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6939295 No.6939295 [Reply] [Original]

>the way the front/back cover of a paperback book bends after reading

>> No.6939298

>Owning paperbacks
Just buy an ebook if you're gonna buy a fake book

>> No.6939302

>Doesn't get what a paperback is for

they're meant to last a few readings then be thrown away

buy a hardcover if you mean to keep it

it's not difficult

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>>6939295
>new york times quote in the cover

>> No.6939335

>>6939298
>>6939302
>Assuming every book even has a hardcover, or one that's still in print

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>>6939302

>throwing away books

You could at least donate them to goodwill or something. Maybe /lit/ isn't for you.

>> No.6939348

>>6939335

get an ereader

>> No.6939371

>>6939348
if you don't read real books you don't even read

>> No.6939384

>>6939371
Hi, Reddit. Still superficial?

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>tattered dust covers
>"Now a Major Motion Picture"
>author's name bigger than title
>creased edges from where it sat in your bag
>torn pages from turning too fast
>coaster marks
>white books that will yellow with age
>sun damage
>pages so thin that annotations bleed through
>stiff glue binding on old paperbacks
>marks from dog earing
>weak binding between the cover and first page
>being able to track how far you are by the grime on the edge of the pages
>cover is an 18th century landscape nobody has heard of
>cover is digital art
>cover is a picture of the author and nothing else
>the table of contents isn't in the first five pages
>end notes rather than footnotes
>used copy annotated by a highlighter

>> No.6939425

>>6939419
Autism speaks, tbh.

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>>6939419
>>end notes rather than footnotes

>> No.6939456

>>6939419
>"Now a Major Motion Picture"
>Not "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture"
>Movie never comes out

>> No.6939500

>>6939425
you tryna turnt fam? smh@u tbh

>> No.6939601

>>6939419
>mfw my Ulysses is white, with stephenkingesque JOYCE, with no table of contents and pages 0.02mm thin

>> No.6939642

>>6939371

when did the text stop being text?