Lol thats so cute. Hiding my political book cover so i dont get attacked by a crazy MAGA cult member. Uwu just girly things

dunkey

Aww, the Kinokuniya in NYC doesn't give us book covers (but that's okay)

Interesting

Do you know how hard authors work to decide what name the title and design the cover? You guys clearly don't, i will never cover any book

That's very smart

freedom of speech 🛑 freedom from speech 💚

am I the only one that loves it when people ask me “watcha reading”? those are the kinds of small talk conversations that I love!

I literally sit in public open a trump book or the Bible and read lol😂😂😂😂😂

My grandmother used to do this, and we live in Ireland! I recently found a bunch of her old books when I was helping her get something from her attic, and they were all covered in brown paper. She said she used the paper to protect them, but it also served as a place to take notes without damaging the book. Some of the paper is covered in notes and annotations!

Indian schools watching this: In India, we cover ALL our textbooks and notebooks as it was a rule that was implanted in colonial times, idk why

I’ve never had a bad experience when a stranger breaks the ice by talking about the book i was reading. When I was younger it seemed annoying but as you grow and learn about others it’s nice to make a random connection. Got a few friends from it!

They do this in India too. I always loved seeing my cousins' new textbooks freshly wrapped lol

I'm sad how we dislike people this much now. And I'm an introvert!

Japan is lonermaxxing. Imagine avoiding small talks by covering books XDDD

Japan is an introvert’s heaven

Perv book get double covers

Japan is a complex society

Yea, no, avoiding communication isn’t something id copy from jap culture

Meanwhile, I bought a Shirt of my favorite book to invite other fans to talk about it.

I wonder when’s the last time most of you even read a book

I need one for my copy of Pucking Around so I can read it at the rink without people thinking I’m a weirdo

In Vietnam, we would use pretty paper to wrap our textbooks for school. Honestly, it's my favorite thing to do at the time besides collecting scented pens, notebooks, and erasers. 😅

I’ve never heard of it being to avoid conversations, and I don’t think any normal person would try to start a conversation about it in Japan anyways. It’s most to keep the book clean.

Nobody knows what you are reading, but it's advertising for the book store: "Haruki's porn emporium".

I get the convenience but man how wasteful.

Love it, love privacy.

Fortunately, it isn't only for pair verts because if it's only for them, it will be as useful as the doggy bag to cover the bottles

Sounds like a symptom of oppression.

Im a pervert

Maybe if more Japanese had conversations with strangers more of them would meet and form relationships and have kids. That and not having extreme working conditions.

Hatake Kakashi.

In us they do same thing with alcohol For not having to share your drink with other on the street . You drink jack Daniels you must be a red state person 😂😂

Call me normal, but I never take a saucy or gorey book on public transport anyway, I keep them for home so I'm not worried about some poor kid reading something over my shoulder and learning about the world too soon. I don't need a book cover for "Great Speechs in History." And no one ever has tried to start a conversation with me about my books.

"It's deters unwanted conversation" wait, I thought I was weird for having book covers for this very reason

Isn’t this because there is so much pervy stuff to read there?

I love places like Japan and Finland where they go to great cultural lengths to be left tf alone

Tbf, once saw a cute girl on the train read mein kampf and i suddenly had a billion questions

Why beeing so afraid of having a conversation?

Subtle practices such as this that are embedded in culture have assisted in creating a society that provides protection for its citizens, if only in this modest way. This gently teaches proprieties within a society quite successfully.

So today I got to know we need book cover

My grandmother used to cover all her books with magazines pages or recycling any paper while reading them

Lots of my mom and dad's books were protected with covers like that until the late 80's in Brazil. It's very common in older books. I wonder why it's so rare to see now, maybe new covers are of higher quality. I started my collection as a kid in the 90's and no one was doing it so I never did or learned to.

Who is that hot guy??

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The Japanese will do anything but talk to people

OK, but i WANT TO KNOW which book someone is reading! And if i can't recognize because of some shitty cover, i'll pry it out of their hand!

Okay but what if, hear me out, I want people to go up to me and talk to me if they like the book too? :D

We do this in india as well

so smart