When I was younger I let my sister borrow my first edition Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix. A hard cover that I waited in line outside a bookshop at midnight since the Harry Potter craze was intense back in the day. I got it back not just missing the dust jacket, but also the hard back. It was literally just the inside pages I got back and according to her that's fine, it's just a book. We don't speak these days.
My Mom used to wrap dust jackets in plastic covering and tape them in a certain way so that you'd have to specifically cut the tape to take the jacket off the book (not taped directly to the book though). Similar to how library books are.
That's completely normal. A happy book as a book read so many times it dissolves. The issue is with idiots who have no care for books; for example my mother has a habit of spitting on her finger and the turning pages by pulling them down until they pop up and then she throws them back; it even makes an excruciating noise. I never let her even touch my books.
@@Thelaretus the licking fingers thing is from back when everyone read newspapers and the pages were stuck together by the spike holes. It would be thrown away the next day so it was kind of tolerable. But with books it’s gross.
I wasn't even read quarter of A Wise Man's Fear when it became bunch of pages and booklets. I am not sure if it was because bad publishing in my country tho'
Ok, I don't not live in an English speaking country but sometimes I buy books in English and they are really fragile? I wasn't even aware spines can break before I started buying them. Books in my language/translated books just have spines that don't bend but are still incredibly easy to open and read because the cover is made to bend a few millimeters away from the spine. You can genuinely do the thing in the first scenario and the book and the spine are still completely fine.
I knew a girl in school who never read the prologue or epilogue because they "weren't really part of the book." Every time I think of that, I die a little inside.
Some books, yes I agree. But then there are other books that are just blank nothing without the cover on it. Nice from a minimalist perspective though ;)
The ones with any kind of uniqueness look good. The ones that are literally blank white paper with a plain helvetica font in black on the spine drive me crazy. Or better yet, just completely white. 🤦🏼
They are so annoying, espacilly if they are not well-made. Wish they just press it on it's hard cover or something (not sure if it made sense in English)
@@yxtsamai got my hard back collection of harry potter for Christmas last year and what i do when reading one of the books is take the dust cover off the book that your reading and set it somewhere safe when you have completely finished the book put the cover back on put it back in it's spot on the shelf or in my case back in the cardboard box that looks like Harry's trunks witch adds a nice touch to my room
I literally winced, watching scenario 1. I have a great idea for your next video, how about an interrogation, dark room, a chair and a single bright light, but the torture is just you (bad guy) slowly ramping up the damage to some books, while you, in the chair begging him to stop. "Tell me where it is?!" (folds the corner of a page) nooo stop, please!
@@nataliam2308 there are ways to read books in such a way that leaves them in almost perfect condition, though, and the reading experience of future owners is enhanced by a good quality book.
It's not that I disagree with your statement; in fact, I completely agree. I just think that care should be taken so that future readers can enjoy the book, both as a story and a shelf piece, as much as you did.
I once heard of a person who thought it was perfectly acceptable to cut thick books in half down the spine so they fit in her purse more easily (she could take just half with her at a time). Her explanation of this was followed by every book lover who had stumbled across her comment informing her of exactly what kind of monster she was. From a purely logical point of view, I can see that her idea made sense, and part of me feels like people should be able to enjoy books in whatever way is most accessible to them…I’d still flinch if I saw someone actually doing that to a book though!
I always remove the jacket when reading so it doesn’t get torn or scratched up, and then put it back on when I’ve finished and need to put the book away. Throwing the jacket away or loosing it though….
ngl the hardback's covers are so annoying while reading, so i take them off, but (depending on the book) i keep them in the nicest conditions, so once i'm finished reading, i can hug the lil book with its blanket
The paperback wheel of time books hold up to alot of stress. I got books 1-4 new and let my friends mom (an angel when borrowing books) and her brother (a demon when borrowing books) read them and the spines were unbroken. I let 5 people read Eldest when it came out because I had the only copy among my friend group in high school and it was bad. So very bad
this is true my wheel of time books are still in amazing condition- probably because I have only let two people other than me touch them and both of them are book nerds. that said one of them strips dust jackets and I hate her for it
I once let a classmate borrow a book of mine. I trusted that guy cause he read a lot of books. That was my first experience lending something to someone outside of my family. 2 weeks later, I got my book back. But the spine was detached from the body of the book (It was a hardcover) . When I asked him about it he just casually told me that all of his books were like that. What a mess.
