http://www.defendini.com/sleekness/index.php/2009/07/23/le-livre-du-futur/ tryin' to get this party started. Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:40:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.defendini.com/sleekness/index.php/2009/07/23/le-livre-du-futur/#comment-2509 Claive Booker Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:49:44 +0000 http://www.defendini.com/sleekness/?p=285#comment-2509 Cheaply-made mass-market (and trade paperback) are mainly for those who have neither the experience of, nor the funds to permit themselves, well-designed, well-printed, well-bound volumes constructed of fine-quality materials. Here in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, an exposition of well-bound books is a rare occurence, and -- when such an exposition is presented -- the books are presented in protective and transparent cases, and are lighted and untouchable and motionless as fossils. Have you any idea as to how Pierre-Jean-Jacques is to develop an intimate appreciation of and fondness for a decently-fabricated volume? Remember, we live in an age where one can easily pay fifty or more Cdn dollars for a pile of loose sheets glued along one side, with a heavy-paper coversheet glued tightly to that spine. Cheaply-made mass-market (and trade paperback) are mainly for those who have neither the experience of, nor the funds to permit themselves, well-designed, well-printed, well-bound volumes constructed of fine-quality materials.
Here in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, an exposition of well-bound books is a rare occurence, and — when such an exposition is presented — the books are presented in protective and transparent cases, and are lighted and untouchable and motionless as fossils.
Have you any idea as to how Pierre-Jean-Jacques is to develop an intimate appreciation of and fondness for a decently-fabricated volume?
Remember, we live in an age where one can easily pay fifty or more Cdn dollars for a pile of loose sheets glued along one side, with a heavy-paper coversheet glued tightly to that spine.

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