Amazon, the home of teeny tiny books?

RumpleTumbler · Feb 15, 2007

I've seen this enough to think it must be a trend or the weed is spiked with something. Every time I order from Amazon the books get smaller. I just ordered 3. The Elements of Style was like as big as my hand. Aquamarine not much bigger and then my Orson Scott Card book was kind of normal I guess.

Maybe I'm getting bigger. I'll bet in like 5 more years you'll need a microscope to read everything you buy from Amazon. I wish laughing boy would buy some normal sized material.

Maprilynne · Feb 15, 2007

It's not Amazon's fault.

PeeDee · Feb 15, 2007

I have.....no idea what you mean, I'm afraid.

RumpleTumbler · Feb 15, 2007

PeeDee said:
I have.....no idea what you mean, I'm afraid.

A conspiracy limited only to myself then....hmmmm.

Hillgate · Feb 15, 2007

I've noticed they're getting thicker...

MidnightMuse · Feb 15, 2007

You realize, Amazon doesn't print these books - they just sell 'em.

PeeDee · Feb 15, 2007

RumpleTumbler said:
A conspiracy limited only to myself then....hmmmm.

I was looking for clarification more than anything. What do you mean "smaller?" Fewer pages? Are your hardcovers arriving the size of mass-markets?

PeeDee · Feb 15, 2007

MidnightMuse said:
You realize, Amazon doesn't print these books - they just sell 'em.

Shut up! Get out!

RumpleTumbler · Feb 15, 2007

PeeDee said:
I was looking for clarification more than anything. What do you mean "smaller?" Fewer pages? Are your hardcovers arriving the size of mass-markets?

Just smaller in overall size. I guess I just like big books and not some itty bitty thing that my hands overlap when I'm holding it.

RumpleTumbler · Feb 15, 2007

MidnightMuse said:
You realize, Amazon doesn't print these books - they just sell 'em.

Really? I sentence you to listen to Jeff Bezos laugh for 1000 years.

Birol · Feb 15, 2007

Well, with things like Elements of Style, you have to realize, smaller books weigh less and are easier for students and professors to fit into their backpacks and haul around campus. With things like this, portability is key.

PeeDee · Feb 15, 2007

RumpleTumbler said:
Really? I sentence you to listen to Jeff Bezos laugh for 1000 years.

Why? Amazon's a bookseller, not a printer in any regard.

kristie911 · Feb 15, 2007

PeeDee said:
Shut up! Get out!

You're kind of grouchy today, Pete. Anything you'd like to talk about?

Come on, honey...get it off your chest...you'll feel better.

PeeDee · Feb 15, 2007

Birol said:
Well, with things like Elements of Style, you have to realize, smaller books weigh less and are easier for students and professors to fit into their backpacks and haul around campus. With things like this, portability is key.

Plus, Strunk & White's little book barely has enough pages to be anything bigger.

But if I order a hardcover of Stephen King's Cell, then it would arrive the same hardcover size as I would buy in Barnes & Noble. That's where I'm not following.

kristie911 · Feb 15, 2007

RumpleTumbler said:
Just smaller in overall size. I guess I just like big books and not some itty bitty thing that my hands overlap when I'm holding it.

Well, I just pre-ordered the 7th Harry Potter book from Amazon. I'll be mighty upset if it's itty bitty when I get it!

PeeDee · Feb 15, 2007

kristie911 said:
You're kind of grouchy today, Pete. Anything you'd like to talk about?

Come on, honey...get it off your chest...you'll feel better.

I'm not GROUCHY! I'm HAPPY!

Okay......it's...it's these Pringles Bacon Ranch chips, their new flavor? I...I don't think it's very good.

*sob*

(they leave the weirdest aftertaste)

kristie911 · Feb 15, 2007

Then stop eating them. Problem solved.

Birol · Feb 15, 2007

Pete: ZzzzzzZzzzzz

MidnightMuse · Feb 15, 2007

RumpleTumbler said:
Really? I sentence you to listen to Jeff Bezos laugh for 1000 years.

Dude cracks me up. Seriously.

PeeDee · Feb 15, 2007

MidnightMuse said:
Dude cracks me up. Seriously.

Don't say that, or he'll run you over with his Segway!

MidnightMuse · Feb 15, 2007

At least I'd die laughing

RumpleTumbler · Feb 15, 2007

PeeDee said:
Why? Amazon's a bookseller, not a printer in any regard.

I was j/k. It was hard for me to believe that anyone could perceive me as being that stupid. But hey.....

PeeDee · Feb 15, 2007

You're not stupid, I just missed the dry humor. Sorry. It can be tricky on the internet.

Which is why, as I've said before, we need to color code our messages. Your dry humor should have been burnt umber, to make it clear!

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