You know you're a literary nerd when...

lol, I fit every one of those descriptions

I do think that! I've been trying to find some books for a while... *sigh*

Agree

I mean, agreeing with the needing more classics

...Your local library watches what you ask for in Inter-library loans, or just asks you, about the books that they should add to their shelves.

... or read during a course/seminar. Yeap, this happened to me.

I've done that a couple times before.

That's good fun.

Oh if my mom would let me, I would do this all year long!

definitely ditched school in favor of the library a couple of times. ^^

This is why I fail school XDDD

ME!

I have. In primary school. Accidentally. I thought I would just read a few pages in my current book before I went off to school.
Two hours later, my father came into my room and asked if I didn't have school or something... oops. Now I don't do that anymore. I just read in class instead ^^

Guilty of this...

LOL I have done that. And to write.
Thank God I'm not the only one :)

**cheers** <3 Chaucer and Sir Gawain. I did my college thesis on 4 different translations of the final scene of Gawain. And then when I had to present it, my teacher had me read an excerpt from the original to the audience!

I hate when I can't find the unabridged version of a classic. Why would you abridge a book anyway, if the author wrote a word they wanted it in there.

Oh and I just started reading The Cantebury Tales and I LOVE it so far.

I can read Shakespeare... but I do need some translations and I don't know how often. XD I'm pathetic for a writer. I like to write, but I don't do a whole lot of reading unless it's a book i throughly enjoy.

Haha, same, I collect notebooks, pens, binders, and peachy folders. XD

I seriously thought I was alone. x3

This is brilliant! I thought I was the only one crazy like this ^^.

Or when, logically, you know you have more notebooks than you're going to use in years, but the back to school price of ten for ten dollars is just soooooo low, and you know you'll use them eventually...

Yep. XD This. I always also look at the title, pick up the book, read the back. Usually by this point I think, "Ugh, cliche". But if I want to give it a chance, I open it up and read the first line (does it grab me?) and then read the first page. Then I usually toss the book away.

I also give a scathing look to all of the paranormal romance novels before proceeding to trying to find an actual good book.

Lol I do that with books. My boyfriend does it with games; I get hypocritically annoyed.

Totally! In English, we read Julius out loud in class and my teacher wouldn't let me bring my own copy because it wasn't in "Modern English". I was slightly offended. I had to use a battered copy of the translation because I spent so long trying to explain to her why I kept The Complete Works of Shakespeare vols. 1 and 2 with me at all times.

Even in college, I used to shop at the college bookstore. Mid semester when I had all my text books. I'd get home with a stack of new books to show off.

:'D I've done that with my moms psychology books

Same! Mostly physics textbooks here, though I've been wanting to get into sociology, too. (For the record, I study CS and math.)

Definitely this!

Absolutely!

Aiyandra wrote:
... there is no such thing as 'too many books'. There's just 'not enough bookshelves' or 'not enough room for bookshelves'.

Yes, this!!

Aiyandra wrote:
... you study French because you want to read Les Miserables in the original version.
... there is no such thing as 'too many books'. There's just 'not enough bookshelves' or 'not enough room for bookshelves'.

...Or The Three Musketeers, or The Count of Monte Cristo. *sighs*

And, yes. I often believe my books are holding up my bookshelves, instead of the other way around.

Haha I thought I was the only person crazy enough to want to learn French so I could read the original Les Mis! Oh and I never have enough room on my bookshelves. My books are double stacked. (well they were until my parents told me I couldn't take all of my babies to college) :(

Aiyandra wrote:
... your parents constantly try to encourage you to go shopping for clothes. You rather want to buy books.

... there is no such thing as 'too many books'. There's just 'not enough bookshelves' or 'not enough room for bookshelves'.

Yes. And yes. PLEASE TELL MY PARENTS.

Aiyandra wrote:
... you study French because you want to read Les Miserables in the original version.

Almost; I took up Italian in year nine so I could read Dante's 'The Divine Comedy' in the original Italian lol ...

This thread is making me admit so many embarrassing things.

