u/No_Cranberry_2206

First let me say I have absolutely no idea what flair to use. If I did wrong and can change it please tell me I will do it.

*Okay so I have to edit this because as I was uploading it didn’t let me write text.

EDIT:
Finally what I wanted to talk about..
I’m not a book nerd so this is just a little observation from a newbie and I would like to know what experience do you have guys.

Ive noticed that quality of this books was progressively worse (in different ways) as I was buying them. Sadly.
Let me tell you more about it and I would like to know your experience.

So I bought all this books (except THG) in Austria in 2026 and had to wait 1 month for each of them for delivery as this covers are not available in libraries here.
Only the first one (The Hunger Games) I bought on Vinted so it has a little different background in the context of what it came through.

The pictures goes:

1. All the books together
2. Look on the shades of paper on all of them closed

3.-20. Books in the order as they came out for each there are 3 pictures (except TBOSAS)

1-I was checking how see-through the paper is when there is black page underneath
2-quality of full black pages
3-see-through paper but we look for text underneath

THG
-Is from Vinted so I don’t know how the other person was treating it
-I myself read it twice and at safety of home only
I- personally think the quality is the best.. it got the most reads of all of them so far.. the corners and all are in pretty good shape and there is no peeling..
-I also prefer this colour of paper the most tbh but I don’t know if it’s because of its age (unknown) or if it was made like this purposefully.

CF
-Read it once and at home only, so no harsh conditions
-No peeling on the cover

M
-Read it once and at home only so no harsh conditions
-No peeling on the cover

TOBOSAS
There is few additional pictures for this one.
-The book was bonded together pretty uneven which caused kind of unpleasant experience listing the pages while reading :( you can see it on the closed book and I also tried to take one picture from inside. It doesn’t look that bad but trust me it feels very bumpy under the fingers.
-Another thing is that the cover started curl and peel off. (I read it only once so far and at home.. I try to treat my books nicely and all the same)

SOTR
-I haven’t even start reading. It just arrived today so I cannot judge on the outside cover yet but excuse me but what happened to black pages ? The print is so uneven and the contrast was lost.
-The pages are also noticeably thinner and more see through

ALL TOGETHER
For all of them (except SOTR.. I haven’t read it yet) I want to also note that print is across all the pages fairly uneven as well some pages have super dark ink and some are pretty light grey colour. I feel like the paper was

Please let me know how do you feel about this and if your experience was the same or different. I would also like to know how it is with hardcover books for example or special editions.

Thank you for reading and I’m sorry for my English (not my first language)
I will be looking forward to your opinions :)

Are they aging horribly or what is going on ?

(I of course searched also outside of Pinterest! I also looked up random artists with similar style and while I found some healed pictures I couldn’t find anything aged with this type of thing)

First picture is from summer 2022 and the second I took a minute ago so summer 2026.
It’s my first tattoo ever and I didn’t have opportunity to get more of them yet so I cannot compare.

So basically my question is, is this kind of blurring normal? I don’t have pictures from previous years but I remember that it looked like this very shortly after it was done.
What I was the most surprised about is the fact that on the purple heart the top stayed nice and thin but literally everything else just blurred Immediately after it healed.
I took care of it exactly as i was recommended by the artist.. I even bought cleaning products and cream from her and followed everything to the last dot.

Each heart is made with ink of different brand (don’t remember the brands)

I of course expected some blurring but I don’t know why it’s uneven and want to understand.

What do you guys think?

Maybe less important addition:
I had one guy with many tattoos tell me that it’s overdone and that she went too deep and that’s why it blurred so much/ unevenly.