Which Authors Do You Buy in Hardback?

[psikeyhackr]

No one. Only bought them really cheap at library sales.

These days I would be satisfied with everything as e-books and audiobooks.

psik

 

[Lilmizflashythang]

Call me old-fashion Psik, but I'd prefer to keep some form of hard copy on everything I have. E-books or Audio, it doesn't really matter, it's all just pixels and streams of code. Things easily destroyed.


The way I handle the hardback's dust cover is simple. I just make a cover for the book. Puts my own personal attitude to all that I have.

 

[Pyan]

Mostly buy ebooks these days, but still get Lois McMaster Bujold, Jim Butcher and Terry Pratchett as h/backs on issue.

Mind you, after Raising Steam, I've a feeling it's going to drop to the first two mentioned...

 

[Extollager]

Tolkien, and city directories.

 

[BAYLOR]

If I want a. book badly enough , I will buy hardcover . If I see book In hardcover I like on sale, I will buy it.

 

[Rodders]

Forbidden Planet often have signed hardbacks that I’ll pick up, on occasion. My latest two have been the Garth Merenghi stories, which look hilarious.

 

[CupofJoe]

It is very rare that I don't buy a book in Hardback.
If I like an author enough to want to own their books, then I'll spend the money and get something that looks nice on the shelf as a by-product.
Mind you that is don to one author now as the rest had died.

 

[JimC]

I remember saving up to buy a first edition hardback set of LOTR.
They were $5 apiece.
But it was a long time ago.

 

[reiver33]

LOTR, Swallows & Amazons, and most by Martin Cruz Smith.

 

[Ambrose]

LOTR, later Le Guin Earthsea, mid-Pratchett though agree as to the fall-off of and from Raising Steam. I also have h/b signed Simak Highway of Eternity and Project Pope.

 

[Chris von shannow]

Bernard Cornwell

 

[Ian Fortytwo]

Michael Palin.

 

[Astro Pen]

I was going through a bookshop (new books) and noticed that the paper quality of the paperbacks, even with imprints like Simon & Schuster, was absolutely appalling. Little better than newsprint.
I would term them "Book shaped objects."
I tend to buy used fiction these days because nowadays an old used paperback will outlast a new one.
Whilst I don't buy new hardback fiction either, I do purchase secondhand hardbacks to replace my paperbacks, if I spot them

 

[Logan Selmes]

Always hardback when available.

Cover art really does play a factor, I’ll buy the same book more than once for the varied art depending on how much I like it, especially for vintage sci fi.