• GigglyBobble
    6•2 years ago

    And on the top shelf she even stacked the books in addition. Utter madness.

  • Sir SpudEnglish
    41•2 years ago

    Only thing missing is a “live laugh love” sign

    • @[email protected]English
      20•2 years ago

      Did you know you can buy books with blank pages? You can even choose the severity of the discoloration and degree of mottling of the pages. Utter psychopaths.

      • TXL
        9•2 years ago

        Those are some of the best books. They can take a while to fill up, though.

        • @[email protected]
          4•2 years ago

          Not journals, staging books.

          I know someone who has beautiful 2 story bookshelves with a rolling ladder. The only real books I saw on their massive bookshelves? The hunger games and Harry Potter. So sad.

          • @[email protected]
            2•2 years ago

            Which is honestly hilarious and sad, because you can basically just spend a weekend going to estate sales and get a phenomenal amount of gorgeous old books for less than what they probably paid for those fake ones. I’ve picked up so many cool turn of the century science/engineering books that are sometimes hilariously outdated, but they cost like a dollar or two at most, the majority being like 10/$1, and at the very least look really nice on the shelves if that’s all you care about.

  • U de Recife
    9•2 years ago

    I love reading. I read a lot. And I rarely open a paper book. So perhaps Lauren also has an e-reader, and keeps the books there because she inherited them. Or maybe she likes the smell of old books as it reminds her of her grandparents house where she used to spend her summers. Or it may be that she likes the feel of moving her fingers through all those pages. It brings back old memories of her librarian mother who passed away when she was just a child. Or…

    The point being, why the hate? So here’s a different take. Perhaps Lauren has a good reason to have the books like that.

  • Flying Squid
    19•2 years ago

    Man, fuck Lauren and fuck the parents who raised her to do that to books.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•2 years ago

      I had heard books having titles on their spine is relatively recent. Partially due to books being stored like they are here, to prevent the pages from rotting. Allegedly titles started to be printed on spines with Alice in Wonderland, at least for mass-produced books.

      I’m having trouble coming up with a source, Wikipedia mentions early books not having titles on the spine, but doesn’t mention storage or when this practice changed. Or a source. That’s as far as I was able to track any of this down.

      All this to say, there might be prior precedent for this. Which for me moves her behavior (even if that’s not her stated reason) towards eccentric, rather than book-hating.

      • MelllvarEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        The practice more-or-less coincided with the invention of the printing press. Books became cheap and abundant, so special care was less important.

      • Flying Squid
        4•2 years ago

        That definitely isn’t true. My father collected antiquarian books for a while and there are plenty of books from the 18th century that have titles on their spines.

  • GiantFloppyCock
    11•2 years ago

    I must be stupid because I can’t even figure out what it means to stack books back to front.

    • @[email protected]
      16•2 years ago

      You’re not stupid.

      I think they mean with the spine facing the wall instead of outwards.

    • @[email protected]
      8•2 years ago

      the side with the title on it is facing the wall, so that they all look roughly the same color when viewed from the front. And now you can’t tell which book is which.