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mmegaeraBooking Through Thursday, A meme about books and reading. Feb 8, 2007
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What kind of care do you take of your books? Let's review, shall we?
1. Are you careful with the spines? Or do you crack your books open to make them lay flat?
Paperbacks I crack. I have a very hard time holding paperbacks that aren't cracked open.
2. 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?
I have half a dozen fabric cross-stitched bookmarks that I use if one is handy. Sometimes they're not and I use various types of paper. I only dogear if I'm desperate and I can't find anything else to mark my place. At least I don't use a strip of raw bacon like the green one I found in a library book once (I work in a library).
3. Do you write in your books? Ever? If you do, do you make small marks, or write in as much blank space as you can find? Pen or pencil? Highlighter? Your name on the front page?
Seldom, and only in books I'm doing research in that I own myself. I've been known to use pen and highlighter, and to fill as much blank space as I need.
4. Do you toss your books on the floor? Into bookbags? Or do you treat them tenderly, with respect?
If they're ones I've finished and headed back to the UBS, then, yes, I toss them in the general direction of the UBS bag. Otherwise, no.
5. Do you ever lay your book face-down, to save your place?
Yes, at least the paperbacks I keep on the nightstand. Bookmarks aren't always possible when I'm half asleep.
6. Um--water? Do you bathe with your books? Hold them with wet hands? Read out in the rain? Anything of that sort?
Nope. None of the above.
7. Are your books lined up on a bookshelf? Or crammed in any which way? Stacked on the floor?
Mostly lined up on bookshelves. I do stack books on top of the lined up ones when I run out of room. I used to stack on the floor until I got a big enough bookcase in my living room (although big enough has shrunk to barely adequate in the two years since I had it built).
8. Do you make a distinction--as regards book care--between hardcovers and paperbacks?
Not really.
9. And, to recap? Naturally, you love all of your books, but how, exactly? Are your books loved in the battered way of a well-loved teddy bear, or like a cherished photo album or item of clothing that's used, appreciated, but carefully cared for?
Well-loved teddy bear. I own books that I've had to buy a second copy of, because the first one fell apart with rereading.
10. Any additional comments?
Not really.
TLC
What kind of care do you take of your books? Let's review, shall we?
1. Are you careful with the spines? Or do you crack your books open to make them lay flat?
Paperbacks I crack. I have a very hard time holding paperbacks that aren't cracked open.
2. 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?
I have half a dozen fabric cross-stitched bookmarks that I use if one is handy. Sometimes they're not and I use various types of paper. I only dogear if I'm desperate and I can't find anything else to mark my place. At least I don't use a strip of raw bacon like the green one I found in a library book once (I work in a library).
3. Do you write in your books? Ever? If you do, do you make small marks, or write in as much blank space as you can find? Pen or pencil? Highlighter? Your name on the front page?
Seldom, and only in books I'm doing research in that I own myself. I've been known to use pen and highlighter, and to fill as much blank space as I need.
4. Do you toss your books on the floor? Into bookbags? Or do you treat them tenderly, with respect?
If they're ones I've finished and headed back to the UBS, then, yes, I toss them in the general direction of the UBS bag. Otherwise, no.
5. Do you ever lay your book face-down, to save your place?
Yes, at least the paperbacks I keep on the nightstand. Bookmarks aren't always possible when I'm half asleep.
6. Um--water? Do you bathe with your books? Hold them with wet hands? Read out in the rain? Anything of that sort?
Nope. None of the above.
7. Are your books lined up on a bookshelf? Or crammed in any which way? Stacked on the floor?
Mostly lined up on bookshelves. I do stack books on top of the lined up ones when I run out of room. I used to stack on the floor until I got a big enough bookcase in my living room (although big enough has shrunk to barely adequate in the two years since I had it built).
8. Do you make a distinction--as regards book care--between hardcovers and paperbacks?
Not really.
9. And, to recap? Naturally, you love all of your books, but how, exactly? Are your books loved in the battered way of a well-loved teddy bear, or like a cherished photo album or item of clothing that's used, appreciated, but carefully cared for?
Well-loved teddy bear. I own books that I've had to buy a second copy of, because the first one fell apart with rereading.
10. Any additional comments?
Not really.
