Does anyone else have "Book-Wear Anxiety"? When I buy a brand new paperback, I'm often times so awed by it's beauty (The crisp page edges, the smooth spine, the unblemished cover) that I get legit anxiety around handling the book and creasing the spine and knowing my thumbs will eventually stain the edges of the pages where I hold them. Sometimes it's so bad that I can't even bring myself to read the book until I've washed my hands and even then I only open the book as little as possible for me to read.I know that a "pristine book is an unread book", but still, it bothers me and I don't know how to overcome these feelings.
I got a brand new copy of Elon Musk's biography (Isaacson) from the local library. Hardcover. Virgin. When I was finished with that 650 page WHORE her spine was broke. Corners bent. Coffee stains sensually adorned in random fits and starts.The librarian glanced at the murder scene then gazed into my plebian serf tier brown eyes. She wanted a demonstration of my power. So we sexed in the library. Anyway moral of the story good things are supposed to be used blah blah don't let form go to waste without function.
I never break my book spines but seeing the wear on paperbacks that I really enjoyed reading, for example my copy of the Sagas of the Icelanders, makes me feel more attached to them
>>23322497Thanks for the new pasta
>>23322452I remember being 19 and being able to buy brand new Penguin Classics for myself for the first time ever.There are exercises you can do to make sure a spine doesn't ripple as well as obvious habits like using a slim bookmark, never putting a book splayed down, keeping your hands dry (every book I've read ends up a little warped by my clamy hands,) but the most important thing is just getting over it and recognising that the paper you're holding isn't intrinsically and spiritually connected with the book itself, and that inevitable wear and tear isn't an insult to art.
>>23322452It's the complete opposite for me. I get pleasure when seeing that my book looks worst.
>>23322452Should I buy this version or the Trump version?
>>23322898Trump version doesn’t have all the books of the Bible
>>23322889Seems like a sign of psychosis
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>>23323563I dont think so. I just like old things. The more scars a book has, the more battles it has survived.
>>23322452Just buy two copies, shrimple.
>>23323583Do I look like a jew? You think I’ve got fucking second-copy money?
>>23322452>I don't know how to overcome these feelings.Brute force. When I buy a new book the first thing I do is crack the spine and slam the corners into the wall to dent them a bit. Get it over with. It's going to happen anyways. Now you don't have to worry about it.
>>23322452I dislike paperbacks for this reason. I never buy them. Most digital now, but if I really love something, it's a nice hardcover... and not some piece of shit with glued binding...which might as well be a paperback too.
>>23322452It's not the 1700s anon. Books aren't hard to come by, or expensive, or even well-constructed. It's a $15 paperback, at most. It is pathetic how people let these things dominate their mind. You'd think readers of all people would understand that material possessions are worthless. Like every other book tries to teach you that. Hell look at your own thread picture! It's the Bible! It tries so hard to tell you to stop obsessing over material objects, and yet here we are.
>>23323862Not OP, but it's more utility with the bible. You want something that's durable and doesn't fall apart with a lot of handling. But you don't need to be extravagant either. A sewn binding and good cover will do all of that.
>>23322901most protestant bibles don't
>>23323881I know
>>23323570>One handed cover bend holder Disgusting
>>23323828That's just as neurotic as OP
>>23322452I am absolutely like this, especially with the Bible, but in the case of the Bible I have a special case for it. My English teacher when I was young always told me that a book all marked up with bent corners is a book that's been loved, but in my eyes to do these things would be the opposite. It definitely is not true, because the value of the book is in the words not the physical book itself
>>23322497Lol
>>23325679>Yeah, I love this watch, that’s why it’s all scratched and the face is broken
>>23322889this but for me it's not that it looks "worst" but that it looks like it's been read as is the purpose of books
>>23326997My favorite watch actually is beat to shit. It's a 10 year old G-Shock with solar panels and automatic time adjustment. The cosmetic stuff fell off in the first 3 years but all the essential stuff is still holding out.
>>23322452buy hardcover or secondhand your welcome
>>23328696*you're>/lit/erature
>>23328715I’m a gooder reader than I am writer
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>>23329223May god have mercy on your soul
>>23322452I believe the name for this condition is "faggotry."
>>23329244Why do you post on this board if you hate books?
>>23322452I'm like this as well kek first time I'm reading a description of my condition.
>>23328696It's the same thing!
