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Raus-Pazazu t1_j6bs6rd wrote

Fret less about the cover and more about the contents. I may admire a particular cover, but I don't buy a book for looking at the single outside page. I buy it for what's inside. Slap whatever you want on the cover that helps the book sell. Or don't. It would be impossible for me to care less about it. The cover is not the story being told. It's a sales device. Sometimes artistic, sometimes not.

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Battlepikapowe4 OP t1_j6ce0pf wrote

Sure, we care about the contents far more than the covers. But having to look at an ad each time you pick up the book again to read is infuriating. On top of that, some books you love so much that you want to display them fully on your shelf. Good luck doing that with the sticker being such an eye sore.

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Raus-Pazazu t1_j6d1o1f wrote

My suggestion then is to simply read more books. That way you can find less trivial things to be infuriated about. This may come across as me being sarcastic. It's not meant as such. Stickers or whatnot on books is really such a inconsequential thing.

Call the publishing company directly. Tell them you'll pay them an additional hefty amount to have a copy of the book in question reprinted without the sticker or logo. They can, and for a high enough fee most certainly will reprint you your own copy, because they're not going to stop printing them with stickers if it makes them more money through contracts with movie and television promoters and helps push overall book sales. If displaying the book that you love is of such significant importance and such stickers or logos are really ruining the aesthetic to such a massive degree as you make it out to be, the additional few hundred dollars should be money well spent.

The other option is to not sweat little things in life. Be Zen about it and say fuck it, it's no big deal.

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Battlepikapowe4 OP t1_j6d3jek wrote

You know what? I'll be zen about this comment and continue to not buy books that have those "stickers" on them.

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Raus-Pazazu t1_j6dhxg1 wrote

That was always an option from the start, but the loss is still yours by making the cover more important than the content.

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Battlepikapowe4 OP t1_j6dpwlh wrote

But I'm not, though. Maybe I wasn't all that clear. At the moment there's the two fantasy series I listed who don't have paperback editions without the sticker. I've got plenty of other series on my TBR list, so I can just wait with those two until they get new editions. Or until I can comfortably afford the hardbacks.

The content's not in question, because I'm still going to read those books at some point and I've never read them.

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