I break tf out of my paperback spines idgaf. I love every piece of damage on a paperback. I feel like it gives the book character. I love seeing the lines down the spine when im finished. Its like the equivalent of goodreads’ “done” tab.
Confession Time: I don't treat my books very well. It isn't that I don't like them, the problem is I love them too much to pay attention to what my hands are doing. Being careful with a book negatively impacts my enjoyment of reading. IF I borrow a book though, I adjust my mindset to match the owner. If they are a pretty shelves person, I am suddenly a pretty shelves person. I will say though...dog earers should be strung up. There are some lines you just don't cross....
@@catfinity8799 😨Once you do it it's done forever. A folded page is never unfolded. I'm always shocked and confused when people purposefully damage other people's books like that.
I don't let people borrow books... But I've learned (after keeping books pristine for the first three decades of my life) that I feel immense joy when reading paperbacks and not caring if the spine gets broken. As a fan of really long books (usually around 1000 pages), I 'd feel scared of reading them until I realized I really didn't have to care about the spines. It literally changed my life. I only buy paperbacks now, because it's ok if they get "ruined".
When I saw the first scenario, as someone who used to not read any books until recently, my lord I cringed so badly. Even if I wasn't much of a reader back then due to my diagnoses and all that, I've always tried to be careful with any book i had, especially of course if I borrowed one from the school library. So seeing you abusing that book like that, I literally went "Oh nooo nonononooo" lol
The reason my books do not leave my house under the supervision of other people. If you want to borrow it either read the whole thing on my sofa or get out.
Scenario 2: (Book with no dust jacket back on the book) "It's not my problem." My response/thought: when what's left of your current life is no longer in flames, Mr. Borrower of my book. I will give you permission to die blood murder, after not returning my book in its prestine condition! (Minaical laugh!)
Me Watching Scenario 1: *internal screaming* Also Me Watching Scenario 1: (calmly) Reminds me of my mom... Stop bending the spine back like that, mom... You're destroying it...
I've never done this with a borrowed book but I do both of those things with all of my books. They make for an objectively better reading experience and I've had books I've read 10+ times that are still intact.
NOT THE DUST JACKET!!! My sister misplaced the priceless jacket to a classic children's book series and I'm still mad...well, she was only 9 and I 11 when it happened, but now that I know its value and emotional value I'm still low-key mad at her 😢😢😢😢
I read my dad's Harry potter books and he had hard covers 5+ and when I got to OotP he had to tell me it was okay to take the dust jacket off when reading it as long as I returned it with the jacket on
Really good video, I'm not sure how this could've been incorporated, but I always find it really annoying when I accidentally close my book without the bookmark in it.
the nice thing is that if it's a new book then the pages will have been freshly ruffled only up to the point in the book you were reading, so by just checking the edges, you can see where the pages seem more "fluffed out" and find roughly where your spot was. This usually works the first few read throughs
Love these videos! 🙂 I lend a book to someone and it came back with literally a piece of the cover missing. Fortunately it was a very cheap second hand book, but still WHY
The key to scenario 2 is never give out the dust jacket. Period. Shit, when I’m reading a hardback the dust jacket is removed and placed in the hole created in the line on the shelf. Doesn’t even move around the house with me as it gets read. Then again, I have a 3 year old. I’m a very handy guy and she loves when I fix things for her. I have yet to get her to understand that torn paper is beyond my skill to heal.
Man this takes me back how I murder my first book. Did not cover properly and let it borrow... Till this day I still have not got it return and last I check the front cover was in ruins... I will never do this shit again. Shits expensive and precious
I let my dad borrow my copy of Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins, which I bought the day it came out, under the one condition that he not dog ear any pages and keep the book in good condition because it was one of my favorite books ever and I wanted to keep it nice. Within 3 days tbe book was dog eared, had tears in pages, the front covrt was hanging by a thread, it was annotated, and had coffee stains on it. Never gonna get over that.
