My new (to me) copy of #Shakespeare Complete Works cannot handle being confined in this paper binding. Someone find me an amateur bookbinder before I carelessly shove it into my backpack one too many times!

#HalfJoke

@lichencats That the new Bloomsbury version? Have a copy myself here and it indeed seems to push the limits of what the binding can comfortably handle...
@inqbiol Yeah I have the revised edition. I think anything over a thousand pages should only be hard backed. My copy of It by Stephen King is in better condition for now but it could easily destroy itself.

@lichencats I have the recent RSC version here that is hardbacked, but at 2500+ pages still groans at its binding

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rsc-shakespeare-the-complete-works-9781350319967/

The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works

"The text of any Shakespeare play is a living negotiable entity: scholarship and theatre practice work together to keep the plays alive and vividly present…

Bloomsbury
@inqbiol Ooh nice copy. We are currently analyzing The Taming of the Shrew for class.