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
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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 🤔
3d alignment chart would actually solve as many problems as it causes. I’m into it
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Me whenever lose my bookmark thinking it’s the worst thing to happen to me, my book is ruined, and then I find my exact spot in 6.4 seconds.
Is that chaotic lawful?
Chaotic Evil would be ripping out every page you’ve read.
Hey Satan, nice to hear from you! Welcome to the chat!
I’m lawful evil. But I think they mixed up neutral evil and chaotic evil.
Me too, and this is the only alignment chart where I’m lawful and I don’t like it.
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.
Just a reminder that you shouldn’t put plants in your book – seriously, that can ruin the paper.
You’re right, plant material is going to decompose if there is any trace of humidity in the air and there goes your page… I just stick a thin slice of smoked ham in there
You can laminate leafs if you really want to keep having that fall theme going
Not really worth it, in my opinion.
I’m all over the board.
The only ones I haven’t done (that i can recall) are “neutral good” and “chaotic neutral”
i do have a vague memory of pressed flower bookmarks when i was a youngster, probably was something my mom had.
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.oh, my. Now that’s hardcore reading
Zampanò said no minotaur.
Chaotic war-crime: dog-ear where you make the fold exactly big enough so it points to the line you left off on.
Yes I did this sometimes as a kid and I still feel bad for the librarians who had to see the devastation I wrought.
Lmao imagining kid you opening the book to see the page pointed at “see,” only to have to reread the page anyway because you lost track of what a character was seeing
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 fold dog ears everywhere, in variable sizes. The bigger the dog ear, the more important the passage.
Chaotic Good, or I’m just listening to an audio book.
TIL I’m both chaotic good and lawful evil
same
Chaotic good. I have bookmarks, I just forget to use them.
I have a very old book (published in 1794) that has leaves, spiders, some writing, as well as fire and water damage. Not worth anything in the condition it’s in, but it’s mine and I love it. I’ve always wanted to know why there were spiders in it, but I’m thankful it’s not bound in human leather.
Save for a few I bought second hand, and the first book I ever owned (I managed to have it signed by the author 20 years later) the rest of my books look like they are fresh off a bookstore shelf.
I’m pretty sure the story of the book spiders began with: “a spider walked onto the page.”
It’s a book of psalms and prayers. The idea of someone asking what passage they should read and being answered with “The spider bookmarked one” brings me joy.
Book Darts are the way. The only way. (That’s a “sentence pointer” made out of copper. It’s archival quality, so it won’t damage your book, even if you leave it there for a very long time.)
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.
Interesting, was it always that way for you? I feel like for me with books printed on paper I’m actually a lot less picky but for e-readers (or any text on a screen really) the kerning, text size, etc. matters a lot more. The impact is definitely more pronounced for regular screens than e-ink though. Text size I find has the biggest impact on readability on screens for me in general.
the main reason the ereader works for me is the ability to override pretty much every aspect of the text. I can do most non glossy paper and text but some books and especially textbooks are a real bitch and everyone thought I was just making shit up when I was in school. text size is usually ok but I tend to make it bigger so I dont need glasses
I read books to read what’s inside them, not to save them forever as objects. So chaotic evil it is. Unless there is a receipt handy.
I have used squares of toilet paper in the past. But if I own the book, I’m as like to use the dog ear as I am to find a piece of scrap paper
