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Message no. 1
From: danturek@*******.com (Dan Turek)
Subject: Bindings
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 16:42:08 -0500
>>I am really dissappointed with the binding quality of the SR products.

>So am I the exception here? My SR1 softcover (well, the first one I bought,
>anyway) fell apart from heavy use in about six months; my SR2 hardcover
>(the first one again) started shedding some pages of the center color
>section after about five years, plus the spine is a bit damaged; and my SR3
>(softcover -- the hardcover stays on the shelf :) has most of the sample
>characters loose, but that's it.

>I don't think my SR books have suffered more damage than
this in over 10 years of use for some 90 books, so what am I doing right
that all you who are complaining are doing wrong? ;)

>Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html

No, its what you are doing wrong. You are not complaining!
I have pretty much everything I've ever bought (just ask my girlfriend, it
drives her nuts). My heavily used magazines stay in better shape than some
Shadowrun books. Still, my only big complaint was Matrix, as it fell apart
on my first reading. The Seattle Book (1st one) I've rebound twice. I have
never had a problem with the basic rules or an adventure.

What do you do to your rulebooks Gurth? For me those seem to have the best
bindings.

D

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Message no. 2
From: gurth@******.nl (Gurth)
Subject: Bindings
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:47:44 +0200
According to Dan Turek, on Saturday 29 March 2003 22:42 the word on the
street was...

> No, its what you are doing wrong. You are not complaining!

Why would I complain about wear to a book? Unless it falls apart after I
leaf through it once or twice (like Paranoia books are prone to), I see no
reason to complain about it...

> What do you do to your rulebooks Gurth? For me those seem to have the
> best bindings.

Like I said, my first first-edition book saw a _lot_ of use, so I'm not at
all surprised the first 30 pages or so are loose, as are a few in the
back. The others were used less intensively, but still, these do get used
the most of any rulebook for a given game, so I'm again not susprised they
wear out the fastest.

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