Are Folio Books Worth It? 📦 (+ New Wheel of Time Set! ) 

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I think special editions are only actually special if the story inside is actually special to the reader.

Alice in Wonderland is probably much cheaper than you imagined because it is out of copyright and they don't have to pay for the rights. All costs go to producing the book, and not buying the story.

I would be absolutely devastated if my books got damaged during transport, I m so sorry for your loss :(

I’ll never judge anyone for spending their money on an edition they think is worth it. You do you! I’ve done dumb moves in my past for sure lol but the thing that cracks me up about special editions is the art. Because growing up I remember thinking, “it has pictures, it’s probably a kids book”. And now as an adult, I want all the illustrations 😂 oh how the turntables…

Something I always appreciate about Folio is not just the art, which is consistently gorgeous, but the printing is immaculate. Best part? Huuuuuge headers, footers, and sides of the page so you don't have to risk smudging that beautifully printed ink. Also? Daniel? Are you stalking my Folio orders? I just ordered Dune Messiah and Frankenstein like less than a month ago. Also, Dune. Because why have the epilogue without the damn main story?

A lot of those Alice illustrations are in the public domain, as is the text. That probably helps explain the relatively low price.

I like that the slip case for Frankenstein is the Artic water and ice sheets. But I can understand why it can be confusing at a first glance… I had to look at it closely to work out what it was.

I recently bought the Folio's Dune and getting Dune Messiah next month! The cover is so mesmerising, it's my favourite book I own! Definitely their best work yet.

I have the Folio Society Howl's Moving Castle books and I love them, you can tell that they are high quality books and the art and slipcases are such nice touches.

I love Folio. They're a great quality publisher, good binding, interesting covers, quality materials, and their selection tends to be quite good, though a tad eclectic. But the latter can be a plus for an omnivore like myself. I wish they were closer to Easton Press in terms of materials, the leather covers and moire end sheets are hard to beat. But I'm glad Folio Society exists and is active to this day.

The Book of the New Sun is my favourite folio. Absolutely beautiful.

Sorry to hear about what happened to some of your collection of books Daniel, especially the ones that hold a sentimental value to you man! Always sucks when things are damaged or lost whilst moving, but it happening to books is a sting to the heart 🙁 P.S. Folio books are beautiful, I have the Dracula folio edition with the slipcase and it’s utterly beautiful. The colour of the slipcase/box and the cover, alongside the design is amazing. Definitely one of my favourites I own

I find the outlining in folio books very interesting. They seem to have a lot of space on the outside of the pages to make sure pages are big enough for beautiful art. This creates the problem of having too much space for lettering, giving the solution of either filling the page up with more words or changing the size of the words. They do neither and make it look like an artistic choice. Now there's still enough pages to be worth the price they're asking, whilst not enlarging the lettering so you still feel like you're reading a sophisticated book, which is what Folio wants you to assocuate with them. Smart!

I managed to find the wheel of time paper back box set at a thrift shop for $40. Absolute steal

Ive seen a few of your episodes and I think i started because i have a small seed of loving books like you do but i don't read, i try to collect but i think just watching you in action really satisfies my lifelong thoughts on the subject of books in general...and HAHA😆 I could be one of those freaks that collects book sets while NOT reading them.☺

I wish I were as excited by anything as Daniel is about maps on endpages.

Really wish a small press would be allowed to give WoT the limited edition treatment it deserves. Even if it was just Folio Society doing a non-LE, I’d take it. If they did an ASOIAF-quality run, itd be amazing.

Oh my! I am so sorry to hear that! That would be the absolute worst!! I do love special edition books though. my recent favorites have been the new Lord of the Rings special edition, and Dune special edition, with the blue on the sides of the pages!

I think special editions are great! It’s an amazing way to support artists and gives the reader something truly special in their home. Every time I look at a special edition of my favorite book it brings me such joy. I love showing them off to friends and usually the artwork is very helpful in convincing them to read. It’s also a great way to support authors you love!

