Chaotic-Evil Neutral-Evil reporting in
Chaotic-Evil Neutral-Evil reporting in
There are only two kinds of books that are truly loved - those pristine and undamaged, and those which look like they've been through the apocalypse
You don't memorize the page number, you just sort of remember where you are and find it
I'm lawful evil. But I think they mixed up neutral evil and chaotic evil.
Me too, and this is the only alignment chart where I’m lawful and I don’t like it.
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.
LE gang rise up!
Tear the page you're on out and keep it in your pocket to look back to when you need to start again and you can find the page # on the torn out page. /S
Tear each page out as you read them. You'll always open the book to the page you're on
Calm down, Satan
Chaotic Evil would be ripping out every page you've read.
Hey Satan, nice to hear from you! Welcome to the chat!
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.
Interesting, was it always that way for you? I feel like for me with books printed on paper I'm actually a lot less picky but for e-readers (or any text on a screen really) the kerning, text size, etc. matters a lot more. The impact is definitely more pronounced for regular screens than e-ink though. Text size I find has the biggest impact on readability on screens for me in general.
the main reason the ereader works for me is the ability to override pretty much every aspect of the text. I can do most non glossy paper and text but some books and especially textbooks are a real removed and everyone thought I was just making shit up when I was in school. text size is usually ok but I tend to make it bigger so I dont need glasses
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.oh, my. Now that's hardcore reading
Zampanò said no minotaur.
Just a reminder that you shouldn't put plants in your book – seriously, that can ruin the paper.
You're right, plant material is going to decompose if there is any trace of humidity in the air and there goes your page... I just stick a thin slice of smoked ham in there
You can laminate leafs if you really want to keep having that fall theme going
Not really worth it, in my opinion.
I use the dust jacket flap.
I throw dust jackets away immediately, because I think they're an abomination and books look and feel better without them. And then I dog-ear the pages because it gives them character.
I must be extra chaotic extra evil.
Fuck me I hate those things. Straight to the trash.
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.
I’d love to do this clearly easier method except that dust jackets are the devil. One, they ALWAYS get ruined, ALWAYS. Two, they’re weirdly loud if you read in bed & your partner is trying to sleep. Three they sure don’t keep dust off if you store books on a shelf standing up
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.
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 from the pages. Naked and sharp. How's that for chaotic evil??
(Thankfully nobody was harmed. Glad they all wore gloves!)
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.
I do this. I also have a kind of system to mark where on the page I'm at, depending on which way the receipt is facing / oriented.
I'm all over the board.
The only ones I haven't done (that i can recall) are "neutral good" and "chaotic neutral"
i do have a vague memory of pressed flower bookmarks when i was a youngster, probably was something my mom had.
I'm consistently in the middle of many, many books. I use dollar bills so I get a reward for actually finishing.
Okay, and where is throwing the book aside and remembering the page, and when you inevitably forget where you were, just starting from the last place you vaguely remember?
"Previously on... Or wait, does this sound familiar? Did we jump forward instead?"
Chaotic war-crime: dog-ear where you make the fold exactly big enough so it points to the line you left off on.
Yes I did this sometimes as a kid and I still feel bad for the librarians who had to see the devastation I wrought.
Lmao imagining kid you opening the book to see the page pointed at "see," only to have to reread the page anyway because you lost track of what a character was seeing
Chaotic evil mwah ha haaaaaa
I guess I'm chaotic good when I'm not just listening to audiobooks, but I like to find a Magic card that fits the general vibe of the book.
For example, I chose Lost in a Labyrinth for House of Leaves
That's so cool thank you for sharing this little tidbit :)
TIL I'm both chaotic good and lawful evil
same
I fold dog ears everywhere, in variable sizes. The bigger the dog ear, the more important the passage.
Chaotic Good, or I'm just listening to an audio book.
Book Darts are the way. The only way. (That's a "sentence pointer" made out of copper. It's archival quality, so it won't damage your book, even if you leave it there for a very long time.)
Chaotic good. I have bookmarks, I just forget to use them.
I have a very old book (published in 1794) that has leaves, spiders, some writing, as well as fire and water damage. Not worth anything in the condition it's in, but it's mine and I love it. I've always wanted to know why there were spiders in it, but I'm thankful it's not bound in human leather.
Save for a few I bought second hand, and the first book I ever owned (I managed to have it signed by the author 20 years later) the rest of my books look like they are fresh off a bookstore shelf.
