I recently bought four short stories, bound in a tiny hardback. (
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It costed me 3,95 euros (about £2,6/ $5,5). I agree that you pay more for each story than you would in an anthology, but I found it really easy to take with me and in general I felt like it was a great buy. The advantage is: it's cheap it's small and easy to read through. Sometimes I feel like people buy an anthology and they don't finish all the stories.
What do you think? Still prefer short story anthologies, which feature a lot of stories and are in fact novel length?
Of course you can state: why not buy a magazine? And I agree (in Belgium we don't have magazines that feature fiction stories, but that doesn't make the argument untrue). But on the other hand, the thing with a lot of magazines is, that you are not able to hop into its style easily (you don't have the beginning of certain continuous stories, you have the adds, who can be a bit distracting and so on)
any thoughts?