Slightly OCD rant
Apr. 20th, 2019 12:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grundyscribblingWHY can book publishers not stick to standard physical formats?
I hate this stupid oversize paperback. (150 x 226 x 33mm) Unfortunately, Razorbill Books in their infinite fucking wisdom have decided that's what they're releasing Sabaa Tahir's Ember in the Ashes series in with the good cover art.
I have literally nothing else on my bookshelves that is this size, in height or depth. The book sticks out like a sore thumb no matter how I shelve it. The least visually offensive way for me to deal with it is to put it all the way at one end or the other of a shelf, which is not where its preferred location according to my current bookshelf scheme would be. (It's also not as comfortable to hold as standard size or mass market paperbacks, but it's the shelving that irritates me more.)
And the stupidest part of this? There's no real reason for the oversized format aside from crappy design - it's not large print, but it is 1.5 spaced - you know, the trick you used along with increasing font size to make essays you had to write for school look longer.
I have held off on purchasing the other books in the series after I got the first one because this format aggravates me so much.
I hate this stupid oversize paperback. (150 x 226 x 33mm) Unfortunately, Razorbill Books in their infinite fucking wisdom have decided that's what they're releasing Sabaa Tahir's Ember in the Ashes series in with the good cover art.
I have literally nothing else on my bookshelves that is this size, in height or depth. The book sticks out like a sore thumb no matter how I shelve it. The least visually offensive way for me to deal with it is to put it all the way at one end or the other of a shelf, which is not where its preferred location according to my current bookshelf scheme would be. (It's also not as comfortable to hold as standard size or mass market paperbacks, but it's the shelving that irritates me more.)
And the stupidest part of this? There's no real reason for the oversized format aside from crappy design - it's not large print, but it is 1.5 spaced - you know, the trick you used along with increasing font size to make essays you had to write for school look longer.
I have held off on purchasing the other books in the series after I got the first one because this format aggravates me so much.
