[becurious]

It didn’t used to be this way. Books would ship in a tight fitting corrugated cardboard package that would protect them. I suspect it was some kind of custom packing machine that would fold and cut to size.

Now it’s either in a padded envelope - still space for the book to move around - or it’s in a box with whatever else.

Creased covers, ragged corners, torn dust jackets… It’s awful if you want to give a book as a gift.