How do you treat books?

Do you keep your favourite books pristine or love them to death? You can tell the books I cherish by how battered they are

How do you treat your books? I ask because I treat mine terribly. I love them dearly oh so dearly but I don't look after them one bit. Just look at my copy of Joe Hill's Nos-4R2.

Not in a good way, is it? This is a novel which I raced through at high speed, which I adored and which thoroughly, brilliantly, terrified me (it's about a man who abducts small children in his evil car and takes them to the creepiest of the creepy Christmasland, "where every morning is Christmas morning and unhappiness is against the law"). I was forced, however, to rip it in half, partly because I wanted to share it with someone while on holiday, partly because it was a bit heavy to lug around as it was. I haven't yet got round to sticking it back together.

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