/lit/ - Literature

>He's never watched BLACKED

That's why you buy a two volume hardback edition

>>12166911
with your hands, you whimp.

>>12166911
Very carefully. Try tweezers.

>>12166921
Okay, but how do I deal with the enormous gutter loss? It's like trying to read a book printed on two halves of a watermelon side by side.

>>12166911
>he didnt buy a first edtion hard cover
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=8107370554&cm_mmc=gmc-_-nonisbn-_-PLA-_-v01&gclid=Cj0KCQiAoo7gBRDuARIsANeJKUYUxBBYTcXbkTAzYFSxZNiiXWdD1nJqTpmk4E9dWxkW4ONMjjiAX-QaAmF_EALw_wcB

>handlets

>>12168325

>he didn't read Victor Hug's handwritten manuscripts

>>12166911
Never read a book that has been made into a musical.

>>12166954
use your hands dope. literally rotate the book so the page you are reading faces you and is visible in full. i read that same printing. signet or whatever it was. it's a brick. just deal with it as a consequence of your cheapness.

>>12168435
your loss

>>12168435
> never read one of the greatest gifts to literature just because some capitalist in the 80s thought it'd be a good idea to add some songs to it

>>12168591
>everyone that isn't a financially impotent NEET is an evil capitalist

>>12168595
are people who write musicals capitalists then? especially if they're musicals based on already renowned works in the public domain? I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but it's definitely something a capitalist would do.

Just fold the fucking spine bro

>>12168435
>tfw no Brothers Karamazov musical
'Who Murdered Father?' would be the show-stopper

>>12168611
Not gunna lie, I'm scared.

>>12168663
don't do it, anon

>>12166911
The absolute state of paperback readers.

Hardcover master race.

>>12166911
>glorifying the french revolution
you guys are plebs in the most literal sense.

>>12166911
>>12169174
Stay out of my sight, paper-subhumans.

>>12169249
>solar flare happens
How are you going to read when it destroy your e-reader?

>>12166954
You are supposed to throw it in the paper recycling bin after reading.

>>12169304
>How are you going to prepare for day X?
Kek. Honestly, I was just bantering, of course paper-books are pleasant to hold. I don't even own an e-reader, but I think it'd be nice to have, since I have thousands of .pdfs on my computer.
Which one would you reccomend?

You spilt it in half, most paperback can be bent over backwards and then you easily split them in half.

just tear out the pages as you go so it gets thinner

Step up senpai

>>12169249
I actually prefer e-readers to physical now and the biggest reason is simply how easy it is to hold an e-reader. If you're reading something non-fiction where you may be flipping back and forth repeatedly physical is obviously better, but nobody will convince me in a hundred years that the average book is better to hold than a device that weights a third of a pound roughly and can turn a page on a single tap.

>>12166954
>>12166911
>>12168438
>tfw Kindle masterrace

Like the trash romance novel it is

Just hollow out the book and glue all the pages together then put a kindle in it so it looks like you're reading it on the train.

>>12169249
That’s a old ass kindle you poor

>>12166911
Try for small amounts, like twenty pages per sitting.

>>12169574
How did the spines survive?

>>12170769
I have the same edition of War and Peace and a later 80's penguin Les Mis which is still in the small size. The trick is not being a gibbon and holding your books correctly

>Not buying 100+ year old leather bound editions of books exclusively

In public in a cafe because your gay

>>12166911
Spotted the millenial

>>12169574
Thank god for Everyman’s Library

>>12170807

Not every book we want can even be found as leather bound. I do only buy hardbacks, as I want them to last.

>>12166914
fpbp

>>12166911
hold it with your feet up the your face then just smell the words

>>12166911
Dubs checked.

One page at a time.

>>12166911
I read that exact edition and I never had any problems holding it. Do you even lift bro?

>>12168435
I exclusively read books that have been turned into musicals.

>>12172266
Everyman's Library is for chads. Look really nice with the dust covers off.

>>12166911
With your large and powerful manly hands.

>>12166911
my last roommate had a paperback from his undergrad days containing (no bullshit) around 5 separate works by st. augustine
it's hard to tell the scale of the picture but I'm pretty sure it was thicker than that, he said to read it you have to put other books underneath the sagging side and not care about fucking up the spine