/lit/ - Literature

>>22375072
I dont care what faggots do with their books. Just keep your hands of mine.

Sounds like he is a genius to me. If this were 20 years ago, that is. Now he is a retard for not using an ebook. Of course, we all know the post is bait and this thread is even worse vait

>>22375088
He wants to remember what he reads, that's why he reads actual books.

>>22375072
I've done it with omnibuses I have no intention of keeping. Feels bad (normally I don't even crack spines), but it does make things easier to port and read.

>>22375072
Wouldn’t it fall apart

I remember hearing somewhere that Penn Jillette reads moby dick every year or some shit and that every page he reads of it he rips out so that the book gets smaller and more portable as he reads it.

>>22375072
I guess paperbacks are supposed to be disposable because they self-destruct as you read them so whatever.

>>22375072
What the fuck?! This guy! He has the audacity...He... Well that's actually pretty clever.

>>22375072
I do this, but I cut it vertically into little pieces which I then put into my pockets and puzzle them back togheter when I'm about to read

>>22375762
based Borroughs

>>22375072
Middlesex more like middlecut :D

>>22375072
>he doesnt walk around with cargo pants sporting abyss sized pockets

>>22375091
I remember all the ebooks I read. Are you retarded or something? Do you forget this thread as soon as you leave the site?

>>22375888
>Do you forget this thread as soon as you leave the site?
I hope so.

>>22375888
>reading
>e-books
pick one, ebooks are not books

>>22375099
I used to scan comics. Not necessarily.
If it's cut cleanly then most of it'll hold together well and some good taping/glue gunning'll keep anything going. Hell, make a rear cover out of card, put a plastic dust jacket on it like the library and it''ll survive a nuke.

>>22377136
What was that supposed to mean?

>>22377136
You think you’re far more intelligent than you actually are.

>>22375888
Not that guy but it's easy to forget a book you read a decade and a half ago
Just gets worse with time

I bought war and peace for my mum one Christmas but the cunt never read it

>>22375072
How is he going to read Infinite Jest's end notes now?

>>22375356
i rebind paperbacks that fall apart
it's stupid easy
just rip the paper cover off,
put a fresh layer of PVA glue on the spine and stick on some paper to hold it together harder,
then cut the hard spine and covers out of some tough board and lay them out on the fabric so there's like a cm gap between for them to flex
then glue em to the fabric and fold in the loose fabric edges (don't glue those yet)
then glue the new flyleaves (one page "inward" from the old flyleaves, but usually those pages are the publisher's page or blank, so no loss there) onto the new cover. don't glue the spine.
then glue the loose fabric edges onto the glued flyleaves. if you do it right you shouldn't see the shitty glue-y edges.
done
it sounds like a lot but it takes like half an hour at the very most. just remember to cut the cardboard with like a cm of extra space plus the size of the book because you want some overhang.
i do this to all paperbacks that i care about and want to reread

>>22379070
that shit is hella boring

>>22375869
based

>>22375091
what kind of phenomenal brainlet are you that you can't remember what you read unless it's in a specific type of packaging?

>>22375072
He sounds like he has been doing it for attention, not for practical purposes. Even his twitter post reflects that intention.

>>22375091
If you immerse yourself in a book,(for this case let's assume fiction) then you'll 100% remember it well. Most people just let the words just go over their head and don't remember what they read. I'm also guilty of this sometimes.

>>22375091
Is this a meme or do you simply lurk every thread at all times to post this?