>The book has a foreword, a preface, and an introduction

>>9907826
>mfw blessed

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>book has front cover ripped off, as well as the pages before page 1

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>The book has a foreword, a preface, an introduction, a translator's note, an editor's note, an author's note, a glossary, an appendix, a bibliography, and an index

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>>9907826
>book has endnotes and footnotes

>>9907923
This is literally the Oxford edition of the Divine Comedy that I own. Way too much extra bullshit.

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>>9907826
>The book has a foreword, a preface, and an introduction; but no publisher's page.

>>9907930
>Divine Comedy
Sounds like everything you need, desu

>book has a beginning, middle, and an end

>>9907947
>book starts en media res

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>>9907826
>book has a jacket

>>9907951
>I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.

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>>9907959
>the design on the cover is the same as the dustjacket

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>>9907959
>book has a pretty jacket
>made of shit quality and is falling apart
>actual hardcover is ugly af

>>9907970
...who?

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>book has pictures

>>9908251
>book has pictures by Gustave Doré

>>9907826
>book hás introduction that is written by another person and is bigger than the book itself.

>>9907826
>Book has a wealth of resources to aid your comprehension and understanding of the text

Why is this a bad thing?

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>book is upside down

>start flipping through the book
>page xi, xxvi, xl
JUST START THE FUCKING BOOK ALREADY

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>too lazy to work on my novel
>write my novel's foreward, preface, and introduction instead
feels good

>the preface doesn't use roman numbers
>the novel starts at page 38

>>9908770
MADMAN

>introduction
>introduction to the first edition
>introduction to the second edition
>introduction to the third edition
>Translator's note

>>9907826

>read a novella
>20 page introduction
>10 page author's note
>30 pages of appendices
>100 pages of the actual story

>hemingway anthology
>introduction by publisher
>introduction by son #1
>introduction by son #2
>introduction by son #3
>introduction by hemingway himself

>>9907947
>Book has pages

>Introduction to the first edition
>Introduction to the second edition
>Introduction to the third edition
>...
>Introduction to the ninth edition
>Introduction to the first posthumous edition
>Introduction to the first fully restored edition
>Introduction to the 50th anniversary commemorative edition
>Introduction to the 75th anniversary commemorative edition
>Introduction to the 2nd fully restored edition (we mean it this time)
>Introduction to the 25th anniversary of the 2nd fully restored edition

>>9908275
The finest taste

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>>9908879
>book hasn't pages

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>>9907826
>The foreword, preface, and introduction have a gratis book at the back

>the book has a map
>the book has a family tree
>the book has "to my father" on the title page
>the book's previous owner smoked way too much cheap weed
>the book has advance praise on the front cover
>the book has "10000000 halfwits also bought this crap" on the cover

>there's no table of contents

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>>9907826
>introduction alone is 45 pages long
fuck you mum why couldn't you get me a decent copy of moby dick

>there is no index of names

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book is a translation into english of a famous novel, and has cultural footnotes to spoonfeed anglos.

>book is from 500 years ago from another continent
>doesn't have footnotes explaining things most people wouldn't understand

>>9908180
kendra sunderland

>there are no chapters

>>9907923
>thinking it's ever acceptable for a non-fiction book to NOT have a bibliography
pleb of the highest fucking degree

>>9909326
Sorry sweetie but just being a non-Anglo doesn't somehow make you an expert on every other European culture, regardless of how bitter you are about being isolated from the Anglo world. The extra notes are for your plebby benefit too.

>book has "suggestions" for other shitty books by the same publisher and the first chapter on a completely different book
JUST

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>>9908765
>book uses roman numerals start to finish
>ends on page DCCLXXIX

>>9908180
dumb phoneposter

>>9907923
Is that a picture of William Lane Craig?

>>9908709
Because they spoil the actual book

>>9909152
>Jew Books

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>book has a 130+ pages interpretive essay by the translator

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>>9907826
>book has numbered footnotes scattered throughout the book
>just the numbers though
>the actual notes are all collected on the last fifteen pages
>you have to flip to the end every time you see a footnote to see what it says

end me

>first page describes the characters appearance

>>9909418

like anyone outside of academia gives two flying fucks about what other books you've read lol

>>9907923

>Every Norton Critical Edition ever

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>book is re-published after having been made into a major picture with a small essay from the film director in the front

>>9909897
Endnotes per chapter is even more infuriating. It doesn't even make sense that publishers do it. Back in the day it eased typesetting of pages. But now when everything is set up digitally, is it just lazy and inferior.

>>9909165
>"The book behind the hit movie"

>>9908839
Literally Heart of Darkness

>Book has a foreword
>Skip it
>Turns out it was actually part of the story

JUST

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>>9909152
>scroll has no tablet

>Book has a short story in an envelope that ties into the short story
>it is printed on quality paper

>>9909353
Saramago?