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>lend a book to a friend
>returns it with pic related
>mfw

>> No.5846888

Kill him

>> No.5846899

>>5846883
How do you keeo that from happening with paperbacks?

>> No.5846900

>>5846883
You lent a cheap paperback to him and he gave it back with a couple of mild spine creases? That's some who moved my cheese shit. Let it go, dude.

>> No.5846905

>>5846899
You barely crack them open and slightly fan the pages. It's a pain in the ass that's not really worth it unless your paperback is worth some cash. Your paperbacks are not worth cash, so just forget it. When you start collecting rare paperback originals or some shit, then you can start worrying about your spines.

>> No.5846927

>>5846899
I don't open it the whole way while reading it. Yeah, I know I'm an OCD freak. But shit. Please don't crease it, at least.

>> No.5846971

>lend a friend a book
>4 months later
>"i haven't had the time, here"
>page 7 is dogeared

EVERY FUCKING TIME

>> No.5847263

>lend a book to a work friend
>get let go
>months pass
>haven't talked to them since
>have my book and too awkward to ask for it back

>> No.5847272

>>5846971
>bookmarking when you're fewer than 100 pages in

WELL SHIT I DON'T WANNA LOSE MY PLACE!

>> No.5847274

>lends books
>then complains if they are not returned in pristine state

>> No.5847320

>>5846883
you think you've got problems

i lent a book to my girlfriend once

she dropped it

IN THE FUCKING BATH

she is now my ex girlfriend

>> No.5847346

>>5847272
>implying pages after 100 are somehow harder to remember, more difficult to navigate to, or a combination thereof.
Your retard is showing

>> No.5847366

>>5847320
I'm pretty sure an ex of mine that I haven't spoken to in years has one of my books that I really like ;_;

>> No.5847386

>>5847263
Dude, just fucking email him.

>> No.5847402

>>5847320
Your not allow to admit to dumping your girl friend on 4chan or else you make the autistic virgens mad

>> No.5847415

>>5846883
Be it money or whatever, NEVER lean something you are not ready to never see again.
The same for having t back ruined, apparently.

>> No.5847425

>>5846927
Do you know that there are people that open the books all the way through and flip them like if they were notebooks?

That is really something terrible to behold.

>> No.5847429

>>5846883
On papersbacks you can't avoid that, and it means the person actually read the book, which is way more than most people do.
I only get mad if there are stains or ripped pages. Thankfully the only time this ever happened was when I lent Twilight to a friend.

>> No.5847433

We have already had this thread and we all unanimously decided to never lend books to anybody ever.

This message was brought to you by /lit

>> No.5847438

>>5847433
Agreed.

If you want someone to read an specific book it is better to just buy that person a new copy. They will apreciate it a lot more and it will rid both parties of unnecesary misunderstandings.

The real problem is when someone asks you if they can borrow one of your books...

>> No.5847440

>>5847433
>>5847438
autism

>> No.5847442
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5847442

>>5847429
>Twilight

>> No.5847452

>>5847442
I got it from an aunt for birthday. A friend asked the book to see if it was as bad as people said, so I lent it to her.
She enjoyed it, but the got part of the back cover ripped.

>> No.5847471

>>5847402
I once partly dumped a girl because she was a massive music pleb

>> No.5847484

>>5847471
If you get your ideas of good music from /mu/ then you werw not justified in doing so

>> No.5847524

>>5847484
Nah I didn't even go on 4chan back then. She listened to radio shit, which is relativeky OK, but she constantly skipped songs after 30 seconds. It drove me insane.

>> No.5847539

>>5847524
Honestly you were probably in an even worse situation than if you got your taste from /mu/, but I don't really care about some bimbo who listens to radio music, so whatever

>> No.5847597

My friend JUST returned a book to me with the cover completely gone.

>> No.5847621

Am I the only one that likes a little wear on my books?

>> No.5847834

If its a nicely made paperback, its incredibly easy to have a perf spine. i guess everyone here is talking about old books and mass market type stuffs

>> No.5847876

>>5847386
"Hey man,
How's it going? Hope things are going well for you. Are you still at X? Is Y a still a giant jackass to you? At least you're making some money unlike me. Uhh, remember that book I lent to you... can I have it back?
Thanks m8"

>> No.5848103

I can't for the life of me keep books in good shape. I dropped my copy of Infinite Jest of a cliff last week. Good thing I mostly care about reading them rather then the shape they are in.

>> No.5848129

I had a first edition of Return of the King that i found at a library sale. Pretty good shape, the movie comes out and my brother's gf falls in love with tolkien, asks if she can borrow it. I explain to her how it's first edition, real nice book, all that.

Get it back with the front cover ripped in half, coffee stains all in it, the works. Fucking bitch.

Well, she got addicted to coke and had a kid at like age 19, so she got hers.

>> No.5848239

>lend a book to a friend
>realize i have no friends
>where the fuck is my book

>> No.5848273

>>5848239
spooky ?_?

>> No.5848302

>>5848239
kek'd

>> No.5848654

>lend mother book
>get book back
>every other page is elephant eared
>she folds the page from the corner to the spine

never again

>> No.5848660

>>5846883
I was at the coffeeshop today, and there was a girl sitting at the next table over with an old-ass library book sitting on the table open with the spine up while she browsed her tablet

it was driving me fucking crazy

>> No.5848673

>>5846883
It's what you get for having friends, buying paperback, and not ereading. Fucking normalfags.

