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@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works

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agamemnonymous Jun 5

Perfect is the enemy of better

https://sh.itjust.works/post/39534617

agamemnonymous May 27

Goodbye mismatched paperbacks

https://sh.itjust.works/post/38853107

agamemnonymous Nov 20, 2024

Not sure if this breaks rule #3

https://sh.itjust.works/post/28350079

Not sure if this breaks rule #3 - sh.itjust.works

agamemnonymous Oct 8, 2024

This moon decoration my wife got

https://sh.itjust.works/post/26341038

This moon decoration my wife got - sh.itjust.works

Looks innocuous enough at first glance right? Let’s zoom in on the problem: [https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/e6f01eef-de39-446c-b8ca-02759a307cf1.jpeg] These don’t go together. If the semicircle on the left is correct, then this is showing moon phases, and the symbol on the right should be of a gibbous moon: [https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/644dab5b-6c49-419f-94b7-c6d2796f95a0.jpeg] If the cookie-with-a-bite-taken-out in the right is correct, then this is showing an eclipse, and the symbol on the left should be of a 50% partial eclipse: [https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/ef3ac7fe-05f2-44b7-8317-5a89f80a4f32.jpeg] It drives me crazy every time I look at it.

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agamemnonymous May 27

Goodbye mismatched paperbacks

https://sh.itjust.works/post/38853107

Berttheduck May 27

You can get them individually or in smaller sets too. I’ve been gradually collecting them for birthdays and Christmas, got the witches and the city watch books now. The covers are gorgeous and the books are surprisingly lightweight for hardbacks so still comfortable to read on the go. I’m going to get the whole set eventually I love the collection.

agamemnonymous May 27

Big box of matching books make brain produce happy chemicals tho

Any box with good books seems to work for me. Actually, it even works without a box.

agamemnonymous May 28

Same, but a quantity which requires a box is something special. Especially a big box.

Are you a cat?

Rose Thorne(She/Her)May 27

I would love this for Redwall, but there’s something about all the mismatched paperbacks that feels very “Discworld” to me. It’s all thrown together, but it’s managing to keep working anyway.

Also nostalgia, I got started by my aunt deciding to give me all her Discworld books one day, just paperbacks in a box.

agamemnonymous May 27

there’s something about all the mismatched paperbacks that feels very “Discworld” to me.

Perhaps, but it really wreaks havoc on my bookshelf organization.

eaterofclowns May 27

I feel like The Librarian would take a lot of pleasure in finding University students with pristine collections and slipping in beaten up old paperbacks among them every now and then. The students think it’s a magic field around Unseen University but it’s actually an orangutan.

I really would like the Ukrainian Discworld covers, those look beautiful.

Screen_Shatter May 28

Yeah I finally own them all, and wish I had the time to reread them. For some reason I still want to buy this.

tankplanker May 28

I have a full set of first editions, some of which are even signed, I never got organised to get PTerry to sign the rest, but I would still love these as well.

There is something special about having a proper matching set. I have re purchased lots of my Tolkien collection to do this over the years.

Did the book size change with the non-Kidby covers?

tankplanker May 29

Book sizes are all over the place, the first few books are smaller than the Kidby covers, which are smaller than the later covers. Also the printing style of the covers doesn’t even remotely go together.

I like how on the top shelf you can see where they transitioned to having his name bigger than the title.

tankplanker May 29

Yeah it was pretty wild when he started getting popular, then when he got massive how that impacted the marketing of his books.

Dagwood222 May 29

I’d like to think that if he were still around, the “complete set” would be a bunch of wildly mis-matched books, some with the author’s name misspelled on the cover and a few with cigarette ads in the middle of the book.

thedeadwalking4242 May 29

God I miss sir pratchett