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 Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 4:04 pm
Has anyone thought about it much? =D
Whenever a book series that you favor are made into a omnibus( a few of the volumes combined into one book) is it better than buying the volumes individually or that way?
Which do you feel is better?
I personally like both. In fact I have a omnibus of a series since it includes the volumes that I don't have.
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Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 7:06 pm
I like both as well. An Omnibus is really convenient when you get into a series midway or close to the end and you need to catch up. But there's something to collecting each volume separately as well.
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Romantic Conversationalist
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Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:16 am
Hm. I was not familiar with that term.
I sort of prefer to have books in seperate volumes, if for nothing else, size and weight issues. Of course, when it comes to comics and manga, I prefer to have the graphic novel rather than the individual issues for reasons of convenience. I suppose an omnibus would be helpful in a situation where it was difficult to collect all of the individual volumes (I would have bought one for Pearl S. Buck's Good Earth series if I could have).
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Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 8:05 am
Fairgrass Hm. I was not familiar with that term.
I sort of prefer to have books in seperate volumes, if for nothing else, size and weight issues. Of course, when it comes to comics and manga, I prefer to have the graphic novel rather than the individual issues for reasons of convenience. I suppose an omnibus would be helpful in a situation where it was difficult to collect all of the individual volumes (I would have bought one for Pearl S. Buck's Good Earth series if I could have).
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Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:33 pm
I had a series I read to death so much that the individual paperback volumes started falling apart. When my book club came out with the hard-cover omnibus (5 books in 2) I was so happy. I get omnibuses from the Sci-fi Book club (sfbc.com) and complete my collections a lot quicker. It's especially cool when they sell three omnibuses as a set... and then they have a sale where you buy 1 get 1 free... and then you buy the three omnibus set (like 9 books in 3 for only $15!) and you get another three omnibus set free. That's like 18 books for $15!!!! Not even a dollar a book!
In other words... I love omnibuses... especially in book clubs... rofl
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Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 1:19 pm
I tend to dislike them, 'cause their usually to big to read comfortably. Especially something like the LOTR. I once borrowed an omnibus edition of that and it was nearly impossible to read.
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Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:41 am
They're cumbersome, but sometimes it's cheaper to buy the omnibus. So you sort of have to consider comfort versus expense on a case-by-case basis.
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