Point of book etiquette
Mar. 26th, 2007 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
For what length of time is it permissible to keep a borrowed book? The book in question is a mass market paperback of about 350 pages. I've had it for about 10 days already and I haven't had time to start it.
Ton that subject, is it just me, or are American mass market paperbacks of poorer quality than British ones? I've bought American editions of SF books off amazon, and nearly all of them have ink that smudges like newsprint (Baen Books, that's you I'm looking at), or text that is misaligned so that it's running down into the spine or off the edge of the page.
Somewhat to my surprise, it appears that the Assembly is actually going to assemble.
Ton that subject, is it just me, or are American mass market paperbacks of poorer quality than British ones? I've bought American editions of SF books off amazon, and nearly all of them have ink that smudges like newsprint (Baen Books, that's you I'm looking at), or text that is misaligned so that it's running down into the spine or off the edge of the page.
Somewhat to my surprise, it appears that the Assembly is actually going to assemble.
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Date: 2007-03-26 09:06 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-03-26 11:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-27 09:29 am (UTC)As far as American paperbacks, I think you might just have bad luck, but I don't order too many from Baen, so it could be they're defective and the bookstore worker-bees just sort the defective ones out for me ahead of time.
And yeah... Assembly's actually happening. It'll be interesting to see how that goes (for suitably Chinese definitions of 'interesting,' perhaps, but who's to say).
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Date: 2007-03-27 12:45 pm (UTC)I think if it was my book I'd get a bit worried after a couple of months - ten days is nothing.
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