If you can ship the damaged books, I would not mind discussing buying them off you. I use damaged books for art projects and only use books not intentionally damaged

I absolutely adore folio society books! They are such high quality and the paper is buttery soft. I have given them as presents and gotten them as presents. I have 9 folio society editions and I will say I think the most beautiful ones I have as The Once and Future King and Something Wicked This Way Comes, but all of my editions are gorgeous.

Turns out I have this foundation version, so weird. I'm from Brazil, and we have a 3 in 1 thick book for foundation with exactly the same art. So cool! It cost R$150, which in dollars is $31.

Ok, so Folio sent Daniel tons of free books... ? I mean on one hand I get it.. on the other I really hate this whole "this stuff is super expensive.. but free if you have a large social media following and thus already have the money to buy them" eh, maybe I'm just a little jealous. I've always wanted a large lirbary of Folio books. And this guy just gets it for free. Meanwhile I've been doing everything I can to NOT order any Folio books because I know if I start I can't stop and now is not the time. Last time I was on their site, it was for the BOTNS and before I knew it I also had their Dune edition and a bunch of other folio books in my basket. The shipping alone was more expensive than the average special hardcover edition you can order online or buy from retail.

My favorite types of special editions are ones that include artwork in the book (as well as maybe being shiny haha). I can't afford prices in the 100s though, but I do love to get books that are my favorites so I can give them places of honor on my bookshelf

One day, it would be nice to start getting these. I bought leather bound classics from Eaton Press way back in the day and I love how they look.

I could watch multiple hours of Daniel opening pretty books. 😍

After watching a couple of your videos (great work btw....new fan!), I decided to place an order with Folio. I was a member of their book club when that was a thing in my teenage years. Figured it's time to enjoy reading again and not just ticking off boxes. I'm excited to see the new editions...Dracula, Frankenstein, The Haunting of Bill House, and 1984. I haven't read ANY of these and want my first go to be in a finely produced book. Thanks to you I have rekindled my love of hardcovers and unkindled my Kindle. Thanks dude. 😎

i love that this video gives you the opportunity to see the real scale of these books. the website pictures just give off this "giant" vibe.

I’m glad you posted this. I read almost exclusively on kindle, but I have two shelves and growing of Folio (and other) collectible books. My biggest gripe with them is they have massive shipping and pricing discrepancy between the UK and US shops and here in the states we spend far more than the UK to get the same content. Fortunately, someone created a North American buy/sell/exchange Facebook group to help, and my Dune is likely to go on that soon!

I have the Folio Edition His Dark Materials! They're gorgeous. Definitely the fanciest books I own. But worth it because these books mean a lot to me.

I love these back to the basic videos but will we continue to see bookshelf roast? 😅

I was one of those people who purchased the entire Wheel of Time series before even finishing the first book. But I and my reasons: 1. I read over half of the first book and was absolutely enthralled and wanted more. 2. I had heard quite a bit about the series from this channel. I am now the proud owner of the mass market paperback editions as well as (my favorite) hardcover editions with original artwork. I want to give a big shout-out and thanks to you and your channel, if it weren't for all your videos on the Wheel of Time, I might have never touched the series. Now whenever a notification for your latest video drops, I immediately click on it. Never stop creating your content, it has really helped me discover new writers and books.

I love Folio Society editions, but damn will I never be able to afford most of them 😂 I know they're worth their money, and I really appreciate they give unknown artists these opportunities, but it does make me a bit sad sometimes to look at all these beautiful books that I will never hold 😂

Your channel got me into folio books, I even sent my bro a £150 down under dollarydoos voucher for folio. I’m so sorry to hear about your flood damage

Woooow Daniel giving reviews in front of his dad’s bookshelf takes me back.

A few of those are amazing. The full WoT set looks pretty good for a paperback set too.

The LOTR bookends at 20:48 are awesome, your dad has great shelves!

