At a library book sale recently, I acquired an 8th printing of Douglas
Adams' "Life, the Universe and Everything" to replace the BCE edition
that I had. I was surprised to find that the BCE edition was bigger in
size than the regular edition, quite the opposite of what one expects.
True the regular edition had a better binding, stated the price and the
edition. But why the size reversal, if anyone knows?


Francis A. Miniter