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Those slim little mid-century genre paperback novels (sci if, mostly) fit suspiciously perfectly in blazer/suit outer pockets, without even wrecking the drape.
by hotnfresh 3y ago
Those slim little mid-century genre paperback novels (sci if, mostly) fit suspiciously perfectly in blazer/suit outer pockets, without even wrecking the drape. I’d say they were sized—including ideal length of the work—with that in mind.
Older Modern Library kinda works, too. Certain variants (the smaller leather softcover run) are much better than others, and of course many of the books are simply too thick for that.
- keiferski 3y agoA funny related story: Sony co-founder Akio Morita desperately needed to sell the company’s first transistor radio - the first in Japan and the second in the world. So Morita pitched it as being shirt-pocket size. The only problem was that it was slightly larger than a shirt pocket, so Morita ordered several shirts with abnormally large pockets for his sales force. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/mar/13/sony-puts-big-sound-in-shirt-pocket/ https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/mar/13/sony-puts-big-...