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6342676 No.6342676 [Reply] [Original]

How do you keep a paperback from splitting down the middle? I've had a couple straight up tear in two on me, and I'm always worried halfway through. I tend to bend them sometimes to break them in like a good pair of boots.

>> No.6342689
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6342689

nice penguin classics, fag.

>> No.6342705

>>6342676
by using a kindle

>> No.6342706

Paperbacks are meant to be read and then thrown out. If you want decoration for your room, buy some leatherbound hardbacks.

>> No.6342708

"The smart board", yeah right.

>> No.6342711

Paperbacks are basically the disposable razors of books. Just toss it out when you are done reading it, don't hold on to it like you own anything of value

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>>6342706
stfu if u dont kno wtf ur talkin' 'bout, bitch.

>> No.6342719

>>6342689

>split karamazov

WJY

>> No.6342720

>>6342689

ooooo I want all of those, especially the classics.

My "Portable Dante" really pisses me off since it throws the color scheme off.

>>6342706

I can't afford hardbacks or leather bounds man. Penguine Classic paperbacks are splurging for me, I usually go for Dover thrifts and I'm probably going to go blind by age 50 because of it.

>>6342705

I have a Kindle but I just feel like I'm on the computer when I try to use it, and the smallest print-size setting is like 1/3 of a physical book page, which I dislike. I also can't underline or throw sticky-notes on the Kindle. It's a trade-off. You can lay on your side and never have to change position but I really don't think I could do a paper using e-Books.

>> No.6342721

>>6342706
>>6342711
Nice meme lads

Would enjoy again

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>>6342711
u too, retard, shut the mother FUCK. UP.

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>>6342720
yeah, pretty much all new books are retarded and gay except for NYRB

>> No.6342736

>>6342719
Yeah, I only found Karamazov 1 seven months after I bought Karamazov 2.

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>>6342676
>How do you keep a paperback from splitting down the middle?
like this

>> No.6342761

>>6342759

my nigga, you're fuggin brilliant

>> No.6342767

>>6342676
op there is no excuse for popping the spine like that.
shame on you

>> No.6342776

>>6342711
uhh a book is not a diaper

>> No.6342780

>>6342705
how does it works?
you put on top of the book or something?

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>>6342689
>guy who uses Penguin translations runs around calling other people fags

>> No.6342805

Do you fuckers read so that the pages are completely flat? Master 120 degree angle race reporting in.

>> No.6342851

>>6342759

>poor people actualy do this

lmao

>> No.6342878

>>6342851
and how rich people do it?

>> No.6342894

>>6342878

however da fuck you want niggah, #thuglife

>> No.6342908

>>6342676
Buy hardcovers, peperbacks are meant to be disposable

>> No.6342909

>>6342782

>IMPLYING THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH PENGUIN TRANSLATION SELECTION

FUCKING LOL YOU ILLITERATE FAGGOT
READ MORE
THEIR TRANSLATIONS ARE FINE
IVE READ NUMEROUS TRANSLATIONS OF INFERNO, GRECOROMAN STUFF, TOLSTOY
PENGUIN IS FUCKING FINE
HOLY SHIT LMAO THIS FUCKING ARGUMENT IS ABSURD
JESUS

>> No.6342930

>>6342909
The translation and metrical decisions in the Penguin Classics version of the Metamorphoses are questionable.

>> No.6343128

>all these fucking poorfags who don't just rip out and throw away each page they finish as they read their paperbacks
>they actually carry around all those useless, already read pages

>> No.6343205

>>6343128

I like your style.

>> No.6344099

>>6342676
Learn how to handle your books, paperbacks aren't "disposable," and most Penguin classics are fine. Christ, what a bunch of sad freaks in here.

>> No.6344103

>>6342689
>He can't read German
>He reads philosophy anyway

>> No.6344311

>>6344103
>i'm haven't read Zarathustra cuz I dunno German.
>I'm haven't read Divine Comedy cuz I dunno Italian
fuck off retard, know how stupid you sound. CUNT. gt fucked.

>> No.6344343

>>6344099
stay mad poorfag

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>>6343128