposed to feel like shit to hold in your hand?
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yeah you are supposed to bend them up, make them comfortable by putting a ball inside and wrapping it with rubber bands
i buy penguins' because of the translations, the index and the preface, which are of good quality.
Yes, they're supposed to make you feel ashamed of being a filthy fricking pleb. Penguinslop is the lowest-tier publishing house.
jesus frick, recommend me decent ones.
franklin mint, folio society, and limited edition independent publishing houses
There's nothing wrong with Penguin Classics, they're cheap and it can be satisfying to watch the spine crease as you read the novel. I loved them when I was a broke college student and wanted a break from my eReader.
I tend to go with Oxford's World Classics, they have similar if not better indexes and notes and much better paper quality. If Penguin or another company has a better translation I'll go with them though. Research which publishing will give you the best material—or which cover will look the nicest on your shelf—and go with that. Brand loyalty doesn't benefit anyone.
Oxford World Classics are real nice for paperbacks. Makes me want to eat them
Norton Critical Edition (footnotes, biographies, essays)
Everyman's Library (quality)
Library of America if you're looking for anthologies that aren't dummy thicc. I'm 34, I don't know what possessed me to say that You're limited to US authors, obviously, but the buckram is cloth and the paper is archival.
Diversity publishers now
Maybe they’re just too heavy for you to appreciate holding them
Penguin is my favourite publisher because they mostly only publish stuff that’s worth reading. Sure their books feel like shit to hold but whenever I see a penguin logo on a books spine i feel obliged to the give it a shot.
This mostly just because they publish classics and classics are classic for a reason but still my point stands.
(Also their Russian course was stellar)
How is storm of steel?
Penguins version? Bad. It starts out with the translator, ~~*Michael Hoffmann*~~ saying he wants to remove any sort of German nationalism, the soul of the book. Find a Creighton translation, much more visceral and beautiful.
Brillant but the penguin translation is flawed as this annon pointed out
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Penguin is better at picking what books to publish then translating them.
Thanks anon
I have a copy of Milton's poetic works myself, but I'm curious. Is that edition of Paradise Lost notated?
Every book should feel like a Bible with a leather cover and those delightfully smooth pages. Reading a cheap book is like going to the movies with iron spikes placed on the seats.
>be penguin
>make ugly, awful feeling books
>force serious readers to finish them quickly, coercing them with an affront to the physical sense
>encourages normies to abandon the book because of the horrendous deckled edges
Based Penguin, fighting the good fight
it's about the words inside so as long as they include them all it really doesn't matter at, some of you treat books like funko pops
>do like half an hour of research
>thousands of hours you'll spend with different books you buy will have better font, font size, paper quality
Don't get me wrong, if Penguin is the only publisher available, or if they have the best translator for a particular book I'll go Penguin. But if you default to a decent publisher when looking for a new book you'll have an overall better time with very little effort.
Book covers are the actual funko pops. I'd be willing to go even for Wordsworth Classics weird ass covers if only their paper quality weren't dogshit.
I have never even thought about considering something like paper quality, there is pretty much always just one translation to my language so all I do is I sort by price
you mean to tell me you wouldn't mind having this
on your bookshelf, like it does not make any difference for you at all
it wouldn't be the worst one probably, and on the bookshelf you see only the spine anyway, so it's not like you see that all the time
You've got dainty hands.
that is literally the point yes