WotC warped book covers...

[barsoomcore]

My CoC and Arms & Equipment were both pretty badly bowed. I hunted through a stack of Fiend Folios to find one that was straight. Ish.

For some reason I seem to have acquired the knack of showing up at my FLGS just as they're opening the latest box of goodies from WotC, so I usually get my pick of the new arrivals.

But I can affirm that this is not something happening due to mishandling in the stores -- they're coming out of the boxes like this.

 

[PowerWordDumb]

Both Savage Species and Fiend Folio have had this in Ontario. My Arms & Equipment Guide was fine though.

Hope it gets straightened out, or that at least it's not something that's going to get progressively worse over time.

 

[MerricB]

Hey, they're warped in Australia as well.

There's a big QA issue here that WotC should look into as soon as possible.

Cheers!

 

[haiiro]

Oh, I should mention that I fixed my covers rather easily, the most recent being Races of Faerun. Believe it or not, the first thing I did was get a real good hold on that sucker and bend the holy crap out of it in the opposite direction. After that, about an hour of sitting under my PH, DMG, MM, MMII, D20 Modern, ELH and Savage Species, it was perfect.

Several of my WotC books have had bent covers (A&EG was the most recent), and I have also been able to fix them easily. I bend them gently (but firmly) and slowly in the opposite direction, and then just shelve them normally. Thus far, this has corrected the problem every time.

The only time a bent cover has kept me from buying a book was with Godlike. In the case of every copy of Godlike that I've seen, both covers were bent in the same direction -- and all of the pages were bent the same way. This produced an almost concave effect, and made reading the book very irritating. Couple that with flimsy paper and I decided not to buy the book at all (despite how much I'm interested in it).

I haven't had any WotC books that have had the curved covers and curved pages, so I consider it a pretty minor problem (and easily correctable).

(Edit: typo.)

 

[Dr. Harry]

Include me on the list of people that have encountered this. Hey...check that out. This seems to be a rather pervasive problem in Texas!

Oh, I should mention that I fixed my covers rather easily, the most recent being Races of Faerun. Believe it or not, the first thing I did was get a real good hold on that sucker and bend the holy crap out of it in the opposite direction. After that, about an hour of sitting under my PH, DMG, MM, MMII, D20 Modern, ELH and Savage Species, it was perfect.

Say ... I'm currently living in Kingsville, (near Corpus Christi) and I've had that problem with Savage Species, Arms & Equipment, Fiend Folio...

It's good(?) to know that its like that everywhere, or I'd have to drive to Lousiana or Matamoros.

As posted above, I fixed mine the same way you did.

 

[Dr. Harry]

Hey, they're warped in Australia as well.

There's a big QA issue here that WotC should look into as soon as possible.

Cheers!

At the very least, they should instruct the store owners to squish 'em under a stack of books for an hour or so to make them more appealing.

 

[roytheodd]

The last few WotC hardcovers have had warped covers. After a few days of use and getting sandwiched between other books the curve goes away in my experience.

 

[KB9JMQ]

So far the only book I have that is warped is Fiend Folio.
I hope that is the only one.

 

[JohnNephew]

Warped hardcovers are generally the result of a glue vis a vis humidity/moisture. We've had to send books back to the printer for de-warping. What they do is actually just to wipe down the books' inside covers, on the endpapers, with a damp sponge. Put some cheap cardboard/particle board in there, between the endsheets, and put something heavy on top. Leave overnight. The tiny bit of moisture will loosen up the glue and label and allow the cover boards to return to their natural flat shape.

It seems to me that we've had the biggest problems with warping in the winter (when it's very dry), and conversely books that we've had in the warehouse through the summer (with higher humidity) seem to lose the problem. Sometimes too problems crop up when a printer makes some minor change in their plant -- storing books in a different (hotter/colder/wetter/dryer) corner of their plant, or switching glue brands, or what have you.

 

[Buttercup]

My Arms & Equipment Guide is warped. I've had it at the bottom of a stack of books for a week or so, and it hasn't fixed the problem. Time to add a dictionary to the top of the pile, I guess.