Tips on how to not crack or crease a spine?

Read hardcovers
The only way to keep a paperback from closing without holding it 2-handed is to bend the spine
People who worry about their books looking beat up are retards

Welp guess you're not allowed to open it then

Then don't spill anything on it or mark it with anything. Creases =/= spots.

this is my amazing technique OP. if you are reading on a table, leave the cover under the page you are reading on the table and the other cover leave it 90º. as you advance a page, you flip the whole book and repeat the process.

or, if you are holding the book on your hands just don't open it all the way through, go as far as like 120º

thats my copy of IJ, it was even called 'unread' by some retards here

Oh man that's the most autistic thing i've seen here all day and i've been in the 'oxbridge pasta' thread and the 'oxbridge pasta thread' thread

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Why would you do this with run of the mill paperbacks? It boggles the mind. I can understand it if you're examining the original Doomsday book or something.

was Carli the one who said she would read books like a retard to not crack the spine? I can't remember. It also might have been Agatha but I don't think she actually reads books

idk guys, I've always found those ways comfortable to read and have always read it like that, mostly the holding the book, not on a table. it was just unconsciouss, its not like I was trying not to fuck with the book, it just happened that the way I like to read preserves the book

im not that autist come on

Step 1) Only buy books that are really going to stretch you intellectually.

Step 2) Never get past the first 10 pages, leaving the spina very much intacta.

You should have just said fuck your book then and given it back to him.

But then again I barely ever manages to crack the spine of books unless they're really thick like The Count of Monte Cristo or something

WOW, another great fucking thread. How to store books...How to not crease spine...How to arrange by genre...How to stay focused.

You guys will makes threads about everything book related except for actually discussing the content...

Yes it was her, and about it was about an Austen novel, so cute huh...

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>laying on couch reading book still being careful not to crease the spine, 600+ pages in
>g/f walks over and straddles me
>I continue reading
>g/f takes book from me and lays it on my chest, spread open
>audibly hear something that sounds like glue separating
>see the spine is creased and get pissed off, pointing it out to her
>'oh user, that's been there for days' and walks away

>tips on how to not crack or crease a spine?
Stop reading books.

I do this too user, glued spines just aren't the same as sewn ones and you can just feel that you shouldn't open it all the way like you can do with better bound books

soak the entire book in vegetable oil

Just do what the rest of this board does and not read it at all.

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Unless you're a fucking ape, there no reason to crack the spine unwillingly, especially if the book doesn't belong to you. So be a gentle giant there, big guy, and treat it like somebody else's property, which it is, and isn't your to drool over, k?

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My daddy taught me how not to crack the spine by using someone else's mouth instead of your hands.

Really depends on how thick the book is.

Who gives a fuck about the spine or condition if it's a mass-produced book? Just read it.

its the count of monte cristo.....

I've noticed some spines get creased after the first read, and some don't even after few reads (not depending on thickness). Depends on the publisher. The mass produced ones like all of Penguin's publishers and subpublishers get creased easly. Wordsworth too. I have yet to discover a goos English publisher.

Almost any mass market sized book will. Trade paperbacks because of the way they fold open from their increased size, prevent spine damage.

Dip the entire book in wax and never give it back.

this is pure bullshit

Tell me about the rabbits George...

> it was even called 'unread' by some retards here
if your book is not falling apart and borderline illegible from notes then it might as well be unread

>writing in books
hat's fucking disgusting

lel

Just give it back and get your own copy. Way too thick and just begging for an argument. Just buy your own copy and do as you please. I recommend the Penguin Buss translation. These mass produced books are going to age, yellow, and brittle anyway so your friend is being too anal about it.

thats the one I borrowed. Yeah going to give it back and tell him its too much of a hassle. I don't always crack books but with penguins I'm batting 1000

Don't read duh