Book holding thread.
What is your preferred hand configuration.
In b4
>muh kindle
>muh hardback
Paper back master race
Smoking while reading master race.
>>7535009
Like yours, but I'm a leftie and hence hold the book with my left hand. Right hand is in contact with the book too, though, as my index finger will be on the bottom right ready to turn to next page while my right hand thumb is resting on the bottom of the page and my fuck-finger is supporting the book so it's not only my left hand
>>7535018
That is, my index finger will be always-already on the next page.
Regards,
a real man
Right hand in center. Similar to OP.
Left hand jerking off even if the material isn't sexual.
>>7535009
Book resting on hard surface (or lap), index and middle fingers of right hand pressing on the bottom left or bottom right depending on how far through the book I am.
>>7535023
This
>>7535023
You need the other hand to hold your cigarette.
Shout out to altoids for making the most patrician cig box
>>7535009
I hold it either like you're holding it, except with my left hand (I'm left-handed), or with both hands and my thumbs meeting in the bottom-middle.
>>7535023
i'm just picturing you holding a book with both hands with your face pressed all up into it
archetypal bookworm style
>>7535015
There's defiantly something poetic aboutchoosingto kill yourself one drag at a time.
Horns forever.
>>7535126
And yes I am aware that my fingers are super short and that my Christmas tree is still up.
>>7535128
They're also remarkably fat. What kind of syndrome are you suffering from, anon?
>>7535133
I have a mild form of Tourette's syndrome, but that's irrelevant and also none of your business.
>>7535136
u mAd lil bitch boi?????????
>>7535158
Nah.
>>7535009
WILL SELF
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA
![CEhHeV4[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/w2dm8JL.jpg "CEhHeV4[1].jpg")
>>7535181
It's just a meme, bro.
But honestly, I've never read him, and I always see Will Self threads on here (which I don't even read).
>>7535023
How are you going to take the picture dumbass
>>7535195
Pay debts
post pics of girls holding books with their feet
>>7535128
>my Christmas tree is still up.
Well, isn't it supposed to be up until 6th of January / Three Kings' Day?
Who here laying in bed with the thiner side against the flat surface of the bed and holding up the thicker side so you can read comfortably utilising minimal muscle strength while laying down?
>>7535009
I place my hands on the sides and usually bend the book so it only shows one page.
>>7535602
How do you read the page which is parallel to the bed?
I use a book stand on a lap desk, as I have some joint stuff in my hands and wrists that makes it impossible for me to hold up a large book for very long. It's comfy.
>>7535051
>someone actually took the time to take this picture
>>7535051
>not rolling your own cigarettes
disgusting amerifat detected
>>7535744
>muh health
ideology: the post
Should I buy a Kindle? What kind of Kindle do y'all have? I like reading in the dark and I was thinking of just buying a reg Kindle with the case that has a light
Also, library master race. Hardbacks .
>>7535749
>Implying that's what I mean
Smokes aren't cheap nigger
>>7535754
ew go away
>>7535753
Kindle Paperwhite 3
>>7535009
Can we talk about the unclean fingernails?
>>7535682
You turn over.
>>7535195
might be ancient greek, i cant tell the difference
>>7535833
but that's not lazy
>>7535682
not him but i think he reads like me
>>7535877
fukken saved
I like to put a knee on each page and go handsfree.
>>7535009
>love to hold my hardcovers with two hands, gripping both the cover and the pages on either side
>have sweaty palms/fingers
>don't want to crinkle pages
life is suffering
Do you guys ever sweat when holding the book with your two thumbs on either page, causing the paper to sort of bend where your thumb is?
It's really annoying, how can I fix it?
>inb4 you're fat
I'm not fat, and I don't even have fat fingers. It is summer here though, but it still happens inside my own home with the air con on.
put a condom on each thumb
I tear each individual page out of the book. If I enjoyed reading it I buy a second copy to keep on my shelf. Get on my level.
