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Originally Posted by rhadin
I have hardcover books that I bought 10-15 years ago and read that if you looked at them and even opened them, you would swear they had never been previously opened and certainly never read. I also have some older paperbacks that look like theyu have not been read except for a narrow crease in the spine.
I think it is a matter of how you handle pbooks. My son handles books much more carefully these days than he did in his teens. In his teens, once he read a book it was ready for recycling (not book recycling, garbage recycling); today he at least is careful with my books.  |
I have a huge collection of paperbacks that look as if they have never been opened although all have been read by me. I am extremely particular about my books and rarely break the spine and never dog ear the pages.My mom has gotten angry with me a couple of times because I wouldn't let her borrow my books (in each case, I have bought her her own copies) because she treats books atrociously. Now that I have a document feeder scanner, I've started cutting the spines off of some of the older ones to scan in for ebook conversion. The first time I did it, I nearly cried even though the cover had already fallen off the book from old age.
