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<blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 992640" data-attributes="member: 891">I've not found pizza stains in new books yet, but I do find wrinkles, creased pages, pages that have been pressed flat, and so on.I've stood in the store and in my house and watched friends who swore up and down they treated books well do these things - seconds after swearing such.When I point it out to them -sometimes I get: what, that's how you hold a book. (and I just think &quot;no wonder you don't have a girl/boyfriend&quot; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> )Even if I show them how toeasily read it without hurting it, they often don't get it.I just roll my eyes and keep silent when they tell me of all the publishers out there who have poorly bound books that they keep having to replace while I flip through my mint copies of Unearthed Arcana (1E), GURPS, or Champions 4E. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And I try to avoid letting anyone read any of my books until I've watched them or found they have a geek hobby like me, such as comics, that's taught them better. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The only books I've ever had binding problems with had the beginnings of those problems when I bought them -such as the SaS book I had to reglue recently. Or the GURPS book I bought in 89 that came with instructions telling you to rip it to shreds, that doing so would make it last forever, and that being before I'd learned better...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kichwas, post: 992640, member: 891"] I've not found pizza stains in new books yet, but I do find wrinkles, creased pages, pages that have been pressed flat, and so on. I've stood in the store and in my house and watched friends who swore up and down they treated books well do these things - seconds after swearing such. When I point it out to them -sometimes I get: what, that's how you hold a book. (and I just think "no wonder you don't have a girl/boyfriend" :D ) Even if I show them how toeasily read it without hurting it, they often don't get it. I just roll my eyes and keep silent when they tell me of all the publishers out there who have poorly bound books that they keep having to replace while I flip through my mint copies of Unearthed Arcana (1E), GURPS, or Champions 4E. :) And I try to avoid letting anyone read any of my books until I've watched them or found they have a geek hobby like me, such as comics, that's taught them better. :) The only books I've ever had binding problems with had the beginnings of those problems when I bought them -such as the SaS book I had to reglue recently. Or the GURPS book I bought in 89 that came with instructions telling you to rip it to shreds, that doing so would make it last forever, and that being before I'd learned better... [/QUOTE]

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