The Folio Society

>>7433892
Why are you buying them new? They're cheap as balls slightly used.

they have a shit selection

>>7433892

Shit selection, reddit tier and incredibly overrated.

They are for people who don't actually read but just want to pretend they read.

test

Barnes & Nobles Leatherbound Classics for try-hards.

>>7433892
I buy used folio as I like their designs, I'll buy new for gifts.

>>7433892
Gaudy and overdesigned as fuck

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>>7434617

>>7434695

>SOO SPARKLY

They look really tacky

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>>7433892
I enjoy them, though a good bit of the enjoyment is for the community surrounding them too.

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>>7434617
>>7434780
Is it the gilt lettering on the edges that makes them seem tacky/gaudy? Or what?

>>7434800

>Mats on top of the books....

Why? To keep them from dust?

Holy autism central.

I buy them second hand sometimes, they can be pretty cheap from used bookshops. Usually only if I like the cover/spine design though.

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>>7434810
Only you, /lit/.

There's some sort of incredibly desperate push for shelf-ornaments since e-readers came out. It stinks thickly of preying on the insecurity of wannabe intellectuals. "Let them have their Kindles, you've got store-bought reinforcement to prop up in your house!"

>>7434800
Every shelf looks like the fake books you can buy that are cardboard stand-ins.

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>>7434829
Folio Society, and fine presses generally, have existed since far before ereaders did.

And it's not like you can't have both.

>>7434838
You don't think that's because the cardboard stand-ins are trying to look like shelves of fine editions? Not that, apparently, fine presses want to look like cardboard stand-ins?

>>7434786
>the community surrounding them
WTF?

>>7434845
It's a "Society". It's a book club. They have a room you can visit and talk with other collectors, and the online community for FS is one of the most active on the internet aside from /lit/.