katilac Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 What's the quality of Dover reading books for children? Are they fairly nice, like Scholastic paperbacks, or horribly cheap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 Do you mean the paper? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katilac Posted November 20, 2008 Author Share Posted November 20, 2008 Yes, the quality of the paper and other physical aspects of the book. I hate books that are so cheaply made you can hardly stand to turn the pages, or the typography is so poor it's a struggle to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie in MN Posted November 20, 2008 Share Posted November 20, 2008 Dover prints a variety of things, and some of them are better than the Scholastic stapled versions. But the standard inexpensive Dover editions are just that -- inexpensive. Very. Interestingly, I was just deciding whether to get rid of our Dover edition of the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, which probably cost $1.95 (it came with a Smarr guide), or to get rid of a couple of nicer editions we had (Bob Jones and Barnes & Noble, I think). After looking through all of them, I decided the Dover one had better information, even though it's very thin, almost newsprint quality paper, and not decorative whatsoever... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katilac Posted November 21, 2008 Author Share Posted November 21, 2008 These aren't the two/three dollar ones, so maybe they'll be pretty decent. thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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