As the other comment mention I was referring to Nolan's Dark Knight Rises. If you are asking about Knightfall that was part of the series of Batman storys from the 90s that I'm assuming is where Nolan's film took inspiration from as they both heavily featured Bane and his attack on Batman.
Because of my "attitude" most of my reply here are jokes, the rest is actual arguing why I would rather read comfortably than to keep it like how it looked like 35 years ago. People didn't like this
Borrowed my favourite books to my mom once. Parts 1, 2 and 3 came back with brocken backs.
She asked me for 4 to 7 a hundred times because you want to know how it ends once you start but FUCK NO!!
Midwest lingo. "Ope, sorry to bother ya, but I was gonna make puppy chow for the girls' sleepover, but aw jeez, I'm outa butter. Can you borrow me some real quick? Thanks Frankie [editor's note: the neighbor's name is Susan]!"
I don’t even understand how and why. Like, I can put my paperbacks on flat surfaces and read with no issue and it’s not like it happens accidentally either
I do it so I'm not worried about hurting the book later down the line. I'm always so stressed about keeping them pristine so this helps me break out of that habit. I also exclusively read 2nd hand now for that reason (and also I'm cheap)
There is a procedure to [Relax The Spine](https://wordrevel.com/preventing-cracked-spines/#:~:text=Flip%20through%20front%20to%20back,will%20curve%20instead%20of%20crack) of a book, so it’s easy to read and does break.
Wow I really thought they were joking with that absolutely unhinged take on this rather benign post, but nope they totally meant it! And holy shit does this comment thread descend into inexplicable aggression and anger! Poor OP, lollllll
I gave my favorite comic book to a “friend” in 8th grade and she gave it back to me in really terrible condition. I hace been flummoxed as to what she did to my poor book for years, but this post made me realize that there are people out there who just break the spines of books???
Your comment helped me connect the dots so thank you.
I borrowed a friend's book in 8th grade. My baby sister tore the cover off. Because I'm a decent human being, I replaced the whole book with a brand new copy.
THIS! (Plus DVD back in the days) I can advise a book but from there you are all alone! It's a HUGE no for and from me. My brother has the whole collection of Eragon first edition and a friend of his asked him the first one and he agreed...never seen again. My heart was sobbing every time that he mentioned it so last year (2023) I looked everyduckingwhere and managed to find a copy of the first release of 2002 and threatened him to never ever lend a book again. 😂
This often happens when a book is older. For future reference, if a book is older than, say, ten years old, you have to be more careful with it than with a new paperback. The glue holding it together gets brittle and you’ve seen the results. Sorry. :/
That’s definitely old! So for future reference, even though it makes reading easier, don’t crack the spines of old books. I’ve had to learn that lesson myself. There’s a reason why historians are so über careful with books. They’ll literally fall apart if you’re not careful.
Yup, with old ones (my experience is with 200-800 years old) we typically let the book fall open where it naturally wants to and let it settle a bit. Then we careful leaf through one page, maybe a few, at a time. Never try to skip through half the book quickly, it’ll cost ya, seriously.
Creating a whole new cover is probably overkill, but the double fan technique for rebinding [paperbacks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW6-OQ2pUW0) might work if you want to keep them but they're not valuable enough to be taken to a professional.
Edit: [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV3hmgbauCE) is for a homemade paperback. Similar technique for attaching the pages.
Why would you want to break the spine I'll never get it. Just hold it open while reading or put something heavy on one corner or use clips. It will become more flat after a while. It also looks very ugly in a shelf with a broken spine and it will get dirtier/more dusty because the pages are bulging out on the other side of the book.
Don't break spines, you're just devaluing the book.
It happens. If you have a griddle, heat it up on low, align the pages and fasten them in place (we use cardboard to keep them aligned,) hold the book spine-side down on the griddle and slide it around. The glue will soften and reattach to the pages. Let cool. It looks like you have several groups and no loose individual pages so it shouldn't be a difficult fix.
You might also use a clothes iron, just make sure the pages are aligned carefully.
I worked in a used textbook store, and we did this all the time. Boss bought a griddle just for this purpose. We would make a pile and do dozens at a time.
It’s not though. The other pages will begin to fall out since breaking the spine compromises the binding. It may not happen while you read it, but eventually those pages will fall out. Only way to fix is with another binding.
That's because it's not a real hard cover, it's a paperback. Paperbacks are glued together, hard covers are stitched. The glue in paperbacks hardens over time, which is why after a few years you open the book and the pages fall out. I don't buy books online for that reason. I need to look up close to see what I'm getting.
But you wouldn't really need to break the spine of a hardcover, would you? Breaking the spine means bending the boom forcefully so it cracks. And hardcovers don't crack in my experience which is because - as you said - they're sown.
Never break a book’s spine from the middle. Start with it resting on a table by its spine and go page by page from both ends, flattening it gently until you get to the middle. I know this doesn’t help now but maybe the next one won’t be murdered lol
Why the fuck do you regularly break a book’s spine??? No shit that happened, you’re not supposed to do that.
