There's something important about the lasting quality of a hardback book to libraries. I'm fascinated by how many decent quality hardback reproductions of out of print books have popped onto the market.
We like way it holds up if tossed in a bag or pack, and stands up well on a shelf. It's cover is able to be covered with a slip cover and cleaned off if it gets dirt on it. But you may have noticed that new books bookstores often sell paperbacks of classics rather than the more expensive hardbacks. A copy of Moby Dick must be strong enough to circulate many times and hold up in all kinds of weather, and paperbacks usually spell trouble in that realm.
Hundreds of thousands of classics are in the public domain and can be read on screens, bought widely in paperback, but if you want a new hardback title like that, note that several publishers are doing a good job reissuing good looking hardbacks.
These are imprints of printing publishers that are that are bringing back out of print or public domain
*** (hint on how to make the following links work, flip the search by index to Publisher once you click thru on them, and then limit them by book on the left limiter)
Nabu Press
Bibliolife
Wildside
Wilder
1st World Library
These can be paperbacks and hardbacks
Kessenger
These companies redo the book rather than reprint it, and they are very high quality
Modern Library
Everyman's Library
Library of America
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