/lit/ - Literature

read ebooks

Hardcovers pleb. If you haven't gotten through the western canon via leatherbound classics with translations atleast 60 years old than you have absolutely no reason to be reading paperback fiction.

>>10181427
How do people have an issue with this? Just don't open the book so far that it puts pressure on the stitching of the spine.

>>10181427
Go for the clitoris m8

>>10181441
>>10181449
I borrowed a book from somebody who told me to leave the spine spotless, which I never give a fuck about.

>>10181457
This

>>10181427
stop being a faggot and just crack the spines

>>10181454
I'm reckless. If I get into a book I want to treat like shit. It endears me to the book.

>>10181449
kys

Read hardcovers
The only way to keep a paperback from closing without holding it 2-handed is to bend the spine
People who worry about their books looking beat up are retards

>>10181458
Welp guess you're not allowed to open it then

>>10181458
Then don't spill anything on it or mark it with anything. Creases =/= spots.

this is my amazing technique OP. if you are reading on a table, leave the cover under the page you are reading on the table and the other cover leave it 90º. as you advance a page, you flip the whole book and repeat the process.

or, if you are holding the book on your hands just don't open it all the way through, go as far as like 120º

thats my copy of IJ, it was even called 'unread' by some retards here

>>10181881
Oh man that's the most autistic thing i've seen here all day and i've been in the 'oxbridge pasta' thread and the 'oxbridge pasta thread' thread

>>10181881

>>10181881
Why would you do this with run of the mill paperbacks? It boggles the mind. I can understand it if you're examining the original Doomsday book or something.

>>10181427
was Carli the one who said she would read books like a retard to not crack the spine? I can't remember. It also might have been Agatha but I don't think she actually reads books

>>10181901
>>10181900
>>10181892
idk guys, I've always found those ways comfortable to read and have always read it like that, mostly the holding the book, not on a table. it was just unconsciouss, its not like I was trying not to fuck with the book, it just happened that the way I like to read preserves the book


im not that autist come on

>>10181427
Step 1) Only buy books that are really going to stretch you intellectually.

Step 2) Never get past the first 10 pages, leaving the spina very much intacta.

>>10181458
You should have just said fuck your book then and given it back to him.

But then again I barely ever manages to crack the spine of books unless they're really thick like The Count of Monte Cristo or something

>>10181427
WOW, another great fucking thread. How to store books...How to not crease spine...How to arrange by genre...How to stay focused.

You guys will makes threads about everything book related except for actually discussing the content...

>>10181916
Yes it was her, and about it was about an Austen novel, so cute huh...

>>10182168
welcome to /lit/

>>10181454
>laying on couch reading book still being careful not to crease the spine, 600+ pages in
>g/f walks over and straddles me
>I continue reading
>g/f takes book from me and lays it on my chest, spread open
>audibly hear something that sounds like glue separating
>see the spine is creased and get pissed off, pointing it out to her
>'oh anon, that's been there for days' and walks away

>>10181427
>tips on how to not crack or crease a spine?
Stop reading books.

>>10181917
I do this too anon, glued spines just aren't the same as sewn ones and you can just feel that you shouldn't open it all the way like you can do with better bound books

>>10181427
soak the entire book in vegetable oil

>>10181427
Just do what the rest of this board does and not read it at all.

>>10181458
Unless you're a fucking ape, there no reason to crack the spine unwillingly, especially if the book doesn't belong to you. So be a gentle giant there, big guy, and treat it like somebody else's property, which it is, and isn't your to drool over, k?

>>10182290
/thread

>>10181427
My daddy taught me how not to crack the spine by using someone else's mouth instead of your hands.

>>10181458
Really depends on how thick the book is.

Who gives a fuck about the spine or condition if it's a mass-produced book? Just read it.

>>10183012
its the count of monte cristo.....

>>10181427
I've noticed some spines get creased after the first read, and some don't even after few reads (not depending on thickness). Depends on the publisher. The mass produced ones like all of Penguin's publishers and subpublishers get creased easly. Wordsworth too. I have yet to discover a goos English publisher.

>>10183963

Almost any mass market sized book will. Trade paperbacks because of the way they fold open from their increased size, prevent spine damage.

>>10181427
Dip the entire book in wax and never give it back.

>>10182954
this is pure bullshit

>>10181458
Tell me about the rabbits George...

>>10181881
> it was even called 'unread' by some retards here
if your book is not falling apart and borderline illegible from notes then it might as well be unread

>>10185568
>writing in books
hat's fucking disgusting

>>10181881
lel

>>10183881
Just give it back and get your own copy. Way too thick and just begging for an argument. Just buy your own copy and do as you please. I recommend the Penguin Buss translation. These mass produced books are going to age, yellow, and brittle anyway so your friend is being too anal about it.

>>10185846
thats the one I borrowed. Yeah going to give it back and tell him its too much of a hassle. I don't always crack books but with penguins I'm batting 1000

>>10181427
Don't read duh