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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
Most people I know who enjoy reading books, but aren't obsessive about it, aren't fussed about keeping books pristine. On the other hand, the few people I know who are obsessive about their books do.
(My own objection to broken spines on books is that the pages in mmpbs have a tendency to fall out once the spine gets broken - which is annoying when the book is too large to read comfortably without bending the spine enough to break it)
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Ah, yes, broken spines (broken as in 2+ pieces) are really hateful, with all those pages going everywhere! Glad paperbacks I can find here do have something that justifies their exhorbitant price: good binding. But flying pages, threatening to be lost or misplaced- that's about my only peeve.
And on the other hand, one can't be as obsessive as one of my exes. He wanted to become a librarian (I think he actually made it), so all his book had actual
library stickers on the spines and were arranged in some kind of variation of Dewey.
The story was doomed since the beginning! My room is full of books
but offers a certain unease in finding more shades in the 90% section of "History" (I keep them divided between books I use and others
very scientifical).