୨⎯ the swifties reading corner ⎯୧ discussion

okay- very important question here! do you like to break the spine of your book?

personally, i’m breaking every spine in sight. i like my books to look well worn and read so my bookshelf doesn’t have a superficial feeling to it 😭

i used to break mine all the time but now i try not to because it makes the paper on the spines fall off and look really worn down

i think its a very satisfying sound but i hate when i break it at the same time

same as eden!!

i agree with eden!

I do! Books feel weird after the spine gets broken. They don't feel even anymore.
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i hate breaking the spines personally, it's one of my pet peeves!

i hate hate breaking the spine i feel like it ruins the book

I depends on what the spine looks like tbh and the length of the book bc if the book is super long I want to be able to hold it comfortably yk?

Yes breaking the spine is so satisfying but I like to have my books looking clean so I only do it on books that I don't care much for.

eden wrote: "I never break the spine on purpose but I don’t mind when it happens."

^^ me

it’s very satisfying but i don’t do it often

I never Crack the spine on purpose, I need the books to look PERFECT!!!

I like to break the book spine because it makes it so much easier to read and also is so satisfying

i hate soine breaking!!! its a personal thing cause i love when my books are on my shelve with no broken spines looking beautiful lol

Yes, I love breaking the spine it’s just so mwah! The book just looks loved like this in my opinion 🫶🏻

no absolutely not

you will NEVER see me with a book with a broken spine.

definitely not

i break the spine, when i read a book i READ it

NO WAY NEVER. if it does, im not mad, but i dont EVER do it on purpose

idk...sometimes i do break the spines and other times i would never touch my babies; usually i'd break the spine if it was my fav book that im reading again the second time and annotating like a mad lady!! lol!

i don’t really mind UNLESS someone else does it for me, then i’m pissed bc like h ruined a book that was mine to read and ruin while i’m reading, for example on my birthday, my brother took a gift, the boom thief and gave it this massive break in the spine bc “he was trying to break it in half” but otherwise if it breaks while i’m reading it then i don’t mind

I don't try to but I'm not against it. I have my brother's copy of one of the Magnus Chase books and its spine is super worn down but I think it gives it some character. Still, I won't purposefully.

mostly yes, it makes reading more comfortable

Depends on the book! Usually no...

most of the time yes, unless it’s just too pretty to break

i try not to

there is a certain type of paper back that you cant not crack and it makes me mad 😭 but there is a specific texture paperback that is so hard to crack and i try to be gentle w them anyways

YES I hate reading hard backs just because I can’t crack the spine. one of my fav things about starting a new book is when I get to crack the spine🙏🙏🙏

for me it’s like if they crack, they crack and if they don’t, they don’t 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

i don’t really care about the aesthetic of the book, so i break the spine and just follow my comforts ahah 😅

no, i hate cracked spines, but a lot of my middle-grade has cracked spines, since i didn't care then, but my YA is pristine! except for unravel me, because i tried to do the book hack where you make it easier to read and you don't crack spines but it backfired! i think it was because it is a UK version with a terrible spine and not floppy at all! which makes me mad. im replacing them with american versions and giving the uks to my friend.