Chaotic-Evil Neutral-Evil reporting in

You don't memorize the page number, you just sort of remember where you are and find it

Ok Satan
Me whenever lose my bookmark thinking it's the worst thing to happen to me, my book is ruined, and then I find my exact spot in 6.4 seconds.

I'm lawful evil. But I think they mixed up neutral evil and chaotic evil.

Me too, and this is the only alignment chart where I’m lawful and I don’t like it.
Absolutely, putting a book down open face will fuck up the spine, and if done for a long time or repeatedly, the whole book will be deformed and maybe even fall apart.
That seems much more chaotic to me than dog earing a few pages.
LE gang rise up!

Tear the page you're on out and keep it in your pocket to look back to when you need to start again and you can find the page # on the torn out page. /S

Tear each page out as you read them. You'll always open the book to the page you're on
Calm down, Satan

I listen to audiobooks

points and screeches
- With an accent?

Chaotic Evil would be ripping out every page you've read.

Hey Satan, nice to hear from you! Welcome to the chat!

ebook is the only way to guarantee I can read the book. page material and gloss, layout, spacing, kerning, etc. can all combine in various ways to make me inexplicably unable to read or have a really hard time reading where I have to focus really hard on each letter rather than each sentence. Oled has made is possible for me to read large bodies of text on phones but for full books I always go for the eink.

Interesting, was it always that way for you? I feel like for me with books printed on paper I'm actually a lot less picky but for e-readers (or any text on a screen really) the kerning, text size, etc. matters a lot more. The impact is definitely more pronounced for regular screens than e-ink though. Text size I find has the biggest impact on readability on screens for me in general.
- the main reason the ereader works for me is the ability to override pretty much every aspect of the text. I can do most non glossy paper and text but some books and especially textbooks are a real bitch and everyone thought I was just making shit up when I was in school. text size is usually ok but I tend to make it bigger so I dont need glasses

Just a reminder that you shouldn't put plants in your book – seriously, that can ruin the paper.

You're right, plant material is going to decompose if there is any trace of humidity in the air and there goes your page... I just stick a thin slice of smoked ham in there
You can laminate leafs if you really want to keep having that fall theme going
- Not really worth it, in my opinion.

Burning the page you just finished reading so you can read the next page, while standing there in a dark labyrinth ~~where a minotaur is lurking~~.

oh, my. Now that's hardcore reading
- Zampanò said no minotaur.

I use the dust jacket flap.

I throw dust jackets away immediately, because I think they're an abomination and books look and feel better without them. And then I dog-ear the pages because it gives them character.
I must be extra chaotic extra evil.
- I throw them away because I will tear them, the tears will catch on my hands, and it will slide half-off at the worst possible time.

Guess I'm chaotic good. Library gives a receipt for checked out books and even puts it in the book, so I just use that.

I leave the whatever it is in the book at the end. Not in library books, mind you. Don't like making more work for librarians. I started the habit when I found a baggage claim ticket in a book I bought at a used bookstore. I leave them in when I pass them on to the next owner.
I've found a few ersatz bookmarks over the years. The best so far was a 6 of clubs. The worst was a used q-tip.
I do this. I also have a kind of system to mark where on the page I'm at, depending on which way the receipt is facing / oriented.

I'm all over the board.

The only ones I haven't done (that i can recall) are "neutral good" and "chaotic neutral"
i do have a vague memory of pressed flower bookmarks when i was a youngster, probably was something my mom had.

Chaotic good gang checking in.

Yoooooo
- Let’s gooooo!!
My library gives out paper due-date receipts, so its was meant to be.

Chaotic war-crime: dog-ear where you make the fold exactly big enough so it points to the line you left off on.

Yes I did this sometimes as a kid and I still feel bad for the librarians who had to see the devastation I wrought.

Lmao imagining kid you opening the book to see the page pointed at "see," only to have to reread the page anyway because you lost track of what a character was seeing

Okay, and where is throwing the book aside and remembering the page, and when you inevitably forget where you were, just starting from the last place you vaguely remember?

I fold dog ears everywhere, in variable sizes. The bigger the dog ear, the more important the passage.

Chaotic Good, or I'm just listening to an audio book.

I guess I'm chaotic good when I'm not just listening to audiobooks, but I like to find a Magic card that fits the general vibe of the book.