I remember when I gave my friend one of my book so she could read it, follow the next weeks seeing it become more and more broken and dying inside. She never read it I forgive her because she bought the same book to give it back to me so I didn't have a destroyed book lolz It was still painful
I don’t like reading books, I don’t like books being read to me. I can’t really even do audible books on road trips. But for some reason all these videos make me laugh. Keep up the good work.
I used to LOVE cracking book spines when I was a teenager (I liked seeing the bits of glue from the binding peel off the pages). I didn’t particularly care. Now 30 years later, it just physically hurts me to mess up my books like that 😂
Do I wonder if this man in this video reads multiple books? I was raised to believe you can’t, more the old school way of living my parents are 74 and 76 years old and they used to tell me tv rots the brain, as I grew up I moaned othere wise like everyone else, I. See so many mistakes in life iv been going on and off reading books in life become collecting ornaments I loved collecting myths and legends stuff then it made me realised I allways did like fantasy and historical fiction, then I turned 40 I realised I was looking for love in all the wrong places, then I realised what I whent of and didn’t do all those years was love of books, I wish I was a book collector than anything else, I mean I wish I had listened to what I needed to do in life instead of whanted to do in life, what made me go into a reading slump was schooling trying to fit it appease my parents and be something I wasn’t, now I say to hell with it, iv allways love books deep down and I stayed why do I stop and listen to myself than than my own vanity, it’s plb all part of growing up you learn yourself as you get older no one realised that till it happens, love life to the full do what you love and enjoy best not to fit in but to fit in with yourself.
I only keep the dust jackets if they look good. If not, I have no problem throwing them away. Though if somebody did that to mine, some slight assaults and battering might be committed.
Some paperbacks are meant to be treated like this, you know. Gets them more cozy and favourable look :) You see a book with the cover all tattered and with the spine broken - and you KNOW that it`s someone`s favourite. Read to rags, so to speak
i saw on some video that type of borrower of books that was ripping off the corner of the page, not even folding it. we owe to the whoever owner of that book to track down that ''borrower'', sadist i would call him, and bring him to justice. our justice not the blahblah justice of the judicial system. the only justice. and show him what sadism is rrrrrrrrrrrrrreally like.
The spine bending thing does bother me, though I think in Japan they do that a lot. I actually bought a magazine from Japan and the "spine" was just part of the cover. I'm guessing this is because of how many Japanese readers seem to fold the book back. The dust jacket thing I can see why it would bother people. I don't like hardbacks because of dust jackets and also they're header for me to read in bed, so I try to avoid them as much as I can.
People who do this with books in scenario 1 are probably dangerous for society.
I like to break the spine of my books as well.
im a proud menace to society
I do that lol
Breaking the spine to make a comfort read is good. But break it on purpose is a sin.
Agreed
When I was younger I let my sister borrow my first edition Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix. A hard cover that I waited in line outside a bookshop at midnight since the Harry Potter craze was intense back in the day. I got it back not just missing the dust jacket, but also the hard back. It was literally just the inside pages I got back and according to her that's fine, it's just a book. We don't speak these days.
I’m so sorry that you had to go trough that! My heart hurts for you.
Wow, what the heck did she do to it!? Losing the jacket is one thing, losing the actual hardcover is another...
Truly sad story man , I feel your pain.
Just a book??? 🤯
That was actually painful to read
Scenario #2 is why I will NEVER let anyone borrow any of my hardback books. “Aww you wanted to read that? Well tough luck, go buy it yourself.”
I take off the covers and keep them, just so they retain their quality while i or someone is reading the book from them
That's a good idea
My Mom used to wrap dust jackets in plastic covering and tape them in a certain way so that you'd have to specifically cut the tape to take the jacket off the book (not taped directly to the book though). Similar to how library books are.
Had the same thing happen to my tfios book when i gave it to my classmate for a week....needless to say i never forgave her
Yes!
For me, spines for books over 500 pages usually break on their own under the stress of what I consider "normal reading".
That's completely normal. A happy book as a book read so many times it dissolves. The issue is with idiots who have no care for books; for example my mother has a habit of spitting on her finger and the turning pages by pulling them down until they pop up and then she throws them back; it even makes an excruciating noise. I never let her even touch my books.
