I have a ton of books.
I don’t know how much they actually weigh, but me and the Missus have a book buying problem. Actually, the phraseology on that is wrong. We have NO problem buying books. Ignore the fact that my TBR pile numbers near 100. Ignore also the fact that there are easily 20 current releases I have NOT purchased simply because I know when I do I will immediately read them thus pushing my TBR pile even further int he background. (Yes, I’m looking at you COLD DAYS by Jim Butcher. Fuck you, don’t make me feel guilty for not bathing in your sweet sweet cotton-candy scented literature. I’ll get to you. I will. I PROMISE. It is inevitable.)
Where was I?
Oh yeah, books.
Here is a pic of our new, grown folks books shelves and our library at the house.
ALL the books on the left two shelves are mine.
So earlier I was thinking about books. The physical form of the book. I decided that I am totally over mass market paperbacks. I much prefer the size of a trade paperback.
Mass market paperbacks are now the cats of the publishing world in my opinion.
Now I’ll still buy a mass market, hell I bought one last night (SHARP by my good friend Alex Hughes). But if I can, I’m buying trades from now on.
Book four of the Deacon Chalk series will be trade paperback size.
My double anthology of sword and sorcery stories that I edited for Seventh Star press will be trade paperback size.
I’m actually going to push for any book released by me to be automatically in trade paperback size. I may not get it for everything, but it’s what I want.
They are easier to hold, easier to read, and easier to shelve. They are narrower, so you can fit more on a shelf, and with a mass market, you lose the 3-4 inch difference in dead space between the top of the book and the bottom of the shelf above it.
This post has no real merit. It was just a musing I thought I would indulge because, hey, fuck it, it’s my internet too.
So what’s your choice or opinion on this hot-button issue?
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