As a book lover, what is one thing you dont like about books?
As a book lover, what is one thing you dont like about books?
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As a book lover, what is one thing you dont like about books?
Moving them LoL
And in a way I love having a reason to handle each and ever one of them… So maybe I should say lifting them LOL
Bsame series different book height
@Adamaus thatโs the worst!
That ONE bloody book!!
Pet peeve!!!!
One of my FAVORITE authors (Judith Merkle Riley) apparently didnโt have enough devoted fans, so her third book of a set was only ever released as a paperback. I own all her other books in hard back.
That would infuriate the hell out of me
@Adamaus, I truly grieved when I read her obit in the paper. RIP
When the cover theme changes part way through a series. ?
I’m trying to move cross country, only filling up two cars worth of stuff. Guess how much space is being dedicated to my personal library?
If you have your new address, you can ship books USPS โlibrary rateโ. They anymore discourage that and try to get you to pay standard package rate, but โbook rateโ aka โlibrary/media rateโ is still on the books.
Oh ? Thank you!
You can’t update them.
Just moved, so I have to say packing and moving them.
Moving. I have about 800 or so and it can be a pain
@Gary I feel your pain. When we moved into our current apartment we had 9 boxes of books and 3 boxes of comics and manga. Now it would be 12 and 5
About 7 years ago I had around 31/2 boxes of books. Now Iโd have 12-14
They end…?
When you read 4 (5?) books of a series in a row… But wait years for the last one because the author is working in a cable series. Grrrrr!
GoT!
And the total irony in this is that when I first started the series, I bought the first three books at Krogers while waiting on a prescription. That โtrilogyโ was my consolation prize for catching flu from a student (in spite of flu shot). Imagine my disgust to get to the end of my โtrilogyโ to find out it wasnโt!
The tragedic end?
Worshipping has no end
When I am unable to finish a book
Putting it down when i get into it
The end.
They keep me up too late at night.
They end to soon.
That I like books more than I like people. But I guess I like that idea…
Hmm, some are too big to fit in my back pocket, sometimes hard to hold them while eating tacos, hamburgers etc.
The price
@Karolina Yeah, so sometimes I buy used books ?
@Ankita I always buy used books, I will buy a new book a few times a year.
@Karolina That’s great ? Where are you from ma’am?
@Ankita I live in Copenhagen
@Karolina Oo?.I live in India
The fact that they end. Especially when you just hunger for more of the book you read, and it does not have a sequel. Ugh! Thatโs the worst. Or if they end with questions still left.
Good stories also have an end…
When someone other writes a sequel
When your bookmark falls out!
white papers
I would like to see hardcover books stay open to the page you are reading.. without it closing..
That they end.
Fan fiction
The price
How hard it is to get one published if you write. And how hard it is to sell them even if you do.
@Steve I agree with you on that
@Michelle Not too mention how hard it is to write one in the first place.
@Steve exactly!!! But I do tell people it’s easier to write the book then it is to be published
When they two guys after the some girl
Like anything else, getting started
The price.
It makes you less social person
The weight of some, and price of some
Kristin, the weight issue is what first got me to read ebooks! A carryon filled with books was a challenge to get into the plane overhead bin. So I got a kindle for travel. Now my kindle library rivals my actual one!
@Mary since my symptoms have come forward for my Chiari, i have had more trouble lifting heavier things. Books are one thing i wont give up. Lol but i dont travel with too many.
@Kristin, the trip that prompted my @bag of booksโ was a bachelorette weekend to Vegas. I wanted to support the bride, but am not interested in most of that party scene! So I took books to occupy myself in the evenings. Wasnโt sure what Iโd want to read after finishing the current read, so packed several choices across genres. Most women (I am told) have trouble deciding on outfits or shoes! ?
You don’t really get much work done with them around
The good ones end too soon. The bad ones don’t end fast enough.
I don t find what I want in morroco
The corner on paperbacks curl up and sometimes rip off
They end !
Make us inactive
Shabina Miraj But activates the brain though ?
That I can’t afford all the books that I want
People who turn pages over instead of using a bookmark??
That some eventually go out of print. OR Certain editions I liked go out of print. I hate that.
I have 2 full time jobs and a part time job, how am i gona squeeze reading tym :'(
When the books are too big and take ages to finish
When the books are too big and take ages to finish
NOTHING!!!!
