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Kuiperdolin posted:When he was 18 she was 10 This is from several pages back but I didn't see any follow up posts. Are you really trying to make a 40/48 age difference sound bad by comparing what their ages 30 years ago would have been?
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Edmund Sparkler posted:This is from several pages back but I didn't see any follow up posts. Are you really trying to make a 40/48 age difference sound bad by comparing what their ages 30 years ago would have been? It's a reference to another story posted in this thread about a teenager who was threatening to make a scene at a wedding by doing exactly that.
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I remember what part of the book I was at
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I doubt it's very happy if you keep squishing it inside books Don't worry, it's a flat character.
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(F28) why did my boyfriend (M31) call me out in front of his (F) coworker like that?!quote:It was two hours after his shift and when I came home he was talking in hushed tones on the phone. He saw me and immediately hung up. I asked him who he was talking to as I normally do to start casual conversation. He just said “work”. So I inquired further to make sure everything was okay, as this type of curt response was very out of the ordinary for him. He then explained that it was work asking him if he was going to a work dinner, which was the first I heard about it. I asked about it a bit more and he became very defensive. He then showed me his phone to “prove it was work” and I saw literally 8 calls back and fourth from this “work friend” within the last half hour. I asked if he was going and why they seemed to have discussed it so many times. He said he didn’t know and then again defended himself and said he would call her in front of me to prove he’s not lying. I immediately started stuttering saying that no he didn’t have to do that, and then before I could try and stop him, he was already calling this girl. I sat with my jaw dropped as he put it on speaker and proceeded to call this unknown female coworker. She answered in a giggly tone and said “you better not be calling to tell me you aren’t coming to the dinner after all..” then he cut her off and proceeded to ask this girl to explain why she was contacting him because his “girlfriend was upset that they were talking and he needed proof of their convo. “... I literally sat there completely stunned in silence as this girl defended herself to me despite the fact that I never asked for any of this. I’m completely humiliated as this girl he works with knows a lot of people I grew up with and I can’t even imagine how uncomfortable that made her and what she’ll tell others about how I’m a crazy jealous girlfriend when I’m absolutely not . Why did he do this?! Please help. Oh you sweet summer child...
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Activate posted:I usually fold the corner of the page inward, that works really well. Nice, wonder if there's some visual metaphor for that. Unless 
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PancakeTransmission posted:I use the receipt as a bookmark. Otherwise I dogear the book. Who cares? Oh no, a bit of the whitespace has a crease! If it's your book, no one cares. If you're reading one of my books, gently caress you, I care. Don't go putting dogears on other people's books. One of my niblings lent my copy of "The curious case of the dog in the night time" for a reading assignment. About a year later I asked her to return it. She then confessed it was in a bad shape and that most of the cover has ripped off. I asked her how the hell that even happened, and she couldn't answer.
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PancakeTransmission posted:I use the receipt as a bookmark. Otherwise I dogear the book. Who cares? Oh no, a bit of the whitespace has a crease! If it's not your book, then you deserve the acid vat too. sixth and maimed posted:If it's your book, no one cares. If you're reading one of my books, gently caress you, I care. Don't go putting dogears on other people's books.  sixth and maimed posted:One of my niblings lent my copy of "The curious case of the dog in the night time" for a reading assignment. About a year later I asked her to return it. She then confessed it was in a bad shape and that most of the cover has ripped off. I asked her how the hell that even happened, and she couldn't answer. A friend of mine has had my copy of Titus Andronicus for about 10 years now (I guess it's hers at this point?) when I lent it to her for her Masters thesis because she was going to write about Tamora. She also has my copy of The Stars My Destination. Zero concerns though, because I know she takes exceptional care of her books. edogawa rando fucked around with this message at 09:50 on Jan 5, 2023 |
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I've been dogearing all my life, it's a nice way to see where past me paused reading when I'm rereading my books. Books aren't sacrosanct, they're meant to be read. Buy a second copy if you just want to display them, idk
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It's also possible to read a book without causing damage to it. "Reading" and "taking good care of the book" aren't mutually exclusive concepts. If you're dogearing your own books, and only your books alone, then hey, more power to you. Just remind me to never let you near any of mine. But if you're doing it to books you've borrowed, be it from friends, family or the library, then that would make you a bit of a dick.
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AITA for uninviting my husband from my birthday trip?quote:For my birthday I really want to go to Egypt so I’ve been arranging a trip with a few friends of mine.
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Mx. posted:AITA for uninviting my husband from my birthday trip? I hate all of this.
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Kinda feel like this is something husband could have compromised a bit on.
