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Post by cwm on May 26, 2009 19:57:34 GMT -5
Kindly explain your logic here...?
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Post by Dante on May 27, 2009 7:09:31 GMT -5
Shouldn't Snicket books from the U.K say the same thing as the U.S? They do. The text is identical, right down to the page count. The illustrations and packaging on the covers change, but none of the words.
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Post by cwm on Jun 14, 2009 10:37:31 GMT -5
Since it didn't seem to be worth making a new thread I'll jack it onto this thread since Dante's last post has a very tenous connection to it:
I went on a second-hand-bookshop-tour of Hay-on-Wye (a Welsh town with about 30 second-hand bookshops) over this weekend, and much to my surprise one of them had a few US editions of ASoUE. I looked through them, noting the superficial differences, but the binding and page alignment on these books was horrible. All the pages were dreadfully misaligned, some sticking out and others a bit too far up or down below. Every single UK edition of every ASOUE book I've seen has neatly aligned pages. Were these freak books or something?
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Post by Dante on Jun 14, 2009 11:15:32 GMT -5
As far as I know, some should just have the ragged edges. (I forget what this is called; can anyone remember?) Those would stick out a little bit, but they shouldn't be aligned higher or lower. (That said, if you compare covers, I often find the U.K. covers aren't always quite exactly aligned height-wise, but that's just where they bind the paper-over-board, I guess.)
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Post by bitterapples on Sept 11, 2009 21:55:27 GMT -5
I'm not sure if it applies to Lemony Snicket's books, but in other books I've read the UK and US versions usually differ somewhat.
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Post by Dante on Sept 12, 2009 2:35:59 GMT -5
Nah, it doesn't apply to Snicket books, we've checked. The covers are different, but they don't mess with the text or the illustrations. Except for The End, but that's because HC accidentally sent them a copy of the text which hadn't had all the illustrations inserted yet. Also minor formatting differences affecting things like the title pages. But yeah, the page count is the same, and if you compare the two editions the text size and alignment is identical.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Sept 12, 2009 11:19:24 GMT -5
As far as I know, some should just have the ragged edges. That's how my copy is. I think it was made to make it look like an old document or something of the sort. I'm not sure what it's called.
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Post by Dante on Sept 12, 2009 12:57:27 GMT -5
That's how my copy is. I think it was made to make it look like an old document or something of the sort. I'm not sure what it's called. I understand that early books were printed with the edges of each page fastened to the next, and you would need to use a knife or similar implement to cut the pages apart so you could read the book; Klaus refers to this in The End. The ragged edges of the pages in the U.S. printings of aSoUE are meant to resemble the cut pages of old books. And there is a name for it, but I still can't remember. Something-edged...
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