@@Thelaretus the licking fingers thing is from back when everyone read newspapers and the pages were stuck together by the spike holes. It would be thrown away the next day so it was kind of tolerable. But with books it’s gross.
I wasn't even read quarter of A Wise Man's Fear when it became bunch of pages and booklets. I am not sure if it was because bad publishing in my country tho'
Ok, I don't not live in an English speaking country but sometimes I buy books in English and they are really fragile? I wasn't even aware spines can break before I started buying them. Books in my language/translated books just have spines that don't bend but are still incredibly easy to open and read because the cover is made to bend a few millimeters away from the spine. You can genuinely do the thing in the first scenario and the book and the spine are still completely fine.
Same
I knew a girl in school who never read the prologue or epilogue because they "weren't really part of the book." Every time I think of that, I die a little inside.
What!? That is insane!
wha- wha- what they WROTE IT FIR A REASON
They are a menace to the society.
Same here. The girl I knew said "If it was important it would be in chapter one."
I know lots of people who do this they think the prologue is just some extra thing
I've always thought books looked better without a dust jacket. Not that I'd ever remove one from a borrowed book tho😭
Some books, yes I agree. But then there are other books that are just blank nothing without the cover on it. Nice from a minimalist perspective though ;)
@@miketravelsnowhere6557 Oh no the minimalist logos have infiltrated my mind
The ones with any kind of uniqueness look good. The ones that are literally blank white paper with a plain helvetica font in black on the spine drive me crazy. Or better yet, just completely white. 🤦🏼
When I take hardbacks to work, I leave the dust jacked at home and make a temporary dust jacket out of paper until I finish the book.
Bottom line: you want to borrow a book, join a library.
Scenario 1 was probably such a pain to do.
Thank you for suffering for our entertainment :)
Also: the law and order sound effect.
Huh neat.......all these years as an avid book lover, and I never knew it was called a dust jacket. Learned something today
Not going to lie, I forgot what they were called and had to Google the proper name ;)
Same. I always just called them cover-slip thingies
I’m not a fan of book jackets/dust covers but as my books tend to look not great without them, I keep them on XD
They are so annoying, espacilly if they are not well-made. Wish they just press it on it's hard cover or something (not sure if it made sense in English)
@@yxtsamai got my hard back collection of harry potter for Christmas last year and what i do when reading one of the books is take the dust cover off the book that your reading and set it somewhere safe when you have completely finished the book put the cover back on put it back in it's spot on the shelf or in my case back in the cardboard box that looks like Harry's trunks witch adds a nice touch to my room
I gave my mom a book and I still don’t know where the dust jacket went
:(
Your mom should be arrested. 😣
That's horrible
I literally winced, watching scenario 1. I have a great idea for your next video, how about an interrogation, dark room, a chair and a single bright light, but the torture is just you (bad guy) slowly ramping up the damage to some books, while you, in the chair begging him to stop. "Tell me where it is?!" (folds the corner of a page) nooo stop, please!
Haha that is awesome!
How to interrogate a book lover!
I stopped lending books to friends after I had a book chewed by a baby, another one came back full of dirt, and the last one I never saw again.
I absolutely despise those white lines on the spines of the books that have been broken! They looks so bad on the shelf...
Maybe that's what the missing book cover was for.
Boohoo
Books are meant to be read and have marks of such, they're not decorations.
@@nataliam2308 there are ways to read books in such a way that leaves them in almost perfect condition, though, and the reading experience of future owners is enhanced by a good quality book.
It's not that I disagree with your statement; in fact, I completely agree. I just think that care should be taken so that future readers can enjoy the book, both as a story and a shelf piece, as much as you did.
That's exactly why I don't let anyone borrow or even touch my books😂
I once heard of a person who thought it was perfectly acceptable to cut thick books in half down the spine so they fit in her purse more easily (she could take just half with her at a time). Her explanation of this was followed by every book lover who had stumbled across her comment informing her of exactly what kind of monster she was.
From a purely logical point of view, I can see that her idea made sense, and part of me feels like people should be able to enjoy books in whatever way is most accessible to them…I’d still flinch if I saw someone actually doing that to a book though!
