My mother in law once explained to me that she had a really fond memory of learning the correct way to crack a book's spine from her parents. She made it sound as if it were something that I would certainly know how to do, too, as I was clearly a book lover. But I had never cracked a book's spine in my life.
What a lovely tag! I especially enjoyed your few confessions, which were accompanied by your avowals of not regretting writing in your books and ripping out the introductions, while you had a slightly cheeky smile on your face!😉
What a fun book tag! Broken spines to me mean a well-read book. I have a few books like that myself. Also, glad to hear I'm not the only one who uses random pieces of paper as bookmarks. I tend to use museum tickets and subway tickets, or at least I have some old tickets from a few different subway systems before everything went to a card or phone tap.
I found my book murdering twin! I do everything you describe. Even the pencil bookmark 🙌🏻 Spooky! My dots, though, are in ink and my reference page numbers are on the last page of the book! I do dog ear but I also roll my page and fold lengthwise in half. Yes indeed. Cheers , Hannah! 💕
I love the thumbnail for this one, Hannah. I used to write in books as a student but now I'm a tabber. I don't purposely break spines but right paperbacks make me crazy. Another reason I prefer hardcovers!
Love the thumbnail. 😊 I wish I could use a post-it note as a bookmark. My brain just nags me until I use an actual bookmark. I’ve tried to reason with myself, but I’m extremely hardheaded. Great answer!
Great video! I “worked” in my public grammar school library, a job I loved. The librarian had me do the same careful breaking in of the binding, small sections at a time, I took that job very seriously… Love that your student had Flannery O’Connor’s book bound with a leather cover:) She is one of my favorite authors, would love to see you do some about those 20th century southern writers, maybe you have already done? I only found your channel recently.. Thanks again for your content.
What you describe, the careful stretching of the binding every few pages in a new book, is breaking it in so that it can be opened WITHOUT cracking the spine, am I correct?
@ I suppose you’re right that we were prepping the books so they could have a long life… don’t do it very often now but might with a new large format art book
I never heard of deliberately breaking a spine but mine always do end up broken without me thinking about it. I don't dog ear real books any more but have been known to. I actually think your idea of saving the introductions is quite clever!
I have stacks of bookmarks - and usually just use the subscription card that fell out of the latest magazine in the mail. I don't think I've ever dogeared a page in a book. I discovered Book Darts many years ago and use them to mark pages, either temporarily until I get around to updating my bookish journal or permanently if it's something I find really important. And of course I write in my books. Always have. Always will. But I do dismember old, vintage, unloved books to use as supplies for collaging.
I have a few old academic books that belonged to my father which no one wants-even the libraries that have sucked up many of his other books. The idea of using them for some sort of crafting or journaling had not occurred to me. Thank you!
Anne Fadiman has an essay about book murder in her collection”Ex Libris” She also revealed that her father, Clifton Fadiman, was rough on books. Nobody thinks about Clifton Fadiman anymore, but you can check Wikipedia. Also, the precocious 28 year old Steve Donoghue can clue you in.
When I was a bookseller we had a customer who had a fear of birds. If one of her favourite authors had a bird on the paperback copy she would ask us to rip the cover off and put it in the bin.
I confess! Although I've never (purposely) dismembered a book, I'm guilty of all the other crimes. I don't like hard covers, so all my book spines are broken, and if I can't write in a book, why bother reading it? My memory is a sieve, so I need to underline and exclaim where necessary when I read. This was a great video.
What a delightful video, Hannah! Your thumbnail is just perfect. I absolutely love your responses to each of these questions, and a couple of times, I laughed out loud. As you were talking about your mother engaging in a conversation with the text through her notes, I found myself smiling and nodding my head. That is exactly how I feel about annotating. Wonderful video! Thank you!
Incidentally, I misheard your teaching class as "sudden literature" rather than "southern literature". Wouldn't that be a blast to teach? The books which someone sat down and wrote in a white heat of creativity, in a month. You could teach it in a similar style, suddenly flinging open the door, rushing in, writing an assignment on the board, and conducting book discussions to a metronome with timer primed to go off every 5 minutes. Essays to be written as flash fiction.
Not even sure if its a crime against literature but I will happily change the cover of an ebook to something I prefer, there is also an online penguin classics cover generator that i use to assign a penguin classics cover to a favourite book.
