Confessions of a Bibliophile: Well-Loved Books or Nah?

Let's Confess. This feature is here just to do what it says. All those things you do that you are ashamed of or maybe just embarrassed about, possibly fear judgment for? We feel the need to confess it all! 

Ash:

This is the biggest thing for me. Because I see people talk against it all the time. They hate it, and I don't understand why.

So I'm always ashamed to say that I actually love this thing.

The thing being...

Torn up books. I dog ear, crack the spines, toss around, and love my books. I absolutely love when my books look old and torn up and... well, well-loved.

I don't care if the covers are torn or half falling off, or the pages are creased or maybe have a little tearing. Just a little though, I want to be able to read them still.

I also purposely crack my spines. *Hides* please don't hurt me. I love how cracked spines look! 

Jenn: 

I am going to piggy back off of Ash but I am the opposite. I liked to try and keep my books looking new. When I read a hardcover I take off the cover. I try and not bend the spine much. I also try and use bookmarks. But real life is this..

My pages are dogeared because I can't find a bookmark. My book covers get lost or bent up on my shelves. The actual book gets water damage from reading in the bathtub. So do they stay looking new. No. Does it bother me? Only when I have read the book and I want it looking pretty and shiny and new on my bookshelf. It is then that I have to talk myself out of replacing the book so it can be perfect on my bookshelf. So my confession.... I am a reader but want to look like a book collector!

So what are some of your biggest bibliophile confessions?

Confessions of a Bibliophile

Let's Confess. This feature is here just to do what it says. All those things you do that you are ashamed of or maybe just embarrassed about, possibly fear judgment for? We feel the need to confess it all! 

This is a brand new feature that Ash and I have been kind of throwing around. We wanted to do something fun. So here it is. each time we will feature a subject and just confess those crazy bibliophile and blogger secrets... 

This week... Three things that I am ashamed to say I do when I am blogging...

Jenn: 

1.)  I wait until the very last moment to write my post for anything I have planned. This often leads to things not getting out as planned. Like reviews for the week! 

2.) Sometimes when I am doing my weekly wrap up  I count a book I am almost done with and plan on finishing the same day the weekly wrap up goes up. 

3.) When writing discussion posts, I feel I have nothing of importance to say and really struggle with the post. 

Ash-
1.) I do a whole bunch of my favorite posts first. Like my cover ups, waiting on wednesday, stuff like that first. So we have like a months worth of those posts... but no reviews.

2.) I get super self conscious when doing my reviews. Like I'm saying something stupid, or saying too much or too little. Actually I feel that way with all my posts. That someone is going to read it and be like "What is this girl trying to say?"

3.) I get super distracted when writing blog posts. Either by TV or by something else on the computer. Sometimes it takes me hours to finish a single post. I've been on this one for about 45 minutes. Getting distracted by One Tree Hill. Oops. 

So what are some of your biggest blogger confessions?