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Yeah, I don't lend books out any more. Best case, I get them back damaged. Worst case? "What book?" "I'm sure I gave that back already." "Did I borrow a book from you?" "Oh, my mom must have borrowed it from me. Well, you know I'm not talking to her right now, so obviously I can't get it back." Only one I got back was the "I'm sure I gave that back already, a couple months after I'd given up and bought a replacement. The Stolen By Mom Book? Lost forever, and it was out of print. Fortunately there was a new and fancy edition a few years later, which I now own
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best way to keep your place is to simply take the pages you have read and place them in a plastic bag, like so:
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I used to lend out my books to a coworker but that ended when she got arrested, and plead guilty to, involuntary manslaughter. Fentanyl overdose, she just left the guy out on her porch overnight where he died. There was a hospital a quarter of a mile away. You could see part of it from her house. I use receipts as bookmarks!
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teen witch posted:I call my two tabbies “the Menendez Brothers” as they’ll be the death of me, their cat mom. Better hope you don't find any basketball tickets laying around 
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My brother-in-law highlights any lines he finds interesting - not just in textbooks, literally any kind of book. He'll easily do it multiple times in a single page.
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Agaragon posted:I used to lend out my books to a coworker but that ended when she got arrested, and plead guilty to, involuntary manslaughter. Fentanyl overdose, she just left the guy out on her porch overnight where he died. There was a hospital a quarter of a mile away. You could see part of it from her house. Did you get your books back?
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edogawa rando posted:If it's not your book, then you deserve the acid vat too. They deserve death?
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Agaragon posted:
Me too. But not receipts from bookshops. Oh no, do you think I have cash to burn? I use the receipt from the library I borrowed it from. Which also doubles as a reminder as to when I need to return it.
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edogawa rando posted:Did you get your books back? It turned out that her house was a well known drug house and while I was mad about the books I was not about to go to the police department going, "Heyyy, I know someone died but she had a couple of my books, any way I can get them back?". So out of cowardice, no I did not.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Better hope you don't find any basketball tickets laying around It’s in the cards
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Activate posted:They deserve death? Whom among us doesn't?
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edogawa rando posted:Whom among us doesn't? Valar morghulis
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Canuckistan posted:Valar morghulis Ah yes, Games on Thrones!
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I use a bookmark as a bookmark i get that im 100% wildcard
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I kinda like nibling for some of my little cousins, because I'm in this weird spot where I grew up with their mom and dad, so I'm more aunt than cousin. It's like "it's complicated" for significantly younger relatives!
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kru posted:I use a bookmark as a bookmark hosed up if true
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kru posted:I use a bookmark as a bookmark Yeah my parents got me into "collecting" nice leather bookmarks whenever we traveled so I've got plenty my original copy of House of Leaves I read in half, like the book tore in half through the spine, and I carried it with me so much both the front and back covers fell off. It's held together with a rubber band now
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Johnny Truant posted:Yeah my parents got me into "collecting" nice leather bookmarks whenever we traveled so I've got plenty I feel like Danielewski would approve of this method, especially if you randomly chose which half to read each day. *Sees your username* : huh
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Haven't you got a pirate to pursue, Captain Smoker? 
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Failed Imagineer posted:I feel like Danielewski would approve of this method, especially if you randomly chose which half to read each day. oh he signed it and said he was impressed, lol
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Could one of the IKs or Mods that read this thread make a poll about folding pages, using a book mark, placing the book open face down on a table? Please I'd like to see the percentage who does what
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Hughlander posted:(F28) why did my boyfriend (M31) call me out in front of his (F) coworker like that?! All I did was question him repeatedly about his private conversations, I’m neither crazy nor jealous! What the gently caress???
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I only read ebooks,so the issue of pages doesn't come up. I just bend the ebook reader instead
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The Maroon Hawk posted:All I did was question him repeatedly about his private conversations, I’m neither crazy nor jealous! What the gently caress??? Are you seriously taking the side of the guy who's clearly cheating (or trying to) on his partner and trying to gaslight her about it? I know this is the thread of unreliable narrators but if that account is even a little bit true then 
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Malcolm Excellent posted:Could one of the IKs or Mods that read this thread make a poll about folding pages, using a book mark, placing the book open face down on a table? No
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Malcolm Excellent posted:Could one of the IKs or Mods that read this thread make a poll about folding pages, using a book mark, placing the book open face down on a table? Can't you  a thread?We have really low standards in GBS for those. Or if you want to trigger people, do it in Book Barn.
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Malcolm Excellent posted:Could one of the IKs or Mods that read this thread make a poll about folding pages, using a book mark, placing the book open face down on a table? Yes
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