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.
