What is your biggest book pet peeve?
In the first of these posts I talked about my preference for paperbacks. I almost always wait for a book to come out in paperback before I purchase and read it. They're lighter and usually a little cheaper. And my to-read list is long enough that I'm rarely chomping at the bit for something that's just come out. I'm content to wait a year and pick it up in my preferred format.
But sometimes, a book just doesn't come out in paperback. I don't know all the ins and outs of the publishing industry that lead to these decisions. For the most part, the paperback is released a year or so after the hardcover. Every now and then the paperback just isn't released. And it messes up all my plans to read that book. I either wait and wait forever or I eventually cave and buy the hardback. Often just before the paperback release is finally announced.
It's possible that if I understood the reasoning this would bother me less than it does. It would all make sense and it would be harder for me to find fault with people who are, after all, just doing their jobs. But from my perspective it just seems random. And it bothers me when I can't get a book I want to read in the format I want to read.
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