Chaotic-Evil Neutral-Evil reporting in

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Guess I'm chaotic good. Library gives a receipt for checked out books and even puts it in the book, so I just use that.

Hazmatastic

Chaotic Good +, I usually end up making a bookmark at my desk by folding and taping paper or a post-it

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ebook is the only way to guarantee I can read the book. page material and gloss, layout, spacing, kerning, etc. can all combine in various ways to make me inexplicably unable to read or have a really hard time reading where I have to focus really hard on each letter rather than each sentence. Oled has made is possible for me to read large bodies of text on phones but for full books I always go for the eink.

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I throw them away because I will tear them, the tears will catch on my hands, and it will slide half-off at the worst possible time.

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Chaotic good and neutral evil. Don't do neutral evil

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You don't memorize the page number, you just sort of remember where you are and find it

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Ok Satan

sp3ctr4l

Absolutely, putting a book down open face will fuck up the spine, and if done for a long time or repeatedly, the whole book will be deformed and maybe even fall apart.

That seems much more chaotic to me than dog earing a few pages.

CaptainBlagbird

And then there is Billy Boyd's method, which is so evil it is off the chart.

Claymore

My library gives out paper due-date receipts, so its was meant to be.

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Hi there, it's called ADHD, kill me

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I have been known for the occasional psychotic break

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Oh please detail, I feel like I'm missing something. What does the mighty fool-of-a-Took man do to books!?

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You're thanked for that goodness!

My wife used to handle library returns. They had to examine each book for signs of bed bugs, and found interesting things used as bookmarks. Sometimes money, personal notes, or random business cards.

But I tell you, no story beat: A razor blade. Yep. Just fell right out. Naked and sharp. How's that for chaotic evil??

(Thankfully nobody was harmed. Glad they all wore gloves!)

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Well that's a terrible bookmark! You have to be able to pick a bookmark up safely I feel!

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"Previously on... Or wait, does this sound familiar? Did we jump forward instead?"

CaptainBlagbird

I can't find the exact episode anymore (there is no short of it and I don't have the time rn to go through every one once again), but in the Friendship Onion podcast, he told us the following:

Earlier in his life he was working in a book printing factory. And apparently he was allowed to keep books (not sure if that was only when there were cosmetic defects etc). Anyway, he read these books but instead of using a bookmark, he just tore out the pages so that when opening the book, the current page would always be the first one.

Truly a fool of a took 🥲, but I still love him

(If anyone knows which episode that was, please share.)

CaptainBlagbird

We might need a 3rd axis for this, I feel it can be connected to any of these

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I leave the whatever it is in the book at the end. Not in library books, mind you. Don't like making more work for librarians. I started the habit when I found a baggage claim ticket in a book I bought at a used bookstore. I leave them in when I pass them on to the next owner.

I've found a few ersatz bookmarks over the years. The best so far was a 6 of clubs. The worst was a used q-tip.

Tanis Nikana

Burning the page you just finished reading so you can read the next page, while standing there in a dark labyrinth ~~where a minotaur is lurking~~.