What’s your reasoning for having different editions of the same book/series?
Why do you choose one book/series over the other books you have?
How much are you willing to spend on editions?
I’ve recently watched a lot of tik toks of people showing their different editions of their favorite books/series and I got curious.
I keep two copies of a book if one is signed or collectors edition, then Ill have a second that is for reading and borrowing. My partner is not an avid reader and doesn’t treat books as nicely as I would like, So I will buy him his own copy if we are reading the same books. I enjoy some book collecting with my book reading.
Personally I commit almost all of the “book sins” (writing, highlighting, spine creasing and folding, the only thing I stand firm on is dog-earring. Why would I want to crease my pages?), but I really don’t get how other people feel no sense of respect for another persons book. I leant out a book to my friend and when I got it back it had split in half and the only thing holding it together was the cover like… how do you even read a book that hard? Luckily for her and me, I don’t mind all that much, but it really was baffling how other people don’t feel the same need to treat others’ books with kid gloves. Just because I don’t personally care about how my books look, or I personally find it comfortable to fold the books in half, doesn’t mean I would do any of that to someone else’s books. It’s really not hard to not damage a book.