Book Nerd problems

1. Collecting books : Nowadays I’m too much into classics and I am a bit confused which editions to go for as many of you must also be facing the same problem I guess. And by Reading various articles and stuffs I came to an opinion that you can choose 3 book editions for collecting based on your budget :

🔖 For readers on low budget :

~ Vintage classics (my favourite kindoff because of awesome covers and perfect sized fonts and reasonably priced i.e starting from as low as 125 RS .)

~Penguin classics ( the black covered ones )

~ Wordsworth classics (they are pretty cheap and of good quality )

🔖For readers with moderate to high budget :

~ Try vintage classics special author editions ( like vintage Dickens , vintage Austen etc. These have the best looking paperback covers with flaps )

~ Penguin Cloth bounds and penguin leather bounds ( these are the prettiest edition available and are a bit higher priced but these are best editions to collect )

2. Reading Mood swings : I am a avid reader and lately I’m unable to read a certain kinda books for long and unable to find a genre that suits me for long 😅 like I used to love reading thrillers and fantasy and now I am not able to make my mind to read these genres 😳 but it provided me a decent opportunity to read classics which now am madly Into 🤗😁😍 It feels as if my reading standards changed or evolved and what I considered great books for me 6 months back are just once in a while kinda read for me now 🤔😁

3. Happy hoarding : I never considered myself as a hoarder but now I’m thinking that I’m into the category of Tsundoku (i.e Tsundoku is acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one’s home without reading them.) And it’s not bad , it’s not as if I’m not reading it’s simply as I’m buying more books than I’m reading 😅 And buying books provides me a feel good environment which is not bad till you’re not overdoing it 😄

4. Paperback V/S Hardcovers : It’s one of the most controversial discussion amongst book lovers i.e , which is better Hardcover or paperbacks but my answer to this question is simple If you want the ease of reading then definitely paperbacks because of its ease of carrying but if you want to collect books and want to have them for long then hardcovers are the right kind off book for you , because they are made of high quality paper as compared to paperbacks so they’ll last way longer than paperbacks but you’ve to compromise on the ease with which you wanna read 😁