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How do you seat hard back books?

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Staples

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I always put them spine down. In my backpack or on the shelf. Since the pages on paperback books actually rest on the shelf if you put them right side up, I feel there is no danger but hardback books put the weight on the spine the whole time and I feel that it will wear out the spine and ruin the book over time.

I don't like that I don't get to see the side of the book when they are on the shelf. I have tons of books that have to be picked up to see what they are.
 
Some publishers use less glue in the spines on purpose so the pages fall out. They fall out from theopening of the spine, not the downward pressure.
 
Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Why don't you just lay them on their side.
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I guess that could work. You would be able to see the title at least. The only problem is that you probably can not fit as many because not all books are the same size.
 
it isn't a problem other than it takes up more space. I bet if you stack them to the top of the shelf, you can probably make up the lost room and get just as many in.
 
the pages are clamped by the cover... so theres not much point to shelving that way. u just make ur collection weird looking and inaccessable
 
I seat my books spine-down, especially in my backpack. This came after several of my books either twisted too much or got wrinkled (paperback).
 
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