/lit/ - Literature

>>22817349
Nothing worse than picking up a book in a charity shop which has a forgotten, discarded bookmark left to rot, not even 100 pages into the book itself.

>>22817583
I once bought a used book and the previous owner left a picture of an at least 90 year old man as a bookmark, not even half way into the book. She never finished it bros...

>>22817583
Or when the first several chapters are full of notes in the margins, and the rest are blank

>>22817583
>>22817596
When reading many stick the bookmark somewhere earlier in the book for safe keeping, when they finish it they leave it where they stuck it because no need to move it to the end. Also, book marks are not only for keeping your place as you read, they are used for reference and stuck in the place you want to look at more closely or the like. I don't think you read.
>>22817605
Any decent author defines the various structures they will use throughout the book in the first 10-20% and that is the place annotations are of greatest use when it comes to the general read for theme. Only reason to annotate after that is if you are going to pull apart the entire book. I don't think you read either, you certainly don't comprehend. You can learn a great deal about analysis and note taking from analyzing the marginalia.

>>22817628
When you read you either put the bookmark at the end of the book, at the beginning of the book or you place it on your desk. At least if you grew up with an ounce of culture in your blood.

>>22817628
>Only reason to annotate after that is if you are going to pull apart the entire book
why would you not
you sound weird

>>22817637
If you read hardcovers you don't, it will fall out since pages bend, cover doesn't.
>>22817649
I said why, your comprehension is terrible.

>>22817653
If I read a book, its to pull apart the whole book
Not just the beginning
I think you're a pseud

>>22817653
Imagine owning hardcovers lmao

>>22817658
I never said anything about my personal reading habits. You really have poor comprehension.

>>22817628
>I don't think you read
I think you're genuinely retarded. Most people, particuarly normies, use a bookmark to keep their page. If they need a page for reference they will either annotate the book or use one of those paper tags. Not everyone is autistic like you.

>>22817583
I've bought books in charity shops that look like the first page hasn't even been read

>>22817691
Shut up, pseud

>>22817349
>spine non cracked
your literally did not read the book

>>22817596

>>22817349
>buy book
>don’t read it
>crack spine
>throw book around the room
>/lit/ will now believe wrongly that I read it

A book need not be opened more than 90 degrees as you only need to see one page at a time. Take care of your possessions. Also, suspicion over whether someone read a book or not is suspicious in itself, but towards the accuser

>>22817671

I have only cracked a single spine in my life and it was after I read on /lit/ many years ago that it was normal and almost cool to do so
I regret it
I never buy used books with cracked spines because they're terrible to read
Creased spines are fine, cracked spines are shit

>>22817853
You sound like my ex. She was mega autistic when it came to things like this. Couldn't simply lend me a book without bothering me about not breaking the spine.

>>22817349
cracked spine = shitty american paperbacks
Seriously, why can't anglos make decent paperbacks? None of the paperbacks I have need any special care opening them and they don't break the spine, the covers are made to bend all the way

>>22817583
>>22817596
I own a copy of "1001 Books" and the only titles crossed off are reddit titles and stuff you read in school (TKAM, Lord of the Rings, Douglas Adams). Nothing from before 1900 or which was written in a non-English language was crossed off.

>>22817853
Is it some kind of low IQ psychopathy to mark books by cracking their spines? Do people pull as hard as they can to open their pages to 180°? How is the book ever going to be passed down or survive multiple readings? Some of my read books look untouched on my shelf and I'm not handling them any special way.

>>22819026
This. Minimal effort needed to keep books in like new condition. Anons who are fixated on others’ spines and book conditions are strange. Seems like some psychological issue methinks and says something about the skeptic

>>22817349
>cracked spine = soul
Agreed

>>22819026
>Is it some kind of low IQ psychopathy to mark books by cracking their spines?
It's how I tease my gf; I call her a barbarian psychopath for cracking open her books and handling them without any care whatsoever. With that being said, she's extremely simplistic, straightforward and highly empathetic, so I doubt it has anything to do with actual psychopathy.

With that being said though, she also reads like twice as much as I do. The devours books, whereas I tend to take my sweet time getting through one.

@ all of you

>>22817583
>tfw picking out a library book and finding out someone has been using a dried flower as a bookmark

Books are meant to be read, if they're in pristine condition then they haven't been. That doesn't mean abuse them but a read book should show signs of wear.

>>22819799
You just know she was a pretty, anon.

>>22819799
Unless they were just using the book as a flower press

>>22817671
Haven't keke'd this hard in a while. Thx anon

>>22817671
I hope he gets beaten to death by a pack of rabid niggers

I just read the book and whatever happens happens. But people who write in books need gassing.

>>22817349
I have a very beat up version of The Road with a note on the inside of the cover. It's from a dad writing to his son about how he regrets not being a better father.

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>>22819799
I used my granfather's old Kalevala to press four leaf clovers.