Loads of blank pages at the beginning/end
The death of my fav charactor.
Unnecessary detailing.. like to what side the grass moved when the wind blew and all, unless it’s necessary for the story.
I hate it when I find mistakes, grammatical ones make me see red ๐
Me too, except when the narrator is a kid. Like in Room.
Me, too! Makes me Leary of books only published digitally.Often that means no editor.
That I donโt have time to read them all
That I canโt keep up with all I want to read. Both with what I have, and the continuous, fabulous new releasesโค๏ธ
@Patricia Ditto!
That there is more books out there that I can’t read and always new ones coming out. My to read pile is getting longer
This trend of always having to have a prologue. Why can’t it just be chapter 1? Also a certain phrase every author seems to use when describing a run down place. It “smells of boiled cabbage.” Some imagination please! Lol. That’s me done
You got me at boiled cabbage?
I am authoring all wrong then….. I must now investigate boiled cabbage and the use of prologues lol
Interesting… I will give my input in a few.
The forever increasing price.. but even for that, i still buy? though sometimes if the time is right i grab when there is a sale going on..?
@MekTon I have started buying only from sales, for these past three years now. I’ve got about 20/25 books still to be read, so I can afford to wait ๐
When they change the great cover to the movie cover
That is actually annoying.
Books must come to an end. When you’ve been reading one for days and you’ve come to the end… ah well… it’s bittersweet.
All the unnecessary bad language in some books.
Even if Iโm not finished a library book must be taken back and maybe not finished. ?
The tiny print. Thatโs why I read mostly on my kindle
And when you read 350 pages to get to the end and it wraps up in 5 pages.
That a good series ends
That they aren’t all great.
that i cant read them all fast enough
I got nothing’.
Too many details/descriptions
The really good ones cause me to put off reading the last 30 pages. When I can’t stand it anymore, I read it and it’s over….
How they keep me from getting my housework done! ? Just kidding…
Spelling errors are forever. Or when you buy a book with one slightly larger page, but don’t realize it until u get home.
I have a book that has 4 or 5 pages that were not printed. Blanks. Good thing nothing major happened in those instances.
Too many of them ?
Needing bookmarks
That they can get dirty and it can’t be removed completely. That other people treat books in a bad way (giving them dog ears, etc.) …
I have a silly one… When you’re reading and you just want to finish that one page before you stop for the night. Then that page doesn’t have a sentence that ends yet.. it continues to the next page. Then you’re on that next page , yet no finishing sentence at bottom of page. This goes on for 4 more pages. Might as well finish the chapter. ๐
??
Canโt think of anything except for the price!
Not enough and the endings
Craptastic research or no research at all (Looking at you E.L James and Anna Todd)
spoiler alerts plastered on the cover
If they are dusty
I don’t have enough.
No warning in advance that it is book one of a trilogy….and book three wonโt be released for another year!
Or book one of 99, and the author is too wrapped up in filming (Game of Thrones; Harry Potter) to spend time actually writing new books!)
Or worst of all…final book is a sorry disappointment, obviously just hashed together to be done. (Clan of the Cave Bear)
Sometimes the ending of a great journey through magnificent pages…
Romances that verge on pornographic….and add to that the silly descriptions that are in all of them (think there must be a secret book of phrases these authors all consult). โQuivering thighsโ, โlaving her buttonโ, โsilky skinโ, โhot, wet centerโ, โthrusting manhood.โ ?
I roll my eyes, flip over a few pages until what should be a private moment is over to get back to the main story.
Honestly, itโs turned me off of the genre.
The smell of the book store!
Too small a print size
They aren’t all purse size. ?
One view I can get behind! ?
Currently reading Sleeping Beauties and I lost hold of it a few days ago and let me tell you, my toes would not be bruised right now if that book could have just fit inside my purse!
@Marissa, right????
When a follow-up to a book is only published in another language!
Three book series:
Vision of Light-English 1989
In Pursuit of the Green Lion-English 1990
The Water Devil-not available in English until 2007!
Between โ91 and โ07 third book was only available in German. And this author is(was) in US at Stanford.
Large print novels . They make me cringe ?
Print small on some of them
Obviously this hit a nerve for me…my third response, lol!
But seriously, the thing I hate the very most is when a beloved author dies.