>>7535126
da fuk
itt lit/ can read but holds a book like a spaz
>>7535836
it's modern greek m8
Physical books are an inferior medium.
Only >muh taste /feel /smell of books meme retards prefer them
>>7535963
When I use my e-reader I always end up switching from book to book and not finishing a lot of them. When I buy a physical book I feel more obligated to finish reading it before buying a new one. I think e-readers are superior but they're just not for me.
>>7535051
Where is this picture taken?
Why do everyone itt holds the book with one hand? It's much more uncomfortable, takes a lot more strength and you need your other hand to turn the page anyway
I read too heavy of books to hold it like OP is holding it. I need to cradle it in my wrest like the heavy infant it is.
>>7535886
why
>>7536045
wanking
>>7535009
I get my qt cousin or my gf to read for me in their voice or at least cuddle with me and have them turn the pages
>>7536045
"mom can you come take this picture of me holding a book with two hands?"
>>7536061
ree
Kinda like this.
>>7536051
for my folder of shitty OC people drew on paint
i find these hilarious
>>7536064
its the only way to justify a cuddle session in your couch, plus its innocent and I get to expose them to great books
>>7535195
Wow, I thought I was the only one who did this
>>7536066
And with more book-y books.
I move the boomark along the lines as I go through the page. Also note the nondescript book cover, extremely common in Japan.
>>7536085
> a portrait of a chinese character
The modern man is absolutely disgusting..
>>7536087
Yukina-chan is Japanese.
>>7536089
>yukina
You sound retarded saying chinese names while being white.
>>7536092
If anything, you should chastise me for using the -chan suffix in an English conversation.
>>7536097
Whatever retard. Enjoy your trivial plots and literally the dry fantasies of beta chinks.
>>7536063
>I haven't heard of google in my whole life
>>7536107
What do you mean by "dry fantasies"? The plot is super trivial in this book, I give you that.
>>7536089
I can honestly say that, in my years of living in Japan, no one has ever treated me poorly or acted strangely towards me because I'm a Sailor Moon fan. There's a Sailor Moon figure on my desk at work, in the summer I might wear a Sailor Moon t-shirt under my suit blazers. I'll turn thirty this year. I've dressed up as Sailor Moon and Princess Serenity (And Chun-Li and Rilakkuma) for Halloween at work for the students. No one had anything negative to say.
The last event that I went to dressed up as Sailor Moon, strangers were handing me there babies like I was the Dalai Lama.
No one has ever fled to the other side of the train at to avoid me and my Sailor Moon keychain, wallet, socks, hoodie. I was wearing my Moon Stick necklace when I met Princess Takamado. Her security team didn't tackle me.
As of course the SM goods market was stagnant and dead before the revival!! There was nothing in the stores to buy until two years ago.
Of course, every area or layer of society is different, so I can only speak of my own area and own experiences, but I've never felt compelled to keep my hobbies a secret, and it's easy to find local woman (and some men too) my age who love Sailor Moon.
Both hands with my thumbs in the margins like a decent human being
>>7536120
Is this a copypasta?
To give a serious reply - Sailor Moon is one of those old super popular mainstream series. It gets different treatment than new late-night anime.
>>7536113
>i dont get action in my life
>i know! I will add some excitement by adding this cute girl who main protagonist is too shy to approach but is attainable
>let's add some swords on this shit
>let's add a generic black and white villain that the hero defeats
Tired, overplayed, boring plot arches and progression.
THe last interesting anime I know of was Death Note, and that is some mainstream shit afaik.
>>7536133
>Death Note
Trash like the rest of them, the only approved chink toons are miyazaki ones, mushishi and evangelion
>>7536133
This specific book I'm reading - Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! - is a parody of such dry fantasies.
