Speaking of beautiful books: I have a bunch of old radar books (I assume it was some engineer who passed away), from the 1940s to 60s, and although there are so

Speaking of beautiful books: I have a bunch of old radar books (I assume it was some engineer who passed away), from the 1940s to 60s, and although there are some bits that definitely haven't aged well they are mostly still useful. The things that amazing though is just how nice to hold and read they are. They are astonishingly well typeset, legible graphs, silky paper etc. I checked out some of the prices in the back and they are similar to what one would expect for a new hardback textbook today, sadly. So books have got worse apparently.