/lit/ - Literature

>>18205890
Wrong. It's the opposite. A creased back is a sign that you took extraordinarily long to read the book. Exceptions apply if you borrowed the book, you re-read it, etc.
My favorite books are the ones with the fewest creases because I simply couldn't put them down and read them so fast. As so often, the most common belief is also wrong.

>>18205902
Bazinga

>>18205890
>It's said you can tell if a book has been read or not by its creased spine
Maybe if the owner is an animal. I take good care of the books I read.

>>18205890
>he only reads a book once

>>18205930
>caring about the outside of the book when the pages are INSIDE of the book.
lol

>>18205943
Yes.

>>18205890
Some simply don't take care of their things. I've been reading some books for almost 20 years and they are in good condition.

It takes bare minimum care to keep a book in good condition. You almost have to be try in order to beat up a book that badly. I don’t know how airport novels hold up, though. They may be different

>>18205942
I've reread books too and it still hasn't happened.

>>18205890
If your paperbacks aren't falling apart, you only barely read them. If it's philosophy, you probably don't understand them.

>>18205890
>reading anything other than leather bound Holy Bibles
Literally ngmi

>>18205993
>If your paperbacks are falling apart, you are an animal
FTFY

>>18205890
I keep my books clean by expanding the spine before I read them so they open easy and don't crack.

>>18205890
I take meticulous care of my books because they are status symbols and reifications of the idea of knowledge, wisdom, and elitism. Thought I have indeed read them, their actual contents are much less important than the function they serve through my ownership of them. One must treat things as good as, if not better than, one treats people. If one compromises the physical integrity of a book, that book loses value (resale value and otherwise). Just like if one physically maims another human being, causing them to be permanently disfigured or disabled, that person loses value objectively. You wouldn't want to be seen with a cripple. Why would you want to be seen owning a shabby book?

is anybody else really fussy about book covers?
I won't buy a book by a certain publisher if I don't like the cover

>>18206193
This is dangerously based.

>>18206247
>based
*retarded

>>18205902
Reddit

>>18206261
Both

>>18206270
no

>>18205993
If your paperbacks are falling apart then you're a big dumb gorilla.

>>18206193
based retard

I fold my books cover to cover when reading them so they literally all have a cracked spine

>>18206848
In fact I'm reading this one at the moment, and I havent folded it cover to cover because it's not convenient, and it's still cracked. I don't think I've ever managed to not crack a book's spine. It has nothing to do with reading speed as was suggested above.

what a bunch of prissy faggots

>>18206883
And that's because the spine cracks the instant you open the book wide enough to have both pages layed in plain sight. If your spines aren't cracked, it means that you read your books with the text slanting inward to the binding which is a real pain in the ass, so props to you for putting up with it

>>18205943
The pages comprise the book itself, so they are neither inside or outside of it
>t. knower of things

>>18206193
based
>>18206261
faggot

>>18206213
I try to only buy books printed on acid free paper.

>>18205993
The photo has creased spines because they're cheap, mass-marketed paperbacks. The more damage it gets on the first reading the shittier the quality is, up to pages falling out.

This thread clearly hasn’t read gatsby so I’m gonna 360 and walk on outta this board

>>18206903

I feel bad for anyone who can't do this. Mostly Penguin owners though so you can't feel too bad for them

>>18208020
>reads books

Faggot.

>>18208030
>read my post
Gotcha bitch