Judging a Book By its Cover
Will Baude defends the virtue of the paperback book from the aesthetic snobbery of Amber Taylor, concurring in part and dissenting in part from the views of Polytropos’ Nate.
I prefer hardcovers for books that I collect and intend to display on my shelves–“shelfworthy,” indeed–but rather prefer paperbacks for utilitarian books that I intend to annotate in some fashion. It just feels somehow wrong to defile a hardcover editon with flourescent yellow highlights and marginalia.
Marginalia. Heh.
concurring in part and dissenting in part from the views of Polytropos’ Nate.
But was this opinion distinguished from Taylor v. Baude?
As long as we’re going through the legalese, I figured you might as well go for the whole enchilada.
Hey, that reminds me? Did you ever find time to read it?