More specifically, it's a parody of the 異世界転生 (reincarnation in a parallel world) trend found in light novels in recent years. Some pathetic guy gets killed trying to save a cute girl and ends up reincarnated as a hero in a fantasy world. Dry fantasy in a very literal sense. It became popular on the "Shousetsuka ni Narou! (Let's become a novelist!) website, where amateurs can write. Popular works from it get official releases and anime adaptations.
>>7536143
Anime movies dont count as they tend to have more substance and have a concrete end to them.
Death Note is an amazing mind thriller:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37WiwroPMjU
>>7536143
Hilarious for you to include Evangelion, when it's actually bound to the same trash you mention. It was made as a reaction to the trash that existed before it and exists becaise of it.
Being clueless about anime is expected on /lit/, no hard feelings.
>>7535598
That's what my parents always did, but I also thought it was more a Latin American thing
>>7536156
So, if I like Don Quijote, I have to like all the shitty knight-errant books it makes fun of?
Protip: no
>>7535009
Both hands; fingers supporting the cover, thumbs resting on the slivers of the pages. I glide my right-hand's thumb to flip pages
>>7536199
Whoever does this should kill themselves.
>>7535195
>>7536156
You seem like the kind of person that expects every piece of work to break down neatly into a central 'point', I'm sure you're proud of yourself for knowing about anno's hate for otakus (read:himself) but newsflash 90% of the content has nothing to do with it. Reminds me of this guy I knew who found out about the ulysses/body parts thing and would only ever talk about that one thing, as if these auteurs aren't just messing around and trying shit out/flexing most of the time. The fact is no team of people is going to sink years of their life into something that's purely a goof, and the critique of calling it (or anything else) 'not deep' says more about the viewer desu, the only people I've met in real life who say that are people who watch nolan films, no eva isn't deep, it's a very flat and wide pastiche of a lot of shit and moreover if you ignore the writing entirely (as you should be able to with any good piece of visual art) that's where the show excels anyway, the show and especially the film are bergman tier in terms of layout and shot composition, it has a surprisingly fleshed out visual language that really comes into view on repeated viewings but fuck it man it's been 15 years I'm not breaking any new ground here.
m e m e m e o u t
I'll start this in 20 minutes. How should I hold it if I don't want to fuck up the spine?
Not unlike how you would hold a shotgun, left hand handling the trigger and the right hand propping it up.
The book almost always rests on my right hand while i manipulate it with the left.
>>7536263
>left hand handling the trigger and the right hand propping it up.
Are you left handed?
>>7535939
Inspiring post. Think of how liberating it would be to just destroy your physical library and violently sear the information in your mental library with this act.
>>7536279
I'm a revolutionary 2bh.
>>7536274
Perhaps cross-eye dominant.
>>7536208
why? i did it all the time when i was younger
Anyone else barely open the book up(just a smidgen to be able to see the writing) to read so the cover doesn't get bent and fucked up?
I read with gloves on too so it doesn't get dirty. After each read I store my books in an airtight plastic containers.
>>7536274
No, but my left hand has been doing a yakuza impression for a few years now due to a knife.
>>7536309
Because it ruins the book. Look at how far back it's being bent. And this can ruin the spine too.
Maybe it's different for other people, but I like to take care of even my cheap paperbacks. Even the piece of shit book Catcher in the Rye is in perfect condition after almost ten years of owning it and re-reading over and over again to try to like it.
>>7536314
I know you're kidding but I think it's funny how delicately some people handle their books like it's some prized possession. It'd be understandable if it was a collectible first edition and it was worth some money but most people won't even open it if they know it's valuable.
>>7536328
what a faggot
>>7535744
It's amazing that those ad dollars tobacco companies spent for decades are still yielding dividends even after the ban on advertising
>>7536328
who cares if it ruins the book. Just read books once and throw them in the trash.
>>7536328
Don't understand your kind. I enjoy my books looking like they've been read. Gives them character.
>>7536368
Why would a book need character?
>>7536373
Why would a cheap paperback need to be in flawless condition?
