The low cost editions are significantly poor quality prints, smaller fonts crappy ligatures, margins line heights- all to squeeze it into less pages, poorer paper, monochrome, laxer quality control -it is not uncommon for few pages to have minor defects .
I appreciate the effort to make something available for that cheap, but they are bad.
It is like business class and economy on a flight. You both go to same destination at the same time sure but the journey is widely different, if you don’t care about the journey it is waste of money yes, but it cannot be denied there is a reason why it is expensive.
In this analogy hard bound would be first class . Mostly unavailable and truly a luxury.
The low cost editions are significantly poor quality prints, smaller fonts crappy ligatures, margins line heights- all to squeeze it into less pages, poorer paper, monochrome, laxer quality control -it is not uncommon for few pages to have minor defects .
I appreciate the effort to make something available for that cheap, but they are bad.
It is like business class and economy on a flight. You both go to same destination at the same time sure but the journey is widely different, if you don’t care about the journey it is waste of money yes, but it cannot be denied there is a reason why it is expensive.
In this analogy hard bound would be first class . Mostly unavailable and truly a luxury.