Dissappointed In Book Quality Lately? Options

Is anyone here besides me, dissappointed in the quality of books being put out today. I'm not referring to their content (although you seem to be getting less and less of that also), but more in terms of construction. I know most occult books don't sell in volume to warrant the nice, hardbound tome of a book we all (most?) yearn after as a way of connecting with the scribes of antiquity, but it seems even the nicer-looking "perfect bound" books fall apart rather quickly. I still have books from the seventies I've had since they were new that are still in fairly good shape. I even have some of my mother's books from the 40's that are not damaged. yet, I find that new books I buy have only about a 50% chance of surviving the first reading.

Anyone else come across this problem?

I have thought this too and I did a quick inspection of my bookshelf only a few weeks back and I notice that the stitched books that seem to collect a few pages at a time and run a thread through the middle are ok but the glued ones fall apart easily after some months or it you try to flatten them to read them. I am thinking this is because we don't tend to hang onto books for as long as we did, we pass them onto charity shops etc.

I bought a lovely and well written book on symbols last month but I think this one is also glued - hence what seemed to be a good price for it.

I think I would rather buy one less book a year but have it of durable quality.

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