I'm pretty sure the story of the book spiders began with: "a spider walked onto the page."
It's a book of psalms and prayers. The idea of someone asking what passage they should read and being answered with "The spider bookmarked one" brings me joy.
And then there is Billy Boyd's method, which is so evil it is off the chart.
Oh please detail, I feel like I'm missing something. What does the mighty fool-of-a-Took man do to books!?
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.)
I use old Christmas cards:-)🎄
I have done it all except leaving it face down
I used an eraser to keep track of it, had a bookmark that I used, and I actually used a pencil to keep track of where the sentence was, and don't even ask me about Adam Smith's wealth of nations where I quite literally did math on the pages with the charts and scribbled page numbers to keep track of shit
Small post-it notes
That way when I get distracted by another book, I can leave the mark right there. Considering I'm always "in the middle of" at least five books, this is the best solution I've found.
I use old Zimbabwean money.
Right now I actually use my eBook as a boommark for my paper book. What category is that?
I read books to read what's inside them, not to save them forever as objects. So chaotic evil it is. Unless there is a receipt handy.
I have used squares of toilet paper in the past. But if I own the book, I'm as like to use the dog ear as I am to find a piece of scrap paper
Chaotic Good +, I usually end up making a bookmark at my desk by folding and taping paper or a post-it
I'm not represented here. My two go-to's are powering through to the next chapter so I don't have to remember the page number, even though it's way too late, or using whatever random shit I can find to wedge into the book. Most recently it was a can of bullets.
Chaotic evil here. Books exist to be read, anything you do to aid that endeavor is justifiable
behold. LEAF
I'm true neutral if I have a bookmark. I'm chaotic evil if I don't.
But what alignment are you if you use those colored tabs to bookmark several things at once? Those are what I've used most often because that's for work shit... Like research and what not. I don't need to keep my place, I need to know what I might be referencing a lot.
I'm neutral evil
Over my life I've gone from neutral evil to chaotic evil to chaotic good and now am lawful neutral
What's neutral+neutral evil+chaotic good?
Mental illness
I have been known for the occasional psychotic break 🤔
This is delightful, thank you for sharing.
I'm re-reading Eye of the World for the first time in about 15 year and see both CG and CE going on in spades...
Ebooks for my dyslexia, when you're so chaotic you circle back around to lawful.
Chaotic good and neutral evil. Don't do neutral evil
I'm not sure who would stop reading in the middle of a page/paragraph (neutral good), but if I were to do that, I'd have re-read the whole page.
I do this. Sometimes I read in really short bursts, like for the length of an elevator ride. I don't mark it though, I just remember where I left off. I do this so much it's become easy to just get right back into the story even mid paragraph.
Lawful evil. If I'm just reading through a book and can't remember where I left off, it's probably not a book worth coming back to. Bookmarks are exclusively for passages I want to come back to after I've finished the book - in those cases it's usually just a scrap of paper.
Ugh, I feel unrepresented. I sort of remember where I was, read a bit to see if I recognize it, and then skip a little forward or backwards depending. I have definitely skipped entire chapters before because the style/sentences sounded like what I remember.
As with tradition, chaotic good.
Post-modern-apocalypse dnd Cleric with a "Christianity for Dummies" full of receipts
Here to represent lawful evil. Don't know when I used a bookmark the last time >:)
Same! I remember as a kid just deciding one day I would remember where I was at in a book, and ever since I've just... been able to remember.
Where does using the flyleaf as a bookmark fall on the scale of evil?
Where does Pokemon cards land
Lawful evil here since I have a habit of writing down reminders for random things on a notepad file
I've been most of these, but mostly chaotic good.
Today I learned I'm neutral evil.
I was in the memorizing the page number gang, but then I had to go on valprolates.
I am chaotic good.
I used to be before ebooks. Lots of toilet paper bookmarks.
I read through this top left to bottom right and did NOT expect to find myself in the last panel. Yes I'm a monster
I try my best to never stop mid-chapter so I don't relate to any of this.
Sorry but the whole chart is misaligned here. Lawful good is dog-earing the page: it requires zero extra items and uses the structure of the book itself, and it doesn’t get in the way like a (shudder) ribbon does.
All others are chaotic evil options that get in the way of reading
But... But it'll damage the the page. 🥺