It’s back-breaking work (to read a book)

I mean literally, back-breaking. Not my back, thankfully, but the book’s.

If you or your friends (or both!) are avid readers or enjoy the aesthetics of a beautiful novel collection, you may have been appalled the first time you saw a video explaining how to “prepare” a book for reading. Not too long ago, my friends’ group chat was overrun, horrified by heinous videos of people grabbing books by the front and the back and mercilessly breaking the spines. Never mind that most of these videos were ...