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crl-15983	Aldrich, Alan W.	Judging Books by Their Covers: Managing the Tensions between Paperback and Clothbound Purchases in Academic Libraries	2009-01-01	14	.pdf	application/pdf	7612	427	48	A recent typology of these metrics iden- tified four different orientations ranging from a cloth-only purchasing policy to http:collection.12 http:intent.11 http:editions.10 Judging Books by Their Covers 59 a policy that explicitly favored selecting paperback editions for most purchases.13 Of the forty-six libraries in this study, ten libraries favor the purchase of paperback over cloth editions, while twenty-nine libraries identify cloth editions as their preferred format. Additional reasons for considering paperbacks include the improved quality of paperback editions, the ability to add supplemental bindings to paperback editions (especially when heavy use is ex- pected), and the fact that the physical life span of paperback editions o en exceeds the intellectual life span of their content.	cache/crl-15983.pdf	txt/crl-15983.txt