… now is more dif­fi­cult than ever. I sim­ply want the whole series look­ing the same. The series I’m talk­ing about is called The Tawny Man, writ­ten by Robin Hobb. As some may already have guessed, I’ve just com­pleted the Faarseer series and I’m eagerly wait­ing for the afore­men­tioned tril­ogy to arrive. No, wait, that’s not true. Why is that? As it hap­pens, I can’t find the three books fea­tur­ing the same cover style. Nei­ther Ama­zon nor the local book stores can do any­thing about it. My favorite local store does have book two and book three of the reprint edi­tion. Not even Ama­zon can pro­vide me with the first book of this series. Dammit.

This is a trend I’ve been watch­ing for almost a year now. It’s get­ting more and more dif­fi­cult to get what you want. Sure, I could just buy books with dif­fer­ent cover styles. Since the con­tent stays the same it wouldn’t really mat­ter. Well, I don’t want it that way. I want con­sis­tency. I want them so look sim­i­lar, at the very least. They should be rec­og­niz­able as a series just by look­ing at them for half a sec­ond. As if life wouldn’t be hard enough to do with­out such inconveniences.