More Pain Only Readers Understand

[@RhobarEisenblut]

People who do this with books in scenario 1 are probably dangerous for society.

[@mohammaddanishiqubal8483]

I like to break the spine of my books as well.

[@clementinekastrov3346]

im a proud menace to society

[@hello_people6922]

I do that lol

[@ramirez4630]

Breaking the spine to make a comfort read is good. But break it on purpose is a sin.

[@danaevanpuppydog]

Agreed

[@TheRichardJae]

When I was younger I let my sister borrow my first edition Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix. A hard cover that I waited in line outside a bookshop at midnight since the Harry Potter craze was intense back in the day. I got it back not just missing the dust jacket, but also the hard back. It was literally just the inside pages I got back and according to her that's fine, it's just a book. We don't speak these days.

[@Maria.Mirabella]

I’m so sorry that you had to go trough that! My heart hurts for you.

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

Wow, what the heck did she do to it!? Losing the jacket is one thing, losing the actual hardcover is another...

[@-girik-9366]

Truly sad story man , I feel your pain.

[@lovetolovefairytales]

Just a book??? 🤯

[@sid5255]

That was actually painful to read

[@rochoa7408]

Scenario #2 is why I will NEVER let anyone borrow any of my hardback books. “Aww you wanted to read that? Well tough luck, go buy it yourself.”

[@lividbutton2813]

I take off the covers and keep them, just so they retain their quality while i or someone is reading the book from them

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

That's a good idea

[@curtthegamer934]

My Mom used to wrap dust jackets in plastic covering and tape them in a certain way so that you'd have to specifically cut the tape to take the jacket off the book (not taped directly to the book though). Similar to how library books are.

[@nymphe8665]

Had the same thing happen to my tfios book when i gave it to my classmate for a week....needless to say i never forgave her

[@lovetolovefairytales]

Yes!

[@griffinblue4748]

For me, spines for books over 500 pages usually break on their own under the stress of what I consider "normal reading".

[@Thelaretus]

That's completely normal. A happy book as a book read so many times it dissolves. The issue is with idiots who have no care for books; for example my mother has a habit of spitting on her finger and the turning pages by pulling them down until they pop up and then she throws them back; it even makes an excruciating noise. I never let her even touch my books.

[@Uppernorwood976]

@@Thelaretus the licking fingers thing is from back when everyone read newspapers and the pages were stuck together by the spike holes. It would be thrown away the next day so it was kind of tolerable. But with books it’s gross.

[@yxtsama]

I wasn't even read quarter of A Wise Man's Fear when it became bunch of pages and booklets. I am not sure if it was because bad publishing in my country tho'

[@lelnel6242]

Ok, I don't not live in an English speaking country but sometimes I buy books in English and they are really fragile? I wasn't even aware spines can break before I started buying them. Books in my language/translated books just have spines that don't bend but are still incredibly easy to open and read because the cover is made to bend a few millimeters away from the spine. You can genuinely do the thing in the first scenario and the book and the spine are still completely fine.

[@princessthyemis]

Same

[@RaeBehrs]

I knew a girl in school who never read the prologue or epilogue because they "weren't really part of the book." Every time I think of that, I die a little inside.

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

What!? That is insane!

[@epitome-]

wha- wha- what they WROTE IT FIR A REASON

[@toons3364]

They are a menace to the society.

[@Hellblazer1138]

Same here. The girl I knew said "If it was important it would be in chapter one."

[@lazerfrogstudios]

I know lots of people who do this they think the prologue is just some extra thing

[@Uppernorwood976]

Bottom line: you want to borrow a book, join a library.

[@thanks8589]

I've always thought books looked better without a dust jacket. Not that I'd ever remove one from a borrowed book tho😭

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

Some books, yes I agree. But then there are other books that are just blank nothing without the cover on it. Nice from a minimalist perspective though ;)

[@thanks8589]

@@miketravelsnowhere6557 Oh no the minimalist logos have infiltrated my mind

[@caedengoering]

The ones with any kind of uniqueness look good. The ones that are literally blank white paper with a plain helvetica font in black on the spine drive me crazy. Or better yet, just completely white. 🤦🏼

[@noeditbookreviews]

When I take hardbacks to work, I leave the dust jacked at home and make a temporary dust jacket out of paper until I finish the book.

