Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:45:00 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The binding will not hold, pages fall apart
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>dalek_cag at yahoo.com 03/11/03 11:39AM
>I've had that problem with trade paperbacks.  My mom's
>20-40 yearold old trade paperbacks, which were
>stitched (and apparently useda much better glue), have
>held up nicely.  My tradepaperbacks, and some
>hardcovers, which were glued, sometimes have had the
>bonding fall apart the first time I cracked open the
>book to read it.

It's called "perfectbound", one of the better contradictions in publishing =
. . .

> I was particularly peeved when this
>happened with a rather expensive copy of De Rerum
>Natura which I had to buy in college.  Fortunately, in
>that case the bookstore allowed me to trade it in for
>another copy.

Now availalbe in a nice inexpensive edition ($19.95) from Hopkins =
<http://www.press.jhu.edu/press/books/titles/s95/s95lulu.htm>

mjw