AW: Decaying flaky old paper is best

cwiljes@bol.de cwiljes at bol.de
Mon Jun 17 15:39:11 CEST 2002


Cord:
>> I have around 9.000 comics now.

Harry:
> Hm. My records show that I now have exactly 3995 Disney comics. But that
> excludes some recent Dutch comics and some comics from "obscure" countries
> like China. Still, I have the impression that I own nearly all interesting

> Disney comic *stories*.

My 9.000 are not just Disney comics. If you only count Disney comics I
believe
it will be something around 1.000. Counting all the books I loved to pieces 
during my childhood, but also counting ten bexoed sets of the CBL as 10
comics :o)

> BTW, I don't care about having only a (good) reprint of a story: I don't
> need the original printing. But I *do* prefer a printing (on paper) to an
> electronic version. I need to be able to read the story sitting in an easy
> chair.

As long as there are no displays good enough to rival the printed version I
agree.
But as soon as there will be brilliant displays with a sharp resolution I
will be
the first one to switch from pulp to bytes. Sometimes I also like to have
the 
original version. But in most cases I will prefer a reprint if it is sharper
and 
on better paper.

Cord





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