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Malene
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Nov 07, 2023 04:56AM
For me it that I love a long book, cause you get more for your money, aaand you get or of the story in the book, and likely don’t feel like it get rushed at the end :))
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Idk if it’s unpopular but I hate coho‘s books
I can’t stand annotating every book you read🤢 if it’s a special one that touches you I get it but yall why are you annotating your ice planet barbarians lol
@Kaitlyn I completely agree it's so stupid in my opinion
I hate those loose covers that go over hardbacks. I can't read my book with them. they always slip and then I'm left with an ugly book. I'd rather have a nice simple hardback cover than an extravagant loose cover OVER the hardback that I have to remove as long as I'm reading
- i prefer hard covers over paperbacks - i don’t usually like books written in third persons
publishers that make different special editions for different booksellers are rude af and I fully support the people who will put bonus chapters online so that people aren't feeling forced to spend $20+ on the same book 4 times. Especially if those booksellers don't sell worldwide. Authors really should just put the bonus content in their newsletters at that point. If you're gonna be mad about your bonus content being shared online, then do it yourself. Otherwise, you're excluding fans and call me crazy but one would think you wouldn't want to do that 🙃
This is kinda of a minor pet peeve of mine on goodreads. I hate when I see someone just rate a book that I want to read or have read without giving a review 😭 like i want to hear your opinionnn
Tayjah wrote: "This is kinda of a minor pet peeve of mine on goodreads. I hate when I see someone just rate a book that I want to read or have read without giving a review 😭 like i want to hear your opinionnn"ooh I'm guilty of doing this. 😭 sometimes there's just no words to explain (or I know my opinion won't be received well 😂)
Breaking the spine of a book is not that bad and it isn't that deep lmao
Larissa wrote: "I hate those loose covers that go over hardbacks. I can't read my book with them. they always slip and then I'm left with an ugly book. I'd rather have a nice simple hardback cover than an extravag..."I feel you, and that explains why I only have 2 hardbacks, cause I can' stand it, and it's just so much easier to read without it :))
Karsyn wrote: "publishers that make different special editions for different booksellers are rude af and I fully support the people who will put bonus chapters online so that people aren't feeling forced to spend..."I 100% agree with you. It kinda makes me feel like they are I don't know the word for it, but almost petty and greedy for not letting us get a bonus chapter alone, like I don't want the whole book again. But that also makes you really appreciate the author that add the bonus chapter in their newsletter 😘💕
i hate when they say "who did this to you"
I don’t know about anyone else, but my Goodreads is for me to keep track of what I read plus if I liked the book how many stars I gave it not for reviews. That’s just a me thing.
The 95% of "enemies to lovers" books are not actually enemies to lovers, and I'm sick of the false advertising
all popular, most hyped books are mid in reality
Larissa wrote: "I hate those loose covers that go over hardbacks. I can't read my book with them. they always slip and then I'm left with an ugly book. I'd rather have a nice simple hardback cover than an extravag..."Those are dust jackets and they're supposed to protect your books from dust and grime and dirt while they're sitting on your shelves. I think most people remove them when reading... at least I do. I remove the dust jacket when I start the book and when I'm done I put it back on and onto the shelf. Hope that helps!
Booktok has a major over consumption problem. You don't need 10 special editions of the same book.
You don't need to keep buying every new release on the market.
You don't need every bookish item advertised to you.
Rachael wrote: "Booktok has a major over consumption problem. You don't need 10 special editions of the same book.
You don't need to keep buying every new release on the market.
You don't need every bookish item..."
I might get some hate but fr! Glad someone finally said it tbh. I love books but some people take it a bit far....
Rachael wrote: "Booktok has a major over consumption problem. You don't need 10 special editions of the same book.
You don't need to keep buying every new release on the market.
You don't need every bookish item..."
so true!! feels like you're not even seen as a 'reader' unless you own like 100+ books and buy every new release
@Maya(I can't write the rest haha) @ZahraI totally agree with you. Because I sort of joined goodreads to make friends and have people to actively talk to about a book I'm reading or a book I've already read. But it's like people ever hardly see my reviews, so now it's like I mostly use it to check book summaries and that stuff.
@ Soduim.dia
I also agree with you. These days it just sorta feels like the book summaries say one thing but it's totally different once you read it.
I feel like annotating books is a bit of a waste of time. Like, I get why people do it, but I feel like it takes away the experience of imagining the scene and characters that you are reading and injecting your own thoughts and beliefs into it.
don’t know if that’s an unpopular opinion but we should borrow books from the library as often as we can! like do you really need every book you’ve ever read to sit on your bookshelf? i try to only buy books if they don’t have them in my library or if i really loved the book and want to annotate it
Annalise :)) wrote: "I feel like annotating books is a bit of a waste of time. Like, I get why people do it, but I feel like it takes away the experience of imagining the scene and characters that you are reading and i..."I share this tendency. I don't annotate.
patrycja ★ wrote: "don’t know if that’s an unpopular opinion but we should borrow books from the library as often as we can! like do you really need every book you’ve ever read to sit on your bookshelf? i try to only..."There is an episode from Seinfeld discussing part of your opinion. Jerry Seinfeld says something like 'Why do people keep books in their homes like they're trophies? Have you read them? What do you need them for? You know when you read Moby-Dick again, Ahab and the whale become friends.'
Not exactly true to life, but I liked this episode.
There’s nothing wrong with breaking the spine of a book