Folio’s Frankenstein and Dune Messiah are on my wishlist now. Gosh those books are beautiful

I shared this to my Twitter! Fingers crossed since I've never read TWoT before and my husband is on book 3 on his first read! Our local library has HUGE wait times on this series. 🤞 Great video! The Alice in Wonderland art was INSANE!

I've been thinking about getting the Childhood's End for my day, I'm really glad you reviewed it lol

My parents got me that second Dune book for Christmas 😍 Well, I veeery much asked for it in particular😄 And unboxing that under the Christmas tree was AWESOME!!!

I have a 1961/62 Folio set of Alice in Wonderland, and it is utterly STUNNING. Different art than the current edition but SO so gorgeous, it's one of my prized possessions

I'm very sad that Wheel of Time set isn't available in the US. Man, I would pick that up in a heartbeat.

It me! I am the specific market for that Orbit WoT set. Read the whole series from the library recently and now want my own copies for future re-reads. Definitely like the addition of the box. Cover art seems good not great but the spines are nice so they will look good on the shelf.

I feel your pain, my collection was stored in a garage by well meaning family who didn't understand how damp it is. It's pretty much all foxed now and every time I think about it I want to curl up and die. :(

Even at the $227 price, that's pretty reasonable, because it comes to about $15 per book. Add the fact that you're getting the chest thing to put them in, which provides a really nice display aspect, and how thick some of those books are, and $227 is a great price.

I really regret not buying the Folio version of The Exorcist. The art and packaging really looked great and seemed like it would help set the mood really well. It’s long out of print and i kick myself every fall for not getting it. Didn’t Daniel once trash those WoT editions for the spines being too plain in a bookshelf roast? I seem to recall him saying that without realizing they had one large image across all of the books. I’ve been getting those individually as I read through the series on kindle.

That Juniper edition of WoT is such a crazy price. The full set is spending at least double what new books cost from Amazon. The dust jackets for $225 is kind of nuts too. $15 per dust jacket is steep.

His dark materials is giving the princess bride book in the movie that thegrandpa gives to the kid

That Farseer Trilogy is amazing. Hope Folio make a special edition for the Liveship Trilogy

We need more videos like this!

I will be checking out Folio Society books. (Even _Childhood's End_ which of the ones you mentioned was my favorite story I think. Followed closely by the _Foundation_ series, but I am not taken with the cover art of that edition. My favorite artwork for all of Asimov's works is Michael Whelan's covers. (I LOVE Whelan's artwork in general.)

Holy shit. Do people pay these prices? Really? I get licensecing the property, but my god I'd never pay even half for just a prettier(but sometimes not imho) book. I'm struggling to convince myself to buy the paperback version of Firestarter and not the mass market paperback version with the nicer cover. It's a $4 difference.

I could see myself purchasing folio society books for absolute favorites that will always be on my shelf. So for me that would be Robin Hobb liveship traders and the Bloody Jack series by L.A. Meyer and Garth Nix Abhorsen series and the Dragonbone Chair AND Joe Abercrombie. Actually if I was gonna prioritize I would definitely go for Abercrombie. Daniel can you please make use of your insider trading privileges to ask the folio ppl if they have any Abercrombie books in the works?

Off topic but thanks for introducing me to Suneater, but also goddamn now I have to wait for it to be finished ;_;

This is actually immaculate timing as I was thinking about getting some special edition books.

Regarding the Wheel of Time books, I'm not sure I like the covers. They at least fit well with the books they're made for, but they don't feel very inspired either.

I happened to find the Folio editions of His Dark Materials (like new, quality wise, just missing the box) in a second hand shop years ago for about $13 USD when I was 18 or 19 and knew next to nothing about special editions and had never heard of Folio. Imagine my shock 7 years later when I hear about Folio on youtube and find the exact set I have on their store for $240 USD! :O Insane

They definitely arent worth it to me, but im happy when other people collect them so I can still see them. Its like when you see someone get a tattoo that looks amazing but you would never get it.

