Barbarism.
Man, fuck Lauren and fuck the parents who raised her to do that to books.
I had heard books having titles on their spine is relatively recent. Partially due to books being stored like they are here, to prevent the pages from rotting. Allegedly titles started to be printed on spines with Alice in Wonderland, at least for mass-produced books.
I’m having trouble coming up with a source, Wikipedia mentions early books not having titles on the spine, but doesn’t mention storage or when this practice changed. Or a source. That’s as far as I was able to track any of this down.
All this to say, there might be prior precedent for this. Which for me moves her behavior (even if that’s not her stated reason) towards eccentric, rather than book-hating.
Fuck, I actually like how it looks… But it’s so nonsense…
People with “styles” like this remind me of my sister-in-law. That is not a good thing.
I love reading. I read a lot. And I rarely open a paper book. So perhaps Lauren also has an e-reader, and keeps the books there because she inherited them. Or maybe she likes the smell of old books as it reminds her of her grandparents house where she used to spend her summers. Or it may be that she likes the feel of moving her fingers through all those pages. It brings back old memories of her librarian mother who passed away when she was just a child. Or…
The point being, why the hate? So here’s a different take. Perhaps Lauren has a good reason to have the books like that.