brittle and falling apart? Never. How often have you read them? Many of my most beloved cheap paperbacks from the 80s and 90s have been replaced at least once

brittle and falling apart? Never. How often have you read them? Many of my most beloved cheap paperbacks from the 80s and 90s have been replaced at least once since they've literally fallen apart as I was reading them. Also my books from the 50s and 60s seem to be of higher quality than books from the 80s and 90s (or that could also just be survivor bias).