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
Burning the page you just finished reading so you can read the next page, while standing there in a dark labyrinth
where a minotaur is lurking.I have done it all except leaving it face down
I used an eraser to keep track of it, had a bookmark that I used, and I actually used a pencil to keep track of where the sentence was, and don’t even ask me about Adam Smith’s wealth of nations where I quite literally did math on the pages with the charts and scribbled page numbers to keep track of shit
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 :)
We might need a 3rd axis for this, I feel it can be connected to any of these 🤔
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.
And then there is Billy Boyd’s method, which is so evil it is off the chart.
Oh please detail, I feel like I’m missing something. What does the mighty fool-of-a-Took man do to books!?
I can’t find the exact episode anymore (there is no short of it and I don’t have the time rn to go through every one once again), but in the Friendship Onion podcast, he told us the following:
Earlier in his life he was working in a book printing factory. And apparently he was allowed to keep books (not sure if that was only when there were cosmetic defects etc). Anyway, he read these books but instead of using a bookmark, he just tore out the pages so that when opening the book, the current page would always be the first one.
Truly a fool of a took 🥲, but I still love him 😂
(If anyone knows which episode that was, please share.)
Oh fuck no
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
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.
I leave the whatever it is in the book at the end. Not in library books, mind you. Don’t like making more work for librarians. I started the habit when I found a baggage claim ticket in a book I bought at a used bookstore. I leave them in when I pass them on to the next owner.
I’ve found a few ersatz bookmarks over the years. The best so far was a 6 of clubs. The worst was a used q-tip.
You’re thanked for that goodness!
My wife used to handle library returns. They had to examine each book for signs of bed bugs, and found interesting things used as bookmarks. Sometimes money, personal notes, or random business cards.
But I tell you, no story beat: A razor blade. Yep. Just fell right out from the pages. Naked and sharp. How’s that for chaotic evil??
(Thankfully nobody was harmed. Glad they all wore gloves!)
Well that’s a terrible bookmark! You have to be able to pick a bookmark up safely I feel!
Chaotic Good +, I usually end up making a bookmark at my desk by folding and taping paper or a post-it
I’m consistently in the middle of many, many books. I use dollar bills so I get a reward for actually finishing.
Chaotic good and neutral evil. Don’t do neutral evil
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?
“Previously on… Or wait, does this sound familiar? Did we jump forward instead?”
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.
Me too, and this is the only alignment chart where I’m lawful and I don’t like it.
LE gang rise up!
This is delightful, thank you for sharing.
I listen to audiobooks
points and screeches
With an accent?
No, that’s farts only.
…and talking I guess.
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.