[@lightningbreak357]

Scenario 1 was probably such a pain to do. Thank you for suffering for our entertainment :) Also: the law and order sound effect.

[@theharoldsshow]

I gave my mom a book and I still don’t know where the dust jacket went

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

:(

[@rushdrawz5271]

Your mom should be arrested. 😣

[@molamolalaaa2968]

That's horrible

[@kieramoore6501]

Huh neat.......all these years as an avid book lover, and I never knew it was called a dust jacket. Learned something today

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

Not going to lie, I forgot what they were called and had to Google the proper name ;)

[@MoonshineH]

Same. I always just called them cover-slip thingies

[@Melianmei]

I stopped lending books to friends after I had a book chewed by a baby, another one came back full of dirt, and the last one I never saw again.

[@isabelklingenberg2673]

I’m not a fan of book jackets/dust covers but as my books tend to look not great without them, I keep them on XD

[@yxtsama]

They are so annoying, espacilly if they are not well-made. Wish they just press it on it's hard cover or something (not sure if it made sense in English)

[@thejoker-yr3nc]

@@yxtsamai got my hard back collection of harry potter for Christmas last year and what i do when reading one of the books is take the dust cover off the book that your reading and set it somewhere safe when you have completely finished the book put the cover back on put it back in it's spot on the shelf or in my case back in the cardboard box that looks like Harry's trunks witch adds a nice touch to my room

[@yuckal]

I literally winced, watching scenario 1. I have a great idea for your next video, how about an interrogation, dark room, a chair and a single bright light, but the torture is just you (bad guy) slowly ramping up the damage to some books, while you, in the chair begging him to stop. "Tell me where it is?!" (folds the corner of a page) nooo stop, please!

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

Haha that is awesome!

[@forestappalachia6047]

How to interrogate a book lover!

[@gabeangel8104]

I once heard of a person who thought it was perfectly acceptable to cut thick books in half down the spine so they fit in her purse more easily (she could take just half with her at a time). Her explanation of this was followed by every book lover who had stumbled across her comment informing her of exactly what kind of monster she was. From a purely logical point of view, I can see that her idea made sense, and part of me feels like people should be able to enjoy books in whatever way is most accessible to them…I’d still flinch if I saw someone actually doing that to a book though!

[@mmparvish7337]

That's exactly why I don't let anyone borrow or even touch my books😂

[@akellerhouse83]

My teenagers have lost every dust jacket to every book I own. And they are shameless about it.

[@mrwhite6433]

Pain😭

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

ugh...bummer :(

[@ninjaartist1235]

Adoption is the only answer!

[@jpy1104]

I absolutely despise those white lines on the spines of the books that have been broken! They looks so bad on the shelf...

[@thorr18BEM]

Maybe that's what the missing book cover was for.

[@mihaimercenarul7467]

Boohoo

[@nataliam2308]

Books are meant to be read and have marks of such, they're not decorations.

[@jpy1104]

@@nataliam2308 there are ways to read books in such a way that leaves them in almost perfect condition, though, and the reading experience of future owners is enhanced by a good quality book.

[@jpy1104]

It's not that I disagree with your statement; in fact, I completely agree. I just think that care should be taken so that future readers can enjoy the book, both as a story and a shelf piece, as much as you did.

[@darkvenomgaming9724]

when he slapped that dude. it put a smile across my face

[@isabeldelariva8387]

The law and order sound effects were perfect for the crimes committed in this video

[@mihaimercenarul7467]

What crimes, kiddo?

[@georgerichardson7505]

I always make sure I never even crease the spine on my paperbacks.

[@Spoomis]

The second one is why Shakespeare said "neither a borrower nor a lender be."

[@alejandrar127]

ngl the hardback's covers are so annoying while reading, so i take them off, but (depending on the book) i keep them in the nicest conditions, so once i'm finished reading, i can hug the lil book with its blanket

[@Noveltea1113]

I always remove the jacket when reading so it doesn’t get torn or scratched up, and then put it back on when I’ve finished and need to put the book away. Throwing the jacket away or loosing it though….

[@ninjaartist1235]

“Get out of my house right now!” Is an appropriate response to these scenarios.

