Pimp My Shelf wrote:
videofarmer wrote:
I'll tell ya what does bug me, twisted dust jackets! You know, the ones that even when you try to refold keep slipping back to where part of the front or back is showing on the spine? Annoying!
Those are my arch-enemies too, but they can't resist my determination. I refold and refold until I correct their crooked ways. If you could see the spine in my copy of ABSOLUTE WATCHMEN with its perfectly aligned dust-jacket, you could never tell it was about a third of an inch off center when it arrived driving me nuts.



Can you see the spine of that copy of Absolute Watchmen in the following photo? That's what I was talking about. Mine was more or less like that when it arrived at my LCS:

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But I can assure you that after the careful treatment I gave to it, now it's perfectly aligned, like this:

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I can't believe the guy who owns the shelves in the first picture hasn't tried to refold it and just leaves it like that on the shelf! And I see it's not an uncommon problem with this particular book:

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