Posted by Peter Ceresole on October 15, 2013 at 02:42:52 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Dust Wrappers/Jackets posted by Roger Wardale on October 15, 2013 at 01:05:59:
It really is horses for courses. I have very little interest in the paper or binding. Most of my Cape hardbacks date from the '40s, the dust covers are long gone, but what I love are the stories. In reality, I have started to rebuy them in Kindle format, so that I actually read them again; the Kindle fits in my pocket and goes everywhere with me, so I can read my favourite ARs out and about, on trains and buses, in a leisurely way. The last time I read WD was, oddly enough, on a train to Holland, although we went to Amsterdam rather than Vlissingen. My paper versions hardly ever move from the shelf, now.
But I can absolutely understand a passion for the physical books, the wish to have a complete collection, with the covers. And I can see that such a collection could pay for itself, if the market allows.
For precisely the same reason, I have been rebuying Anthony Powell's 'Dance to the Music of Time' series, although my shelf set are all paperbacks, much travelled and now pretty much shredded.