[@LucasCarter2]

If someone did this with my books I’d probably actually kick them out of my house and stop being friends with them.

[@TheYoungPanda]

I break tf out of my paperback spines idgaf. I love every piece of damage on a paperback. I feel like it gives the book character. I love seeing the lines down the spine when im finished. Its like the equivalent of goodreads’ “done” tab.

[@ajuliacarvalho]

I was hugely crying in the first 28 seconds, how brutal he is, damn 💀 I'm literally terrified

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

lol

[@azurastar3223]

The paperback wheel of time books hold up to alot of stress. I got books 1-4 new and let my friends mom (an angel when borrowing books) and her brother (a demon when borrowing books) read them and the spines were unbroken. I let 5 people read Eldest when it came out because I had the only copy among my friend group in high school and it was bad. So very bad

[@epitome-]

this is true my wheel of time books are still in amazing condition- probably because I have only let two people other than me touch them and both of them are book nerds. that said one of them strips dust jackets and I hate her for it

[@DarulFatih]

"You bending the book" "My body : ouchhhh mann stop it"

[@disturbedligma8589]

I once let a classmate borrow a book of mine. I trusted that guy cause he read a lot of books. That was my first experience lending something to someone outside of my family. 2 weeks later, I got my book back. But the spine was detached from the body of the book (It was a hardcover) . When I asked him about it he just casually told me that all of his books were like that. What a mess.

[@ajaybhat8092]

Bro just slapped himself 💀

[@aghilacc2030]

I was literally screaming "no.. no..no...NOOOO" when I watched Scenario 1! Ik it's a nightmare for book lovers!

[@amar95308]

I almost screamed in the first scenario, just discovered you. Love from India.

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

Thank you!

[@nightskym]

I was not prepared for scenario 1.

[@peaceisworthit7650]

Yessss ..I hate ittttt so much..,,,my friend did it,,I am not longer in contact with her,.....jk

[@masterjayesh3575]

Last bit was satisfying as hell. Love your dedication.

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

Thanks!

[@megansbooknook519]

Great video again! Short but oh so powerful! The pain and wince for scenario 1 was real!

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

Thank you!

[@rosie_gamgee]

You actually did scenario one, you monster 😭😂

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

lol It was actually a book I got from Goodwill for $0.50 so maybe I am a little less of a monster ;)

[@toons3364]

@@miketravelsnowhere6557 Money doesn't matter to book lovers....the book does.😭😭

[@genericallyentertaining]

After watching Daniel Greene's "Book Cleaning" video, I have to say, I don't think anything can phase me.

[@randomstranger1828]

Damn man....You made me scream at the screen like "Don't you dare,DON'T YOU DAREEEEEE"

[@ezeanyagreatchidi2955]

That slap was so forgiving of the book owner.

[@rishigupta9671]

Perfect title of the video Am a book lover✅ Experienced pain✅ A+

[@natalyaduncan8932]

The reason my books do not leave my house under the supervision of other people. If you want to borrow it either read the whole thing on my sofa or get out.

[@sunset3625]

OK this is true dedication here. He's sacrificed so many perfectly good books for his videos 😭😭💀

[@No-mh3rd]

OH MY GOD NOT EVEN A MINUTE IN AND IM ALREADY DEAD

[@mihaimercenarul7467]

Get a life then

[@itsTADI]

That's why you should never let anyone borrow your stuff. Not letting people borrow my stuff is one of the main rules in my life.

[@camila_f_]

I don't let people borrow books... But I've learned (after keeping books pristine for the first three decades of my life) that I feel immense joy when reading paperbacks and not caring if the spine gets broken. As a fan of really long books (usually around 1000 pages), I 'd feel scared of reading them until I realized I really didn't have to care about the spines. It literally changed my life. I only buy paperbacks now, because it's ok if they get "ruined".

[@greed1262]

0:21 OH GOD MAKE IT STOP, MY EYES ARE BLEEDING 😱

[@rozi441]

Yeah. I hate when I borrow someone a book and when the books returns it has crumpled cover.

[@kayelau]

help i was literally brought to tears during scenario 1

[@Sam-vk8xd]

I loved the sheer violence of this video.

