For reading at home, I like the yummy ones: the faux-leather
single-volume red one I got from my husband for a wedding present in 1978, and
the Alan Lee single-volume one. For slinging about, I like the
single-volume hardback with the Ringwraith on the cover (from the movie).
It's fairly compact, and seems to be sturdy enough.
I read the three-volume cheap paperbacks the first many times (the
hippy-looking ones with the bulbous pink fruits on the covers), and because I'm
careful with books they lasted, but the trouble with three volumes is if you're
carrying one with you and want to look something up from a different part of
the book, going back and checking on something, you don't have that with
you. I found it especially hard not having the entire map handy when I
was reading RotK. (I finally photocopied it and stuck it in the book.) I
spent a summer in Corsica when I was 17, and had RotK with me, and was really
frustrated not having access to the
others.
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"Men always croak when they're hungry." -- Louisa May Alcott
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