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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the girls over at The Broke and the Bookish
This weeks topic is Top Ten Bookish Confessions (Anything! You dog ear, you hated a book but said you loved it, you have $500 library fines...anything goes!)
It took me a long time to come up with some bookish confessions.
1. I had to stop opening up emails from both Powells and B&N because if they offered free shipping, I could not pass up on it. They would send me an email saying "hey, free shipping on everything for today!" and even if I didn't need any books, I'd go on the site and order some. Ugh. I had to stop that.
2. I literally miss my books when I loan them out to friends. If my friends have been borrowing my books for too long, I'll start getting anxious to get them back and I'll become a huge nag, demanding them back. I'll look at my shelves all the time and think about my missing books, and of course those will be the ones I feel like rereading.
3. I have my library card number memorized. I had this memorized before I had my SSN memorized.
4. I freak out about damaged books. There can absolutely positively be no food on my pages, no dog eared flaps, no spin breaking. My sister once got hot sauce on one of my signed books and she was terrified. She emailed the author and asked the next time she'd be doing a signing cause she needed to replace my book. I laughed so hard at that.
5. One time I got a brand new book from the library, I was the first person to read it, and it somehow got water damage from sitting on my "library shelf" for two weeks. I was so freaked out that I had damaged the book that I couldn't enjoy it. I had to stop reading half way through.
6. I will buy the damaged used book that is falling apart instead of the other, in better shape, copy just so I can fix up the book. Glue it back together and fix the cover. No book should be treated that way.
These are the only ones that are coming to me right now. I'm sure I'll wake up in the middle of the night and have more to put on here, but for now this is it.
Lol! These are so fun! I'm glad I'm not the only person who misses my books when I lend them out.
ReplyDeleteI used to have my library card number memorized, too. Then I had to get a new library card, and by that time I was working at the library, so I never needed to know my number. So I don't have it memorized.
ReplyDeleteOur library has a really good online cataloge and to login, you have to put in your card number. It was easiest to just memorize it instead of getting my card out every time I go onto the library website.
DeleteI love that you have your library card number memorized that is totally awesome.
ReplyDeleteAnd yay for book repair!
My TTT
I freak out about dirty books, too! And dogeared pages. That's impressive that you know your library card number. :)
ReplyDeleteI always wonder what in the world the stains are and then it will bother me for a long time. What really grosses me out are all the stains on the romance books from the library. They are always stained with what is (hopefully) chocolate.
DeleteI love these! I have had to instances when My obsession with books treatment has affected others. 1 being when I lent a book to my mom to read. I checked in with her a week later, to see if she had begun reading. She admitted she hadn't, cause she was so scared she might damage the book. I instilled THAT much fear in her. 2 being I had gotten my first book from an author, and I was ecstatic until my husband accidentally spilled literally a drop of water on the cover. The book was not damaged cause, it had one of those glossy covers. However, I still managed to scream and cry like a 4 year old for hours over it.
ReplyDeleteI actually miss my books when I lend them to my mom and we live in the same house.
ReplyDeleteHaha that is great.
DeleteI memorized my library card first too. My boyfriend thinks its insane that I can rattle it off easier then anything else. Especially since I'm horrible at retaining numbers. xD
ReplyDeleteEven the head librarian at my library thinks I'm weird that I can rattle the number off so easily too.
DeleteI'm a Prime member on Amazon so you know... free two day shipping and all (IT'S SO HARD TO RESIST) and Kindle... ugh. I think with these ereaders they're setting us up with this "read your book instantly!" thing lol
ReplyDeleteThis is why I bought an ereader that didn't have wifi with it. That way I can't just click a button and get the book. That would be too dangerous for me.
DeleteI just found this amazing little new/used bookstore on the other side of the city that gets 2 day shipping, plus they then allow me to use 50% trade. It's gonna be awesome.
Oh gosh I thought I was the only one nerdy enough to memorize my library card number! >o<
ReplyDeleteHaha definitely not the only one.
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