99 Book Nerd Problems

[jgaiser]

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/9...nerd-problems/

5. The mark on your wall from where you threw your book after the Red Wedding.

8. Books so funny you become that person laughing alone at a restaurant.

48. Ereader, meet hand lotion.

[davidfor]

13. Only four pages to go!…and it’s your train stop.

I know that one well.

15. Only four pages to go!…and it’s time to walk down the aisle.

I was thinking I should check with my wife if this happened. But, then I remembered who I was talking about. She would have finished it.

[melmac]

8. Books so funny you become that person laughing alone at a restaurant.

This alot! but substitute "Book" with "Audiobook" and "alone at a restaurant" with "out walking"
I reckon my neighbours probably think I'm stark raving mad.

[din155]

32. The pro/con of loaning out your favorite book: everyone should read it/you’ll never see it again.

This

31. That thing where authors have lives, but us readers have NEEDS.

Shamefully this as well

[shootingMaNs]

50. Dropping a book on your face while reading on your back.

I did this three times when I was a kid, reading Battlefield Earth, before I figured out that it might be safer if I just rolled over.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by jgaiser

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/9...nerd-problems/

This has happened to me:

56. Mispronouncing words because you've never actually heard them out loud-you've only read them in books.

I think someone needs an ereader:

27. Books that won't stay open when you're trying to read and eat a sandwich at the same time.
49. Paper cuts.
53. Finishing all your reading material on your second day of vacation.
54. Finishing all your reading material halfway through your flight.
55. People who greet the sight of the book you're reading with, "Oh, isn't that the one where [insert spoiler here]?"
62. Nobody takes you seriously when you say you hurt your wrist holding up a Charles Dickens omnibus.

[eschwartz]

56 has happened to me a lot too, but I think I've figured out why it happens. People who read a lot end up knowing a lot of words that none of the stupid people around them know. And since it never comes up in conversation, you never get around to learning the pronunciation.

[HomeInMyShoes]

I have an e-reader, actually two options for that now, but my reading lists aren't meshing up with actual e-book availability much these days. I'll remedy that with next year's lists hopefully.

13. Only four pages to go!…and it’s your train stop.
16. Being prisoner to a book so good you’re unable to think of or do anything else till you’ve turned the last page.
21. Wanting to reread the most amazing book you read when you were a kid, but all you can remember is that it had a…girl in it. And maybe a train. Or a mirror or something.
26. The wait between installments.
27. Books that won’t stay open when you’re trying to read and eat a sandwich at the same time.
32. The pro/con of loaning out your favorite book: everyone should read it/you’ll never see it again.
35. 400 bedtime readings later, and Love You Forever still makes you weep.
47. Feeling like you have to “forgive” your loved ones for not adequately appreciating your favorite book.
50. Dropping a book on your face while reading on your back.
51. Talking to yourself while reading in public because it’s that good.
56. Mispronouncing words because you’ve never actually heard them out loud—you’ve only read them in books.
64. People respect not wanting to pause a movie way more than they respect not wanting to pause a book.
66. (Using unpaid bills as bookmarks is an even worse idea.)
73. The scary stains you find in the pages of borrowed books.
83. ”I just want to look really quick.” –Famous last words, spoken just before you enter the bookstore

These ones apply way too often for me.

[susan_cassidy]

83. "I just want to look really quick." - Famous last words, spoken just before you enter the bookstore.

has become, for me, "I just want to get on the computer for a few minutes, to check books on Amazon".

[AlbertaCowboy]

99. Nobody ever wants to help you move.

I STILL get a hard time about moving.
C'mon guys, they were all in Rubbermaid tubs! With HANDLES! What more could you ask for?

[HomeInMyShoes]

^A forklift?

[Apache]

83. "I just want to look really quick." - Famous last words, spoken just before you enter the bookstore.

This was always a problem for me, before I Ereading.
Apache

[mrscoach]

My kids used to HATE going to town with me (we lived in small towns without more than a small grocery store) because I ended up looking at books "for just a minute". They are much happier to go out with me now, both because they are adults and don't get out with me often and because I no longer stop to look at books. LOL

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

56 has happened to me a lot too, but I think I've figured out why it happens. People who read a lot end up knowing a lot of words that none of the stupid people around them know.

Indeed. Reading the classics does strange things to you as well. If somebody asks you to tell something about yourself, you state:

"I have a disproportionately contemplative attitude towards life, striving to maintain an equilibrium between work, private life, and hobbies, by reading books and disengaging myself from the socio-economic pressures all individuals are experiencing in current day-to-day dealings."
- " "
"What do you mean, you don't understand?"

[pdurrant]

Here are the ones that speak to me.
And goodness - so many of the items in the article are to do with paper books. How 20th Century!


3. People who say, “You do know it’s just a book, right?”
8. Books so funny you become that person laughing alone at a restaurant.
13. Only four pages to go!…and it’s your train stop.
16. Being prisoner to a book so good you’re unable to think of or do anything else till you’ve turned the last page.
26. The wait between installments.
28. Worrying about your favorite author’s health (for selfish reasons).
29. Tiny factual inconsistencies that ruin the entire book for you.
31. That thing where authors have lives, but us readers have NEEDS.
50. Dropping a book [reader] on your face while reading on your back.
56. Mispronouncing words because you’ve never actually heard them out loud—you’ve only read them in books.
63. Reading a book so good it (temporarily) ruins you for everything else on your shelves.
64. People respect not wanting to pause a movie way more than they respect not wanting to pause a book.
69. The depression that falls after reading the last book in a [really good] trilogy.
75. People who assume your book is a prop, a crutch, or a conversation starter.
76. Racing through a book to find out how it ends…and discovering when you get there that it’s just book one in a projected trilogy.
80. Hand-wringing articles that claim nobody reads anymore.
86. Your bedtime lies somewhere between 11 p.m. and whenever this book stops being so. damn. good.
91. Finding out distractingly awful things about the personal lives of your favorite authors.
93. Publicly snort laughing at jokes written 150 years ago.
98. Predicting a twist way too early.