/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9161043]

How do you hold books? Are you constantly switching positions around? do you worry about getting fingerprints on the covers?

[Anonymous No.9161078]

I hold the book open with both hands, at middle height, thumbs in the margins, not further in, so I don't get ink on them. When I get lazy, I go one-handed, with my thumb on the left page, and my pinky on the right.

[Anonymous No.9161100]

>>9161043
i switched to an ereader for this reason and i just keep it on my lap without having to hold it open

[Anonymous No.9161475]

>>9161100
How do you like it? I've been throwing the idea of getting one around but idk.

[Anonymous No.9161502]

>>9161043
fingerprints on the covers? what in the fuck? no! i don't give a shit as long as some douchebag hasn't written in a book. otherwise i've read water damaged books, books with unidentified clumps of human excretia, books that have been chewed by dogs, etc. jesus fucking christ, fingerprints. and of course there is a cycle of positions that a book goes through. without question a book cannot truly be read unless it has lain open on the bedside table, leaves down, so the pages fold at angles before they reach the binding of the book. otherwise the process of reading shant be completed by your or anyone's hand.

[Anonymous No.9161509]

>>9161502
you are a filthy mongoloid

never talk to me or my wife's son ever again

[Anonymous No.9161527]

>>9161509
>never talk to me or my wife's son ever again

o i am laffin, I'm stealing the fuck outta that joke

[Anonymous No.9161537]

I read books from my 73" monitor so technically I dont hold them

[Anonymous No.9161543]

Fingerprints don't matter, I'm eating cheetos all the time when reading.

[Anonymous No.9161554]

>>9161527
>this pic
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who reads books on 4chan because I reference authors all the time, and even quote them sometimes in my posts, and hardly anyone else ever does this.

It also seems like there is this retarded shit where people only read what other people want them to read or something.

[Anonymous No.9161558]

with an aristocratic grip like Jon Arbuckle

[Anonymous No.9161568]

>>9161554

[Anonymous No.9161569]

like it's first and goal nigga

[Anonymous No.9161576]

>>9161568
Explain how my 100% serious post is bait.

[Anonymous No.9161584]

>>9161576
I'm saying you're a buffoon to think you're the only one who references specific authors on this board. Perhaps consider that people are referencing works you haven't read? Not every quote needs to take the form of
"Reality is wrong, dreams are for real." - Tupac Shakur

[Anonymous No.9161586]

>>9161527
whats the castles in the sand bit a reference to?

[Anonymous No.9161602]

>>9161586
"A castle in the sand" is an english language idiom used to describe an improperly built or unsustainable philosophy or idea. The point being that sand is a horrible foundation for something as weighty as a castle

If you want, it's a reference to that Hendrix song. I didn't make that MS paint bullshit, I saved it from a thread on /lit/ that 404's years ago because I thought it was funny. Great thing about 4chan, you don't need to cite sources

[Anonymous No.9161665]

>>9161043
If it's a small enough book I'll hold it like in the OP. If not, I'll generally change my grip around from hands on both ends, both hands on bottom, one hand on top one on bottom, one on bottom one on side, etc.

I always, ALWAYS take the dust jackets off while I'm reading. I hate them.