Judith Merkle Riley dies in 2010 after writing 6 books. I feel sure she had many more stories percolating in her brain.
One its part of Trilogy and they are so expensive providing yur are apart of a book savers club or they arent on sale
They are heavy. And I’m not interested in a kindle, before you all recommend that I do.
@Carol me neither
don’t like read em hahaahha
A book (for me) has to have over a 100 pgs or its not worth my time to read.
@Windy I’m more of a needs to be at least 300 pages. Otherwise I feel like the story is to rushed.
I totally agree!
I can honestly say that there is nothing I don’t like about books? ?
Man motivated ones
Nothing
Nothing.
I dont have enough of them, LOL
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Ummm I have no one to chat to abt the one$ I read and they are made of tree$ which make$ me feel bad.
Not enough time to read!
One has to wait for the sequel a year
@Anna or ten in the case of Patrick Ruthfuss
@Loree true
Or forever in George rr Martin’s case.
@Danielle. Lol right
Spending money on a book I don’t like
The price.
The amount of space they require. My bookcases are totally full and I have very little available storage space, which is why I reluctantly resorted to Kindle.
When the author leaves you hanging and don’t finish it up in the next book! Because they never write it!!! It makes not want to read another of their books again!
Also when the book is short and with a big price!
the gross bulkage and precarious stackification and flippy floppy flumping place-losing slumpage…
When you don’t realize it’s a series until you’ve already read the first one
Reading a later one and THEN realizing that it’s part of a series may be worse. ๐
Sad endings
If you have twait ages for the sequel x
A ‘heroine’ who acts like a Twit. Connie Brockaway’s books have awesome female characters.
Many are written by idiots who don’t think they need an editor ๐
I dont like books with too many characters, gets too confusing.
good tip, my task in the novel I’m writing is to deal with the number of characters which are essential to the plot, keeping some minimal while still a part of the story line
The last page
poorly written ones
When the book is really pretty good then someone says ok thats enough and the author tacks on a short shitty ending. Hate that
@Loree this!!!!!! ?? This is mine!
waiting for the next one in the series
same here lol
That the fictional characters dont exist….
Good Books are too Short.
Bad Books are too Long.
If you have too many they take up too much space!
When they end
Not having enough time for them. And when fantasy books don’t add a pronuctation guide for their made up words
When there are short chapters for each character
When they end and also when thereโs a bad ending to a good book. Itโs such an anti climax.
That I can’t read them 24-7!
When you find and finish a great book. And you want to follow up with a similar story. But there is none that compare.
Amen
When the author drags the story for 3/4 of the book than rushes the story along in the last couple chapters
Typos
Poor editing.
Horrible people bending pages and writing notes on them???
Waiting for next in series. Good books that have terrible endings.
When the story is set in the past esp. historical romances, the year or even decade isn’t there.
When authors will have characters recap events with each other, but not actually show what was said between them. I get that we, as the audience, are already up to speed, but I like reading dialogue between characters.
To me, a sentence like ‘Terry filled Fred in on what just happened’ seems almost lazy. I want to hear what the characters actually say.
Fizzled out endings. Too much mention of ‘she had a cup of tea’ or ;didn’t know what to wear’. Poorly described sex scenes. They are possibly the hardest to write without becoming clichees. For really, really great books: last word on last page because I didn’t want the story to end. Those are usually one-offs so there won’t be a next one.
An ending of a great book. Dunno what to do with myself afterwards. ?
When an author doesnโt finish a series … GOT ?
@Cassandra or finishes it with a show.??
The ending of great books or books that they sound really great then you are let down but still finish the book cause you never leave a book unfinished.
Their weight?
@Shubhi me too!
When a really great book comes to an end.
That I cannot reread a book. ๐ I want badly to be back in the world of my favorite stories… but they never last long enough. I love a long drawn out series. ๐
The end
Endings
I canโt see well anymore and all those book in my TBR pile are going to be unread. Heartbreaking, heartbroken. Thank God for Playster! I listen to all the new releases, best sellers and any of thousands of other audiobooks!
I hate when the book has been so good but the ending is crappy
When the synopsis sounds intriguing so you start reading and you keep waiting for it to get better only to reach the end without it ever getting better.
How costly they are. Buying a book is a gamble unless you already know the author… otherwise you never know if you’ll be able to read it entirely and enjoy it.