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⌈ Secret Post #3757 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

General comments:

(If the thread contains spoilery/triggery content please post as 2nd comment so it collapses!)

What are your reading habits?

[(Anonymous)]

Do you prefer hard cover or soft cover books? Do you take off the book jacket? Do you use a bookmark to underline your place? Do you fold the corner of pages? Do you write in your books?

Re: What are your reading habits?

[kaijinscendre]

I don't have a preference for book covers but if it has a jacket, I take it off. I USED to fold the corners but not I use bookmarks (I got sprout ones). I do not write them.

Re: What are your reading habits?

[morieris]

I'm not averse to buying physical copies when they're discounted enough - hell, i've been waiting on a certain book to be clearanced out at BAM for about three years now - but these days I just get pdfs/ebooks.

Some of my physical books are in better conditions than others. I have zero problem reading in the bath and getting water on my books.

Re: What are your reading habits?

[(Anonymous)]

Jackets off. I like paperback or hardcover, either/or. But if I'm buying, I just like to keep the series or author all the same, paperback vs hardcover. I am an evil page folder! And I don't write in my books. I had a hard time even underlining or highlighting college textbooks. It just seems wrong to write in books.

Re: What are your reading habits?

[bur]

Hardcover, jacket off, and I just remember the page number since I only read one book at a time. And, goddamnit, my books have to MATCH, and it pisses me off so much when a series changes style halfway through. Like, I have NINE books in The Edge Chronicles, in this faux antique book style, and what do they do with the next ones?! Standard slip covers, holographic foil designs. IT DOESN'T MATCH.

IT. DOESN'T. MATCH.

Or, OR, I have two books in a series. Both are hardcover, and the second has a main character drawn on the cover. But only the SOFTCOVER version of the first one has the other main character drawn on it. The hardcover version is completely different.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Re: What are your reading habits?

[(Anonymous)]

Theoretically, there's nothing like a beautiful hard cover, but a nice soft cover is fine, too. I read books, they aren't just decorations, but that doesn't mean I need to crease them, break the spines, fold pages, and write in them. I'm always gentle with them, and it seriously bothers me to see smudges, tears, and creases. Writing in books is absolutely horrible - I can't even bring myself to write in textbooks or something, it's hard enough to write in my language study books where I'm supposed to fill in the exercises. :P

But the honest truth these days is: neither. I get digital books. I've moved way too often now - including several times overseas and back - to realize that books, especially those beautiful hard covers, take up a lot of space and are heavy as fuck. A Kindle isn't a great substitute, but it is by far the practical one. I currently have a book shelf of books, but I may be moving again soon and I'm stumped at what to do with them.

Also, who underlines their place in a book? Lol how does that help you find your page? I don't use for real bookmarks, but I do any extra piece of paper I find lying around.

Re: What are your reading habits?

[sarillia]

I don't really have a preference for hardcover or paperback, but I always take the book jacket off if there is one.

I don't use bookmarks or fold the corners down. I just remember what page I'm on.

I never write in books but I like seeing what other people have written in the used copies I buy. I'm reading I Capture the Castle now and I get the feeling I wouldn't like the person who owned it before me.

Whenever I start a new book, I read the last sentence first. It has nothing to do with finding out anything. I just like seeing the last line out of context and it's become part of the new book ritual.

Re: What are your reading habits?

[(Anonymous)]

Soft cover, they're easier for me to hold. And I NEVER dogear pages or scribble in my books!

Re: What are your reading habits?

[(Anonymous)]

I prefer paperbacks, and wish that more book series went with paperback only releases. However as long as the series I follow and fangirl over stick with hardback releases first then I'm going to buy the hardbacks. I'm neutral on the covers or not, unless the cover artist has done more than a generic cover (two people, man and woman, woman clutching onto man's arm and the man pointing a flashlight or gun ahead of him, with an unnaturally large full moon behind them, I bet you can see this now) then I don't mind losing them. The Ben Aaronovitch UK covers for his Rivers of London novels are an example where I do object to losing the dust jackets since you can read the plot in the covers once you've read the book. They are like a dvd extras in print form.

Re: What are your reading habits?