I always remove the jacket when reading so it doesn’t get torn or scratched up, and then put it back on when I’ve finished and need to put the book away. Throwing the jacket away or loosing it though….
I was literally screaming "no.. no..no...NOOOO" when I watched Scenario 1! Ik it's a nightmare for book lovers!
ngl the hardback's covers are so annoying while reading, so i take them off, but (depending on the book) i keep them in the nicest conditions, so once i'm finished reading, i can hug the lil book with its blanket
Bro just slapped himself 💀
The paperback wheel of time books hold up to alot of stress. I got books 1-4 new and let my friends mom (an angel when borrowing books) and her brother (a demon when borrowing books) read them and the spines were unbroken. I let 5 people read Eldest when it came out because I had the only copy among my friend group in high school and it was bad. So very bad
this is true my wheel of time books are still in amazing condition- probably because I have only let two people other than me touch them and both of them are book nerds. that said one of them strips dust jackets and I hate her for it
Oh... the spine bending... my wife does that ALL THE TIME to books. It makes me crazy. The sound is just HORRIFIC! I can hear the book scream!
lol I feel your pain. My wife does the same thing. :)
I once let a classmate borrow a book of mine. I trusted that guy cause he read a lot of books. That was my first experience lending something to someone outside of my family. 2 weeks later, I got my book back. But the spine was detached from the body of the book (It was a hardcover) . When I asked him about it he just casually told me that all of his books were like that. What a mess.
I almost screamed in the first scenario, just discovered you. Love from India.
Thank you!
My teenagers have lost every dust jacket to every book I own. And they are shameless about it.
Pain😭
ugh...bummer :(
Adoption is the only answer!
The second one is why Shakespeare said "neither a borrower nor a lender be."
I break tf out of my paperback spines idgaf. I love every piece of damage on a paperback. I feel like it gives the book character. I love seeing the lines down the spine when im finished. Its like the equivalent of goodreads’ “done” tab.
when he slapped that dude. it put a smile across my face
I was hugely crying in the first 28 seconds, how brutal he is, damn 💀 I'm literally terrified
lol
Last bit was satisfying as hell. Love your dedication.
Thanks!
Great video again! Short but oh so powerful! The pain and wince for scenario 1 was real!
Thank you!
I was not prepared for scenario 1.
Yessss ..I hate ittttt so much..,,,my friend did it,,I am not longer in contact with her,.....jk
If someone did this with my books I’d probably actually kick them out of my house and stop being friends with them.
After watching Daniel Greene's "Book Cleaning" video, I have to say, I don't think anything can phase me.
"You bending the book"
"My body : ouchhhh mann stop it"
Confession Time: I don't treat my books very well. It isn't that I don't like them, the problem is I love them too much to pay attention to what my hands are doing. Being careful with a book negatively impacts my enjoyment of reading. IF I borrow a book though, I adjust my mindset to match the owner. If they are a pretty shelves person, I am suddenly a pretty shelves person. I will say though...dog earers should be strung up. There are some lines you just don't cross....
I read the words dog earers as dog eaters. I had to reread what was just said. Makes more since now.
Relatable!
Same.
I always dog ear books, even library ones. I don't do it very aggressively though, nor do I fold more than half an inch.
@@catfinity8799 😨Once you do it it's done forever. A folded page is never unfolded. I'm always shocked and confused when people purposefully damage other people's books like that.
I don't let people borrow books... But I've learned (after keeping books pristine for the first three decades of my life) that I feel immense joy when reading paperbacks and not caring if the spine gets broken. As a fan of really long books (usually around 1000 pages), I 'd feel scared of reading them until I realized I really didn't have to care about the spines. It literally changed my life. I only buy paperbacks now, because it's ok if they get "ruined".
I always make sure I never even crease the spine on my paperbacks.
OH MY GOD NOT EVEN A MINUTE IN AND IM ALREADY DEAD
Get a life then
My sister borrowed a book from me. I found the dust jacket for it crumbled beneath a bunch of DVDs when I went to visit.
ugh...pain :(
When I saw the first scenario, as someone who used to not read any books until recently, my lord I cringed so badly. Even if I wasn't much of a reader back then due to my diagnoses and all that, I've always tried to be careful with any book i had, especially of course if I borrowed one from the school library. So seeing you abusing that book like that, I literally went "Oh nooo nonononooo" lol
The first 1 got me on tears
The reason my books do not leave my house under the supervision of other people. If you want to borrow it either read the whole thing on my sofa or get out.
