There are only two kinds of books that are truly loved - those pristine and undamaged, and those which look like they’ve been through the apocalypse

  • Xoriff@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Chaotic war-crime: dog-ear where you make the fold exactly big enough so it points to the line you left off on.

    Yes I did this sometimes as a kid and I still feel bad for the librarians who had to see the devastation I wrought.

    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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      3 hours ago

      Lmao imagining kid you opening the book to see the page pointed at “see,” only to have to reread the page anyway because you lost track of what a character was seeing