/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10640162]

>People who open their books so wide they damage the spine
>People who fold the covers back so they can hold the book one handed
>People who dog-ear the pages of their books
>People who don't wash their hands before they read and end up with the thumb-streak on the edges of the page

[Anonymous No.10640229]

>>10640162
sometimes I get food stains on my books, but only the really good ones that I can't stop reading while I cook and eat.

[Anonymous No.10640282]

>>10640162
>REEE BOOKS SHOULD ALWAYS BE PRISTINE AS IF NO ONE EVER TOUCHED THEM
pseud

[Anonymous No.10640310]

>>10640282

>Books need to be damaged to look like they've been read

[Anonymous No.10640388]

Just vanity, until you're actually getting at the binding or tearing up/staining pages it's still perfectly readable.

[Anonymous No.10640427]

>>10640310
nobody said that. it's just an unimportant matter of personal taste. there's no reason to get so het up about it.

[Anonymous No.10640433]

>>10640162
>people who post anime

[Anonymous No.10640443]

>>10640162

>Accidentally leave a book in the car
>It becomes warped and curved from the heat

I burn them after that, I can't stand to look at the horrid things.

They're like acid-attack victims, its a mercy that I put them down.

[Anonymous No.10640456]

Your description sounds like the way I treat pussy.

[Anonymous No.10640461]

>>10640456
Well, if I got any. Forgot to add that, my fault.

[Anonymous No.10640466]

>>10640461
>he doesn't cum in his books

faggot detected

[Anonymous No.10640472]

>People who fold the covers back so they can hold the book one handed
>he doesn't do this

Enjoy holding a cumbersome book two feet wide sometimes.

I mean, I definitely don't do it all the time, but if the book is obtusely large, it's much easier.

[Anonymous No.10640480]

>>10640472
Are you reading Atlases at the beach?

[Anonymous No.10640485]

>People who burn their books after reading them

[Anonymous No.10640491]

>>10640480
>I never go outside

[Anonymous No.10640493]

>>10640162
>People who rip out a chapter they dont like
>FROM A LIBRARY BOOK

[Anonymous No.10640504]

>>10640485
>People who keep their books after reading them

Actual vanity and consumerism at its height. You don't read for the literature, you just want the books to show off. Donate them, throw them away, burn them, do literally ANYTHING but keep them around once you're finished with them.

[Anonymous No.10640505]

>>10640162
books aren't handwritten anymore sweetie

[Anonymous No.10640509]

>>10640491

What fucking books are two feet wide when held open?

You hitting up the Magic School Bus series at the park, b?

[Anonymous No.10640546]

>>10640504
>not liking a book enough to keep it
>not rereading books
>not keeping what you bought

[Anonymous No.10640561]

I unironically love dog earing and marking up my book with notes. Makes me feel like a big brain.

[Anonymous No.10640565]

>>10640561
Makes me feel engaged.

[Anonymous No.10640627]

>>10640546
>rereading books

Is your memory that bad?

[Anonymous No.10640635]

>>10640627
>thinking that's the only reason to reread
Come on now, use your big brain.

[Anonymous No.10640655]

I wash my hands but I read for such long lengths of time I get that thumb streak from natural perspiration anyway and I can't stand it

[Anonymous No.10640663]

>>10640493
>go to a small town library
>open a book
>all the sex scenes, and any pages proximal to them, are ripped out

This has happened to me at least three times. The bible belt is fucked.

[Anonymous No.10640690]

>>10640635
Odds are, Most of your friends don't read. Keeping books in hopes of letting them borrow them is stupid.

If you keep the book because you genuinely like them. Destroy them and buy a high quality hard cover version and let it sit on your book shelf.

If you think throwing away something after you've used it is bad.... Well you're a hoarder.

[Anonymous No.10640694]

>>10640663
Luckily I live in California. No CENSORSHIP for me KEKBOYS!
and if anything offends the libs, odds are I can just buy a cheap copy anyways.

[Anonymous No.10640712]

>>10640162
I burn, sell, or donate my books when I'm done with them.
Sometimes I get large stacks of my used books and glue the pages together then glue the books together and paint all white or black and make furniture out of them.

[Anonymous No.10640722]

>>10640162

Europoor from Italy here: our books are just indestructible, the quality of the paper is better, the covers look better, and unless you throw them into a pot of boiling water full of pasta or a pizza oven they'll keep being beautiful for years.

Saluti from my patrician attic in Rome, where we don't need to have OCD to keep paperbacks in good conditions, plebei del cazzo

[Anonymous No.10640734]

>>10640663
How do you what the pages were of they’re ripped out?

