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

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      You’re right, plant material is going to decompose if there is any trace of humidity in the air and there goes your page… I just stick a thin slice of smoked ham in there

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      You can laminate leafs if you really want to keep having that fall theme going

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      Absolutely, putting a book down open face will fuck up the spine, and if done for a long time or repeatedly, the whole book will be deformed and maybe even fall apart.

      That seems much more chaotic to me than dog earing a few pages.

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      The only ones I haven’t done (that i can recall) are “neutral good” and “chaotic neutral”

      i do have a vague memory of pressed flower bookmarks when i was a youngster, probably was something my mom had.

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    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.

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      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

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    I’m not represented here. My two go-to’s are powering through to the next chapter so I don’t have to remember the page number, even though it’s way too late, or using whatever random shit I can find to wedge into the book. Most recently it was a can of bullets.

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    Tear the page you’re on out and keep it in your pocket to look back to when you need to start again and you can find the page # on the torn out page. /S

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    Burning the page you just finished reading so you can read the next page, while standing there in a dark labyrinth where a minotaur is lurking.

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    Book Darts are the way. The only way. (That’s a “sentence pointer” made out of copper. It’s archival quality, so it won’t damage your book, even if you leave it there for a very long time.)

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    I read books to read what’s inside them, not to save them forever as objects. So chaotic evil it is. Unless there is a receipt handy.

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      I have used squares of toilet paper in the past. But if I own the book, I’m as like to use the dog ear as I am to find a piece of scrap paper

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    ebook is the only way to guarantee I can read the book. page material and gloss, layout, spacing, kerning, etc. can all combine in various ways to make me inexplicably unable to read or have a really hard time reading where I have to focus really hard on each letter rather than each sentence. Oled has made is possible for me to read large bodies of text on phones but for full books I always go for the eink.

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      Interesting, was it always that way for you? I feel like for me with books printed on paper I’m actually a lot less picky but for e-readers (or any text on a screen really) the kerning, text size, etc. matters a lot more. The impact is definitely more pronounced for regular screens than e-ink though. Text size I find has the biggest impact on readability on screens for me in general.

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        the main reason the ereader works for me is the ability to override pretty much every aspect of the text. I can do most non glossy paper and text but some books and especially textbooks are a real bitch and everyone thought I was just making shit up when I was in school. text size is usually ok but I tend to make it bigger so I dont need glasses