Crisp clean books feel so strange: [breaking books in]
@revellanotvanella (4033)
United States
October 1, 2008 5:58pm CST
Im like that with books. I have to make them feel like their mine and having a book that is crisp and clean just does not do it for me. I have to bend the book a certain way and I know this sounds silly but I will even be less then careful when first getting a new book just so I can make it look aged. Usually its a particular stain it picks up or bend mark on the corner.
Do you have a ritual after purchasing a new book? I just bought a brand new book from Borders (they gave me 20% off this week since Im a member) called "The Power Broker:" [Robert Moses and the Fall of New York] and it has almost 1200 pages so it might be a little more challenging to break this one in since it is so thick and hard to bend and the cover has a laminated feel to it. Any suggestions?
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@bwaybaby (903)
• United States
2 Oct 08
I hate breaking in books. I hate it when the spine breaks. If I lend a book that still looks new to someone and it is returned with a broken spine, I'd probably be upset, although I wouldn't say anything. But that's probably just because I'm a tad bit OCD.
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@revellanotvanella (4033)
• United States
2 Oct 08
broken spine, yea thats a bit far because then you lose the book all together.
hmm, maybe IM the strange one in the bunch, lol, because crisp clean books feel like their not even mine, like some of you said--not even mine to touch and I would never even read it, so maybe my bending it up is giving that permission to read it 
@highflyingxangel (9225)
• United States
2 Oct 08
I don't really like breaking books in. I love getting new books and I love how they look. I kind of hate to read them sometimes because that means that the book will get broken in and will begin to look aged. I don't know, maybe that's just me however. Maybe I'm just strange like that.
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@revellanotvanella (4033)
• United States
2 Oct 08
hey, us readers are a unique breed,lol, I wouldnt have it any other way. OMG, you gotta see my magazines, they take an even bigger beating as I fold the pages inside out to read an article and magazines like Time and newsweek the pages are so thin
@k1tten (2318)
• United States
2 Oct 08
I kinda hate when I break a book in too. Kinda makes me a little depressed when I do bend a corner or get a stain on it. But sometimes I do like knowing that I love a book so much that it is well loved. But I do try to keep it as crisp and new as I can. Like if it's a hard back book and has a dust cover I take the cover off and make sure it gets placed somewhere where it can't get damaged.
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