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Today I had a hold request for a recent US-published nonfiction hardcover. It turned out that our branch had three copies.
I picked up the first copy and it fell out of its binding.
I picked up the second copy and it fell out of its binding.
I picked up the third copy and it fell out of its binding.
I have been pretty irritated before now with how badly graphic novels are bound (manga, by and large, are okay, considering how much abuse they get subjected to; the new Tintin reissues, though, start falling out of their bindings very quickly). And I know that movie tie-in books and TV tie-in books are ephemeral by nature, but it still would be great if they could last longer than 3 or 4 checkouts.
The first copy I got of the new Angela Johnson book had the page block set in at about a 10-degree angle from the cover. The second copy was bound upside down. (If you take the jacket off, the title/author information on the spine is upside down from the way it ought to be.)
It's not the Glorious Digital Revolution yet! For now, you still have to put in some effort to make books that will suffice as books!
I picked up the first copy and it fell out of its binding.
I picked up the second copy and it fell out of its binding.
I picked up the third copy and it fell out of its binding.
I have been pretty irritated before now with how badly graphic novels are bound (manga, by and large, are okay, considering how much abuse they get subjected to; the new Tintin reissues, though, start falling out of their bindings very quickly). And I know that movie tie-in books and TV tie-in books are ephemeral by nature, but it still would be great if they could last longer than 3 or 4 checkouts.
The first copy I got of the new Angela Johnson book had the page block set in at about a 10-degree angle from the cover. The second copy was bound upside down. (If you take the jacket off, the title/author information on the spine is upside down from the way it ought to be.)
It's not the Glorious Digital Revolution yet! For now, you still have to put in some effort to make books that will suffice as books!