Scenario 2: (Book with no dust jacket back on the book) "It's not my problem."
My response/thought: when what's left of your current life is no longer in flames, Mr. Borrower of my book. I will give you permission to die blood murder, after not returning my book in its prestine condition! (Minaical laugh!)
lol
Me Watching Scenario 1: *internal screaming*
Also Me Watching Scenario 1: (calmly) Reminds me of my mom... Stop bending the spine back like that, mom... You're destroying it...
Scenario 1 hurt… a lot!
Perfect title of the video
Am a book lover✅
Experienced pain✅
A+
You actually did scenario one, you monster 😭😂
lol
It was actually a book I got from Goodwill for $0.50 so maybe I am a little less of a monster ;)
@@miketravelsnowhere6557 Money doesn't matter to book lovers....the book does.😭😭
I've never done this with a borrowed book but I do both of those things with all of my books. They make for an objectively better reading experience and I've had books I've read 10+ times that are still intact.
Yeah. I hate when I borrow someone a book and when the books returns it has crumpled cover.
NOT THE DUST JACKET!!!
My sister misplaced the priceless jacket to a classic children's book series and I'm still mad...well, she was only 9 and I 11 when it happened, but now that I know its value and emotional value I'm still low-key mad at her 😢😢😢😢
That's why you should never let anyone borrow your stuff.
Not letting people borrow my stuff is one of the main rules in my life.
The law and order sound effects were perfect for the crimes committed in this video
What crimes, kiddo?
I loved the sheer violence of this video.
This happened to me: Got a book back after several reminders and the pages were falling out.
I always take the cover off of hardbacks before I lend a book, even when I'm just reading it myself I prefer it that way
“Get out of my house right now!” Is an appropriate response to these scenarios.
This is painful. Very well done!
Nah it isn't, snowflake
Thank you!
I kinda love my fat books with broken spines. Adds a certain charm to it.
The first one almost made me have a heart attack lol I was screaming it’s gonna rip lol
I amthankful for having all my friends be people who value their books cuz if they did this they would be beyond dead.
help i was literally brought to tears during scenario 1
I feel you’re pain this is what I all the time my family gets so annoyed by this
Damn man....You made me scream at the screen like "Don't you dare,DON'T YOU DAREEEEEE"
R.i.p. the first book. You will remembered
I read my dad's Harry potter books and he had hard covers 5+ and when I got to OotP he had to tell me it was okay to take the dust jacket off when reading it as long as I returned it with the jacket on
Really good video, I'm not sure how this could've been incorporated, but I always find it really annoying when I accidentally close my book without the bookmark in it.
Thank you!
Yup, I've done that too. Then having to figure out where you left off...what a pain!
the nice thing is that if it's a new book then the pages will have been freshly ruffled only up to the point in the book you were reading, so by just checking the edges, you can see where the pages seem more "fluffed out" and find roughly where your spot was. This usually works the first few read throughs
You could make a living reading horror novels I don’t know why but your voice would be perfect for a lovecraft story
Thank you!
Even with the warning, I wasn’t ready for the first one 😭.
Love these videos! 🙂
I lend a book to someone and it came back with literally a piece of the cover missing. Fortunately it was a very cheap second hand book, but still WHY
The beginning got me🤣😂🤣😂🤣
The key to scenario 2 is never give out the dust jacket. Period. Shit, when I’m reading a hardback the dust jacket is removed and placed in the hole created in the line on the shelf. Doesn’t even move around the house with me as it gets read.
Then again, I have a 3 year old. I’m a very handy guy and she loves when I fix things for her.
I have yet to get her to understand that torn paper is beyond my skill to heal.
