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Is there a more based publisher than Penguin Classics?

>> No.17189754
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>>17189748
Yes.

>> No.17189756

>>17189754
What publisher is this

>> No.17189763

>>17189748
>>17189754
Oh god i'm gonna hurl

>> No.17189794

>>17189756
Everyman's Library. Clothbound covers, sewn bindings, acid-free paper, and a ribbon bookmark, you can get no finer quality at the median price point. Everyman's is the optimal balance between economy and luxury.

>> No.17189807

>>17189748
oxford university press
library of America

>> No.17189811

>Yes, I'd like all of my books to look the same so people can tell I didn't buy them one-by-one to read, I just bought 1000 at a time to fill my wall.

>> No.17189870

>>17189811
I also doubt he read them all, but also caring what people think about muh bookcase is also gay

>> No.17189883

>>17189870
I generally think this

But when it's filled with one publisher it just looks horrible

>> No.17189895

>>17189883
same, I'm probably autismo and want to have a bookshelf that looks good for myself

>> No.17189900

Everyman's Library
Modern Library
Loeb

>> No.17189905

>>17189754
holy based

>> No.17189909

>>17189900
Checked.
Im not a fan of Loeb, some of their books are tiny and costly

>> No.17189927

>>17189807
>oxford university press
Bullshit. Maybe 50 years ago. Now:
1. There is not a single "press" within 20 miles of Oxford. They trashed the whole operation there. All the books are actually manufactured in horrible industrial parks in East Anglia (if you're lucky) or imported from third world countries.
2. They use the worst possible materials and bindings. Their softcovers use cheap glue and acid-rich paper. And their hardcovers? Oh you wanted a real sewn book? HA! You don't even get endbands.

>> No.17189930

Is Folio Society worth the dosh?

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>>17189748
Yes.

>> No.17189965

>>17189930
Folio is okay. They have some nice things, like maybe unique illustrations and great covers, but they feel more tightly-bound and wooden than literally any other hardcover I've ever purchased, except for my Penguin classic Paradise Lost. Holy shit that thing is a cinderblock. But what makes the Folio so offensive is that it is cumbersomely big. I have a Folio copy of C&P, I got it for the translation (McDuff), and the quality is there, but the dimensions of the book and thickness of the paper cut combined horribly bloat it's weight and comfortability. I'd sooner get a Modern Library or Everyman's Library hardcover before another Folio unless it was something very particular/special.

>> No.17190006

>>17189934
Immer sehr preisgünstig; habe Faust so zum ersten Mal gelesen

>> No.17190012

>>17189951
What’s the best Wordsworth Classics cover?

>> No.17190031

>>17189748
Their quality is trash. What's based about that?

>> No.17190311

>>17189870
>caring what people think about muh bookcase is also gay
Yes, caring what other people think is stupid, but it's possible to care about aesthetics purely for their own sake. I like my apartment to look good, and that includes my bookshelf, even though I almost never bring anyone into it. I just want to surround myself with beauty. Not a black wall of penguin classics.

>> No.17190333

>>17189748
DK

>> No.17190363

I mostly just look at the options available on Amazon unless I have seen a particular edition I like. Is there somewhere else I can go to find alternate editions for paperback/hardcover? Amazon usually only has a couple options and often I don't like the aesthetic / quality of any of them.

>> No.17190380

>>17189754
Everyman is the king's choice

>> No.17190430
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fitzcarraldo editions

>> No.17190431

>>17189754
>>17189794
>>17190380
I'm pissed that they put out the censored version of Gulliver's Travels. Fucking brits.

>> No.17190448

>>17189900
Loeb has kino binding

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What about Simon & Shuster? Their cover art looks kinda cool sometimes

>> No.17190600

>>17189748
penguin is disgusting cheap ass college student tier
>>17189754
based

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>>17189754
Nice, though I prefer Library of America (pic related, but not mine).

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>> No.17190901

>>17190668
>removing dust jackets from the shelf
Why

>> No.17190929

>>17190901
It looks better (at least on LoA, Everyman and Modern Library books), and given that those presses are all publishing work that has been published before, there's no value in the dust-jackets of their books.

>> No.17190952

>>17190929
You just keep all the dust jackets together in a box in the closet? it’s fucking dumb don’t do that

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>>17189748
>Penguin classic
>Written by a human

>> No.17190970

>>17190669
>tfw still can't read French
fucking END ME

>> No.17190971

>>17189748
Shill Press, I'm sure you've heard of them.

>> No.17190985

>>17190952
Well, that's not my shelf, it's just one I found online. But I would imagine that the dust jackets are thrown out. If you go back 100 years or so, dust jackets were just wrappers that were supposed to be disposed, and the decorative/textual elements of the actual bindings and spine had more care put to them.

But really, if someone likes the look of a book series without dust-jackets, why would anyone care what he did with them? These editions are all mass-produced and are not collectible investments the way actual first editions of the works they contain might be.

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>>17189934
Do Germans really?

>> No.17191126

>>17189930
Folio's are meant to shit on your shelf and look pretty. They aren't there for readability.

>> No.17191177

>>17189748
The Loeb Classical Library used to be based, until they started using glue
Springer hardcovers for math are pretty based

>> No.17191264

>>17191177
>Loeb
Ah yes, the "I pretend I can read Greek and Latin" books for pseuds.

>> No.17191265

>>17191118
Yes.

>> No.17191307

>>17191264
Lmao. not everyone is a lazy neet who can't learn Latin and Greek.

>> No.17191614

>>17189794
Which is interesting because they were originally made so lower income readers could afford to read the classics.

>> No.17191731

>>17189754
this

>> No.17191740

>>17190363
Go to Goodreads, hover over the book and click "Other Editions". Not always the best way to find alternatives but usually better than Amazon.

>> No.17192051

>>17190363
Unironically type in the desired publisher as a part of the book search.

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>>17189748
Everyman's Library

>> No.17192709

The comfiest editions are always old hardcovers from used bookshops
Especially the old blue oxford standard texts of poets

>> No.17192718

>>17192051
but I don't always know the desired publisher, I'm often just looking for an English-language edition that is aesthetically pleasing and high quality. But I guess I can just try some well known publishers
>>17191740
good call, I'll try that next time