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Why does /lit/ hate folding down the corner of a page as a makeshift and convenient bookmark?

>> No.16960724

>>16960712
Where'd you get the idea that all of /lit/ hates it?

>> No.16960729

>>16960712
because it makes unnecessary marks on the paper and bookmarks are easy to make

>> No.16960730

>>16960712
Idealization of the material.

>> No.16960733

>>16960712
>not giving yourself a papercut and bleeding all over the page to mark it
Come on

>> No.16960739

>>16960712
Why are you reading a women’s romance novel?

>> No.16960990

>>16960739
It's just a pic i found on google, fren

>> No.16961001

>>16960712
because destroying the books is a sin

>> No.16961022

>>16961001
books are made to be destroyed

>> No.16961026

>>16961022
>amerilards

>> No.16961028

>>16961022
Books are made to make money

>> No.16961042

>>16960712
just shoot a hole through it.

>> No.16961053

I rip pages out of the book as I go, so I never lose my place.

>> No.16961055

>>16960712
I dog ear the bottom of pages that I highlight

>> No.16961112
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>>16960712
>starting a sentence with "Like,"

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>>16961042
Make sure to not be standing behind it, though.

>> No.16961169

>>16961130
was that an airsoft gun? how the fuck did it not exit?

>> No.16961178

>>16961169
It did exit, it just kind of closed back in on itself. It was a .50 cal handgun and the idiot who conjured the idea died, and then she went to prison(which she predicted would happen.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/us/youtube-shooting-minnesota-guilty-plea.html

>> No.16961198

>>16961178
"She" being his girlfriend. Derp

>> No.16961243

>>16960712
I fold every page I've read it half, and if there's a couple nice passages in it, then I fold it again

>> No.16961245

>>16961178
>.50 cal handgun
jesus
and they seriously thought that book could stop a desert eagle? this is stupid on an entirely different level.

>> No.16961257

>>16960729
The necessity of the mark is to recall a certain page. The mark is also easy to make, easier even than a bookmark because you need not even leave the book to retrieve it.

>> No.16961285
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16961285

>not having your own weeb bookmarker
Damn, we Reddit now?

>> No.16961300

>>16961285
>not reading 50 books at a time and using receipts, cut up index cards, bent pages, twenty dollar bills, and envelopes as bookmarks

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16961303

>>16960712
Rate my geishas, I've had them for 15 years.
These used to be 5 of them.

>> No.16961310

>>16961303
cute

>> No.16961314

>>16961303
what are you a w*man

>> No.16961316

>>16961300
Yep, most of my bookmarks are envelopes and pay stubs.

>> No.16961325

I just use the joker from a deck of cards.

>> No.16961331

>>16961300
I'm gonna start using $100 bills, so maybe I will forget about them and find them as a surprise for myself, or my kids will find them and take them someday.

>> No.16961350
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>>16961331
>year is 2040
>anons kids open a book and $100 bill falls out
>'look, money! aw, but it's only $100. what can we buy with this?'
>'nothing really, maybe a candy bar. besides, it's old paper money. you can't spend it anymore'

>> No.16961360

>>16961314
Not even a weeaboo desu

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>>16961053

>> No.16961386

Listen up fucks. Don't care what you do with your goddamn books, but do you realize a peace of paper is enough to mark a goddamn page.

>> No.16961391

>>16961303
my nigga where did you bought them
I must CONSOOM

>> No.16961402

>>16960712
I just remember the pages.
If I don't, then tough shit I guess; I open the book to a random page and keep reading from there.

>> No.16961419

>>16961391
they're pretty much the first result if you google "origami geisha bookmark". there are some on etsy, too.

>> No.16961426

>>16961391
https://www.japanwelt.de/traditionelles/briefpapier/lesezeichen-shiori-ningyo.html

>> No.16961434

>>16961391
Bookshop that closed off years ago in a city I don't live in anymore. There are tons of variants of these you can buy online on eBay and instructions to make them on YouTube. Just search for geisha bookmark, origami etc.
I thought about replacing them but I really just want the two lost ones back. One is probably in another country right now.

>> No.16961436

>>16961419
>>16961426
>>16961434
Thanks bros, I ordered mine already.

>> No.16961442

>>16960712
Any book worth having a physically copy of deserves better. Why would you go out of your way to purchase a physical book and then damage it instead of just using a book mark?

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>>16961442
>he doesn't buy penguin classics

but they're so comfy

>> No.16961468

>>16961436
Don't lend them with a book.

>> No.16961484
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16961484

Where are my book face down chads at? It's the most alpha way to assert dominance over a book.

>> No.16961486

>>16961402
Based

>> No.16961535

>not keeping your finger between the book and holding it all day

>> No.16961540

I used to just memorize the page numbers as a kid. My mom thought it was amazing for some reason, kind of a low bar.

>> No.16961562

>>16960712
As soon as I read a page I rip it out and throw it away

>> No.16961629

>>16961540
I used to do this as a kid instead of using bookmarks and without even trying to remember. Not anymore. Everything in life is less memorable for some reason

>> No.16962510

>>16961484
this is why i keep coming back to this board

>> No.16962516

>>16960712
Because it'll fall off with age.

>> No.16962522

>>16961629
>Everything in life is less memorable for some reason
it's because you have more memories

>> No.16962541

>>16962516
>buying a trashy second hand book from the 80s
>pages are that dark beige color
>covers are criss-crossed white with broken lines
>old dog-ears falling off
Ahh... that's the good shit

>> No.16962544

>>16962522
also children's books are not 700 pages long

>> No.16962573

>>16960712
>Not reading every book in one sitting

>> No.16962576

I would never do this with a book that I owned, even the most beaten weathered yellowed disheveled hunk of used crap, I use a bookmark.

I might dog-ear a library book.

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>>16961022
t. Qin Shi Huang

>> No.16962591

>>16962544
The later Harry potter books are

>> No.16962620

>>16962591
yes but women use bookmarks

>> No.16962621

It's fucking easy to answer. You are needlessly damaging the book.

>> No.16962641

Because books are either a. adornment, in which case you want it in pristine condition, or b. library books, in which case it does not belong to you and therefore should not be damaged.