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With the ageing of the baby boomers, things are looking up in some areas for large print. The editions are starting to come out at the same time as the hard cover adult fiction, and the cover artwork is improving all the time. Sometimes now I see that the mainstream publishers are licensing their covers to the large print publishers. Such an improvement on the old 'plain wrapper' covers. Oh, and things are improving in the audio books too. Our supplier received our boxed set of the latest Harry Potter less than a month after the release of the print version. It's being repackaged, so I haven't seen it yet. We'll put the large print editions of Magdalen Nabb's titles on our reissues standing order list because they're more likely to be reissued in large print. I rarely do desk shifts, so don't often have the opportunity to recommend them to people who are borrowing authors like Donna Leon. __________________ |
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This is Magdalen Nabb’s Property of Blood, incidentally — a good book but for its production (in my case). The binding is also one of those that will not allow you to open the spreads fully, so you feel like you’re wrestling with this intractable thing while you try to read. I have great sympathy for people with poor sight. Before my cataract surgery, I needed large type to read (the web was easier than print at that point, so long as I could blow up the text — if all else failed, I could copy it into an app that allowed me to if the browser did not). But this book is just plain hard to read regardless. All it offers is large letters, but an important aspect of legible type is space, and there it fails completely. Yet I suppose those with problem eyes are grateful anyway, and the books get sold and read. They could be so much better, though, and it might not raise the price outrageously. Quote:
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