Finally finished the third volume of Capital. Not going to lie, it was a challenge and quite a journey, but well worth it. Rip to the many, many highlighters that gave their lives for this endeavor.
AMA!
I have no idea what people do to the spines of their books to where they’re all fucked up when they finish with them. All the wear on these is just from toting them around with me everywhere
I fold them in half when I read. But I’m abusive and have needed to glue pages back in before lol
Easy, with these same books use whatever I can find as a bookmark (or more than one rando thin thing) while I hunt down whatever I was typing or scrawling notes on, maybe if said thing was a 2000s laptop slap it down on the book while I reflect on my notes. Then another good one is jumping from page whatever to the references to see the full context and then taking note on that, then flipping back, paper books hate that.
I crack the hell out of the spine before reading cause it keeps the book open easier
Apparently there are some people who tear out a page when they’re done reading it
I’m not saying that there’s a book hell, but I am saying that you would definitely go there for that
Goddamn, I was coming here to call you a blasphemer for defacing your books with highlighting but that is some ninth circle shit.
You can ‘break in’ a spine without breaking it!! You stand it on its spine, ready to read, with all the pages closed. Then you open a few pages from the front to the table. Then a few pages from the back. Then a few from the front. Then the back. Etc, etc, working towards the middle. It stops the spine warping, too.
