Wordsworth classics love/hate

[birdienl]

Last weekend was the Book Festival in the town where I live, a market where the central book deposit sells all it's leftover stock at really low prices, so a yearly trip for me as a book nerd. I bought some really nice boooks (not too many, because my bookshelves are already overfilled), Little Men & Jo's boys by Louisa May Alcott (I've been searching for this sequel to Little Women for a very long time already), Recipes for a perfect marriage by Kate Kerrigan and some non-fiction, A-Z of English Literature and Timeline of Kings and Queens.

But there was one little thing that annoyed me this year: Wordsworth Classics is changing the layout of their books. First all their classics were like this:
 

I already bought quite a lot of the classics in this format over the last few years. But now Wordsworth has decided they need a new 'look', so all their books I'll be buying from now on will look like this:



I'm afraid this will ruin the look of my bookshelves terribly ;-)

Comments

[spally.livejournal.com]

I even have some Wordsworth Classics from older years with the design preceding those two! My bookshelf is already crazy :P

I like the look of that new cover. It's the classiest it's ever been.

[birdienl.livejournal.com]

Yes, now you mention it, I also have one older book.

I don't really like the new look, there are already many bookseries in black and the blue stood out and immediatly made you recognize your Wordsworth Classics

[spally.livejournal.com]

Ah, that is a good point!