Comments on: Republished: Henry Ford’s Own Story by Rose Wilder Lane http://beyondlittlehouse.com/2010/01/20/henry-ford%e2%80%99s-own-story/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed America's most comprehensive site dedicated to the life, literature, and many homes of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:17:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: John A. Bass, LIW/RWL Scholar http://beyondlittlehouse.com/2010/01/20/henry-ford%e2%80%99s-own-story/comment-page-1/#comment-993 John A. Bass, LIW/RWL Scholar Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:29:45 +0000 http://beyondlittlehouse.com/?p=2754#comment-993 There are even other companies than the ones you listed here that are reprinting Rose's books. I, personally, buy copies of all these editions to add to the many different books in my library, but I do want to point out that the Kiplinger Press spent absolutely no time in making their books the slight bit presentable to sell. They look homemade. They could have at least scanned them, lighter in some cases, darker in others, straightened the pages on the scanner, so that they would not be crooked. They are printed with all types of writing in some, notes on some pages, you name it. Trash! To tell you the truth, they should have let me provide the scans (clean perfect scans) of almost perfect first editions of Rose's books. It looks like they borrowed an old beat up copy of each. Their comments regarding these sloppy printed books, with nice covers are that they just want to get the original text back in print, but they left out the fact that it also makes them money. All in all, I will say that I am glad that there are companies willing to do this for the public, so people who have never read Rose's treasures are able to do so. There are even other companies than the ones you listed here that are reprinting Rose’s books. I, personally, buy copies of all these editions to add to the many different books in my library, but I do want to point out that the Kiplinger Press spent absolutely no time in making their books the slight bit presentable to sell. They look homemade. They could have at least scanned them, lighter in some cases, darker in others, straightened the pages on the scanner, so that they would not be crooked.
They are printed with all types of writing in some, notes on some pages, you name it. Trash! To tell you the truth, they should have let me provide the scans (clean perfect scans) of almost perfect first editions of Rose’s books. It looks like they borrowed an old beat up copy of each.
Their comments regarding these sloppy printed books, with nice covers are that they just want to get the original text back in print, but they left out the fact that it also makes them money.

All in all, I will say that I am glad that there are companies willing to do this for the public, so people who have never read Rose’s treasures are able to do so.

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