Juniper Books has some KILLER collector books as well!

well, some of them go on sale for $300 and inside of 10 years are going for $3000 (Moby Dick)... or LOTR 3-volume set that sold for $1500 a year ago and now goes for north of $3K.. So,, yeah, I'd say they're in demand iF you get the right ones.

I actually just started rereading WOT buying the 3 books set of the Orbit collection. I only had it on ebooks and wanted to have the series in my shelves but wanted to actually have books that I can read on the go. I would love to have a folio collection of WOT or The stormlight archives one day but I cannot afford it right now and I did not have a shelf in my flat when I could afford it in the past :D.

This Wheel of Time set looks to be easier to read than the Nerdforge one ( :

I generally only buy Folio Society that I really want, as they dont retain their value except for a handful of their LE’s. I mostly collect SubPress, Grim Oak, and newer presses like Curious King and Lyra’s.

Having just received a Folio Society copy of "A Wizard of Earthsea" this was an exciting video.

Here in Colombia we don't get so easily Folio society books, however there is a NOVA edition in Spanish of the first Dune book and they share the illustrations and general vibe, beautiful book

Based on how many Folio editions I see in used book sale situations, I’m not sure they are worth it as an investment. BUT if you wanna see your top tier favorite book treated up NICE, which let’s be honest, that’s what we’re here for, they are a great way to go. I got the Pride and Prejudice one and it slaps.

I have the Folio Hobbit and love it. Small pictures for chapter headers in more of a silhouette style , a map for each inner cover, and I believe 2 full art pages. The cover was designed as children's book so it will probably never fit in with any print of LOTR. So it's definitely a love or hate print.

I started buying the Wheel of Time series last year. I started reading them last week. Granted I took that time to buy a matching set of the Tor paperbacks VERY discounted (thanks BookOutlet!) lol. Im about 45% through Eye of the World and I think Ill be happy owning the whole thing.

I love the folio books, I would be afraid to read any of them (especially with a 3 hour old), or at least they would never leave the house. The WoT collection is really nice, I have the hardcovers with the juniper covers and love them. I wish they would make the paperbacks with the ebook covers, that I would buy

Special edition books - I mostly don't worry about, but there are two big exceptions. One is gaming books, which are going to be carted around and read and referenced a lot over an extended period of use, yes, absolutely, I go for the higher-quality printing if it's an option (and reasonable). The other is books that are in and of themselves special enough to keep hold of long-term and potentially pass along to someone who is going to find the book just as special. Like religious families do with bibles (and other religious texts). I've got a few of those - poetry, recipe books, language textbooks, and maybe a few novels. Sucks about the water damage - I live in a wet climate, and that is probably part of the reason I usually don't bother with special editions (my gaming books are currently living in a large stack on a pallette in the middle of the room, because when I tried to shelve them in the corner I was going to use, they started warping and crinkling due to moisture coming in through the walls). It's funny, actually - 'lower quality' paperbacks here are actually a bit more resilient to wet and moisture because they have to be able to survive it in transport. In future, to avoid water-damage - those cheap, plastic packing-tubs are pretty good, provided that they don't crack or break, or have water reach the seal around the top; if any of those things happen they can serve instead to hold water _in_ and turn your books and other water-sensitive items into soup. We usually move anything really water-sensitive (like books and electronics) inside the passenger cabin of a car, on the back seat, where it won't get rained on - but that's not always feasible or practical, so plastic tubs are a nice second choice. If you're really worried about the crack around the lid, you can also masking-tape over that, makes for a pretty good dry-box.

Folio books are amazing. I have most of the books you reviewed and they are some of my favorites. Question, what’s the wheel of time thing on the background? I tried searching it but I couldn’t find it.

The new wheel of time series is amazing value without the discount, but I'm having trouble ordering it. I think they might not ship to The US at all. I contacted their customer support, so hopefully, I will be able to order it.

i have the wheel of time paperbacks too. but instead of the full box its boxes in five sets of three. and there too they put together towers of midnight, a memory of light and new spring. In that order. new spring being at the end was not a mistake. likewise with the complete wheel of time ebook with a matching cover to these editions new spring is at the end.