[Anonymous No.10640739]

>>10640722
>italy here
and post discarded

[Anonymous No.10640754]

>>10640734
You're an idiot. Reread your post.

But I'm pretty sure you can tell the pages are ripped out because the pages will be missing.

For example you'll be on page 20 and suddenly the book will jump to page 40. It's very obvious.

[Anonymous No.10640756]

>>10640690
>destroying books is putting them to use
I'm all for donating, since I will likely get tired of some books or even have some bad books I don't even want anymore. Also, do you have any concept of sentimentality? Feels like you don't since you don't care to keep any book at all. I kind of get where you're coming from, but, are there any books you kept for sentimental value? And:
>rebuying books for the hardcover

[Anonymous No.10640771]

>>10640739

[Anonymous No.10640773]

>>10640754
Yeah, but how he know they were of sex if they’re of ripped out?

[Anonymous No.10640779]

>>10640773
Either he's assuming or he's read them before or someone told him.

[Anonymous No.10640783]

>>10640739
Why?

[Anonymous No.10640791]

>>10640773
Do you have autism?

[Anonymous No.10640802]

>>10640443
That only happened to me once, I learned my lesson after that.

[Anonymous No.10640807]

>>10640722
this post made laugh but
>our books are just indestructible
I classici mondadori si rovinano un sacco

[Anonymous No.10640861]

>>10640807

Sì ma solo perché imitano i penguin - e comunque i nuovi classici con la doppia copertina da giocattoloni sono meno peggio.. Però se vedi gli Einaudi, i BUR (dio li benedica), piccola biblioteca adelphi, ecc. alcuni puoi tirarli contro il muro e ti rimbalzano addosso restando uguali.
Di base il post era odio contro Penguin paperbacks e basta, non sopporto la carta... E le copertine fanno cagare, la maggior parte.

Felice di non essere il solo italiano qui, comunque, se troviamo qualcun altro bisogna fare un meeting ita/lit/

[Anonymous No.10641018]

>>10640162
Maybe you should consider not buying used books if this bothers you so much.

[Anonymous No.10641055]

>>10640861
Tutto vero.
>Felice di non essere il solo italiano qui, comunque, se troviamo qualcun altro bisogna fare un meeting ita/lit/
Siamo almeno una ventina, credo. comunque io al meetup non ci verrei, tutto quell'autismo insieme mi sarebbe fatale

[Anonymous No.10641293]

>>10641055

A me incuriosirebbe solo vedere quando sono autistici gli italiani di 4chan. Secondo me sarebbero più che altro studenti spocchiosi di letteratura stile Bookchemist

[Anonymous No.10641625]

>>10641018
If you’re paying more than five bucks for a book, you’re a cuck

[Anonymous No.10641651]

>>10640655
>he doesn't use a reading glove

[Anonymous No.10641727]

>>10641625
or you have a taste for obscure books.

[Anonymous No.10642502]

>>10641727
It's all online

[Anonymous No.10643162]

>>10640282
pseuds spend their whole lives adding books to their collection but never reading them, so the idea that a book might become worn over time is an unnatural and thus repulsive one to them.

[Anonymous No.10644005]

>>10640162
Academic books should be read hard. Virgin margins are an affront to the human intellect.

[Anonymous No.10644113]

>books, not .pdf

[Anonymous No.10644145]

>>10640504
I want my children to read them faggot, or am I supposed to let them buy it again in the future?

[Anonymous No.10644190]

>>10640162
I do all these. Also I fold pages in half and throw dust jackets in the trash.

They're my books, so...

[Anonymous No.10644232]

>>10641055
>typing spoiler in english
Fake italian spotted try again tryhard

[Anonymous No.10644441]

>>10642502
It's really not though.

[Anonymous No.10644788]

>>10644145

>having children in a world of 7+ billion people

Ah, a man of no morals

[Anonymous No.10645335]

>>10644441
Name something that isn’t online

[Anonymous No.10645432]

[Anonymous No.10645474]

I like to fold the book in half, sometimes I make sure to fold it with extra force to make sure there is a fold in the spine. I like the transformation from unread to read.

[Anonymous No.10645488]

>>10640509
Anything that is printed like a textbook? I have a copy of Principles of Economics by Carl Menger that’s big like that, and a copy of Emile by Rousseau that I’m reading which I flip the cover back on constantly.

My copy of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay also was about as big as a textbook and I folded the cover back on that and held it one handed.

Not everyone reads little fiction books all day, pleb.

