Saddle stitching actually uses staples, not stitches, and is most commonly used for booklets with low page counts. Like coil and spiral binding, this option is great if you need to open your booklet up flat, or expect needing to tear out pages for some reason. Perfect binding—also called thermally activated binding—is what is usually used to bind paperbacks. Perfect binding not so perfect after all is not quite as sturdy as other methods, so you should make sure you use top-quality glue resin.
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Where your professional life with books, comes in. More often than I can know, the guiding hand has been yours. It is hard for me to imagine that anyone in the world of mysteries has been responsible for creating that moment of acquaintance, that connection between reader and writer, more than you.
But you know, and I know, that without your introduction, that reader would never have met or had the chance to fall in love with that author or that title, or with that genre or that subgenre. That reader, that smitten reader, then becomes your agent.
Making the next introduction, to his friend, to her book group. To a spouse. To a child. We all know booksellers who sell books. You and I have joked many times about the heavy lifting involved. But you were never a bookseller content to select inventory and stock shelves. That was never enough for you. You are a Bookseller, capital B, who was always determined to know books and to know the authors who write them.
Who was always determined to know readers and the preferences that guide them. You are the bookseller who sees the bridge between here and there, and encourages the leap, introducing this particular book to that particular person. One at a time. Over and over and over again. My thanks to those who responded to my question and allowed me to quote them. Patience by the truckload was my first thought! And once again, that tribute to Enid Schantz is very moving; thanks for adding it. I agree, Nancy—parents asking for good titles would be difficult for me to respond to, given my long absence from general bookselling.
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However, I also believe that there are numerous examples of great works of literature containing characters with which the reader will not identify. I think the essential thing here is that these characters really come to life. I want to care about them, to love them, or hate them or, at the very least, to understand their motives.
Does it do what it says on the tin? If you get part way through the book and you wonder why the publisher classed it as a romance, or whether the front cover illustration actually bears any relation whatsoever to the story, then this takes away from the overall effect. Of course, the sign of a really good book is that it exceeds your expectations. You see the quotes from renowned writers, the prize nominations, the tasteful cover design, and you expect a certain something, and what you get is beyond anything you imagined.
Now that is a good book. So there you have it — my top ten highly subjective features of a good book.
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