What are some of Veeky Forums's pet peeves about books?

What are some of Veeky Forums's pet peeves about books?

A big one that triggers my autismo is when the author's name is larger than the book's title on the cover.

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> seeing people's book collections and all they own is YA fiction hardbacks
> a torn page in the book, sometimes from holding the page too firmly
> "unputdownable" as a quote on the cover makes me put the book down
> when the printing on the page hasn't been done properly so half of the word is missing and you struggle to make out what it's meant to say
> supermarket book collections: nothing but trashy romance novels, YouTuber books, James Patterson and the original novel to a film or tv programme

>dust jackets

>directly addressing the reader

>tiny font

Dedications and thanks at the beginning that aren't real. I get i if it's nonfiction and they're thanking collaborators and institutions that allowed them to do their work. But "To my beloved wife, [x]" triggers me.

James Patterson seems to release a new book each week with another author. What's that all about? Dude must be raking it in.

It's shit like this that makes me hate social media.

Also when you're mid-way in conversation with someone and the other person checks their phone for texts or notifications on facebook. When did that become socially acceptable? Always felt rude to me to do that in a conversation with someone else.

>Writer here.
DROPPED

i dont know, its certainly retarded society socially. social media fags are just carrying ariund safety blankets and sucking their thumbs, a cellphone in hand all the time is little more than Linus carrying ariund his blanket. my favorite are those adults 40+ who engage with phones and s.m. this way, its pathetic. life is not happening on your phone.

He comes up with the basic idea and then somebody else writes it if I remember correctly.

If that's true it's a bit shitty his name gets top-billing for that.
Agreed. If you were so switched on socially, you wouldn't rely on social media while already outside and socialising. Social media really should be for when you're not engaged with somebody else socially. It really does make my piss boil, user.

When the book doesn't come with the free toy.

>Every Dostoevsky novel.

>a torn page in the book, sometimes from holding the page too firmly

I was carrying a couple of books in my bag when a gypsy woman stole it. The cops tracked her down and returned most of my things, the book included. Except she had torn a single page from the end notes, crumpled it, and put it back.

Now my autism can't get past that and l'll probably donate it to the library or something.

I would do the same thing and just buy a new copy of the book. Why the hell would anyone tear a single page out and then return it? Some people are crazy.

Yeah, the only thing holding me back is the fact that l'm a third-world Europoor. I'd rather spend that money on another book, but l'm conflicted about what to do with this one.

Damn gypsy, why would you do this?

Will society ever grow out of doing this

> deckled pages

> italics
> using exclamation points
> using anything more than "said"
> expository dialogue
> buying pre-owned books online to later find out it's an old copy from a school library with laminated covers and scribbled notes on each page

>Reviewer is just "Amazon.com"
>Small circular sticker with "YOUR FAVOURITE BOOKTUBER" giving it their seal of approval
>Five Reddit logos indicating how popular the book is on Reddit

kids born post2000 have an increased skepticism toward s.m. because they consider our generation lame and stupid because of it

which book is an example of the 2nd and 3rd points?

Do all dogs go to heaven or just the good boys?

Why is that a thing again?

This
FUCK dust jackets
Singlehandedly turned me off hardcovers

i fucking HATE how vintage books all say:
>VINTAGE SURNAME
rather than the author's full name
for some reason it tickles my autism something awful

Italics?

I know this is off-topic but man the pope is rustling my jimmies.

>things have changed and I don't like it!

People who say "dropped"

Straight edges = paper cuts

Really hate books with switching narrator between chapters, takes me out of my comfort zone every time

First person
'Voicey' writing
Present tense
Pop culture references

::deletes epub::

You're stupid.

>third-rate snark
DISCARDED

Wouldn't get sold without his name in big type

You're either a troll or someone who checks their phone mid-conversation yourself.

Sorry what was that? Hold on.

>Book starts with a quote from a better book

I found it charming when melville does it

There this catholic girl in high school who would suck my dick from time to time, anyway her and her mother used to compose angry letters to the pope (the last one).
She took off to become a nun after high school, god I miss her.

kek

>tfw i love getting laminated library books

Straight male authors

Maybe if you're a fat retard who doesn't know how to use a book

Why? I'm not a catholic or anything but the new pope seems like an a-ok lad.

This user is so socially retarded that he doesn't realise how rude it is during a conversation to flick up his phone to see if he has any notifications. Do you not see an irony in trying so hard to keep up-to-date with social interactions online that you fail to connect with people socially IRL?

happens too often, but the silver lining is that if that book is really shit i'll drop it and pick up the book it was quoting instead

> a specific arrangement of three letter acronyms filtering to "desu" and "senpai"

What books me more is that usually Vintage book covers look like crap, and I don't understand why they have such a focus on red. Red spines, red is central in their book covers, etc. The only Vintage book covers I really like are the Mishima ones and the LGBTQIA+ rockets for Gravity's Rainbow.

goodreads is a motherfucker

This.

same

> lending a book to a friend
> never see the book again
> they never read it

One of life's biggest mysteries is where the fuck did that book go?

This is just autistic

>read fairy tales
>get recommended children's book

It's like pottery

So Kafkaesque user

You forgot white

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theyre good dogs, user

The pope has no right to decide who goes into heaven.

>nails 95 theocrats to a church door in a rage

why wouldn't you want the goodest of boys to be in heaven to have a little play with when you or they died???

Maybe dogs do go to heaven, I'm just saying the pope doesn't know any better than anybody else.

can't blame the pope for being optimistic though

Not Kafkaesque in the least

You guys are aware that the pope is the voice of God on earth right?

You are aware that that is unnecessary, right?
We don't need a moderator between God and mankind since God wants to have a personal relationship with us.

It's really just an issue for Catholics. He's very progressive, saying shit like gays can go to heaven and changing a lot of the more rigid traditions of the church for something lighter on the soul. It's like the leggings of Catholicism.