>>7535744
How am I supposed to write death if I can't taste it?
>>7536373
Fucking pleb
>>7535051
this image is missing a fedora
>>7536373
Wouldn't you prefer a legacy of literature crumpled and satisfied instead of waking up to a sterile office bookshelf?
>>7536398
I don't really care.
Dictate, zap it to my brain.
I want the meat, not the skin.
>>7536466
Taking exponential care refutes this desire though. If you want the meat of the book, you have to take it to dinner, bring her back home, and bang her against everything you can.
>>7536479
No?
Having no desire to maintain the book's physical condition other than to maintain readability is better than taking "exponential" care for it.
This is like worrying about what bookmark scent you use for your bookmarks. I value the practical value of the object, no the elementary, trivialities of it.
If I can read it, a torn up book and a new one are the same to me.
>>7536489
Thought you were the person I was in conversation with who was saying a person who holds the book in a way which wrecks it (though, not readability-wise) should kill oneself.
>>7536499
oh not I just popped out of nowhere.
A book's looks should have nothing to do with the meat of the litearture.
>>7536506
Good, good. Much prefer your outlook over the other person. Personally, I enjoy the wear-and-tear as long as readability isn't compromised. It shows a degree of intimacy, but that's opinion.
>>7536509
Screw you senpai, there's nothing wrong with my outlook. I like to keep my books in good condition to make them last longer if I want to read them in the future.
Not taking care of a book can also damage the text on the pages, which means that I can't even read the book.
>>7536522
You very much underestimate the brute strength of books when reading them like a person and not like a conservative hermit. Maybe stop by a well-aged library and see some examples first-hand. Have to go full autismo to ruin the text on the page from rough reading.
![eOUuWTL[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/bB1MMVi.jpg "eOUuWTL[1].jpg")
Spine-breaking master race here.
Whenever I look at someone's bookshelf and see all their books have perfectly intact spines, I know they're a poser. Why? Because if you really get into a book and carry it around everywhere you go, you're going to fuck up the spine. Just the act of reading it all the way through cracks the spine, so why not just go for the gold? The last thing I want to be distracted by when I'm really getting into a story is how uncomfortable my hands are because I'm trying to hold the book like a delicate violet trying to keep the spine intact.
It's not the physical book that matters, it's the ideas and the stories inside that count. And you can't get that in an efficient manner unless you go full hog. Just like the owl-faced man in Gatsby - if the spines of your books don't look like your granny's shriveled cunt by the time you're done, everyone knows you're a dilettante.
>>7536537
You're the best kind of person.
>>7536558
You're the worst kind of person.
>>7536573
if I wasn't using it as a camera, i would have included my iPhone as well :^)
>>7536583
Oink, oink, capitalist pig.
>>7536237
open it until ther's only 1cm or so between the pages then use a flash light to read the words
>>7536624
Don't forget your hazmat suit so you don't contaminate it with skin particles.
>>7536635
>2016
>not dressing your books in hazmat suits
It's like you're asking to wreck it, man.
>>7536644
>not doing both
>>7536674
Touche.
>>7536683
You can never be too careful with your mint condition $10 paperbacks.
Just saying - old books in good state are worth more than old books in bad state. Those flimsy dust jackets alone can double a book's value.
>>7536723
Only value I care about is what I derive from it. Also I'm a book hoarder, go figure.
>>7536368
Until all the pages fall out because the spine is so mangled.
>>7536593
Yeah, what a capitalist, buying a device once and then pirating all the books they ever want to read for free, instead of buying out of print books for ridiculous amounts like the physical book master race.
Dumbass.
>>7535983
South Melbourne on top of my apartment building
>>7536066
s-sauce?
>>7535753
For strictly reading go for kindle paper white. Fire's are fine but the glare is a bitch for reading and the battery isn't nearly as good
>>7535009
this fucking pleb pauper book master race
paper books should be burnt
>>7536933
Was talking about his iPhone, actually. Might want to re-evaluate whom the dumbass is here.
