How do you hold your books?

>>8980705
I'm all over the place with how I hold them but usually holding both ends open while it sits on my belly while I read in bed.
Stop sweating on your book pages, wipe your hands lol

>>8980708
It might make sense if it was moisture related. I live in a fairly humid environment

>>8980718
I've never had this happen with my books OP. I think it must be humidity, I live in a really dry climate.

My problem is actually with how fucking rounded the spine gets. Even when I try to be cognizant of how wide I open books by the time I'm done the spine has rounded.

>>8980705
Left hand grips the spine, right hand enforces posture by seperating the pages hy three fingers placed dead center and at the bottom of the opened boo while sitting bolt upright with left elbow on desk. Then invert left and right every 2 minutes

>>8980705

I think that's water related, happens whenever I get a book wet from reading in bath of when I'm fishing or whatever. See it a lot in my father in law's books too (he lives in darwin where it's hot and humid all year).

I normally hold the book at the bottom of the spine, my thumb in front holds the pages open, the rest of my fingers go behind it. Either that or left hand holds left side of left page and right does the opposite, two handed power grip.

>>8980730
When I lived in Alabama all my books got like that, but In California they're always crisp and fresh. Gotta be humidity

>>8980705
In where I live, it could get really dry in winter and really wet in spring and summer. Guess what, my books also smell like shit and behave like OP's picture in spring and summer.

Where do you guys live? I live at 200 meters from the beach and my books don't look like that.

>>8980737
Precisely what I do, and using my thumb to swap pages. I also never open it on more than 60°, except with very long books.

>>8980705
Stop being Swampthing, Swampthings shouldn't be reading books.

>>8980705
confirmed for sweaty hands

By not being a greasy fucking Italian.

>>8980767
Must be, the pages of my books only look like that if I drop them in the bath.

>>8980705
jesus dude, did you forget your reading gloves?

You do use reading gloves, right?

like muh dick desu

>>8980705
Stop sweating you disgusting degenerate, take a shower sometime.

Fucking Australians

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I hold them by the spine when I read... I get sweaty hands like no one's business so my spines get eaten away on the edges.

I live right smack in the middle of Canada (no bully) where the air is dry as fuck. My book pages remain pretty much pristine, no warping or anything like that.