>> No.5848678
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5848678

>actually giving a shit about the condition of your paperbacks

Go buy a fucking hardback, you nigger.

>> No.5848683

>>5848129
>Return of the King

Nothing of value was lost.

>> No.5848684

Am I the only one who appreciates the readability and utility of paperbacks? Their cheapness and disposability makes reading through a ton of books very east

>> No.5848693

>friend lends a hardcover, remind him not to dog ear the pages - what bad could he do unless it's done intentionally?
>receive it back almost half a year later
>COFFEE
>STAINS
>OH SORRY BRO I JUST DRINK WHILST I READ
DO YOU SQUIRT IT THROUGH YOUR FUCKING BUCKTEETH YOU INBRED CUNT?!?!

>> No.5848696

>>5848684
Buy hard-cover editions of books you love, as autistic as I can be over the quality and condition of my paperbacks I do realise that they're disposable.

>> No.5848698

This thread exemplifies /lit/. The userbase cares far more about what their books look like than they do about the contents within.

>> No.5848702

>>5848693
title

>> No.5848703
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5848703

>>5848698
Bitch, how am I supposed to impress girls if my collection looks all shabby and used?

>> No.5848710

>>5848698

>the userbase

Fuck off newfag

>> No.5848719

>>5848710
>thinking you can stop the Tumblr train
They've been here for months

>> No.5848735

>>5848703
>implying well worn books don't reflect regular use and signify a patrician

>> No.5848785

>>5848735
>treat books like playboy magazines

>> No.5848826

>>5847438
>"hey can I borrow that book"
>actually I borrowed it from a friend myself and I have to return it after I finish
>"oh, ok"

>"hey can I borrow that book"
>sorry man, a friend asked to borrow it too, I'll lend it to him after I'm done
>"oh, ok"

>> No.5848847

>>5848239
>get lent a book from roommate
>read it on and off during 14 hour ddrive
>my turn to drive
>leave book in back
>friend sits in back knocks book on floor and then proceeds to step on and smash it for 8 hours.
>grab book when leaving with cover ripped and ever page bent in about 3 different ways.
feel terrible about what i did to his book.

>> No.5848889

>>5846883
I mean I feel like its cool they actually read it. Guess that's just me.

>> No.5848903

>having friends that read
My friends are all philistines that couldn't give two shits about litfic and i don't read genre fiction so nobody asks to borrow my copy of Baudelaire's complete poems or Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.

The only person that's ever asked to borrow a book of mine is my girlfriend and that was because she wanted to impress me by reading Pynchon and Byron because she knows they're some of my favorites and I made damn sure she didn't fuck my books up.

Where do you guys live/go to school at that you make friends that are interested in borrowing books that aren't best sellers?

>> No.5849042

>>5848903
You sound terrible. Shut up.

>> No.5851087

Free yourselves from material obsessions and give in to the words.

Great friend you got there OP; he really must have enjoyed that book. Found grease between any pages?

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5851094

>>5848889
It's me, too, man. It's so disheartening to ask someone how they liked the book two months on and find they couldn't finish it.

>> No.5851098

>>5848903
Uni-vers-ity.

>> No.5851102

>>5848847
If your friends weren't losers, you could have asked him to pay for a new book.

>> No.5851447

>>5848785
>not exclusively buying gilt-edge hardback playboy editions

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5851466

>>5851094
Is that the Kodak home office?

>> No.5851485

>>5846900
this.

>> No.5851487

> lend a book to friend
> months pass
> ask for it back
> doesn't remember borrowing it

> go round to friend's house a week later
> brouse his book shelf (all 8 books on there)
> see my book
> keep quiet
> ask to borrow a different book
> nah, I don't like to lend books
> calm, anger, calm your time will come
> friend goes to the toilet
> go to his books
> take my book, and book I asked to borrow
> close door on way out as I hear toilet flushing

Haven't heard from the faggot since, and that was 6 months ago.

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5851506

In my experience, those twatheads who have perfect, uncreased books are tryhard cunts who only buy books to feel intelligent and have bookshelves as intellectual wallpaper.

>> No.5851528
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5851528

>lend a book to a friend
>a year ago
>sometimes hanging out in her house
>in her room
>notice the book is still there
>she hasn't even started
Goddamnit, just tell me that you don't wanna read the friggin' book.

>> No.5851554

>>5847621
I like them to feel read, they're there to be used

>> No.5851585

>>5848678
amen

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5852603

>Lend friend novel
>Get it back with some of the pages stuck together
>It's maple syrup

>> No.5853006

>>5847320
This the kind of posts you would expect a redditor "i'm so nerd" girl to make. Fuck off, faggot.

>> No.5853029

>>5851528
I know this feel

>Lend book to a friend
>two years ago
>I move away, live life
>He's in the same old place
>Every so often I come to visit
>He makes a point of bringing the book up to me
>"I still haven't finished it"

He did this recently, and I'm sure in a few weeks when I visit at Christmas he will bring it up again.

>> No.5853057

>lend a book to a friend
>never get it back

>> No.5853085

>>5847320
srsly get the fuck out

>> No.5853087

>>5852603
Quebecois?