NakariLexfortaine 10 points a year ago

I would love this for Redwall, but there's something about all the mismatched paperbacks that feels very "Discworld" to me. It's all thrown together, but it's managing to keep working anyway.

Also nostalgia, I got started by my aunt deciding to give me all her Discworld books one day, just paperbacks in a box.

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agamemnonymous 3 points a year ago

there's something about all the mismatched paperbacks that feels very "Discworld" to me.

Perhaps, but it really wreaks havoc on my bookshelf organization.

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eaterofclowns 5 points a year ago

I feel like The Librarian would take a lot of pleasure in finding University students with pristine collections and slipping in beaten up old paperbacks among them every now and then. The students think it's a magic field around Unseen University but it's actually an orangutan.

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Berttheduck 6 points a year ago

You can get them individually or in smaller sets too. I've been gradually collecting them for birthdays and Christmas, got the witches and the city watch books now. The covers are gorgeous and the books are surprisingly lightweight for hardbacks so still comfortable to read on the go. I'm going to get the whole set eventually I love the collection.

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agamemnonymous 5 points a year ago

Big box of matching books make brain produce happy chemicals tho

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XTL 1 point a year ago

Any box with good books seems to work for me. Actually, it even works without a box.

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agamemnonymous 2 points a year ago

Same, but a quantity which requires a box is something special. Especially a big box.

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tja 1 point a year ago

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Dagwood222 3 points a year ago

I'd like to think that if he were still around, the "complete set" would be a bunch of wildly mis-matched books, some with the author's name misspelled on the cover and a few with cigarette ads in the middle of the book.

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Screen_Shatter 2 points a year ago

Yeah I finally own them all, and wish I had the time to reread them. For some reason I still want to buy this.

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thedeadwalking4242 2 points a year ago

God I miss sir pratchett

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trinsec 2 points a year ago

I really would like the Ukrainian Discworld covers, those look beautiful.

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tankplanker 1 point a year ago

I have a full set of first editions, some of which are even signed, I never got organised to get PTerry to sign the rest, but I would still love these as well.

There is something special about having a proper matching set. I have re purchased lots of my Tolkien collection to do this over the years.

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gazter 2 points a year ago

Did the book size change with the non-Kidby covers?

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tankplanker 3 points a year ago

Book sizes are all over the place, the first few books are smaller than the Kidby covers, which are smaller than the later covers. Also the printing style of the covers doesn't even remotely go together.

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gazter 3 points a year ago

I like how on the top shelf you can see where they transitioned to having his name bigger than the title.

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tankplanker 2 points a year ago

Yeah it was pretty wild when he started getting popular, then when he got massive how that impacted the marketing of his books.

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