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1MoTown
Like most subscribers, I love my LOA books, but I really wish LOA would do something about the relatively small (and in some cases, cramped) lettering on the books' spines. Similar publishers like Heritage Press would often run the titles vertically down the spine in a larger font, making it much easier to pick the volume you're looking for off the bookshelf. It seems to me that LOA could do something similar without adding to the cost of the books...
Do other subscribers feel the same way, or is it just time for me to visit the optometrist?
Do other subscribers feel the same way, or is it just time for me to visit the optometrist?
2geneg
Have you ever tried to actually read the Heritage Club edition of The Brothers Karamazov, or Zola's Nana, or Madame Bovary, or David Copperfield? The lettering may be small on LOA volumes, but it's worth it to me not to have to hold an 8" x 12" behemoth that weighs forty pounds.
3MoTown
I think you misunderstand. I have no problem with the text between the covers. My post concerns the text along the spines of the books.
My family has a large library, somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,500 volumes. If I want to pull one of those volumes off the shelves and read it, I've got to find it first. For most of our books, this isn't a problem. Either the book's title or the author's name will be emblazoned in large letters running down the length of the book's spine. I can read the book's spine from across the room.
Not so with my LOA books. The author's name and the title of the book are printed horizontally across the top of the spine in what I would estimate to be 12 point print. I have to be a foot away from the book before I can read the information on the spine.
My family has a large library, somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,500 volumes. If I want to pull one of those volumes off the shelves and read it, I've got to find it first. For most of our books, this isn't a problem. Either the book's title or the author's name will be emblazoned in large letters running down the length of the book's spine. I can read the book's spine from across the room.
Not so with my LOA books. The author's name and the title of the book are printed horizontally across the top of the spine in what I would estimate to be 12 point print. I have to be a foot away from the book before I can read the information on the spine.
4LesMiserables
>1 MoTown:,3
I agree with you that the lettering i small, but I do find it classy.
One suggestion would be to categorise your library by using Dewey or similar.
Good luck! (2500 volumes, you lucky thing)
I agree with you that the lettering i small, but I do find it classy.
One suggestion would be to categorise your library by using Dewey or similar.
Good luck! (2500 volumes, you lucky thing)
5scott.stricker
The Roth volumes have a larger font with the author's name running vertically on the spines. I prefer the normal format myself.
6Django6924
Actually, I might have never read The Brothers Karamazov or Nana, were it not for the page layout and font size that doesn't give me eyestrain headaches. (My Heritage Madame Bovary and David Copperfield, incidentally, weigh in at under 3 pounds apiece--if yours feels heavier I suggest a trip to the gym.)
I actually have trouble sometimes with the small titles on LOA volumes, but I love the uniformity and would hate to see the design sacrificed by a vertical title layout.
(Incidentally, as the years advance and my eyes struggle more with small font size, I find less funny the anecdote about the great film composer Bernard Hermann snapping at an orchestral player who complained that he was having a hard time reading the score because it was written in pencil--"What do you want it written in--NEON?")
I actually have trouble sometimes with the small titles on LOA volumes, but I love the uniformity and would hate to see the design sacrificed by a vertical title layout.
(Incidentally, as the years advance and my eyes struggle more with small font size, I find less funny the anecdote about the great film composer Bernard Hermann snapping at an orchestral player who complained that he was having a hard time reading the score because it was written in pencil--"What do you want it written in--NEON?")
