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6945022 No.6945022 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw I want to buy the better translation but the better translation has the worst cover

>> No.6945030

Buy both, then cut the good cover off and paste it over the good translation one.

>> No.6945032

>>6945022
library

>> No.6945038

Buy both, then paint the bad translation pages with white ink and painfully rewrite everything with the good translation as reference.

>> No.6945046

>collecting paperbacks

Fucking plebs

>> No.6945198

>reading translations
>caring about covers
>claiming that a specific translation is better than another without knowing the original version

>> No.6945210

>>6945022
I bought a copy of The Brothers Karamazov and realised that it wasn't from the same collection as my copy of Crime and Punishment (thus having a different cover layout).

So I found the copy with the same cover as my C&P and bought it. This is on kindle, but still.

>> No.6945228
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>>6945198
>not caring about covers
>not striving to surround yourself with the aesthetically sublime in every sensual form

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>>6945046

>he doesn't collect NYRBs

>> No.6945322

>>6945022
The fact that you're reading it in translation already shows you're an uncultured pleb. Just get the better translation.

>> No.6945335

>tfw got two different versions of the same translation and wasn't sure which one was more faithful to the original Germna

>> No.6945365

>>6945228
But prose too can be aesthetically sublime. Assuming the worse translation has worse prose you still wouldn't be surrounded in the aesthetically sublime. A solution would be to switch the covers if possible, which is unlikely, otherwise one might choose to eschew the purchase of the book for the sake of aesthetics.

>> No.6945472

>>6945022
>translation

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>>6945228
>Getting the Latin in your trip wrong
>Misspelling and incorrect case use

>> No.6946082

>>6945210
>This is on kindle, but still.
>caring about covers on ebooks
>buying ebooks

>> No.6946083

>>6945335
read as many translations as possible tbh