[@bodine219]

Confession Time: I don't treat my books very well. It isn't that I don't like them, the problem is I love them too much to pay attention to what my hands are doing. Being careful with a book negatively impacts my enjoyment of reading. IF I borrow a book though, I adjust my mindset to match the owner. If they are a pretty shelves person, I am suddenly a pretty shelves person. I will say though...dog earers should be strung up. There are some lines you just don't cross....

[@TheLegendOfRune]

I read the words dog earers as dog eaters. I had to reread what was just said. Makes more since now.

[@nataliam2308]

Relatable!

[@camila_f_]

Same.

[@catfinity8799]

I always dog ear books, even library ones. I don't do it very aggressively though, nor do I fold more than half an inch.

[@bodine219]

@@catfinity8799 😨Once you do it it's done forever. A folded page is never unfolded. I'm always shocked and confused when people purposefully damage other people's books like that.

[@hrvojesvilic7362]

from now on....I will listen every warning in the beggining of the video

[@mark7166]

Oh... the spine bending... my wife does that ALL THE TIME to books. It makes me crazy. The sound is just HORRIFIC! I can hear the book scream!

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

lol I feel your pain. My wife does the same thing. :)

[@noahroy2391]

Even with the warning, I wasn’t ready for the first one 😭.

[@Colaman112]

My sister borrowed a book from me. I found the dust jacket for it crumbled beneath a bunch of DVDs when I went to visit.

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

ugh...pain :(

[@squamish4244]

I thought he was going to say did you read this on the toilet.

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

lol

[@violet_stein]

When I saw the first scenario, as someone who used to not read any books until recently, my lord I cringed so badly. Even if I wasn't much of a reader back then due to my diagnoses and all that, I've always tried to be careful with any book i had, especially of course if I borrowed one from the school library. So seeing you abusing that book like that, I literally went "Oh nooo nonononooo" lol

[@hyperfixationoverdose]

I nearly got a heart attack at scenario 1

[@noah_noinha]

The first 1 got me on tears

[@NoahPopejoy]

Me Watching Scenario 1: *internal screaming* Also Me Watching Scenario 1: (calmly) Reminds me of my mom... Stop bending the spine back like that, mom... You're destroying it...

[@Edzzz15]

The first one almost made me have a heart attack lol I was screaming it’s gonna rip lol

[@Anoiny]

Scenario 1: sometimes you gotta break the spine so you can read a paperback comfortably.

[@boopdoop2251]

I’d never mess with a borrowed book, but I never keep my dust jackets. Holding a book with a dust jacket is for some reason a really unpleasant experience to me.

[@im_just_vidu]

R.i.p. the first book. You will remembered

[@WeiAnimations]

Really good video, I'm not sure how this could've been incorporated, but I always find it really annoying when I accidentally close my book without the bookmark in it.

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

Thank you! Yup, I've done that too. Then having to figure out where you left off...what a pain!

[@mallk238]

the nice thing is that if it's a new book then the pages will have been freshly ruffled only up to the point in the book you were reading, so by just checking the edges, you can see where the pages seem more "fluffed out" and find roughly where your spot was. This usually works the first few read throughs

[@charlyhavering4960]

This is painful. Very well done!

[@mihaimercenarul7467]

Nah it isn't, snowflake

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

Thank you!

[@guyrichard626]

Did not even know what a dust jacket was until this video

[@diosyy]

I amthankful for having all my friends be people who value their books cuz if they did this they would be beyond dead.

[@marywebb9264]

Scenario 1 hurt… a lot!

[@Kaloo1968]

I really hate it when people don’t take care of the things they use or borrow from me. It’s so disrespectful.

[@paperbackacademie6640]

Scenario 1 was literally the most graphic thing ever.

[@jkseraphim4]

Scenario 2: (Book with no dust jacket back on the book) "It's not my problem." My response/thought: when what's left of your current life is no longer in flames, Mr. Borrower of my book. I will give you permission to die blood murder, after not returning my book in its prestine condition! (Minaical laugh!)

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

lol

[@ebony07]

The second scenario is why I always remove the dust jacket before letting anyone borrow my hardcovers

[@cassiaprior453]

I thought he was gonna do a bookslap at the end but it didn't have the dust jacket so the book could be further damaged, wise choice.

