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Anonymous Tue Jul 15 01:34:27 2014 No.5139020 [DELETED]

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>Reading books cut in the old style with uneven pages

Oh god this is the best fuckin shit ever.

Anonymous Tue Jul 15 01:38:07 2014 No.5139031

>>5139020
Its called a deckled edge! (I learned that here). Also, if the book is less than a couple hundred years old its a fake deckled edge made to look that way. I really like it though, some of the deluxe penguins like their Steinbecks do it and to me it looks and feels great.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 01:39:05 2014 No.5139034 I hate that shit. Feels like I'm flipping cardboard instead of paper

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 01:39:24 2014 No.5139036 >>5139034 This. It fucking sucks.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 01:41:13 2014 No.5139043 >>5139034 Seriously, I hate how it feels on my finger tips.

>>	Reality Check !Z6/0YaJApk Tue Jul 15 01:41:17 2014 No.5139045 >>5139020 I'm guessing like most of /lit/ you've moved on from Goosebumps and started reading the Lemony Snickett series

Anonymous Tue Jul 15 01:41:41 2014 No.5139048
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>>5139031
It looks neat, but the function and utility is what makes me wet-in-the-pants.

>About to turn a page
>look at the corresponding page I must grab in order to fulfill my reading destiny
>Find that the page is a tad shorter than the one after it, literally teasing and tantalizing you to flip the page
>"Go on, flip me, I was reading the whole time"

Phew...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 01:41:47 2014 No.5139051 >old book smell Yes perfect yesss >ancient previously wet book smell vomits uncontrollably

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 01:42:32 2014 No.5139055 File: 413 KB, 802x1200, anna k.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5139020 this (I'm sure 90% of you own it) does it best of anyone IMO

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 01:43:55 2014 No.5139059 >>5139048 >>"Go on, flip me, I was reading the whole time" Goddamn literature is so deep.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 01:46:51 2014 No.5139067 >>5139051 Oh the difference is great, I know I know!

>>	Philosophag !!aEGgSI04zUm Tue Jul 15 01:47:28 2014 No.5139068 >>5139045 What is goosebumps?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 01:47:52 2014 No.5139069 >>5139059 Shit it's supposed to be "I was ready* the whole time"

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 01:49:07 2014 No.5139075 >old style Riiiiight. You mean inferior technology. Finding pages with that shit is impossible.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 01:51:17 2014 No.5139081 >>5139068 >Gold for 90's Plebs.

>>	Reality Check !Z6/0YaJApk Tue Jul 15 01:53:52 2014 No.5139084 >>5139068 A series about the lives of American children in the 90s as imagined by someone who grew up in the 50s.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 01:54:35 2014 No.5139087 >>5139068 MONSTERBLOOD

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 01:56:04 2014 No.5139091 File: 48 KB, 221x320, Carnival_of_Horrors.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5139045 >implying there is a single thing wrong with what you just said, regardless of the reader's age.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 01:56:40 2014 No.5139093 >>5139091 Those choose your adventure ones were awesome.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 01:59:28 2014 No.5139103 >>5139093 haha, I had a couple, but this was the only one I actually read through.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 02:00:47 2014 No.5139108 File: 26 KB, 209x295, CreepingCoffin[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5139103 Only had this one myself. Think its still around somewhere.

>>	Reality Check !Z6/0YaJApk Tue Jul 15 02:02:00 2014 No.5139112 File: 37 KB, 251x242, derp.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5139091 >reader beware you choose the scare

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 02:03:22 2014 No.5139119 >>5139112 So creepyyy

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 02:03:41 2014 No.5139122 File: 1.95 MB, 265x308, 1398740886127.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5139112 haha I know, but it was still fun reading it on Halloween after trick-or-treating.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 02:06:14 2014 No.5139130 >>5139122 >reading after trick or treating >not bringing your friends over to eat candy and play N64

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 02:06:48 2014 No.5139133 >>5139130 What friends? ;_;

