What are your thoughts on The Folio Society? I have some books, and I really like them, but I'm not sure if it's worth the price. Fucking expensive for a book.
>>7433892
Why are you buying them new? They're cheap as balls slightly used.
they have a shit selection
>>7433892
Shit selection, reddit tier and incredibly overrated.
They are for people who don't actually read but just want to pretend they read.
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Barnes & Nobles Leatherbound Classics for try-hards.
>>7433892
I buy used folio as I like their designs, I'll buy new for gifts.
>>7433892
Gaudy and overdesigned as fuck
>>7434617
>>7434695
>SOO SPARKLY
They look really tacky
>>7433892
I enjoy them, though a good bit of the enjoyment is for the community surrounding them too.
>>7434617
>>7434780
Is it the gilt lettering on the edges that makes them seem tacky/gaudy? Or what?
>>7434800
>Mats on top of the books....
Why? To keep them from dust?
Holy autism central.
I buy them second hand sometimes, they can be pretty cheap from used bookshops. Usually only if I like the cover/spine design though.
>>7434810
Only you, /lit/.
There's some sort of incredibly desperate push for shelf-ornaments since e-readers came out. It stinks thickly of preying on the insecurity of wannabe intellectuals. "Let them have their Kindles, you've got store-bought reinforcement to prop up in your house!"
>>7434800
Every shelf looks like the fake books you can buy that are cardboard stand-ins.
>>7434829
Folio Society, and fine presses generally, have existed since far before ereaders did.
And it's not like you can't have both.
>>7434838
You don't think that's because the cardboard stand-ins are trying to look like shelves of fine editions? Not that, apparently, fine presses want to look like cardboard stand-ins?
>>7434786
>the community surrounding them
WTF?
>>7434845
It's a "Society". It's a book club. They have a room you can visit and talk with other collectors, and the online community for FS is one of the most active on the internet aside from /lit/.
