Hi booklovers! I am working on a new thing and I’d love your advice ツ

Specifically, I’m working on a new list of upcoming (or available) special editions of books that anyone can buy. For a long time I’ve maintained a compendium of books with sprayed or stencilled edge treatments, but over the past year I found it was getting overrun with book club editions that were only available to people who subscribed to these clubs – making the list more exclusive than I’d ever anticipated.

I also get asked a lot where I find out about my “fancy” books (which helps me take advantage of preorder discounts and avoid paying a premium to flippers). This information comes from a lot of different sources, so I thought compiling it all into a list for you would be the most useful service I could provide here.

The list isn’t finished yet, but I’m at a stage where I’d love some feedback so I thought I’d make it public anyway. Is this list useful to anyone? Should I keep going with it, or is the information easily accessible/collated elsewhere? Does the structure and layout make sense to you?

Thanks so much for any suggestions.

Daisy x


Daisy

I'm the founder and operator of the Beautiful Books website ツ

11 Comments

Mitali · 21 September 2021 at 9:31 pm

You are a wonderful book collector/lover.

Selina · 20 September 2021 at 9:08 am

This would be extremely useful. Thank you!

Feriel · 13 September 2021 at 1:54 am

This is awesome so please continue ! I’m from France. I love collector’s editions but I have hard time finding them before their sold out if I’m aware of their existence in the first place lol

    Daisy · 14 September 2021 at 3:02 pm

    Thanks so much for commenting- you’re exactly the sort of person I’m hoping this list will help 💕 it’s hard keeping up with new editions and so frustrating to find out about them only after they’ve sold out!

Gabe · 10 September 2021 at 9:00 am

Please do continue to compile the list…it would be most helpful. Thank you for sharing!

    Daisy · 14 September 2021 at 3:15 pm

    Thanks so much for taking the time to comment, I will keep going with regular updates 💕

      Eirini · 18 September 2021 at 6:44 am

      I have honestly no suggestions. I just wanted to leave a comment to let you know that THANK YOU for putting all this together. It is super useful!!
      After going through it I went to waterstones and placed a 9 book order xD
      I can imagine it took a lot of effort but please do not give up!
      Thank you again!!

        Daisy · 19 September 2021 at 4:12 pm

        Thanks so much ❤️! Appreciate the feedback, I’ll keep it going 😃

Talia Gabbai · 7 September 2021 at 3:59 am

I love these lists, i original only searched for sprayed edges, but I found great books in your new list, so i will probably keep checking this new list now. Thanks!

    Daisy · 8 September 2021 at 11:40 pm

    Thanks! That’s really helpful, appreciate you taking time to comment 💕

Francis · 6 September 2021 at 12:22 pm

Awesome – it’s really helpful to have all this in one place – please do keep it up! ❤️ (I like the fantasy and sci fi titles the best.)

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