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Significant_Cow3573 t1_j0reegp wrote

American paperbacks are really good, no spine, fold in half, absolutely no resistance whatsoever. English paperbacks are like little bricks.

I've got a few US paperbacks from a second hand bookstore I used to go to a lot and they're just so nice. I don't know why UK paperbacks are so rigid, I can only guess the binding might be stronger in the UK ones which is good I suppose but the flippy floppyness of the US ones is just so fun.

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DeterminedStupor t1_j0rvfp5 wrote

> I don't know why UK paperbacks are so rigid

Now that I think about it, you’re absolutely right. Floppy paperbacks really do come from American publishers, like Harper Perennial and Modern Library. I hate those rigid paperbacks.

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