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Nerdforge makes absurdly large Stormlight leatherbounds and delivers them to Brandon Sanderson
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I'm not a big YouTube guy, but this is interesting, and I know a lot of people in here are reading/looking forward to reading Wind and Truth. Her end result is some beautiful (obviously impractical) books that make the regular giant hardcovers look like little baby books.
If you ignore the handful of YouTube-isms it's a pretty cool video.
edit: adding screenshot of the books compared to the regular ones.
Oh I'm absolutely with you on this. It isn't so much the amount of writing as much as the content. There's a book series I just finished that was 10 books and I really feel it could have been 2/3 the size. Don't get me wrong, I love the author and the stories, but some authors wander away on lengthy tangents or verbose/unnecessary content. It can wear on me.
I mentioned book 10 earlier of the Wheel of Time because so much of its content was actually taking place at the same time as what went on with book of 9. I wanted to move on with the story, but the 10th book was just the 9th book from different character perspectives. Having to wait until book 11 to find out what happens next huuuurrrt. I would have preferred it to be a single story.
To be honest though, when I reread books, I'm reading them at a different point in my life while having very different things going on. Being in a different mental space might change how I feel. I keenly remember how book 10 was just the worst slog. Haha.
The fact is, while I often long for more, I prefer well written books that do a great job of building up and then cleanly bringing things back together for a fulfilling close.