>>23329661What are you implying? That a brand new hardcover is the same as a used paperback?
thats why i only buy hardback
>>23322452I'm the exact same way, down to washing my hands before reading a book. I chewed my sister out once for beating the hell out of a book I lent her and she trashed me because of how ginger I am with my paperbacks and told me to just buy hardcovers. I just see no reason why you shouldn't be careful with any book, regardless of its binding.
>>23329803Yup
>>23322452One more reason to get an e-reader.
>>23332139>Grubby fingerprints on the screen>Skin oils sticking to the plastic>Dust and dead skin cells clogging up the charging ports
>>23332192I'll make you suck and lick my fingertipsI'll roll my fingers until little oily black grease snakes accumulate and I'll sprinkle them in your mouth
>>23332192dont forget dandruff lodged in the bezel and ugly scratches that accumulate over time
>>23322452I'm a little like this with everything, and I mostly do keep my stuff immaculate, one major tip is don't fucking eat whole doing stuff and if you absolutely have to have one food hand and one non food hand and only touch the non-food with the latter. Right now I channel my keep-shit-perfect autism in to my new (used) car. I've cleaned her many times, including many instances of minor spot cleanings, and I keep her under a ten layer cover since I have no garage. But, the anxiety of the new is wearing off some, I used to always have the cover on when not in use, now I leave it off entirely on the weekends so I can drive it with the convertible top down whenever I please. I also don't eat in my car, people that do are fucking idiots, I don't let my kids do it either. They want food, we stop and sit on a curb somewhere and eat it.
>>23332206Those scratches can be fixed with rubbing alcohol
>>23332763Really? Like just pour some on a paper towel and scrub?
>>23326997THIS BUT UNIRONICALLYAre you a watch guy?I think not.
>>23325679This is a difference in temperament. You can watch people and see how they differ in their respect for different objects (and different people for that matter). But if you need a theological answer then it's definitely not good to deface your Bible or disregard it's place in a room. It's hard to have high respect for its content when you're not respecting the physical manifestation through which you're receiving it.
>>23333332>>23333333
>>23322452>awed by it's beauty>awed by it is beautythis shit should be a 3 day ban on this board with the charge being "openly displaying low IQ"
>>23333889If lit was whites only poor grammar would disappear immediately.
>>23333889To be fair, it's backwards from what makes sense
>>23322497Based
>>23333270You don't strike me as a watch guy
>>23333904>if /lit/ wasI think you mean 'were'.
>>23335407Lit is a website, it's the subject, /lit/ the website is singular, meaning was is appropriate, and you're, as usual, wrong and a nigger.
>>23335432Subjects, especially when they're a collective, can be plural, retard.
>>233355004chan.com lit board, website, singular.>But it could be construed as a collective therefore-No, faggot. I'm still right and you're still a bitch
>>23335509Lmao, little bro got wrecked and is now trying to say the community is made up of a single person
>>23322452Happens to me all the time, I get nervous of beating up a book accidentally.
>>23323570How is such damage possible,
>>23322452I live right by the ocean and my house is shitty and unsealed. The air is so moist that every book I've ever owned warps the minute I bring it home. It's so bad I can see it happening in real time.
>>23322452Darwin used to cut bulky books in half down the spine to make them lighter, and even persuaded one of his friends to publish in two volumes (unless he wants to see him read a book cut in half)
>>23336155That's sucks :(
>>23323570Oh my god, how does that even happen?!
>>23322889Uh... Why?
>>23323583Most people probably can't afford to be doing stuff like that
>>23323831I only buy paperbacks because they're cheap, and I've never really tried digital books.
>>23332139Some people like being able to physically hold the book, but an e-reader seems convenient.
>>23336428It gives the book a sense of "antiquity". I don't know how to explain this but a recently printed book looks "artificial" while one that has been used for years looks more "natural" (Even though a book is not from nature)
>>23336429I don’t care what poor people can’t do
>>23323570kek
>>23322452Are you autistic or just a dork ?
>>23337920All autists are dorks. Most dorks are autistic.
>>23322452no because I'm an e-redear chad.>inb4 seething paperlets
>>23338024>look up "attractive men reading">go to images>it's all chad reading paperbacks>except for one image with an e-reader>it's picrellollmao
you can vinyl wrap your book
>>23338035I can't tell, is this Amerihomo or Eurohomo?
>>23338035Wow that's a shitty moustache. It's barely more than stubble.
>>23336155What do you do with your electronics? How does your pc survive?
>>23339084That’s what fans are for
