Hah! I noticed that too; pretty much everything the formatters did with this book is classy. I didn't check the other books to see if they'd done the same thing: I usually throw away book jackets because they get in the way when I'm reading.
Oh, I'm so bad about throwing away book jackets. They're perfectly worthless unless you plan to sell a first or signed edition, but I just can't bring myself to toss them. So I have a box of them. I suppose it's partly because I feel like the art on the cover adds so much to the impact of the book. Some covers stay associated with a book forever, at least in my mind.
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Hah! I noticed that too; pretty much everything the formatters did with this book is classy. I didn't check the other books to see if they'd done the same thing: I usually throw away book jackets because they get in the way when I'm reading.
Oh, I'm so bad about throwing away book jackets. They're perfectly worthless unless you plan to sell a first or signed edition, but I just can't bring myself to toss them. So I have a box of them. I suppose it's partly because I feel like the art on the cover adds so much to the impact of the book. Some covers stay associated with a book forever, at least in my mind.
You have a *box* full of book jackets? Dude, that's just neurotic.
'Dat's right, neurotic as hell, baby! You should see my box of old twisty-ties and empty kleenex boxes. (heh-heh)
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