Hello Good people! What’s a problem only book lovers understand?
Hello Good people! What’s a problem only book lovers understand?
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Hello Good people! What’s a problem only book lovers understand?
Staying comfortable while long periods of reading
Especially difficult with back problems and wearing my brace only creates less comfort
Don’t fold the page!!!
I’m a page folder.. and I’m not even sorry!
No page folding or spine breaking or high lighting! Them’s the rules!!!
No notes in the margins, either.
I do all of that. In my own books.
Dear Dorothy Weigand let alone other things i think that you do not have your own books. (We don’t have our own books.) You just simply (without thinking about it) took the responsibility of transcending these books to the next generation. So you are not the owner of your books, rather you are serving as a bridge to those books. Regarding books i always consider my self not as an owner rather as a responsibility holder.
Difficult finding comfortable positions while reading , issues with other people folding the page or scribbling in d book ., not getting enough time to read . Buying tooo many books which usually lies on display. Lol
That heart wrenching feeling when u see a book thrown away in the bin
Ending up in some sort of waiting room for hours with no reading material. Purest form of torture.
Spot on . Hw come I forgot to add that lol.
Bigger purse…Though that may be an issue for you @Robert
Interuptions
I think this phrase sums it up… So many books, so little time
Not having a bookmark
As I told my grandson, anything can become a bookmark. I have business cards in my wallet (I don’t carry a purse), and they make great bookmarks.
Not wanting to read a book bc you don’t want it to end. Crying reading a book. Lol
Falling in love with a character or couple and knowing them in a way not body else will because of the way you see them in your mind.
Having nowhere near enough bookshelves!
Yes! that is one
Having to go to work when you’re in the middle of a really good part of a book, thinking about it all day and counting down the hours until you can be reunited with it.
Taking care of your books.
When ppl borrow a book, and break the binding..or bend your book azz backwards, or fold the page corners, or lay your book in water, spill coffee on the pages, drop lunch crumbs inside the pages ,food stains, finger stains, grease stains on pages…etc…and when you ( who was kind enough to borrow your book to them)- remarks to them about it, —– your the mean, strange,weird one!!!
never enough time to read!
the people (monsters) who fold the corners of books instead of using bookmarks….
When your favorite character dies
Taking couple of books on your hols but finishing reading too fast and left for the rest of the holiday without reading material. Happened to me once, the worst feeling ever.
Don’t borrow my books, unless you can return them safely back to me.
Nope. Don’t borrow my books.
Lol
Do NOT fold books backwards while reading. Those poor spines :'(
Ughh I do it and it kills me every time but the big books are too hard to read without folding them out ???
Paper cuts and
Getting to the good part & having to stop
People who don’t read. I never understand that!
Not being able to continue reading when at a good bit really late at ‘night’ (ahem, 4 AM) because your eyes aren’t working.
Numb hands and aching arms after getting lost in a book!
Reading a few books at once and then mixing up a plot and characters and coming up with a completely new story
when cruel people bends the pages to save their place because sometimes its over the words and if it happens enough then the corner page tears 🙁
Having my bedhead/bookcase collapse on my head in the middle of the night
People not understanding that when you are reading it isnt that you arent listening to them but you arent even there! You are, at least mentaly, in another place with characters in a story and you cant hear what they are saying because the characters in the story are talking to you. People get so upset because they think we are ignoring them. Dont talk while Im reading!!
when people innocently try to have a conversation with you but its a good part in a book and youre like
When you are broke and you passed by a bookstore or your book shelves is broken by flood?
Anytime you buy a new purse, it has to be big enough to hold a book.
I was just looking at a new purse this weekend and that was the issue!
Not finding a bookstore when you’re traveling from country to country
What to read next on your never ending tbr list!
Lending books to others and they either do not return them or give them back almost completely destroyed. Maddening!
????? yes. Biggest problem ever. I always want to be that person that’s like omg I have so many books you would love you should borro— and then I get paranoid and try to backpedal lol
I had someone borrow a book of mine back in college and then when I asked her how it is, if she’s enjoying it, she tells me, “Oh I gave it as a present to my friend. I thought you didn’t want it back coz you never ask abt it.” Lol. I swear my vision darkened and I was abt to attack her lol. I wasn’t pestering her abt it ofc because I do not know how long it takes for her to finish a book.. -_- I told her to get it back or else… Lol. Some people. Smh.
Reading a book you don’t want to put down and someone needs you to do something for them. (not a happy chappy!!!)
Book budgets. ??
And books breaking budgets. =(
Wanting MORE books even if your TBR list is huge. We never get enough.
Having a blizzard and the bookstore is closed.
When anyone ask u to borrow it and u can’t deny but deep inside u want to kill him.
LIking your book friends more than real life
When you have to face constant chitter and chatter while u are enjoying the book
The irritation of dog-eared pages. 🙁
Being in a book slump
Buying the 10 best stellers, with money you actually don’t have and to only be able to read one of them at a time
Yes??
O, And flattening out a brand new book, or bending the spine. Pet peeve. If you want to flatten out the pages of my book, rather borrow someone else’s book
That itchy feeling when you want to read, but life…
When you can’t choose which book to read so you read them all at once.
We were having a similar discussion on another page how it takes you six months to finish a book because you are reading 5 books at the same time. Glad to know I am not alone in this behavioral disturbance
Reading 6 currently. ☺ Hoping to finish them by the end of the month though.
Giving yourself a black eye or sore nose when you fall asleep on your back while reading an epic length hardback.
Reading an e-book at night when you’re already verrrrry sleepy but determined to finish it….and your tablet/phone/phablet falls right into your face coz you’re falling asleep. ??????
yes happens a lot with me if im reading on my phone and tablet.
When you get less than 2 hours of sleep..because you couldn t put the book down and you had to finish it and you wake up with the worst headache ever..
yeah me tooo … experience that a lot
Hmmm… four am… class starts at eight… I can finish the last two chapters, get a full night’s sleep and still make it on time, no problem!
Cringing when you see someone turn down the corner of a page or write in the margins instead of using a bookmark. Mistreatment of books in any way.
Losing your page ?
Getting so mad at what’s happening in a book you loose your temper and throw it across the room on accident and damage it or something else.
When some friend borrow ur book and forget to give you back. Thats a huge problem.
Murder: Simply Brewed (An Amish Mystery) is the book that I loaned to my grandma and she’s taking a bit too long to finish it..
(It’s been over two, three.. actually, it’s six months. Probably because she says it’s still in a box somewhere, and she has recently moved)
I got part of that trilogy! I love Amish Fiction!
Being on the waiting list for a book from the library.
Finishing a book that’s part of a series and discovering that the author hasn’t written the next one…
Or that you read out of order, or that you have to wait a while till your library can bring it to their shelfs for you.
Hand cramp from trying to paperback one-handed
Sad endings of books you can’t get over for months
Yes!
True ???
Not finding a book you’ve been waiting for on its release date. (Happened a couple times to me)
To be interrupted while reading. It’s me time go away
I get more cranky being interupted in a book than I do being woken up.
When you have a long nervous wait (like before surgery) but you can’t concentrate to read or as soon as you do get into your book nurses and doctors keep coming in interrupting you.
Reading slumps ?????