People who mark books by folding the corner of a page
- Thread starter Donna Ferentes
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it's a deal!citydreams said:I have several. I'll swap you one for a pencil sharpener
the thing is if i draw on a book i think i'd feel more guilty than i do when folding the corner. even if it is with a pencil.. i mean you're not going to erase it at a later date are you..
maybe we should cut up lots of bits of paper and have them at hand wherever we go.
we could have a cut up lots of pieces of paper party.
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
I was in generous mood (no mobiles going off yet today).
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
Epona said:
Same here. I'm very fussy with my books.
onenameshelley
is Major Morgan's bitch
reNnIe said:
I think the problem is because i want to read whilst doing normal everyday things, so i read in the bath (thats when they get dropped), on the loo, whilst eating, whilst cooking thats why they get so mashed up, but i do love my books its just erm..tough love innit
Louloubelle
Well-Known Member
paperbacks are generally there to be abused IMO
the can be read in the bath, while eating spag boll or in a muddy field. you can paint, draw or write in the margins, write stupid messages on the frontis and do whatever you like
1st edition hardbacks should be kept immaculate and people who write in them*, read them in the bath, fold pages, etc, should be tickled without mercy while being forced to listen to Lady In Red, for hours and hours.
* author or famous people excepted
the can be read in the bath, while eating spag boll or in a muddy field. you can paint, draw or write in the margins, write stupid messages on the frontis and do whatever you like
1st edition hardbacks should be kept immaculate and people who write in them*, read them in the bath, fold pages, etc, should be tickled without mercy while being forced to listen to Lady In Red, for hours and hours.
* author or famous people excepted
Hellsbells
World's best procrastinator
Sorry - I'm guilty aswell. I only do it with my own books though. And I only fold the pages very lightly so they can easily be unfolded again and flattened out.
Orangesanlemons
Inamorati Anonymous
I prefer a 'lived-in' book, and i'll happily fold down corners, make notes, mark my place with a bogey etc etc. Wanna fight?
Anyway, I love buying a second-hand book that looks like it's seen a bit of action - cryptic pencil notes, wine-glass crescents, bizarre food stains and what have you. You have the text itself but also the story the person who read it before you. The humblest work of fiction can be transformed into a rich, meta-textual detective story in this way.
Anyway, I love buying a second-hand book that looks like it's seen a bit of action - cryptic pencil notes, wine-glass crescents, bizarre food stains and what have you. You have the text itself but also the story the person who read it before you. The humblest work of fiction can be transformed into a rich, meta-textual detective story in this way.
citydreams
on the road again
Vixen said:
one step ahead of you there.. I have a wad of origami squares
mango5
Endeavour era
I don't mind if my books get tatty, including getting dinner on them. It means they've been read which is the most important thing imo. I but loads from charity shops too, and there's no point being picky about the condition if it gets in the way of a good read. I'm happy to lend books too. I pick up bookmarks wherever I can (including random bits of paper) but also fold down pages just to mark my place. I'm always careful about library books or other borrowed books though. I respect other people's standards.
Donna Ferentes said:
I have always done this. Don't you think books look better when they look a bit 'used'?
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
They're sacred objects.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Gawd, I hate book fetishism. I fold corners down on a regular basis - I did it this morning on the tube, bookmarks fall out in your bag. It's a container for information. And in any case it's my book.
*gets out biro, starts scribbling in margin*
Putting books down flat when they're open is different, but then that actually fucks the spine and makes it more annoying to read in the future.
*gets out biro, starts scribbling in margin*
Putting books down flat when they're open is different, but then that actually fucks the spine and makes it more annoying to read in the future.
onenameshelley
is Major Morgan's bitch
FridgeMagnet said:
*whistles innocently*
I think i am about to get burnt at the stake
Idaho
continuity character
I pick my nose in public with the corners of pristine first edition hardbacks.
I am not too bothered about books. Comics however should be read away from sunlight while wearing silk gloves, and not breathing near them... er.. and not touching them. Actually no you can't read my comics... go and get a book instead.
I am not too bothered about books. Comics however should be read away from sunlight while wearing silk gloves, and not breathing near them... er.. and not touching them. Actually no you can't read my comics... go and get a book instead.
onenameshelley
is Major Morgan's bitch
Idaho said:
he he Savage Henry gets a bit twitchy when i take comics into the bath with me
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
That's a very popular spurious argument. The fact that a given act is an individual's own choice does not mean it possesses no ethical content nor that it is exempt to criticism from others.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Don't like people putting books face down, spine up - a sign of inferior breeding
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
Mrs Bradley does this too, and it winds me up (especially as she's the one who buys tacky bookmarks from museum gift shops)...
The reason I don't do it is that I will read a good book several times, so I don't want subsequent readings to be distracted by ever-increasing creases.
I'm also rather anal about comics too, but I see I'm not alone in that...
The reason I don't do it is that I will read a good book several times, so I don't want subsequent readings to be distracted by ever-increasing creases.
I'm also rather anal about comics too, but I see I'm not alone in that...
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I fold the pages of my own books (never other people's though, that's just rude). I also leave them face down, spine up, when necessary, although not for long enough to permanently bend them that way. Finally, I would like to state for the record that I frequently pick my nose in public and am not even really that ashamed anymore.
I do hate it when people bend covers all the way around while reading, though - there's just no need for it.
ETA - I never do any of the above with comics.
I do hate it when people bend covers all the way around while reading, though - there's just no need for it.
ETA - I never do any of the above with comics.
trashpony
Hag
I am in the 'a crime punishable by death' camp. This probably doesn't come of much of a surprise.
For those of you who say you do it to your own books, I'm curious to know what happens if you should read the book again. Do the pre-folded corners annoy you or do you wonder what you were doing the last time you read it that caused you to stop on that particular page?
And what happens if you lend the book to someone? Does it irritate you if they treat your book as casually as you do? Or do you not give a flying fuck?
For those of you who say you do it to your own books, I'm curious to know what happens if you should read the book again. Do the pre-folded corners annoy you or do you wonder what you were doing the last time you read it that caused you to stop on that particular page?
And what happens if you lend the book to someone? Does it irritate you if they treat your book as casually as you do? Or do you not give a flying fuck?
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