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Individual Books v Compilations

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OllieWollieWoo · 21/10/2008 21:40

Weird question but can't decide to get DS the individual Harry and the Dinasours books or the hardback one which has 5 in it.

Do any of you have a preference re individual books or larger compliations???

Psst - for those of you who are also after Harry, The Book People have all 10 for 9.99!!!!

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dingdong05 · 22/10/2008 13:23

I prefer individual books for 2 reasons:
1: compilations are bigger and heavier, and are therefore awkward and
2: if you re-read books as often as we do then they tend to get dog eared quite quickly (esp if you keep dropping the big compilations ) and its easier and cheaper to replace one story

I may just have to check out The Book People....

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LadyGlencoraPalliser · 22/10/2008 13:24

Individual books every time. The compilations tend to be unwieldy and therefore less read IME.

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YohoAhoy · 22/10/2008 13:25

dingdong's posted exactly what I was going to say

Would also add that if one or two stories become favourites, dragging a great big book around can be a pain.

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bozza · 22/10/2008 13:26

agree with dingdong. Have deliberately bought DS box set of Narnia (off book people btw!) rather than a one volume jobbie.

Remember reading LOTR and it was a pain because one volume. Fortunately was pg though so could rest it on the bump.

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littlelapin · 22/10/2008 13:26

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RubberDuck · 22/10/2008 13:28

Yep, I went and bought loads of compilations (thomas tank, etc) and they were all untouched pretty much.

Individual books dog-eared from being read so much. I'd never buy a compilation for a young child again.