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Now you COULD be right if said book suffered something like a forklift going through it, but barring something extreme like that I call bunk.

The cover holds the pages in, and is the most visible part of the book. The words are printed on the page. If I am keeping or reading the book, I have to look at the cover and/or pages.

Why waste the space keeping something damaged when I could either put something good on my shelf, or even just reclaim the space?


Dom

Dominic wrote:

Now you COULD be right if said book suffered something like a forklift going through it, but barring something extreme like that I call bunk.

The cover holds the pages in, and is the most visible part of the book. The words are printed on the page. If I am keeping or reading the book, I have to look at the cover and/or pages.

Why waste the space keeping something damaged when I could either put something good on my shelf, or even just reclaim the space?


Dom

Yeah, but if the cover just has some scratches on it or something, you could still read the book is my point. As long as the cover is in good enough condition to hold the pages together what else do you really need? Especially if you just wanna read the story and don't care about the book itself then why not get the cheaper copy? I have actually done this with comics. When I was assembling a full set of G1 comics I would opt for lesser condition readable copies over expensive pristine ones. I don't mind a few creases on the spine of a comic. Whole pages missing is another thing entirely.

Now, for toys, I generally prefer buying new copies of whatever it is I'm buying. Mostly because I have found that buying used toys I wind up with toys that are... well... used. Meaning that they usually have dust or dirt or parts missing or what have you. If I buy an incomplete toy, I then have the added hassle of trying to track down the exact part that I need. I'd rather have nice clean complete toys than someone else's junk. Unfortunately, there are some cases where buying new is neither practical nor available. G1 toys for example are hard to find in sealed condition (assuming I were to buy ones produced in 84 and not reissues). I have owned two Diaclone blue Bluestreaks. Both of them were with their box, but both were incomplete. I completed one by getting the driver for it. The other was not only incomplete but was broken in some places and needed some repair work in addition to parts. Now this is obviously the exception to the rule because the diaclone Bluestreak isn't usually available and finding one at all is impressive unto itself and to find one in sealed brand new condition is extremely unlikely or going to be insanely expensive if one were to find it. So in that case I made the exception.

The older I get, the more I find that I want fewer, thought better, copies of things. And, at a certain level, it is not worth buying an incomplete figure because any savings are out-weighed by the annoyance of having to track down spare parts.

Additionally, keeping books in good condition makes it easier to preserve them or notice decay.


Dom
-is kind of picky.