>>7536537
>Just the act of reading it all the way through cracks the spine, so why not just go for the gold? It's not the physical book that matters, it's the ideas and the stories inside that count.
I hope you enjoy your ideas and stories scattered all over the fucking ground when you try to reread them.
![invention_1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/zMpLKoK.jpg "invention_1[1].jpg")
http://blog.xkcd.com/2009/04/13/the-pursuit-of-laziness/
>>7537137
Lol, what the fuck is that?
Dear god, I really hope you didn't get this idea from a 'life hacks' video.
Go ahead. Load it up. Bonus points for a meme book
>>7536199
>>7535609
>bend the book
>>7536537
i break the spines of all new purchases before putting them on my patrician shelf, so it looks like i've read them even though i probably never will
>>7538167
This pun only works if you mispronounce Descartes' name
>>7536537
>Whenever I look at someone's bookshelf and see all their books have perfectly intact spines, I know they're a poser.
Or they just take proper care of their goddamn property, you fucking barbarian. I'm sorry you're a retard that can't hold a book comfortably without fucking destroying it and you need some lofty, fruitcake justification for that, but I'd rather you not go your whole life convincing yourself that your big, monstrous neanderthal hands and shelf of mistreated books makes you better than us civilized folk.
>>7536199
I'm very fond of this one, I do it constantly commuting.
>>7536224
>90% of the content has nothing to do with it
So 90% of it is the same trash as the rest of anime and you only chose it as approved anime because you follow the herd.
Fucking clueless retard in other words. But as I already said, I don't hold it against you too much. Now go back to jerking off to whatever crap you clueless /lit/ faggots jerk off to.
>>7538233
English is phonetic unlike French. I see an "s" I say an "s.":^)
>>7538525
How do you pronounce "knight?"
>>7538539
Cuhh-nite
>>7538557
Incorrect. It's "kuh-nig-hit"
>>7535115
This is insanely imbecilic.
>>7538745
>This sore ass found a thesaurus.
I rest the book on my leg.
>>7538767
patrician
>>7538757
8/10 bait
![woman-hand-holding-a-kindle-e-book-reader-DK70EM[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/niMoqgG.jpg "woman-hand-holding-a-kindle-e-book-reader-DK70EM[1].jpg")
>>7535009
Like this.
>>7536199
Barbaric.wash your fucking hands you shitskin
>>7538886
not reading
>>7538973
objectively wrong
>>7538886
>awful font, too big
>not justified text
>no indentation
Disgusting.
I want to use wireless so I can turn the page on a kindle when lying down. Any recommendations?
I was thinking of just reading from my TV and doing it that way.
>>7536373
fucking an hero
>>7536537
>Faust
Based 2bh anon.
>>7535136
Francis is that you?
>>7536237
>translation
>of Gaddis
might as well read Harry Potter, amigo
>>7540043
real books
>>7537137
that made me want to buy a reader
it must be so comfy reading on your side without moving each page
>>7535717
Chav detected, I bet you smoke amber leaf
>>7535126
>>7535195
>>7536083
>>7536066
based
Horns is truly the patrician way.
The idea that dedicated readers across the world independently develop this method again and again, never passing it down to other readers, it makes me smile.
Sadly it does strain the hand when the book is larger than 500ish pages, or tall.
Feels good, feels gooooood
When the book is too big
>>7535051
where u live? nice pic
>>7541645
Wouldn't the letters be too small from that distance?
>>7541777
Not really, and most of the time I am leaning down anyways so my head is closer.
>>7541645
>cut
>>7541499
Hahaha what the fuck, this looks so weird
>>7535914
Yep, happens all the time to me, and I hate it too. I'm skinny as fuck, but I live in a pretty hot country.
>>7535009
You must be terribly fucking bored to make a thread about ways of holding a book.
