BOOKISH CONFESSIONS

Okay, so if you say that you don't have anything to hide being a reader in a bookish community then everybody knows that you are lying. All of us have a thing or two that won't be welcomed in a strict readers club, although I believe that readers are rather welcoming to everything new and different. It becomes majorly toxic when some readers don’t allow the people in a reading community just because that person is more into something that they aren’t in. So there is a fine line being a true reader and being obsessed with one writer or genre.
Here are my confessions being a reader.

1. I own more paperbacks than hardcover.  Hardcovers are good it's just that they consume a lot of space and doesn't fit in my handbag. All the hardcovers I have, are the ones which I received as gifts.
2. I enjoy reading more than eating or drinking. I'm too scared to stain my books, so, I just don't keep it anywhere near food or drinks. I've known people who'll eat and read and I don't lend them my books. 
3. Not reading while going for someplace to visit for the first time. I used to do that but it gave me a lack of memory if I must say so, I couldn't recall things about the place. But of course there are all kinds of people, but I'm not the one who can read and enjoy the atmosphere at the same time. 
4. While this blog is more about “no spoilers”, I don't really mind spoilers, until and unless the writing is crapy. (I've been through crapy and extremely ridiculous writings mostly by new writers. I appreciate the effort but the editor could have been a little more attentive.) 
5. I do dog ear my books or leave a pen inside as a reminder. There are people who’ll hate me for doing that but I can't help being the mix of using the bookmarks and dog-earring my paperback books. (Some of you might be cringing.)
6. I have a phobia of drowning my books, so, I never take out my books on the lakeside or on the beach (the already familiar ones).
7. I know and understand that piracy is very harmful to writers, but I have plenty of pirated books and second hands too. Only after reading about ten of them I realised that the pirated versions have a lot of missing pages and unnecessary repeated pages.
8. I like the smell of old books more than the just out of press books. I have a habit of smelling my collected books every time I clean them of dirt.
9. I love arranging the books but I also am lazy so it happens three or four times a year and I keep the good books on display and hide the ones that I didn't like.
10. I have a little number of shared books with a close friend of mine and I usually wonder if we were to break up or move apart who’ll keep those books. (There is a chance that I'll keep all of them).