[Anonymous No.10645507]

>>10645488

You're going to have to post a picture, because I have no idea how you flip a textbook cover without actually destroying the book.

[Anonymous No.10645515]

>>10645474
>I want it to looked read
This is pseud shit on the level of those people who buy those tacky barnes and noble hardcovers

[Anonymous No.10645534]

The worst is grease stains. If I get a grease stain I have to cut it out of the page because I'd rather have a little whole than a grease stain.

However, I myself fold books in half and dog ear pages (book marks fall out, dog ears are forever).

[Anonymous No.10645609]

>>10645515
I own three of those :3

[Anonymous No.10645697]

>>10640504
What if you want to reread it?

[Anonymous No.10645705]

>>10644005
>Virgin margins are an affront to the human intellect
wew

[Anonymous No.10645708]

>>10640282
Sorry if you're a fucking animal that can't manage to not get stains on your reading material then something is wrong with you, famalam.

[Anonymous No.10646068]

>>10645708
it's just that sometimes I'm eating spaghetti with one hand and holding the book in the other and a little sauce gets on the page... irritating but not the end of the world.

[Anonymous No.10646102]

>>10646068

[Anonymous No.10646131]

>>10646102
I've also run out of bookmarks so I keep my place by laying the book open and pages down on the table and then it sometimes ends up underneath piles of other things for a bit.

[Anonymous No.10646186]

>>10646131
That's not as bad. Good attempt at triggering me, though!

[Anonymous No.10646207]

>>10646186
once I annotated a copy of Revolutionary Road then realised my annotations were completely redundant so I tore off the margins of all the pages I'd written on.

[Anonymous No.10646212]

>>10646207
Now you've done it.

[Anonymous No.10646310]

>mom says it’s my turn to read Ulysses

[Anonymous No.10646389]

>>10640504
filthy communist

[Anonymous No.10646393]

books are just paper faggot get over it

[Anonymous No.10646921]

>>10646393
Books are more than the paper they’re made of

[Anonymous No.10647015]

I deeply enjoy seeing my cheap paperback books completely torn appart when I finish reading them. I display them proudly on my shelf.

[Anonymous No.10647019]

>>10646921
yeah so the paper doesn't matter

[Anonymous No.10647063]

>>10640627
Wow, and that's the only reason to read a book again, right?

[Anonymous No.10647076]

>>10640807
>>10640861
>>10641055
>>10641293
Y'all so beautiful arguing on that strong and bold language

[Anonymous No.10647090]

>>10640690
>keeping your books us the height of consumerism
>if you really like a book burn it and BUY ANOTHER ONE

[Anonymous No.10647184]

>>10647090
Steal, faggot

[Anonymous No.10647214]

>>10640162
>People who don't wear gloves whenever they handle a book
>People who take books outside
>People who don't clean their books before and after each use

[Anonymous No.10647228]

>>10645335
The Zohar

[Anonymous No.10647307]

>caring about cheap paperbacks
>not liking the aesthetic of a book being worn down as you live with it

never gonna make it
your ideals of aesthetics are too regimented, linear... boring.

fag

[Anonymous No.10647349]

>>10647307
>never gonna make it

Gonna make... what?

[Anonymous No.10647457]

>i run my thumbnail along the page as i'm reading. every book i've read has a soft and/or slightly torn page edge
>sometimes i get papercuts doing this and smear blood on the pages
>i dogear my books
>if i don't dogear them, i leave them open page-down to the point i left off
>if the book was printed recently, i guarantee i'll smudge the ink every other page at least
>i will reread these damaged books without caring

eh. i don't mind a read-looking book

[Anonymous No.10648152]

>>10647457
There’s a difference between “looks read” and “looks like it came from a crime scene”

[Anonymous No.10648847]

>>10644788
>letting a population of people dumber than outbreed you

Ah, a man of no brains

[Anonymous No.10648868]

>>10640162
>Books

[Anonymous No.10649159]

>>10640162
>bought an old used copy of the Iliad at a book sale
>book has been sitting on a shelf the last 30 years
>mfw as soon as I start reading it the spine literally breaks and large chunks of pages start falling out

[Anonymous No.10649198]

>>10640162
>people who touch their books
>people who don't judge the books by its cover

[Anonymous No.10649458]

>>10647184
talk to >>10640504 about it, friend.

[Anonymous No.10649823]

>>10640627
>reading is about memorizing stories

[Anonymous No.10649968]

>>10649159

I love how you overreact to the smallest things, the Iliad is probably the easiest book to find in any bookstore, behind the bible.

[Anonymous No.10651371]

>>10649823
Where did he say that?