How I treat my books:

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Fine and valuable art: protect, preserve, safeguard

3425 votes / 21%

Ordinary possessions: Respect, don't fret over

7921 votes / 48%

Working tools, but careful: Post-Its and pencil

2005 votes / 12%

Pfui! Margin Doodles and notes -- in ink.

535 votes / 3%

Once in a while I shake out the sand and food.

536 votes / 3%

I just back-up and recharge them once in a while.

1753 votes / 10%

16175 total votes.

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Re:all my possessions (Score:5, Insightful)

by samazon ( 2601193 ) writes: on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @04:40PM (#41379081)

People dog-ear my books, I straighten it regardless of whether they're using it as a bookmark. That's just... inexcusable.

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Re:I burn them like a Mudslum (Score:5, Insightful)

by AK Marc ( 707885 ) writes: on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @07:26PM (#41381093)

I burn books I don't agree with.
I tried that, but I got in trouble burning all my schoolbooks with incorrect examples or answer keys (all of them).

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