tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post2113292356420480418..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: yellow, bumble bee, booksAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-25660970939570903552011-03-11T16:36:36.715+00:002011-03-11T16:36:36.715+00:00You are right about landscape. Wide type areas and...You are right about landscape. Wide type areas and narrow margins are as bad as small print.Type should be easy for the reader, rather than become an exercise in concentration. You're right too about The German Genius. It looks comfortable. I can't wait to get started.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-91541414538883955622011-03-11T11:05:08.288+00:002011-03-11T11:05:08.288+00:00Re. The German Genius. You add a point I failed to...Re. The German Genius. You add a point I failed to mention. It's a long book (about 800-plus pages as I remember) and yet its three dimensions combine to produce the perfect shape. One might almost say it was definitive in its bookishness. Fits the hand ideally. Well chosen typefaces. And then, of course, there is the little matter of the contents...<br /><br />What's also suprising is how unsatisfactory many books are when it comes to shape. I fear the Americans frequently favour landscape rather than portrait format and I find this dis-orienting. I recently discarded a book, one-third read and acquired at some expense from a bookshop on the Eastern Seaboard, which suffered from this debilitation. I should add it had several other more indigestible failngs also.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.com