Behind Imagination wrote:
.. When you have stayed up all night just for reading. First realising it 5 o'clock.
.. When you die a little inside everytime somebody opens a book so it says "crack", leave it open (haven't people heard of book-marks? I have no idea about how many times I have closed a family members book because they "didn't bother") or make a donkeyear (don't know if it's the right word. My dictionary didn't have it :/)

I've definitely stayed up all night reading, with school the next day and that guilty pit in my gut saying, "Go to bed." But the other side says, "Just one more chapter," and before I know it I'm done with the book and I have 15 minutes before I have to get up for school.

And I know the crack you mean. Like someone just broke the book's arm and doesn't care. And the donkeyear, I think people just call it "earmarking," though I totally understand what you mean by donkeyear.

I once lend out some of my NEW books to my sister and got them back with the arm broken....I still can't forgive her ...

I call it "dogearring" the pages.

Ooohhh... I hate cracked book spines. I don't understand why anyone would do that. It makes me want to cry. My boyfriend used to do that, but I quickly (and quite harshly) trained him out of that habit. I have a habit of not loaning books to certain people because of how they mistreat them. I mean, I'm all for people wanting to read and loving to read, and I love helping other book lovers get their fix. . . but not when they are going to ruin my books. I loaned out a copy of "The Lovely Bones" which ended up getting passed around to a couple of people. It came back to me with so many cracks in the spine that you can no longer read the title. I don't care if you think they are "love marks." I can read a whole book just fine without cracking the spine, why can't you? Don't you realize that after bending it that way so many times, it will fall apart? I would rather have my book for forty years with only a few cracks, by accident, then purposely destroy it over the course of a couple years and have to replace all the time. I had a similar issue with a book called "Unwind." It got loaned to one friend, and she loaned it to, like, everybody, because it was so amazing and she felt that everyone she ever knew needed to read that book. By the time I got it back. . . *shudder* I don't even want to talk about it. Lets just say that I let her keep that copy and bought a new one.

Where I am from, they call it dog-earing or earmarking, but I know what you mean. I do have to say that that is one of my poorer habits with books. I tend to earmark, rather than bookmark. Mostly because I tend to lose my bookmarks far too easily.

Ugh, my sister always leaves her books open, face down, because she's too lazy to go get some scrap paper for a bookmark. (I use playing cards myself. Keep a stack on my headboard and I'm good for a year.) She'll just leave them for hours, even days, and if she leaves it too long, stuff gets piled on top.
I've stopped letting her borrow my books; if she wants to read it, we have a perfectly good library just a few minutes away.

Behind Imagination wrote:
haven't people heard of book-marks? I have no idea about how many times I have closed a family members book because they "didn't bother") or make a donkeyear (don't know if it's the right word. My dictionary didn't have it :/)

Yes. I totally understand. And since I keep losing my bookmarks, I make donkeyears. Poor books.
My reading speed is well above 300 words/minute, I'm fifteen and English isn't my mother tongue. I read "Reaper Man" in fourth grade, when I was nine or ten years old. Four hundred-or-so pages of Pratchett and I was hooked. Read Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" for fun when I was fourteen and re-read it twice last year. Did the same with LotR in English and Silmarillion. I've read about half of the Riftwar Saga by Raymond Feist, most of Pratchett's books, and countless other singles and series. Currently working my way through the Change-series and saving money so I can buy the rest of the Rain Wilds-series and the Malazan books.

I would love that addition on my house. Oh to have a proper library....
I keep a list of all the books i read in the year
I sort my books into topics
I can list fictional characters and what books they are from
I am always waiting for new books

xDDDD that reminds me of the line in Pirates, "Why is the rum gone?" but replace rum with books. xD

"You burnt all the food, the shade, the books."
"yes, the books are gone."
"Why are the books gone?"
"One, because they are vile little things that can turn even the most reliable people into procrastinating reclusive hermits. Two, that signal is over a thousand feet high. The entire royal navy is out looking for me. Do you really think there is even the slightest chance that they won't see it?"
"... But why are the books gone?"

I read a book called 'The Last Book In The Universe' once, and when I saw the title, I was all. "Oh my gosh. That's too scary to even think about."
It ended up being an amazing book :)

That's why I'm really wanting to get a Kindle, but not having Harry Potter available for it is the only thing holding me back. I'll end up getting one eventually though..

"... when the first question you ask everybody you meet is "Do you read?" - and immediately dislike them a little if they answer no."

For me, I'm afraid I skip that question and ask WHAT they read, because not reading just isn't an option.