There are only two kinds of books that are truly loved - those pristine and undamaged, and those which look like they’ve been through the apocalypse
You don’t memorize the page number, you just sort of remember where you are and find it
Ok Satan
Hi there, it’s called ADHD, kill me :)
And then there is Billy Boyd’s method, which is so evil it is off the chart.
ebook is the only way to guarantee I can read the book. page material and gloss, layout, spacing, kerning, etc. can all combine in various ways to make me inexplicably unable to read or have a really hard time reading where I have to focus really hard on each letter rather than each sentence. Oled has made is possible for me to read large bodies of text on phones but for full books I always go for the eink.
Chaotic good and neutral evil. Don’t do neutral evil
Guess I’m chaotic good. Library gives a receipt for checked out books and even puts it in the book, so I just use that.
Chaotic Good +, I usually end up making a bookmark at my desk by folding and taping paper or a post-it
Tear the page you’re on out and keep it in your pocket to look back to when you need to start again and you can find the page # on the torn out page. /S
Tear each page out as you read them. You’ll always open the book to the page you’re on
Calm down, Satan
I’m consistently in the middle of many, many books. I use dollar bills so I get a reward for actually finishing.
Okay, and where is throwing the book aside and remembering the page, and when you inevitably forget where you were, just starting from the last place you vaguely remember?
I’m lawful evil. But I think they mixed up neutral evil and chaotic evil.
Absolutely, putting a book down open face will fuck up the spine, and if done for a long time or repeatedly, the whole book will be deformed and maybe even fall apart.
That seems much more chaotic to me than dog earing a few pages.
LE gang rise up!
Me too, and this is the only alignment chart where I’m lawful and I don’t like it.
This is delightful, thank you for sharing.
I use the dust jacket flap.
I’d love to do this clearly easier method except that dust jackets are the devil. One, they ALWAYS get ruined, ALWAYS. Two, they’re weirdly loud if you read in bed & your partner is trying to sleep. Three they sure don’t keep dust off if you store books on a shelf standing up
I throw dust jackets away immediately, because I think they’re an abomination and books look and feel better without them. And then I dog-ear the pages because it gives them character.
I must be extra chaotic extra evil.
I throw them away because I will tear them, the tears will catch on my hands, and it will slide half-off at the worst possible time.
Fuck me I hate those things. Straight to the trash.
I listen to audiobooks
points and screeches
With an accent?
No, that’s farts only.
…and talking I guess.
Chaotic evil mwah ha haaaaaa
Small post-it notes
That way when I get distracted by another book, I can leave the mark right there. Considering I’m always “in the middle of” at least five books, this is the best solution I’ve found.
