Poll for Book Readers: Hardcover or Paperback

[Brother Rick]

Do you ever pay more to have a book in hardcover over its less expensive paperback version?

Edited October 21, 2011 by Rick Schworer

[Salyan]

I voted yes only because I will buy something in hardcover if I think it's something I will reference often - like a doctrinal/study book. Novels, biographies, etc. I'll buy at the cheapest possible rate.

Edited to add: Of course, if you buy at garage sales, you can get hardcover classics for less than new paperbacks! :biggrin:

Edited October 21, 2011 by salyan

[Brother Rick]

I hear you there!

What about books with hard laminate covers and no dust jacket - do you think those are cheezy (even though they are so much more pratical than anything with a nice looking but annoying dust jacket)?

And what about books under 200 pages, not worth it in hardcover or what do you think?

Edited October 21, 2011 by Rick Schworer

[DennisD]

I voted yes as well. But, that was how I bought the books in the past. These days, been buying more kindle books to read...really enjoying the kindle. Love having several books and then I can switch over the Bible in this little tiny thing.

[Brother Rick]

Kindles are getting cheaper and cheaper. I saw last that they are now as low as $79 (ad supported).

[John81]

I'll buy hardback if it's a book I know is really good, that will get much use and is something I would like to pass on one day.

I've bought a lot of good hardback books at yard sales, flea markets and library sales.

[Wilchbla]

Kindles are getting cheaper and cheaper. I saw last that they are now as low as $79 (ad supported).

I seen your book Roadmap to Revelation on Kindle.

[Salyan]

And my iPhone will read Kindle for free!

I don't like dust covers, actually. I always manage to wreck them.

[HappyChristian]

I like trade paper best, so I didn't vote. It's technically a paper bound, but it's put together better than a regular paperback (Rick, your book on Revelation, and your wife's book on finances are both trade paper). Trade paper is not as heavy as a hardbound book, which can sometimes be hard to hold for a length of time (I have problems with my shoulders, and, yes, holding a hardbound can cause problems with them).

I've been laying some serious hints that I'd like to get Google's version of the iPad possibly for Christmas. I'd like that over a kindle or nook because it is more than an e-reader, so I could do more with it (I LOVE the camera/recorder is has). Who knows what the price will be like by then...probably still too much. :offended:

[swathdiver]

I try to buy all my books in hardcover for my library (right now in home depot boxes) and to pass along after I go home to be with the Lord. Never buy new anymore so my newest books are usually at least a year of two old where I pick them up for just a few dollars each if that.

[Invicta]

Mostly I find that books are only available in one or the other.

I have been known to rebind some of my paperbacks as hardbacks. I went to a bookbinding evening class once, but that was a long time ago and I have forgotten most of it.

[JerryNumbers]

No!