I have removed the covers from a probably shocking number of books and bound journals. There's a knack to it that allows for efficient use of a box cutter without cutting the text block or, well, your own hand.
I dog ear my books for the same reason you do but only if I don't have my pen and paper nearby. And I dog ear The Bottom portion of the page. Book Bonding? That sounds interesting and I think that I would enjoy doing that? I will search RUclips for some videos. Thank you Ms Hannah I enjoyed the video. -James
Thank you so much for joining on the tag. tbh that's pretty smart about the pencil dot. but still somewhat LE GASP? you have been dubbed :- 👨⚖ a book murder 👨⚖. All joking aside I love your answers, thank you so much.
This was quite shocking 😱 books in the compost pile! I finally had to come to terms with the fact that some well loved mass market paperback books of mine were past the point of donating. No one would want to read these cracked, yellowed, faded and loose paged books. So I threw them away! It was like the book died and I was sad for a few minutes. I can be quite rough on paperbacks 😆
I found a book in a charity shop the othe day ( did not get it) but it had been dog earred and i did wonder what they did it for, were they marking the place they left reading oe like you suggested, they were highlighting a page or two, who knows!
We all better pray that we aren't pulled up before Judge Shawn D Standfast for book negligence.... I think the worst things you can do to a book is not buy it. Or not read it. And tell no one else about it. I bet if you met an author, said you had scribbled on your copy of the novel it took them 10 years to write, dogeared it at interesting passages and recommended it to your 5,000 subscribers on RUclips, they would beam on you, delighted.
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My mother in law once explained to me that she had a really fond memory of learning the correct way to crack a book's spine from her parents. She made it sound as if it were something that I would certainly know how to do, too, as I was clearly a book lover. But I had never cracked a book's spine in my life.
That's her officers! She's the one who massacred her own books! Jokes aside, I loved hearing your personal anecdotes related to each prompt
What a lovely tag!
I especially enjoyed your few confessions, which were accompanied by your avowals of not regretting writing in your books and ripping out the introductions, while you had a slightly cheeky smile on your face!😉
What a fun book tag! Broken spines to me mean a well-read book. I have a few books like that myself. Also, glad to hear I'm not the only one who uses random pieces of paper as bookmarks. I tend to use museum tickets and subway tickets, or at least I have some old tickets from a few different subway systems before everything went to a card or phone tap.
I found my book murdering twin! I do everything you describe. Even the pencil bookmark 🙌🏻
Spooky!
My dots, though, are in ink and my reference page numbers are on the last page of the book!
I do dog ear but I also roll my page and fold lengthwise in half. Yes indeed.
Cheers , Hannah!
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I love the thumbnail for this one, Hannah. I used to write in books as a student but now I'm a tabber. I don't purposely break spines but right paperbacks make me crazy. Another reason I prefer hardcovers!
Love the thumbnail. 😊
I wish I could use a post-it note as a bookmark. My brain just nags me until I use an actual bookmark. I’ve tried to reason with myself, but I’m extremely hardheaded.
Great answer!
Great video! I “worked” in my public grammar school library, a job I loved. The librarian had me do the same careful breaking in of the binding,
small sections at a time, I took that job very seriously… Love that your student had Flannery O’Connor’s book bound with a leather cover:) She is one of my favorite authors, would love to see you do some about those 20th century southern writers, maybe you have already done? I only found your channel recently.. Thanks again for your content.
What you describe, the careful stretching of the binding every few pages in a new book, is breaking it in so that it can be opened WITHOUT cracking the spine, am I correct?
@ I suppose you’re right that we were prepping the books so they could have a long life… don’t do it very often now but might with a new large format art book
I never heard of deliberately breaking a spine but mine always do end up broken without me thinking about it. I don't dog ear real books any more but have been known to. I actually think your idea of saving the introductions is quite clever!
3 cheers for writing in books🎉
Throwing books in the compost pile is probably murder. 😮
Love your thumbnail 😂! What a lovely keepsake and memory to have associated with that Flannery O’Connor book.
Agree about the rebound Flannery O'Connor book. How wonderful.
I have stacks of bookmarks - and usually just use the subscription card that fell out of the latest magazine in the mail. I don't think I've ever dogeared a page in a book. I discovered Book Darts many years ago and use them to mark pages, either temporarily until I get around to updating my bookish journal or permanently if it's something I find really important. And of course I write in my books. Always have. Always will. But I do dismember old, vintage, unloved books to use as supplies for collaging.
