Well, when a paperback's spine is broken, it's liable to completely split there with repeated readings. Also, it's annoying to hold pages back when you're a couple pages away from the break and they want to flip open there...
... Which is why I don't like paperbacks. I put the cover on hardbacks so that I can leave the dust jacket at home (because dust jackets are annoying and frail) and so the cover won't get hopelessly beaten up the way everything does in my backpack. Also, I can make notes on it, as my cover on Going Postal will testify.
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Date: 2005-05-25 03:18 pm (UTC)... Which is why I don't like paperbacks. I put the cover on hardbacks so that I can leave the dust jacket at home (because dust jackets are annoying and frail) and so the cover won't get hopelessly beaten up the way everything does in my backpack. Also, I can make notes on it, as my cover on Going Postal will testify.