Which edition of the books do you read?

[Slash]

[alla]

I seem to have voted in this, but I don't remember doing it. Its an interesting topic (especially since acquiring first editions of SYWTBAW and HW), as there are differences between the different editions.

I have read the Harcourt Magic Carpet paperbacks and hard covers for the whole series - the ones with the complicated pictures that you see more in each time you look for the first four, and the 'photograph' ones for the more recent books, the first edition of SYW (which is interesting for the line in the back from Joanne regarding a colour TV, rather than the 'wide screen TV' that it is in the current edition (I think - please correct me if I'm wrong)), and a book club edition of AWAb (but there weren't any differences between it and the paperback that I had read otherwise).

[Septimus]

Can someone explain what this means??? i got that massmarket one but whats digest...and one-photo and the otherstuff. i'm just curious because i voted what and wanted to kno what i should have voted.

[Jacq]

For the first four books, I read the editions that I think Alla is referencing - the painted covers that were almost collage/montages. The later books were the Magic Carpet paperbacks, with the numbered spines.

I replaced Deep Wizardry with the Magic Carpet version after lending it to a friend and losing it to the aether. Now my bookshelf looks funny.

[Emi]

It said I voted... but I don't remember voting??? Oh well. I think I have all the newer ones.... yes I do. I have the newer ones from Magic Carpet (the numbers on the spine). I think I like those covers better for some odd reason. I think it's because the pictures look so real. I can't wait for AWOM to come out.

[EricG1793]

I don't remember voting, either, but maybe I do faintly....

Anyway I own the entire collection of this type:

http://www.amazon.com/Wizards-War-Ei...3800260&sr=8-2

[alla]

Can someone explain what this means??? i got that massmarket one but whats digest...and one-photo and the otherstuff. i'm just curious because i voted what and wanted to kno what i should have voted.

There is information on the publication history over at http://www.youngwizards.com/YW-Publi...-David-Wiesner and the following pages. There aren't images of each one, but the ISBNs are there, so you can just put them into google and have a look at the covers.

[kk]

I have all of the books except 1, 3, and 6 in the... that one.... I have no idea what the name is....ummm... Oh, in the ones that Eric has. Those...

Number 6 is in the newer style, and numberse 1 and 3 are these. I loved these books, because when I started reading them, to a few years later, I looked exactly like the Nita in the picture. I thought it was pretty cool... But I was 11 and 12, so I look different, now. Haha...

Oh, and the computer in the picture of the High Wizardry cover? (This one: Click Here.) I had a computer that looked just like that! It was kind of funny... It was a cute little machine... It eventually died, but it was fun when it was still alive.

So yes, I bought books 1-3 at the library booksale (they got new copies), and the rest I bought at a bookstore that only had one of each book... I hope they got a new stock...

[daine23]

Huhh?
sory, I doe't get anny of this.

[wizardsrreal]

I've read all of them in the mass market paperback editions. The first time I read WH and WAW it was the hard cover editions cause i have to read them pretty much the day they come out and then I get the paper back edition when it comes out--which is the one that goes on the shelf, or rather between my matress and the headboard for easy reading. I always get the digest versions for my friend though, it's pretty much expected that I get her the newest one when it comes out in digest but she always is like, "Hmm... what could this possibly be?"

I also seem to have voted in this poll but don't remember it, maybe there is some sort of forum poll amnesia going around

[Lady Rhiannon]

Well I just voted in this one, so hopefully I'd remember voting!

As for the editions: doesn't matter to me--mostly because seem to have unconciously made it my goal to collect all of the original/mass market covers. Maybe someday Powell's will have a first edition at a nice, college-student-affordable-price, right?

Heh, a girl can dream.

Anyways, I have the original harcover of AWA, and the paperback of the painting/collage for HW and DW--but still haven't found another for SYWTBAW. I think. It's been a while since I checked my shelves at home.

As for what I bring to Uni with me? The mass markets, with the photo coverse. Easy to replace, if they get loaned or lost!

[NoxLight]

I looove the mass market Harcourt Magic Carpet ones. I collected all the ones that are out in this edition, and refuse to buy them hardcover xD
It's weird to confess, but I love everything about the physical book itself- the texture of the pages, the size, how bendy the covers are, how the pages turn under my thumb, the font, the color of the page, the even the smell.
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Especially the smell ^-^;;