>>7535126
Didn't know /lit/ had its own ogres.
>>7535051
I bet a reverse image search will lead to your Instagram account
>>7536537
I feel you. Show some wear and tear on them shits.
I use a nook taped to a stick (posture reasons).
Patrician? Certainly
Like this stock-image-guy
>>7535744
>implying you are not a cuck for hundreds of other companies
>>7542085
or this one
>>7542023
Nope, this one is just for you, senpai.
I do have Insta, but all I do, is post book covers of recent purchases in a much less 'set up' manner.
>>7541927
This thread has 190 posts already, senpai.
Also, why else would we be on /lit/, if else?
>>7536061
lit is the only board where a photo like this gets next to no replies
like the fuck, post this even /ck/ or /fa/ for example and they'll reply
who here holds it like a kidor autist
>>7542529
it's just a girl
>>7542529
Because we're here to talk about literature, not how attractive the girl that anon pretends is his girlfriend is.
I don't hold books really. I read at my desk so I can make notes about it.
>>7536066
no, dumb anon. the doujinshi is teaching you how you should hold it. both hands, on the front, not to strong but not too soft.
I read like pic related
>>7536120
>I was wearing my Moon Stick necklace when I met Princess Takamado.
>Her security team didn't tackle me.
this is art, I love you original author.
>>7536537
>>7536199
>>7535009
Am I really the only /top of the page/ in this this thread?
I also have an iPad I read PDFs on but I got that for free and it works fine for that and browsing 4chan away from home before anybody asks why I have one and starts a shit.
>>7535914
>not wearing white gloves while reading
Dear God, what are you, a filthy peasant?
>>7536537
nah nah you're taking it too far
you break the spine every once in a while so you can hold it normally but without the irritating resistance of the book attempting to close
>>7536537
Dilettante here, but I respect the fuck out of you.
>>7543647
Anyone /bothhands/ here?
>>7543711
I hold myNookwith both hands….
>>7537032
>whom the dumbass is
Yes, him is very the dumbass indeed.
>>7536558
>Kindle
>not Nook
B&N is a marginally less evil corporation than Amazon. Also, don't Kindles require some stupid proprietary filetype? My Nook can read .pdfs.
>>7543848
No, Kindles can read .pdfs. They can't read .epubs though, which is fuck-stupid.
>>7543854
>They can't read .epubs though
The old ones can't. I'm under the impression K Fire can.
>>7543857
>falling for the kindle fire angry birds machine meme
>>7543870
What? All I know is that in the introductory section of the Wikipedia article for .epub format, it mentions that the K Fire can read it. I don't actually own one. I'm a Nook girl, through and through.
>>7541929
dumb little nigger get off my board.
>>7535009
Sometimes like yours OP, but it hurts my hands after a while. Sometimes I hold it with both hands on either side, seems to work well.
>>7536199
>>7543854
Just reformat them with Calibre.
>>7543049
what kind of notes?
>>7535836
hes reading sartre senpai
>>7535219
most Ive laughed all day.
I like to read on my kobo when im out cause its less cumbersome and inconspicuous
I prefer paperback though
>>7535126 master race
lefthand holding masterrace
When I lay down to read, I rest one side on my face and read one page and then roll over and rest the other side on my face.
>not pretzel-knotting your book as you read
>>7546900
Nigger what the fuck.
>>7545876
or just buy a device without cuck formats
>>7536941
I swear I could from the view it was Australia. Eastern suburbs representing
>>7546476
Passages I like, and brief reflections or insights mostly. It's just something I find enjoyable and rewarding, especially after a few months... looking through your notes can be fun. It also helps when you want to have a half decent discussion on /lit/, or provide certain insights during a conversation.
>>7546654
>not reading Abe on your Kobo
>>7541464
I'm smoking amber leaf right now
It's shit, this is still my favorite
>>7535714
people this bitter shouldn't be let into this board
