Do you like books with deckled/uneven pages?
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Do you like books with deckled/uneven pages?
Do you like uneven pages??
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The books are in good condition, but the pages are made that way on purpose. It looks really good with certain books. The book "The Thirteenth Tale" had pages like that.V_bansal2912 wrote:I don't like my books with deckled or uneven pages. I prefer books in good condition.
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I have to agree. Especially if the book is set in the 1800s or early 1900s. It makes it feel like I'm reading someone's diary instend of a book.bluemel4 wrote:I agree with both of you. I like it when the pages have a diary feel. It adds to the mystic and unique feel of the book.
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Sometimes the lack of proper trimming makes the pages harder to turn but that's no biggie.
I've got some fairly old and rare books which were bound such, before the more precise trimming became prevalent.
I really don't care. I prefer a professional binding because it shows that the publisher put the needed funds into the book and didn't give the author a cheapie edition. I however do know that some books are intentionally "deckled" (rough cut) but I for the life of me cannot discern why, other than to save a step and some money in the binding. If a book is newly written then I don't need faux quaint fixings to try to tell me it's old.
Of course, when I'm reviewing books, having a lesser binding never enters into my review. The contents are what matters.
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But a new book really doesn't have to pretend anything as I see it. If it's a genuinely old book, fine. Fake old? Naw.
There are some rare book editions which are early editions with untrimmed pages which make them more rare. I happen to have, among my fairly rare books, a FIRST edition of Joyce's "Ulysses" with its original publisher Shakespeare & Co. Paris, 1924. This book has the early print run of untrimmed pages and is therefore worth a bit more. And no, it's not a first printing (those volumes are worth $100,000 and are under guard) but mine is a first edition, just following the "first printing" which means it's of course quite rare. You can check on the prices via the net.
But those untrimmed pages are "real" not fakey.
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