Why is this allowed?
Why is this allowed?
Adam Hall
Jeremiah Sanchez
hipsters
Chase Roberts
It's not
Ian Edwards
it collects dust better
Carter Kelly
i always thought it was homemade paper.
Alexander Howard
I have no idea why, but one seems to see this with American made books especially, and it seems to be considered a marker of better quality, usually hardback editions; though I find it quite annoying, DESU.
Examples on my shelves are:
- Marvin Meyer's bilingual edition of The Gospel of Thomas (Harper San Francisco 1992) ISBN 006065581X
- Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, first US edition (Bloomsbury 2004) ISBN 1582344167
- Robert Fagles' Odyssey (Viking Penguin 1996) ISBN 0670821624
The paper itself is pretty good - certainly library quality - in all of these: the Fagles is acid-free; the Gospel of Thomas is too, but recycled and slightly thinner.
Angel Brooks
I was retarded enough to buy the penguin deluxe edition of GR and it has the deckled edges as well. I also noticed that the paper felt like it was of very good quality.
I still haven't read the book though.
Noah Rogers
Yeah I don't know. It's outright annoying and not to mention ugly. The new Crying of Lot 49 and Infinite Jest has it.
Nolan Sullivan
It's supposed to look like homemade paper but of course it's mass produced in a factory like everything else
Angel Lopez
My translation of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh (Penguin Deluxe Classics) is deckled. When it arrived I thought it had been damaged in transit or something.