Book Meme

[skull_bearer]

Are you careful with the spines? Or do you crack your books open to make them lay flat? 

Snap, crack, crunch. All fall apart.

Do you use bookmarks? Or do you dog-ear the corners? If you do use bookmarks, do you use those fashionable metal ones? Or paper?

Dog ear, top and/or bottom. I mark the top for gruesome and/or morbid content, bottom for very funny things, and both for things I will always want to read again.

Do you write in your books? Ever? If you do, do you make smallmarks, or write in as much blank space as you can find? Pen or pencil?Highlighter? Your name on the front page?

Not unless the book has severely pissed me off, or if it's a dragonlance book and I'm making notes for I&E.

Do you toss your books on the floor? Into book bags? Or do you treat them tenderly, with respect? 

On the floor, on the bed, cram them into bags too small for them. Wonder why no one wants to lend me books?

Do you ever lay your book face-down, to save your place? 

Yep.

Um--water? Do you bathe with your books? Hold them with wet hands? Read out in the rain? Anything of that sort? 

Yep, yep, yep, and I once took 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' into a sauna, where it was so hot the glue holding the pages melted.

Are your books lined up on a bookshelf? Or crammed in any which way? Stacked on the floor?

My books are everywhere, in every possible condition. Books on the floor, book on the desk, book on the bed (and crammed between the matrass and the fame on said bed) books on the floor. A library in the making.

Do you make a distinction--as regards book care--between hardcovers and paperbacks?

Nope, I'm an equal opportunity destroyer. ;) I don't care in what state my books are as long as I can read them.

Comments

[shadowvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

"X-D
Yepp, I've seen it!
*glares at Skull Bearer and cuddles her abused books* ò_ó

[analia-the-1st.livejournal.com]

Wow, sounds like we've got the same book habits.