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| Hardcover |
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12 | 25.53% |
| Softcover/paperback |
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6 | 12.77% |
| Either or |
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9 | 19.15% |
| Who the gently caress reads books in 2019? |
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10 | 21.28% |
| Goku on any cover |
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10 | 21.28% |
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I love all books equally, but they're heavy and take up space so I only buy nonfiction in physical form these days Garbage thrillers and mindless entertainment are relegated to the digital screen, alas
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Feb 23, 2019 12:00
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Paperbacks are cool because you can tear them the gently caress up and not feel too bad because they're cheap. Hardbacks are valuable as literature, weapons, building implements, and fuel in a tight spot. Books are basically cool as a category of item. Celebrate books.
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Feb 23, 2019 12:33
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If you're buying hardcovers, make sure they have the dustcover. If Antiques Roadshow has taught me anything (and oh brother, HAS IT!!), it's that if you happen to have some rare book and that book was supposed to have a jacket cover and now doesn't or it looks like a cat took a steaming piss on it two days after it was brought home 75 years ago? That poo poo is worthless now. Which I always thought was dumb, but whatever I'm not some stupid nerd that collects old books for their dust covers I guess.
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Feb 23, 2019 13:37
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60+ year old paperbacks are still in good shape so long as they were kept indoors, any durability beyond that seems worthless unless you're running a library.
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Feb 23, 2019 15:41
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Xaintrailles posted:60+ year old paperbacks are still in good shape so long as they were kept indoors, any durability beyond that seems worthless unless you're running a library. No they're not? The lovely glue has dried out so unless they were sewn (which some were but not most) and even then the covers may well fall off. The university library - where books are kept in the best possible conditions because it's also an archival library - won't loan out paperbacks of a certain age (in 1998 it was 1950 I think) because they'd get back loads of loose pages.
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Feb 23, 2019 18:19
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i just looked through my bookshelf and the only hardcovers i own are Hollywood Babylon 1 and 2 and some book about poisonous plants. honestly the plant one should be smaller and paperback because it would be a pretty good field guide.
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Feb 23, 2019 18:41
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I hope to liquidate all my physical media eventually. I read books on the kindle app.
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Feb 23, 2019 18:48
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the only thing old books are good for is the smell. I hope one day they include a scent port on the kindle to make it smell like that, then we truly won't ever need physical books again.
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Feb 23, 2019 18:49
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Ebooks are an anglophone fad.
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Feb 23, 2019 18:53
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yeah I eat rear end posted:the only thing old books are good for is the smell. I hope one day they include a scent port on the kindle to make it smell like that, then we truly won't ever need physical books again. The smell is definitely good. Sometimes there are cool words strung altogether in there too, those are the best old books.
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Feb 23, 2019 19:10
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Are there any good smelling old books about deep dicking techniques? Preferably ones with tasteful cover jackets and plate illustrations?
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Feb 23, 2019 19:38
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but you are just getting dust on the dust jacket instead i do not understand
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Feb 23, 2019 19:41
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Jerry Cotton posted:Ebooks are an anglophone fad.
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Feb 23, 2019 20:05
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Big Beef City posted:Are there any good smelling old books about deep dicking techniques? Hollywood Babylon
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Feb 23, 2019 20:06
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it might be more popular here but a fad implies something short-lived. E-books aren't going anywhere. Even though it's not the same experience, the convenience of having your entire library with you wherever you go outweighs any downside.
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Feb 23, 2019 20:08
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anyone whining about ebooks doesn’t actually read
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Feb 23, 2019 20:10
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Cubone posted:that's actually a pretty interesting take that I don't know enough about to confirm or refute I don't know about these guys' methods but here's 2018 from two sources:   The results seem very different but one thing seems pretty clear. e: This is from PricewaterhouseCoopers so I guess it's credible (from 2017 though): 
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Feb 23, 2019 20:11
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Jerry Cotton posted:one thing seems pretty clear. 
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Feb 23, 2019 20:13
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isn't it a bit disingenuous to lump audiobooks in with print media? Yeah it's on a disc, but e-readers are physical things too so it's not entirely consistent. Show me the plot without audiobooks included, I bet it's a lot less impressive. It is noteworthy though that they actually included that caveat on the plot instead of burying it in some text that nobody's going to read like most "infographic" people.
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Feb 23, 2019 20:41
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slamming my cock and balls with a weighty hard cover right now and lemme tell ya from the slapping sounds its making ya can tell the binding is top shelf
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Feb 23, 2019 20:48
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Goodreads review: Short. Unsatisfactory. Weak ending.
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Feb 23, 2019 20:51
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Jerry Cotton posted:I don't know about these guys' methods but here's 2018 from two sources: I could believe that first graph but there's no way the UK is at 4 percent. At least on Amazon the UK is something like ten percent, and it has to only go up if you consider Kobo and Apple.
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