[@roannemandap9150]

This happened to me: Got a book back after several reminders and the pages were falling out.

[@Summer.12Girl]

I read my dad's Harry potter books and he had hard covers 5+ and when I got to OotP he had to tell me it was okay to take the dust jacket off when reading it as long as I returned it with the jacket on

[@aliciaz6224]

I always take the cover off of hardbacks before I lend a book, even when I'm just reading it myself I prefer it that way

[@princessthyemis]

NOT THE DUST JACKET!!! My sister misplaced the priceless jacket to a classic children's book series and I'm still mad...well, she was only 9 and I 11 when it happened, but now that I know its value and emotional value I'm still low-key mad at her 😢😢😢😢

[@laraschauble]

OMG smacking the book and bending the cover back 🤣 i'm dead!! 🤣💀

[@scottmacgregor7954]

You could make a living reading horror novels I don’t know why but your voice would be perfect for a lovecraft story

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

Thank you!

[@echo_is_probably_sleeping]

I take the dust jacket off when reading the book, but always put it back when it goes back on the shelf

[@captain4318]

I kinda love my fat books with broken spines. Adds a certain charm to it.

[@eddiepriee4257]

I feel you’re pain this is what I all the time my family gets so annoyed by this

[@samuelkelly9213]

Even though I only listen to audiobooks, Scenario 1 has probably given me PTSD

[@jlparker4204]

My vocabulary must have plummeted while watching scenario 1. All I could say was "💥oh god.. 💥OH god oh GOD..💥oH.. 💥💥God!! 💥💥💥OH GODDDD!"

[@Liamb2179]

I've never done this with a borrowed book but I do both of those things with all of my books. They make for an objectively better reading experience and I've had books I've read 10+ times that are still intact.

[@costelinha1867]

I laughed the second I heard the Law & Order: SVU chime in the intro.

[@luciferparker5063]

Goddammit Mike. The viewer discretion was not enough for Scenario 1. Now all of us are scarred for life.

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

lol

[@Shivansh_Bharti109]

I really hate those people who when ever finds a pen in their hand, they start drawing random flower or a really bad doodle in the book in the middle of nowhere

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

Ugh pain!

[@catfinity8799]

That first one hurt my soul.

[@GabrielaSutcliff]

I felt the pain, I'm still shaking

[@molamolalaaa2968]

I was yelling NOOOOOOOO so loudly in my head

[@Mui_0906]

It's annoying how some of my friends suddenly ask to borrow my novels (got my hope's high, thinking it would interest them), but all they did was flip through the page, read the titles, then said, "Oh, yeah. I read books, too." When all they did was read some of the words then return it to me.

[@nicmarcelino9944]

This is why I never tell anyone I have my own book collection.

[@JoshNeilTHE]

The key to scenario 2 is never give out the dust jacket. Period. Shit, when I’m reading a hardback the dust jacket is removed and placed in the hole created in the line on the shelf. Doesn’t even move around the house with me as it gets read. Then again, I have a 3 year old. I’m a very handy guy and she loves when I fix things for her. I have yet to get her to understand that torn paper is beyond my skill to heal.

[@FreshPelmeni]

So here I am about to watch a comedy channel about books thinking that I'll have a good time only to find myself wanting to die within the first 30 seconds.

[@ecehant9395]

My mum reads like in scenario number 1 and that's why I cannot give the books I loved to her to read. Tbh she doesn't even accept when I offer she says "You don't like the way I read and I cannot do this job as gentle as you do. I'd rather not to read it or else you'd probably kill me"

[@xavierfolkerts1604]

If I have a book with the dust jacket, I always take it off when I'm reading the book and leave the jacket on my shelf, but I always put the jacket back on when I'm done.

[@assass7012]

I let my dad borrow my copy of Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins, which I bought the day it came out, under the one condition that he not dog ear any pages and keep the book in good condition because it was one of my favorite books ever and I wanted to keep it nice. Within 3 days tbe book was dog eared, had tears in pages, the front covrt was hanging by a thread, it was annotated, and had coffee stains on it. Never gonna get over that.

[@miketravelsnowhere6557]

I can only imagine your pain...

[@justaghost2174]

This hurts on a number of levels 💀