#25

I just put it face down on the pages I’m reading.

When I was at uni and didnt have room for a bookcase or a side-table by my bed, I piled the books up by my bed and used it as a table. Mentioned this to some people on my course and one girl I didn’t even know FLIPPED THE FUCK OUT about it and yelled at me for disrespecting books. (Fuck knows how she’d have reacted if she knew that I bent page corners and used highlighters to highlight useful quotes for essays.)

happy to disrespect books if it meant getting a First tho tbf tbh

#26

Most disrespectful thing you could do to a book

  • Fold a page corner
  • Write in the margin
  • Fuck it
  • Shit on it
  • Leave it untouched, in pristine condition on a shelf but it’s unread…

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#27

Oooh wouldn’t want the book I’m reading to look like its been read oooh noooooo

Grow up. Pathetic

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#28

That’s not what I said you doofus.

#29
  • Sure, I’ll read a book in the bath
  • Oooh I have to respect the sanctity of paper for some reason

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#30

I also find if you’ve folded enough corners it gets tricky to find the latest (if you’re knackered). Something sticking out is obvious AF.

#31

only thing worse is people who use highlighter on textbooks

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#32

Was it a reply to you niki?

#33

I buy books literally every week and have done for years. Anything i spot by a good author in charity shops i buy. If i find an interesting subject i’ll buy a few good books on it second hand off Ebay, anything - the Suez Canal, the history of cricket, got into the Congo once, or particular authors - Iain Banks, Hunter S Thompson, Graham Greene. I’ve easily got a thousand books. I’ve read about four of them.

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#34

1 bookmark = 1 respect

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#36

Idwiw

#37

If only you cared less about respecting books and more about respecting the feelings of others

#38

I now only keep books I expect I’ll want to read again. No room / point keeping a mildly diverting book on the shelf forever more, and move it from flat to flat like an idiot.

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#39

only really feel bad about treating my dads books like shit because he keeps them in pristine condition for years somehow and as soon as i get my hands on them they’re all bent out of shape