Fill up the bookshelf.

I went to Barnes & Noble today to get a sense of what the newly formatted Dresden Files paperbacks would feel like in my hands. I say "newly" because I read the first two quite some time ago, and they were published with a different set of physical dimensions back when I was in college - shorter, thicker, in the format of the pulps and paperbacks of the twentieth century. These were thinner, taller, with nicer paper and what felt like a slightly larger font. Way off kilter from the old back-pocket paperback format.

Thin, tidy, with clean letters...but they didn't feel right in my hands.

I feel like if I can't read these novels as God intended, the least I can do is buy them used and capture some spirit of the old paperbacks that way.

As God intended.

(Incidentally, if anyone knows when this publishing format shift happened, I'd be delighted to know some hard dates and figures.)