The FEAR: trimming

[Sal]

faecetiousness aside, don't fall into the trap of thinking that expensive books or books with high investment potential are the only ones being trimmed.

 

it ain't the case. be'lee dat

 

 

I never said inexpensive books don't get trimmed. However, like restoration, trimming on low dollar books is going to be amateurish and easy to spot. Nobody is going to have a $30 book professionally restored, and nobody is going to have a $30 book "professionally" microtrimmed either. It isn't cost or time effective.

 

*cue the guy who will spend three hours searching the trimming threads to find a low dollar book that Ewert might have worked on*

 

now, someone like Ewert might not "professionally" trim a $30 book, but that doesn't mean it ain't happening. if it's being done by someone who hates the ragged edge of thier book more than they hate hacking a piece of it off...

 

not trying to argue with you. just making an observation. because i agree with the premise of this thread in the general sense

[Jayman]

faecetiousness aside, don't fall into the trap of thinking that expensive books or books with high investment potential are the only ones being trimmed.

 

it ain't the case. be'lee dat

 

 

I never said inexpensive books don't get trimmed. However, like restoration, trimming on low dollar books is going to be amateurish and easy to spot. Nobody is going to have a $30 book professionally restored, and nobody is going to have a $30 book "professionally" microtrimmed either. It isn't cost or time effective.

 

*cue the guy who will spend three hours searching the trimming threads to find a low dollar book that Ewert might have worked on*

 

now, someone like Ewert might not "professionally" trim a $30 book, but that doesn't mean it ain't happening. if it's being done by someone who hates the ragged edge of thier book more than they hate hacking a piece of it off...

 

not trying to argue with you. just making an observation. because i agree with the premise of this thread in the general sense

 

Also there is not always a logical reason why people do things ie. trimming an inexpensive book. Could be for practice, try out trimming on the cheap copies first, right?

[Point Five]

Amateur trimming of SA books was pretty common in the 80s, back when resto was less frowned upon and resto checking was less careful, and undoubtedly still goes on today. Andy is right that many of us are overly paranoid about it when viewing scans here (guilty as charged) ... but IMO it never hurts to look closely if something is potentially funky. Definitely an issue long before Ewert.

 

In recent years I've bought and returned many an inexpensive ebay SA Spidey because of amateur trimming, and I would never call someone out on it and go through the hassle of a return unless I was 100% sure.