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Which are you?

>> No.15550278

im on the keep the dust jacket, and throw away the book team.

>> No.15550309

>>15550250
I've got a box of dust jackets that I don't know what to do with

>> No.15550356

>>15550250
I take them off when reading and return them afterwards. Mostly to keep a better resale value if I decide to trade them in at my used book shop.

>> No.15550380

read the dust jacket, throw away the book

>> No.15550473

>>15550278
Incredibly based

>> No.15550828

I guess I used to take the dust jackets off when reading before I went digital

>> No.15550847

>>15550250
>not recycling dust jackets as you find them
>not going through your old books and removing the dust jackets and chucking them right in the bin
>not going to your friend's house and taking all their dust jackets and binning them
>not going to your local book store and paying them for only the dust jackets of all of their books (and then taking them and binning them)
>not breaking into your local public library at night to steal dust jackets
>and then bin them
>not becoming rich and successful in an industry that frequently purchases specialty texts so you have leverage over publishing companies that you use to make them not distribute their books with dust jackets
>not getting into the publishing business so you can reprint old public domain books, without dust jackets
>not gaining political power in your country and organizing book burnings of books with dust jackets (but you don't tell them that because then they'll think you're weird, so you have to make up some other reason for it)
>not forming a religion whose tenants include eschewing all forms of dust jackets and things that vaguely resemble them like raincoats for good measure
you will never make it

>> No.15550904

>>15550250
>only read books that don't have dust jackets

>> No.15551217

I once bought a used book from someone and the idiot had glued the dust jacket on the book with super glue or something. The dust jacket had some kind of black dirt on it that wouldn't go away even if you rubbed it with ethanol...I was so pissed...

>> No.15551555

>>15550250
I don't read

>> No.15551574

>>15550250
Leave dust jacket off. It just gets in the way

>> No.15552813

bump for night /lit/

>> No.15552871

>>15550250
Fold up dust jacket and use as bookmark: one side on the page you're reading, the other side goes to the endnotes page. Spine side keeps the page edges from getting damaged.

>> No.15552879

>>15552871
came here to post this

>> No.15552910

Depends on the book. Some dust jackets are nice and I leave them on. Some are ugly and I take them off. I usually take them off while reading though. I don't usually throw them out.

>> No.15552954
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>>15550250
I knew a guy, a local college professor, who threw away ever dust jacket just so that he could save that fraction of an inch on his shelves. When he died his collection wound up in a local used bookshop.

>> No.15552979

>>15550250
I only checkout books from the library with dust jackets. Once I get home, I take the dust jacket off, smear shit all over the inside, put it back on the book, and return it to the library. I've done it to 53 books so far.

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>>15552979
in this situation they would instantly know who is doing it via your library card/account

>> No.15553009

dust jackets are trash, so i throw them in the trash were they belong. i fucking hate hate useless waste products like that, like receipts, plastic wrap, clamshells. just fucking sell me the thing you don't need to also include 3 separate pieces of trash with it. fuck dust jackets.

>> No.15553033

>>15553009
do you not care about maintaining the life of the book?

>> No.15553049

I burn all books I can get my hands on because knowledge is subversive.

>> No.15553060

>>15553033
HOW THE FUCK IS A PIECE OF PLASTIC-COATED PAPER GOING TO DO ANYTHING BUT GET MICROPLASTICS ONTO MY SKIN AND ABSORBED INTO MY BLOODSTREAM? DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT A LITTLE PIECE OF ANNOYING TRASH IS GOING TO MAKE A SHITTY MASS-PRODUCED BOOK LAST LONG? IF I CARED ABOUT IT LASTING LONG I WOULD BY A NICE EDITION NOT SOME SHITTY PLASTIC PIECE OF KIKE SHIT.

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>>15550309

>> No.15553069

>>15550847
But, I mean, dust jackets don't hurt. You can just have the copy you want the book to have underneath.

>> No.15553073

>>15552954
>When he died his collection wound up in a local used bookshop.
Whelp that's interesting, a destructive interest you know;-- who would pity the poor sod?

>> No.15553076

>>15550278
too based

>> No.15553078
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>>15553009
>i can't have more than one moving part to any given item

>> No.15553083

>>15550250
Take it off when reading.

>> No.15553089

>>15550250
I've thrown away a few dust jackets because I hated them but I've kept others. The hypergalactic discerner

>> No.15553119

>>15553060
Good point. Can someone become a tranny from handling too many dust jackets?

>> No.15553267

>>15553119
Theoretically

>> No.15553368

>>15550250
There better be a hot woman as the picture of the dust jacket or I'm out. I'll even settle for the author's picture. I'm pretty sure I fapped to a picture of Danielle Steel once and I have no regrets.