OK this is true dedication here. He's sacrificed so many perfectly good books for his videos 😭😭💀
Man this takes me back how I murder my first book. Did not cover properly and let it borrow... Till this day I still have not got it return and last I check the front cover was in ruins... I will never do this shit again. Shits expensive and precious
I let my dad borrow my copy of Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins, which I bought the day it came out, under the one condition that he not dog ear any pages and keep the book in good condition because it was one of my favorite books ever and I wanted to keep it nice. Within 3 days tbe book was dog eared, had tears in pages, the front covrt was hanging by a thread, it was annotated, and had coffee stains on it. Never gonna get over that.
I can only imagine your pain...
I remember when I gave my friend one of my book so she could read it, follow the next weeks seeing it become more and more broken and dying inside. She never read it
I forgive her because she bought the same book to give it back to me so I didn't have a destroyed book lolz
It was still painful
At least she understood the problem
OMG smacking the book and bending the cover back 🤣 i'm dead!! 🤣💀
I laughed the second I heard the Law & Order: SVU chime in the intro.
My vocabulary must have plummeted while watching scenario 1. All I could say was "💥oh god.. 💥OH god oh GOD..💥oH.. 💥💥God!! 💥💥💥OH GODDDD!"
I take the dust jacket off when reading the book, but always put it back when it goes back on the shelf
I do both of these things with my own books. I hate those dust jackets - they always slide off the book as I’m reading.
I nearly got a heart attack at scenario 1
I physically felt the pain in scenario 1 oh my god-
I don’t like reading books, I don’t like books being read to me. I can’t really even do audible books on road trips. But for some reason all these videos make me laugh. Keep up the good work.
The second scenario is why I always remove the dust jacket before letting anyone borrow my hardcovers
from now on....I will listen every warning in the beggining of the video
Even though I only listen to audiobooks, Scenario 1 has probably given me PTSD
That slap was so forgiving of the book owner.
There are some acts of violence that are justifiable
Yanno I laughed at the warning at the start, but then I DID wince when he folded the page back around LOL
I used to LOVE cracking book spines when I was a teenager (I liked seeing the bits of glue from the binding peel off the pages). I didn’t particularly care. Now 30 years later, it just physically hurts me to mess up my books like that 😂
Do I wonder if this man in this video reads multiple books? I was raised to believe you can’t, more the old school way of living my parents are 74 and 76 years old and they used to tell me tv rots the brain, as I grew up I moaned othere wise like everyone else, I. See so many mistakes in life iv been going on and off reading books in life become collecting ornaments I loved collecting myths and legends stuff then it made me realised I allways did like fantasy and historical fiction, then I turned 40 I realised I was looking for love in all the wrong places, then I realised what I whent of and didn’t do all those years was love of books, I wish I was a book collector than anything else, I mean I wish I had listened to what I needed to do in life instead of whanted to do in life, what made me go into a reading slump was schooling trying to fit it appease my parents and be something I wasn’t, now I say to hell with it, iv allways love books deep down and I stayed why do I stop and listen to myself than than my own vanity, it’s plb all part of growing up you learn yourself as you get older no one realised that till it happens, love life to the full do what you love and enjoy best not to fit in but to fit in with yourself.
I only keep the dust jackets if they look good. If not, I have no problem throwing them away. Though if somebody did that to mine, some slight assaults and battering might be committed.
Some paperbacks are meant to be treated like this, you know. Gets them more cozy and favourable look :)
You see a book with the cover all tattered and with the spine broken - and you KNOW that it`s someone`s favourite. Read to rags, so to speak
That first one hurt my soul.
i saw on some video that type of borrower of books that was ripping off the corner of the page, not even folding it.
we owe to the whoever owner of that book to track down that ''borrower'', sadist i would call him, and bring him to justice.
our justice not the blahblah justice of the judicial system.
the only justice.
and show him what sadism is rrrrrrrrrrrrrreally like.
I felt the pain, I'm still shaking
This hurts on a number of levels 💀
I was yelling NOOOOOOOO so loudly in my head
The spine bending thing does bother me, though I think in Japan they do that a lot. I actually bought a magazine from Japan and the "spine" was just part of the cover. I'm guessing this is because of how many Japanese readers seem to fold the book back. The dust jacket thing I can see why it would bother people. I don't like hardbacks because of dust jackets and also they're header for me to read in bed, so I try to avoid them as much as I can.