book: paper back or hard back what do your like
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I prefer hardback books but I generally buy papaerbacks because they are cheaper. Paperback are also easier to carry into my handbag if I think I will need one to read while I am waiting somewhere (at the doctor's, at the bus-stop etc).
What I really can't stand is books in which the printing is too light on colour i.e more grey than black. I can read smallish print so long as it is a good contrast from the rest of the page.
What I really can't stand is books in which the printing is too light on colour i.e more grey than black. I can read smallish print so long as it is a good contrast from the rest of the page.
Paperback. Smaller and lighter.
Paperback except for the authors I collect. If it's one of those I have to have the next book NOW!
I do try to get a couple of then from Half-price if I can wait a bit, but it's al,most as much to get there as I save.
Thank goodness for Wal Mart's discounts and teacher discounts at a couple of places.
I do try to get a couple of then from Half-price if I can wait a bit, but it's al,most as much to get there as I save.
Thank goodness for Wal Mart's discounts and teacher discounts at a couple of places.
Always paperback. Hardbacks are too heavy and hard and dig into me when I'm trying to read in bed or carry it in a backpack.
I always buy books as paper back when it's available - it's smaller, lighter, more comfortable to read and cheaper.
I prefer paperback--quality (or trade) paperbacks, ideally. They're more portable.
I prefer paperbacks.They are a lot cheaper.
Paperback. Cheaper and much, much easier to store.
Hardcover when I'm in class or at work because I can leave it open sitting beside me. Paperback for the bathtub! 
If I want to read it, I prefer paperback. If I want to collect it (i.e., it's a classic or part of a series of books) I prefer hardback.
normaly paperback for fiction and hard back for non fiction where i can
Pretty much the way I am. Although I do read all my classics, too.
I prefer cookbooks in hardcover for some reason, though. And I absolutely loathe the dust jacket things on hardcover books. If it's my book and I've bought it, that thing goes straight away into the trash.
I'm the same way. I have sometimes double-dipped, and replaced a paperback with a remaindered hardback, because I prefer the latter. They just feel more like real books.
I like paperbacks the best.
I buy more paperbacks because of the price and the ease of carry (I like to keep a book in my pocket or backpack for when I'm bored or have some free time), but for book series/authors I collect and major authors/series which I have to read immediately when the book first comes out, I'll get hardback.
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