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Why even have a bookshelf...
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Lauren's a psychopath.
The “J” in “J & L(auren)” is MISERABLE
It's a Jason isn't it? He seems happy on the outside. He has a good job, people think he's lucky having a probably pretty wife and the dinner parties are great in a home that's so neutral no-one can dislike the decor.
But he's thinking of ending it. It's just that every time he is about to have enough free time to drown himself or something he gets a text from Lauren that needs answering immediately.
She wouldn't like the mess anyway, he ponders, it wouldn't be very neutral.
You just know those books aren't there to be read.
well obviously they're there to keep the look neutral, it says so right there
Only thing missing is a "live laugh love" sign
If it were there, it would be turned around so the text is facing the wall
evoL hguaL eviL
why you summon evil demons on lemmy? You want to get cursed?
Thanks, just laughed out loud at work reading this
Did you laugh backwards as well? 😉
!ahahahahahaH
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I bet all the books are about homeopathy and essential oils.
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.
Those are some of the best books. They can take a while to fill up, though.
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.
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 I've picked up so many cool turn of the century science/engineering books that are sometimes hilariously outdated, but they cost like a dollar or two at most, the majority being like 10/$1, and at the very least look really nice on the shelves if that's all you care about.
Why? What do you do with your books? read them? Fuckin' nerd.
wait, i thought they were for levelling tables and chairs?
That's the great thing about books! They're useful in many ways!
Knowledge is power.
wait, i thought they were for levelling tables and chairs?
I use mine to weigh down things I glue. It's this not how books work?
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Man, fuck Lauren and fuck the parents who raised her to do that to books.
Fuck the grandparents too
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.
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.
The practice more-or-less coincided with the invention of the printing press. Books became cheap and abundant, so special care was less important.
Normally I'm against the death penalty, but I'll make an exception for Lauren
KEEP THE LOOK NEUTRAL
My daughter does this, has done since she was a little girl. Once, I asked her why - she just shrugged and said she preferred it that way, no specific reason.
Fair enough, I thought. Her books, her shelves, no one was getting harmed by it - and I moved on.
Why is everyone getting so butt hurt in this thread about it?
Because she is objectively wrong. :)
well I mean it makes it much more difficult to tell what each book is lol, it's just very impractical for if you end up wanting to find a certain book
I must be stupid because I can’t even figure out what it means to stack books back to front.
You're not stupid.
I think they mean with the spine facing the wall instead of outwards.
Ah ok. Gross.
Don't worry Lauren isn't the type to read them anyway. She prefers TikTok.
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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.
Thanks, I think my brain was just having a moment.
Poor J can’t find his copy of The Hobbit!
J is probably imaginary
What he doesn't know is the Lauren put it in the recycling 5 weeks ago. His ghost will forever wander the house turning a book around, sighing and moving on to the next one. Lauren is quietly pleased about it as J is now very neutral, the all that ground glass in his Buddha bowls was worth the effort.
It's got his starch in it. He needs it to calm down from the latest Lauren redecoration fiasco.
He has only just got over all the throw pillows covering every piece of furniture.
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.
And on the top shelf she even stacked the books in addition. Utter madness.
That looks likea bunch of wooden blocks
Oh such a great idea! It's like my idea for a square wheel, they look much tidier stacked up.
The amount of terrible people in this thread is sad. You are much worse than Lauren.
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