"It's a MAP!" Me inside every time I see one. 😂 Curious what you think of Subterranean Press, if anything. I'm rarely tempted to spend $$$ on books, but I'm still subscribed to their newsletter so I can see the pretty books they're putting out, and sometimes you can snag good deals on dinged copies. They're currently doing a special edition of Malazan that's so exclusive only people who ordered the first book can purchase the rest, as far as I understand it.

That Frankenstein book has marbling, a historical technique used in lots of government registers and such

I have the his dark materials and I love it

**sobs** i dont have twitter and i don't wanna get it for this, but oh boy am i tempted

As someone still rocking the mass printed paperback Wheel of Time, I might have to spring for that WoT Box Set!

I would really love a Folio-edition of Anne Carsons Sappho-translations, but it's not looking like they will do a reprint.

Well that was a fun journey! Those books are beauuutiful! Dangit, now I want to buy some of them too, pffffft! haha

Oooooooooof, that sucks, man. As a collector of THINGS (books, games, movies, etc), one of the things I'm increasingly worried about as the years roll on is something JUST like that happening to it. For comics and games, some of it is so expensive now, I just don't think I'd be ABLE to replace it without spending an irresponsibly large pile of money, and even for the cheaper stuff like movies and books, it's just... painful. My collections bring me joy, I like having my libraries of STUFF that I like, but also... anxiety. 'F' for your fallen books, my dude.

Ok I legit was confused for a while here, because back home there is indeed a book edition called Folio, which is the complete opposite of this one, proposing pocket edition affordable to all. I spent way too long wondering why you would do a reveal video about cheap french book edition 😂 Guess it's never too late to learn about the existence of Folio Society 😅

Really need to add that Dune: Messiah edition to my shelves. I found the Dune Folio Society version in my local charity shop in pristene condition!

Great vid Dan - because of this channel I purchased the Dune special edition (such a dope cover book) Anyways love these cover/special book edition vids - keep up the great Gobliny work!!

I'm in love with the art in A Clockwork Orange, the cover not so much. Both inside and out on Alice in Wonderland though ❤❤❤ That one has me seriously tempted.

I'm sad that they didn't send you Book of the New Sun, but my god, their Dune Messiah is beautiful!

I got a folio society special edition of blood meridian, there were no other special editions of it that I could find. I would prefer a more classic leather bound like from easton press but sometimes you can't find one like that.

Special editions are only worth it for me in specific situations, like "complete collections" or new illustrated versions, or oversized comic book collections

That edition I think is the exact one that’s been in Australian stores for a little bit!

Just bought all the ASOIAF The-folio special editions. Quite expensive, but after having read ASPIAF 5 times, I felt compelled

Question for the audience, are there any special additions of the Hyperion Cantos out there? It’s my favorite science-fiction series of all time, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen the series, get a special edition treatment. I feel like that’s a tremendous amount of missed potential, as the series has such evocative imagery, it’s practically begging for interior artwork.

the orbit editions of the Wheel of Time are the ones I own, I love joe uniform they look with just the changes in the colour of the logo :))

What a horrible thing to happen to books, I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. The amount of horror I felt as you talked about the leak.

The Frankenstein choosing the color of the ice surrounding the storyteller is an interesting choice! 🧊

for the WOT set, if you divide the regular price here in the uk, it comes out to abour £12 per book, which is about the price of chunky paperbacks here anyways. i think it's a good deal

Love my Folio books. My favourite standard editions are Dune/Dune Messiah. Have to say, I like Childhood's End ... it's all subjective. And my favourite FS limited of all time is the LOTR limited edition signed/illustrated by Alan Lee.

Goblin King, are you ready for the snow we're supposedly getting tonight into tomorrow? Boston Proper might be mostly slushified but one can hope for a real storm!!

Dune looks great- but for me Folio's A Song of Ice and Fire are the most impressive fantasy book they have made. It knocks my socks off everytime lol