doubleofive said:

I'm afraid of tearing them up since I have the originals that were my mom's. I'm too cheap to buy a new copy, but I suppose I could someday.

Man, you can get all three in one larger binding for just a few bucks. That's what I did. I have saving copies of Splinter & The Daley books, and also I have reading copies. My reading copies get tossed into suitcases for long flights, sit in drawers, hit the floor when I fall asleep reading, etc. They get pretty beat up.

I bought this earlier this year as my new reading version;

and I just bought this reading version of Splinter this past weekend;

If you're buying online, remember that a Trade Paperback is a nicer, larger, and heavier paperback compared to the common Mass Market Paperback. I get mass market paperbacks as reading copies because they're easier to handle.