I have a few old academic books that belonged to my father which no one wants-even the libraries that have sucked up many of his other books. The idea of using them for some sort of crafting or journaling had not occurred to me. Thank you!
Anne Fadiman has an essay about book murder in her collection”Ex Libris” She also revealed that her father, Clifton Fadiman, was rough on books. Nobody thinks about Clifton Fadiman anymore, but you can check Wikipedia. Also, the precocious 28 year old Steve Donoghue can clue you in.
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OMG, I was on board with your answers until dog ears popped up 😂
When I was a bookseller we had a customer who had a fear of birds. If one of her favourite authors had a bird on the paperback copy she would ask us to rip the cover off and put it in the bin.
I confess! Although I've never (purposely) dismembered a book, I'm guilty of all the other crimes. I don't like hard covers, so all my book spines are broken, and if I can't write in a book, why bother reading it? My memory is a sieve, so I need to underline and exclaim where necessary when I read. This was a great video.
Steve’s scarf is lovely. You are talented and thoughtful.
Love your thumbnail, and all the rest of this video too. 😁🤓
What a delightful video, Hannah! Your thumbnail is just perfect. I absolutely love your responses to each of these questions, and a couple of times, I laughed out loud. As you were talking about your mother engaging in a conversation with the text through her notes, I found myself smiling and nodding my head. That is exactly how I feel about annotating. Wonderful video! Thank you!
I read with a pencil in hand too!!
This was fun!!❤
Such fun answers, thanks for sharing Hannah
Thanks! It was great fun to make this video.
Incidentally, I misheard your teaching class as "sudden literature" rather than "southern literature". Wouldn't that be a blast to teach? The books which someone sat down and wrote in a white heat of creativity, in a month. You could teach it in a similar style, suddenly flinging open the door, rushing in, writing an assignment on the board, and conducting book discussions to a metronome with timer primed to go off every 5 minutes. Essays to be written as flash fiction.
😂
Not even sure if its a crime against literature but I will happily change the cover of an ebook to something I prefer, there is also an online penguin classics cover generator that i use to assign a penguin classics cover to a favourite book.
What an excellent plan! I think I might go add penguin covers to some of my ebooks!
I am clutching my pearls LOL
GUILTY!! ON MULTIPLE COUNTS!! 🧑⚖️
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I have removed the covers from a probably shocking number of books and bound journals. There's a knack to it that allows for efficient use of a box cutter without cutting the text block or, well, your own hand.
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Wow tearing out interesting introductions, that sounds like a crime to me, especially as you hid the evidence! 😂
I’m far too precious with my new books or books I bought new no matter how long ago.
Great video Hannah, but so much carnage!
I dog ear my books for the same reason you do but only if I don't have my pen and paper nearby. And I dog ear The Bottom portion of the page. Book Bonding? That sounds interesting and I think that I would enjoy doing that? I will search RUclips for some videos. Thank you Ms Hannah I enjoyed the video. -James
Thank you so much for joining on the tag.
tbh that's pretty smart about the pencil dot. but still somewhat LE GASP?
you have been dubbed :- 👨⚖ a book murder 👨⚖.
All joking aside I love your answers, thank you so much.
This was quite shocking 😱 books in the compost pile!
I finally had to come to terms with the fact that some well loved mass market paperback books of mine were past the point of donating. No one would want to read these cracked, yellowed, faded and loose paged books. So I threw them away! It was like the book died and I was sad for a few minutes. I can be quite rough on paperbacks 😆
I found a book in a charity shop the othe day ( did not get it) but it had been dog earred and i did wonder what they did it for, were they marking the place they left reading oe like you suggested, they were highlighting a page or two, who knows!
Isn’t it interesting to imagine what those previous readers were thinking?!
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You had me giggling at your devious smile as you described your weyward bookish behaviors. My my... *shakes head in disbelief* 😉
Spine breaking has been part of my reading history. Book Tube made me aware of the negative thinking about this practice. Am I reformed? No.
We all better pray that we aren't pulled up before Judge Shawn D Standfast for book negligence.... I think the worst things you can do to a book is not buy it. Or not read it. And tell no one else about it. I bet if you met an author, said you had scribbled on your copy of the novel it took them 10 years to write, dogeared it at interesting passages and recommended it to your 5,000 subscribers on RUclips, they would beam on you, delighted.
That thumbnail 😅