>>	le trole faec ಠ_ಠ !Avm1fqtITk Tue Jul 15 02:09:03 2014 No.5139139 >>5139020 >disliking uniformity Plebe detected by radar!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 02:11:57 2014 No.5139150 >>5139139 clearly you've never flipped a page of one of these bad boys. Feels gooooood.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 02:13:05 2014 No.5139151 >>5139091 This is the only Goosebumps book I had, and I remember hating it because there was no way to not die horribly.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 02:15:28 2014 No.5139157 >>5139150 What's so good about it? Half the pages are always at an awkward length so you have to reach behind and flip it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 02:15:51 2014 No.5139159 >>5139112 >implying these books were meant to be good It's reading for 8 year olds, it's meant to be pleb

Anonymous Tue Jul 15 02:16:24 2014 No.5139162
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>>5139091
>Implying this wasn't babby's first Pomo literary device.

Well it was for me at least. The book was being written by a monster in an alternate universe THE WHOLE TIME. MIND = BTFO.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 02:16:49 2014 No.5139164 >>5139151 The feel on your fingers alternating between page and nothingness. It really makes you appreciate each page. The pages beckon you and pull you in.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 02:18:09 2014 No.5139168 >>5139164 That sounds gay.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 02:19:03 2014 No.5139177 >>5139168 hnngghh

>>	Reality Check !Z6/0YaJApk Tue Jul 15 02:19:27 2014 No.5139179 >>5139159 Even my three year old brother knew it was utter shit when he read them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 02:20:10 2014 No.5139182 >>5139179 No he didn't.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 02:21:40 2014 No.5139184 >>5139179 You sure he wasn't just a little bitch like you and was too scared to read them? Poindexter.

>>	Reality Check !Z6/0YaJApk Tue Jul 15 02:22:40 2014 No.5139186 >>5139182 After he read a few of them he "literally" told me that the twist at the end were always so predictable and cliché.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 02:34:40 2014 No.5139215 >>5139186 How the fuck is a 3-year-old supposed to know what's cliché? You need to have some kind of experience to detected repetiton.

>>	Reality Check !Z6/0YaJApk Tue Jul 15 02:44:51 2014 No.5139234 >>5139215 It's not a difficult word to comprehend and I'm sure he'd experienced repetition, watching inane cartoons at his montessori.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 02:51:22 2014 No.5139252 >>5139151 Actually there were two

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 03:03:16 2014 No.5139275 >>5139048 This post disturbs me. Literal autism.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 03:40:55 2014 No.5139357 >>5139020 >>5139048 I think it's just the ease of turning the pages and how thick the pages are. A few hardbacks come out these days that are deckled edge. EX: PIC RELATED It also happens to be the best fantasy to come out in 40years

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 03:50:45 2014 No.5139376 File: 31 KB, 533x695, jonathan_strange.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5139357

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 11:39:41 2014 No.5140249 >>5139234 Looks like we know who won the genetic lottery in your family. it wasn't you

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 11:45:34 2014 No.5140269 File: 44 KB, 250x387, Kippenvel.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5139087 God this shit used to scare me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 11:49:27 2014 No.5140282 >>5139275 >what is absurdity

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 11:53:36 2014 No.5140291 >>5139020 >Not being able to flip through the pages

Anonymous Tue Jul 15 12:01:44 2014 No.5140316

>>5139031
> if the book is less than a couple hundred years old its a fake deckled edge made to look that way.

What? No.
I have several books that I've had to knife open by myself that are nowhere near 100+ years old. Some are from the 40's and 50's, but still.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 15 14:12:07 2014 No.5140735 >>5139376 I love love love this book but man was I happy I bought a non deckle-edge edition. I HATE that shit with a passion.

>>	o Tue Jul 15 14:18:46 2014 No.5140752 >>5140316 Some publishers still do it occasionally, usually for shorter books like poem collections, etc.

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