I just hate this practice of every comic publisher releasing both hardcover and softcover of their books.
So around 2004 when the Neal Adams Batman 3-book set were released they were all Hardcovers and pretty pricey at $49.99 each because like a dumbass I'm thinking this is the only way of obtaining these classic Batman stories and while they look cool and all on mybookshelf they are a bit wide and cumbersome (meaning they take up space), and I'm afraid the card stock rough paper could eventually turn yellowish over time.
Well so then a few years down the line DC decides to release them again only as softcover Tpb's and with the shiny slick paper and because of the switch to glossier paper the books are much more slimmer taking up half space of what the Hardcovers do and yeah I double dipped and bought them.
So my question is which should I keep of the two versions, the rough cardstock paper ones or the shiny glossy ones? I mean which ones would look more presentable if you were to introduce a newbie to some great Neal Adams Batman?