Dragaera

Physical book defects and such (No SPOILERS)

Tue Aug 12 09:33:22 PDT 2003

At 11:17 AM 8/12/03 -0400, Rick Castello wrote:
>lazarus said:
>> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:03:36 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>>>--- Steve Hubbell <usagigoya at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >From: Gaertk at aol.com on Mon, 11 Aug 2003 18:16:27 -0400
>>>> >
>>>> 1) My copy had the glue/binding problem as well...
>>>> unnoticeable, except when
>>>> reading...
>>>  Oh, good, I feel somewhat better knowing I'm not the
>>>only one with a shoddy copy.
>> Make that three.  But it wasn't too bad.  I've gotten much worse.  At
>> least the binding is staying on.
>>
Actually, four.  The copy I borrowed from work was in pretty sad
conditions, as were the other two unbought copies that I looked at.  My
guess would be that its a gluing problem, since the pages seemed uneven in
where they attached to the spine.

>> And the content more than makes up for it.
>
But yes, this is indeed true.

>     My question, albeit a petty one:
>     Why in Verra's name is the fabric cover of the book BABY BLUE?
>
Indeed.  The book is entitled Lord of Castle _Black_.  Why not a nice
tastful black cover to match the title?  I much preferred the binding
styles and jobs on PG and FYA.

Emily