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Book sizing
May. 17th, 2006 05:58 pmETA: Can anyone recommend a good Australian/New Zealand (what's that adjective? other than "kiwi") online bookshop that ships internationally? I want a few things that I think are only in print there.
[Poll #730761]
I got my Amazon order today, which contained the new Jaclyn Moriarty, and it's HUGE. It's really wide, but because it's B format, it looks enormous. And I am a bit cross that I didn't realise it would be trade, because why would it? It's a huge waste of paper, and it's to try and make money before the A format, as far as I can tell. When I worked in Dillons it was always the literary and popular fiction that came out this way, and there were so few that they were in a special bay. Now they're doing it for children's books? Why? They don't match the rest of the books on my shelves, they're a lot heavier, and I don't like it.
I also got The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street. I am in the middle of reading Laura Thompson's biography of Nancy, which I am finding rather irritating. She criticises people for using Nancy's novels to infer details about her life, and then does the same thing for huge chunks of chapters, claims that Decca was mostly interested in communism because of Romilly (I thought she was mostly interested in Romilly because of communism), keeps saying that Nancy was "penniless", dismisses other people's recollections as mere conjecture and then presents her own assertions as plain fact, and has an insanely annoying style of setting up straw men to knock down (often "these feminists" who apparently devote their lives to disapproving of the Mitfords). Also, I was amused that the page of photos of all the girls has everyone posed as a youthful beauty, except Decca, who has a more candid picture from her late middle age. (Obviously this is mostly because of her elopement, but it's so representative of the representation that it makes me laugh.)
I am at home, having completed everything, and left my keys, id card and job behind. I don't quite understand it yet, but I will probably go to the job centre in the next few days, and then it might sink in. I should have lots of time to read all these books. Unless I go a bit strange and do some phd work.
[Poll #730761]
I got my Amazon order today, which contained the new Jaclyn Moriarty, and it's HUGE. It's really wide, but because it's B format, it looks enormous. And I am a bit cross that I didn't realise it would be trade, because why would it? It's a huge waste of paper, and it's to try and make money before the A format, as far as I can tell. When I worked in Dillons it was always the literary and popular fiction that came out this way, and there were so few that they were in a special bay. Now they're doing it for children's books? Why? They don't match the rest of the books on my shelves, they're a lot heavier, and I don't like it.
I also got The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street. I am in the middle of reading Laura Thompson's biography of Nancy, which I am finding rather irritating. She criticises people for using Nancy's novels to infer details about her life, and then does the same thing for huge chunks of chapters, claims that Decca was mostly interested in communism because of Romilly (I thought she was mostly interested in Romilly because of communism), keeps saying that Nancy was "penniless", dismisses other people's recollections as mere conjecture and then presents her own assertions as plain fact, and has an insanely annoying style of setting up straw men to knock down (often "these feminists" who apparently devote their lives to disapproving of the Mitfords). Also, I was amused that the page of photos of all the girls has everyone posed as a youthful beauty, except Decca, who has a more candid picture from her late middle age. (Obviously this is mostly because of her elopement, but it's so representative of the representation that it makes me laugh.)
I am at home, having completed everything, and left my keys, id card and job behind. I don't quite understand it yet, but I will probably go to the job centre in the next few days, and then it might sink in. I should have lots of time to read all these books. Unless I go a bit strange and do some phd work.