[sadiesockmonkey]

I prefer paperbacks, I take off the book jacket while I'm reading a hardcover book, and I will use the jacket itself as a bookmark. Currently I'm using an almost 5 year old receipt as a bookmark, and I used to use heart shaped post-it notes as bookmarks, but I have a tendency to lose those post-its, so nowadays often times I don't use a bookmark, but record the last place I stopped on Goodreads.

I don't fold the corner of pages (though I did briefly in the past) and I only write in a book if I'm annotating it.

Re: What are your reading habits?

[skeletal_history]

I prefer paperback. I use whatever paper is at hand for a bookmark.

I enthusiastically underline and mark up my books -- it really helps me remember what I read. I own these books, I don't think of mass-market books as sacred objects, I work in a library and weed books on a continual basis; people who act all precious about not ~defiling~ books with marginalia are irritating babies.

As long as we're talking about books you own. If you do not own them, you'd best put down that highlighter and retract your filthy fingers away from that page corner, barbarian!

Re: What are your reading habits?

[(Anonymous)]

Currently, I like hard cover but I do like the portability of small soft cover books. I take off the jacket when I'm reading. I use a metal bookmark. I do tend to underline with it as I read to keep my eyes from jumping all over the page. I've only written in my college text books and the inside cover of my books when I was a kid.

Re: What are your reading habits?

[(Anonymous)]

I read on the Kindle, as well as the Scribd app on my Kindle. I read a LOT.

Rate the Thing

[(Anonymous)]

Rate the last thing you read or watched, and give a little review if you want.

Writing question

[(Anonymous)]

This one is a bit specific, but I could use some weighing in.

I'm writing an SF story set on a planet where the original human colonists all decided to clone a bunch of orangutan bodies and have their brains transplanted into them and then the second wave colonists come into conflict with the sapient orangutan descendants of the first wave whom they do recognise as human. My question is this: Some of my beta readers think that using orangutans is ripping of Terry Pratchett and I should pick another primate; is it okay to ignore them on this? I don't really want to write about people brain-swapping with chimps (cliched) or gorillas (potentially really racist). I don't feel like I'm ripping off Terry Pratchett, I just like the idea of sapient orangutans. If anything I'm closer to ripping off George Lucas with his wookies and ewoks.

Opinions?

Talk about your pets (and/or post pictures)

[(Anonymous)]

I moved my PS4 to dust and my cat decided to take over the shelf that houses it and use the PS4 as her pillow.

It does not at all look comfortable but she's been living there all day.

What movie scene always gives you goosebumps?

[(Anonymous)]

Or video game or TV scene.

Video games have killed again.

[thewakokid]

So this bullshit argument comes up again.

Nutcase kills a guy and live streams it... CNN blames video games because it looked like an FPS the way he was holding is phone.

Fuck all this noise. Can we please have the next step in entertainment already so people can start demonizing that and leave muh vidya alone?

Inspired by secret 2

[(Anonymous)]

Dead Fantasy was awesome. I never get tired of watching it. I love those types of fight scenes.

What are your favorite fights? I'd love some more to watch. I recently watched Legend of Drunken Master and Ip Man 2, both of which were awesome.

Travel Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

I have everything booked for my trip this summer and now I'm alternating between excited and nervous. My hotel is right next to the central station, I have an app for the extensive public transportation system, and the majority of people there speak English. Yet I'm still worried I'll get lost somewhere.

What was your first solo trip like? Did you get lost? Or did you worry about getting lost?

Magazines you didn't subscribe to

[(Anonymous)]

Do you ever get them? Apparently magazines companies have been partnering with other companies to give away subscriptions with purchases. And then people get magazines they didn't know they had a subscription to.

http://www.racked.com/2016/2/19/11052468/subscriptions-teen-vogue-self-asos-glamour

I didn't know about this, and now I'm apparently subscribed to Seventeen. I'm 27. I don't know what purchase it came with.

Anyone else gotten any mysterious magazines?

Feminism Test

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.celebritytypes.com/feminism-5/test.php

I wanna know what kind of feminism f!s leans towards!

[(Anonymous)]

It's been two whole days without a picture of Dean Winchester.

Why have you forsaken me, f!s?

Rant

[(Anonymous)]

Posting as a second comment.