For example, I chose Lost in a Labyrinth for House of Leaves

That's so cool thank you for sharing this little tidbit :)

TIL I'm both chaotic good and lawful evil

same

Chaotic good. I have bookmarks, I just forget to use them.

I have a very old book (published in 1794) that has leaves, spiders, some writing, as well as fire and water damage. Not worth anything in the condition it's in, but it's mine and I love it. I've always wanted to know why there were spiders in it, but I'm thankful it's not bound in human leather.

Save for a few I bought second hand, and the first book I ever owned (I managed to have it signed by the author 20 years later) the rest of my books look like they are fresh off a bookstore shelf.

I'm pretty sure the story of the book spiders began with: "a spider walked onto the page."
- It's a book of psalms and prayers. The idea of someone asking what passage they should read and being answered with "The spider bookmarked one" brings me joy.

Book Darts are the way. The only way. (That's a "sentence pointer" made out of copper. It's archival quality, so it won't damage your book, even if you leave it there for a very long time.)

Right now I actually use my eBook as a boommark for my paper book. What category is that?

I use old Christmas cards:-)🎄

I read books to read what's inside them, not to save them forever as objects. So chaotic evil it is. Unless there is a receipt handy.

I have used squares of toilet paper in the past. But if I own the book, I'm as like to use the dog ear as I am to find a piece of scrap paper

I have done it all except leaving it face down

I used an eraser to keep track of it, had a bookmark that I used, and I actually used a pencil to keep track of where the sentence was, and don't even ask me about Adam Smith's wealth of nations where I quite literally did math on the pages with the charts and scribbled page numbers to keep track of shit

Chaotic Good +, I usually end up making a bookmark at my desk by folding and taping paper or a post-it

And then there is Billy Boyd's method, which is so evil it is off the chart.

Small post-it notes

That way when I get distracted by another book, I can leave the mark right there. Considering I'm always "in the middle of" at least five books, this is the best solution I've found.

I'm not represented here. My two go-to's are powering through to the next chapter so I don't have to remember the page number, even though it's way too late, or using whatever random shit I can find to wedge into the book. Most recently it was a can of bullets.

I use old Zimbabwean money.

Chaotic good and neutral evil. Don't do neutral evil

But... But it'll damage the the page. 🥺

behold. LEAF

I'm re-reading Eye of the World for the first time in about 15 year and see both CG and CE going on in spades...

I'm not sure who would stop reading in the middle of a page/paragraph (neutral good), but if I were to do that, I'd have re-read the whole page.

I do this. Sometimes I read in really short bursts, like for the length of an elevator ride. I don't mark it though, I just remember where I left off. I do this so much it's become easy to just get right back into the story even mid paragraph.

As with tradition, chaotic good.

Ugh, I feel unrepresented. I sort of remember where I was, read a bit to see if I recognize it, and then skip a little forward or backwards depending. I have definitely skipped entire chapters before because the style/sentences sounded like what I remember.

What's neutral+neutral evil+chaotic good?

Mental illness
- I have been known for the occasional psychotic break 🤔

Chaotic evil here. Books exist to be read, anything you do to aid that endeavor is justifiable

Lawful evil. If I'm just reading through a book and can't remember where I left off, it's probably not a book worth coming back to. Bookmarks are exclusively for passages I want to come back to after I've finished the book - in those cases it's usually just a scrap of paper.

I'm neutral evil

Over my life I've gone from neutral evil to chaotic evil to chaotic good and now am lawful neutral

Ebooks for my dyslexia, when you're so chaotic you circle back around to lawful.

Here to represent lawful evil. Don't know when I used a bookmark the last time >:)

Same! I remember as a kid just deciding one day I would remember where I was at in a book, and ever since I've just... been able to remember.

Where does using the flyleaf as a bookmark fall on the scale of evil?

I am chaotic good.

I used to be before ebooks. Lots of toilet paper bookmarks.

I read through this top left to bottom right and did NOT expect to find myself in the last panel. Yes I'm a monster

I try my best to never stop mid-chapter so I don't relate to any of this.

This is delightful, thank you for sharing.

Lawful evil here since I have a habit of writing down reminders for random things on a notepad file

Post-modern-apocalypse dnd Cleric with a "Christianity for Dummies" full of receipts

Today I learned I'm neutral evil.

I was in the memorizing the page number gang, but then I had to go on valprolates.

Where does Pokemon cards land