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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?

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.

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.

Edited 2017-04-17 23:36 (UTC)

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.

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.

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Edited 2017-04-17 23:28 (UTC)

I haaaaaate it when the books in a series don't match. Like when the second to the last Princess Diaries came out and it had a locked diary-inspired book jacket and it didn't match the others, which had crowns and sceptors on the covers. Then the last one came out with that terrible clip-art style cover. Ugh. It irrationally pisses me off that they don't match.

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?

(Anonymous) - 2017-04-17 23:35 (UTC) - Expand

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

Edited 2017-04-17 23:37 (UTC)

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.

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

I'll buy whatever's available, ditch the jacket if it slides all around and annoys me and I totally dog ear my books with no fucks given. A book with folds to me is a sign of a much read, much loved book. When I die, it will be easy to tell what my favorites were.

I only buy hardcover books but I do all my reading digitally. I'll read books on my phone and if I really love it, I'll buy it. I'm very picky about what goes on my bookshelves.

None of those things apply, I pretty much only read ebooks these days.

But in the past, I liked paperbacks the best, so no book jackets. If I did happen to read a hardcover, I'd usually leave the book jackets on (and would switch book jackets around when I was reading something I shouldn't have been reading so that it looked like I was reading something else). And I'm not sure what you mean by "underline your place" (that makes me think put the bookmark under a specific line, so that it's sticking sideways out of the book, which seems weird to me), but I'd use a bookmark in between two pages to keep my place. I never folded corners or wrote in my books, at least not as an adult (as a kid I would underline my favorite scenes/parts of the book with a pen).

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2. No
3. Of course, I'm not a barbarian.
4. Hell no.
5. I rarely annotate with a pencil.

I prefer real over e, soft over hard, I almost always fold the corners on my softcovers but for some reason I use bookmarks with my hardcovers?

I take the dust jacket off because it always slides around or gets mooshed and sad.

NEVER BREAK A SPINE. NEVER ROLL THE FRONT COVER OVER THE BACK.

And I could never write in a book unless it was a gift and an inscription, some of my best memories are from childhood books with inscriptions from my now dead grandparents.

I prefer soft cover books, because they're generally smaller and take up less room on bookcases/shelves. Plus, they're cheaper than hardcovers.

I don't like dog-earring my pages. I use bookmarks/paper scraps.

I don't like writing in books (or receiving books that are written in), but I will highlight/underline something I find particularly interesting.

I prefer hard cover for reading at home and soft cover for travelling. I always take the jackets off and, while I have a bunch of pretty bookmarks, I always end up using a receipt or business card to mark my place. I never write in my books because I find it weirdly distracting to have comments or highlighted lines. I used to fold pages, but not anymore. I try to be very careful with my books because I want them to stay nice and I only lend them out to friends I trust.

I love hardcovers but ultimately I won't care if I really want the book so I've got plenty of paperbacks. No, I keep it on. Yes, I've got some cool magnetic bookmarks that sit over the top of the page to keep track of where I am. No, NEVER. Again, NO.

I'm another who doesn't really mind whether it's paperback or hardcover. If hardcover, though, I would rather keep the jacket on - helps the book keep that "new" feel, I guess, even though they usually end up a bit wrinkly around the edges from traveling around with them, haha.

I got a kindle as a present recently and it's very practical, it's where I read the classics (since they are all available for free online, haha). When they are physical copies, I would rather fold a corner of a page to keep track of where I am.

Also I will try not to write in books. Even if it's language or student books, I will only use a pencil. It's not a logical habit per se, just direct influence from a high school Philosophy teacher I had a crush on. I suppose the Kindle is also practical in this respect, so I can keep all the nice quotes stored in one single place, haha.

No preference for hard or soft cover, though soft cover is cheaper. I like the 'trade' size paperbacks that are between hard and soft cover size, and have that silky, smooth kind of cover. LOVE those.

I do take the jackets off hc books, 'cause they tend to get torn, and I turn down a corner of the page as as bookmark on all books (except for the ancient Little Women and such i own, because they're so brittle the corner will just break right off).

I like my books hard and naked. I fold the pages - fold the top to mark the spot, fold the bottom to re-find a line or quote i thought was nice.

Not usually, but I have written in some. For the nonfictions, as new information comes out or info changes I will cross out incorrect numbers or write in the new study info.

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