>>25322376
hardcovers are for decoration. i cannot get a decent read done unless my copy is completely ragged by the end of it.

>>25322967
This. Hardcovers are really nice to look at and collect but they are so uncomfy to read. Paperbacks are so comfy once they get broken in.

>>25322967
>>25322997
I feel sick when even I read a paper back, flopping all over the place and bending as I try to read? no thanks, a revolting experience, especially for larger works

>>25323009
Okay I will agree that sometimes doorstoppers suck to read in paperback but modestly sized novels are nice. I like to fold the book in half when I read it and bust up the spine to make it lie flat if I wanna read it on a surface.

>>25323027
Doorstoppers suck to read as hardcovers too, they are too heavy and their back gets damaged so easily when you read the book multiple times.
To read doorstoppers you buy hardcover for collection and read ebook version.

>american glued hardcovers
puke

>>25322967
>"Your books need to be completely cracked, stained and ragged or else you're not reading them!"

I don't know who was the redditor who came up with this shit, but just because you don't know how to read without damaging your books, doesn't mean no one else knows

>>25323060
>they are too heavy and their back gets damaged so easily when you read the book multiple times.

I feel bad for americans and their cheap manufacturing of books lol. I have two doorstopper hardcover books that i've read back-to-back and both are just fine because my country actually cares to produce quality, long lasting books

>>25323060
This is why I only buy quality hardcovers from at least 30 years ago

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>>25322376
Hardcovers for factual literature.
Softbacks for fictional literature.

>>25323226
Fruuke. Fiction is not respectable.

>>25323226
This. Book is essentially an archivation medium. Factual things are generally more valuable, so they deserve more robust archivation format. Fiction is essentially a lie, made mostly for entertainment, so softback is more than enough.

>>25323226
this

>>25323226
Fiction is more valuable.

>>25323212
Same. It’s disgusting how much higher quality they are compared to modern books.

>>25323226
I got me a book on King Louis XVIII shipped my way and I can't wait to start reading that beast.

>>25323188
the trick is not minding that they're damaged

>>25322376
Why do hardcovers cost more than softcovers, I cant imagine it being more of a logistical hurdle to make the covers hard, its not even leather.

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>>25323226
>>25326199
Wrong. Book is basically an archivation medium and the most valuable informations are factual. Textbooks on math, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine - the knowledge of the whole human body, then books that describe all the special processes that are needed to build the infrastructure of growing food, mining materials, processing materials, delivering it to people, maintaining economy, policy and diplomacy, and so on, and hundreds other things like that. Then maybe you could have children books, that through simple stories teach children important values, and then factual peoples stories. Only after that, you can have your stupid fiction, you poetry, your aDuLt fantasy, sci-fi, philosophy and so on. Archiving reality is always more important, so the archivation medium for facts should have always more robust form, than for fiction.

>>25326813
Nonfiction will always have less value than fiction because most of it is ironically fiction masquerading as truth either because it's propaganda or science that will become outdated. Fiction is more authentic and simply seeks to enrich the human experience.

>>25326950
>science that will become outdated
99.9% of science discoveries will never become outdated, and even on those remaining 0.1% nobody can be sure.
>fiction seeks to enrich the human experience
Life is enriched by minimizing suffering from pain, injustice and insecurity. Trying to do it with fictional literature is like trying to fix a broken car by putting stickers on it, with those retarded motivational quotes on them.

>>25326950
>Fiction is more authentic
You are either a women, or you have a woman brain.

>>25327054
>Life is enriched by minimizing suffering from pain, injustice and insecurity
Spoken like a true litlet. Nothing great ever came from avoiding pain.

>>25322376
I actually like hardcovers in a way. I default to paperback because most my books are paperback and im very used to reading them. maybe a 10th of my books are hardcover. The thing i hate about hard covers is dust jackets. I hate them. I hate having to take them off and put them back on when im done reading them. Ive never treated the best paperback as well as im compulsed to take care of these stupid dust jackets. Id much prefer they didnt have them because the regular covers are better but i cannot get myself to just throw the dust jackets away it feels wrong.

>>25327213
Yea fuck dust covers

>>25327213
>>25327448
Djackets

>>25327213
>The thing i hate about hard covers is dust jackets. I hate them. I hate having to take them off and put them back on when im done reading them. Ive never treated the best paperback as well as im compulsed to take care of these stupid dust jackets. Id much prefer they didnt have them because the regular covers are better but i cannot get myself to just throw the dust jackets away it feels wrong.
same

>>25327213
>>25327448
>>25327729
i burn all dust jackets immediately after taking them off

>>25322376
Do any of you poorfags know what bookcloth is? Have you seen a quarterbound book?

Softcover is for men who like pussy, hardcover is for men who like thick cock

mass market pb > trade pb > hardcover
imo

>>25322376
If you collect paper back and you aren't traveling you're wasting your money and frankly, I think less of you.

>>25323188
Man why the fuck do you faggots care about not hurting the spine or some shit, I just read the book and doesn't care about other mundane shit like keeping the book new or something. Most of you here don't even read I reckon, if you actually read books you wouldn't care in the first place

>>25328456
I want my shit to last a lifetime, not everything is easily replaceable

>>25328468
I don't know what kind of hellhole you're from but my books with cracked spines last a long time, paperback. Japan by the way, the average quality of paperpacks is great.

>>25322376
What is the point of those hardbacks with the paper cover wrapped around them? They're irritating and always get mashed up.

>>25328456
>I just read the book and doesn't care
you dont read a lot of english books, eh?