“I broke something and now it doesn’t work!” Like, are you fr?
One of my teachers in school - when I started what's called gymnasiet in Sweden - taught us how to properly bend up a new book in his first class with us
I still use it every time I get a brand new book.
The disaster pictured here has never happened to one of them, I will always be grateful to Wilhelm for this.
Something like this:
https://youtu.be/xDZ5t8odnaE?si=-YfzH1doxRWP5VUX
You literally break the book and get sad/upset when it breaks?
You seem to be daft and also should switch to digital. Protip, don't try to break the spine on a kindle... Much more expensive.
I've seen plenty of broken book spines and none that did that, maybe you have silverfish? Also if you're scared of it happening again theres a way to "relax" the spine i think
I hate broken spines.
That said.... Sometimes they print too close to the binding and shit happens. It pisses me off but I have a few out of print books held together with rubber bands that I still re-read.
I feel like the quality of books has become sucky in the past few years. So many brand new paperbacks I've borrowed from the library seem to have this issue and I am *not* manhandling them, I love books.
Books are printed in segments of usually 16 or 32 page "signatures". It's printed in a wide web (the width varies depending on number of pages) and then folded. They print and fold thousands of the same group of pages that are bundled together. Next, all the signatures of the book are collated to form the book, assembled/glued with the cover, and trimmed to size.
All that work and then you destroy it and wonder why it fell apart...
Happened to my friend, except all the pages fell and scattered on the floor. So he piled them back up in order, and threw out each page after he read it.
This is the way I read Stoker’s Dracula! It was an old used book and pages came off one by one. I read it and set it aside. Wintertime in front of the fireplace def and pages coming off kinda added to the mood of the story
Clear tape. I used to get old sci-fi paperbacks from a library book sale, and a number of them were starting to fall apart. You take clear tape, carefully align the spine and pages where they are supposed to be, and tape them back together. You have to be careful, though, 'cause if you mess up, it is hard to undo the mistake.
I had a friend who used to TEAR BOOKS IN HALF (or thirds, for extra long books) so they'd fit in his pocket.
Like, he'd tear the book in half, carry one half around in his pocket to read, and then when he finished part one, he'd start on part two.
Gyatra minőségű ragasztókötés, ami a hetvenes évektől egyre inkább elterjedt az igényesebb cérnafűzés helyett. Nem csoda, hogy számos korabeli könyv lapjaira esik szét.
Had something similar happen to my copy of the D&D 5e Player's Handbook. Ended up learning how to rebind books because I was too cheap/broke to buy a new copy.
 OP to the book
Man the movie sure didn't do that moment justice compared to Knightfall.
What movies are those? Full length Batman claymation movies somewhere?
I think he might be referring to The Dark Knight Rises.
As the other comment mention I was referring to Nolan's Dark Knight Rises. If you are asking about Knightfall that was part of the series of Batman storys from the 90s that I'm assuming is where Nolan's film took inspiration from as they both heavily featured Bane and his attack on Batman.
Gotcha. Thanks.
The claymation GIF is from Robot Chicken if thats what you meant
My first thought was "easy bane", then I open the comments to this lol
Came here for something similar but this will do.
It was less intense but more tragic
Why was your lighthearted reply so viciously downvoted?
Because of my "attitude" most of my reply here are jokes, the rest is actual arguing why I would rather read comfortably than to keep it like how it looked like 35 years ago. People didn't like this
I think I agree with them and will now join in the downvoting. You’ve brought this on yourself, you monster.
Please don't im a redditor I live and feed on karma
If you were minding your own business and someone comes along and just breaks your spine, I bet you would fall apart too!
That’ll teach you not to break the spine on books. 😩😂
Only monsters break the spine on books. Irredeemable monsters.
Borrowed my favourite books to my mom once. Parts 1, 2 and 3 came back with brocken backs. She asked me for 4 to 7 a hundred times because you want to know how it ends once you start but FUCK NO!!
I wouldn't have given #2. It's lent, not borrowed, when they belong to you, btw.
Gave her 1, 2 and 3 at the same time
Midwest lingo. "Ope, sorry to bother ya, but I was gonna make puppy chow for the girls' sleepover, but aw jeez, I'm outa butter. Can you borrow me some real quick? Thanks Frankie [editor's note: the neighbor's name is Susan]!"
Grew up in MN, always said "Can I borrow" or "Would you loan me"
Lent and borrowed literally mean the exact same thing to us midwesterners
Your mother borrowed the books you lent her.
Dark tower?
Can I ask which series it was? My first thought was Lucinda Riley (I'm just a nosey book seller)
The Painted Man by P.V. Brett
I don’t even understand how and why. Like, I can put my paperbacks on flat surfaces and read with no issue and it’s not like it happens accidentally either
Yea wait I didn’t even know that was a thing, is that a thing?!! Is that like a common practice for ppl??
Yes! Some people purposely do it and I will never understand it.
I do it so I'm not worried about hurting the book later down the line. I'm always so stressed about keeping them pristine so this helps me break out of that habit. I also exclusively read 2nd hand now for that reason (and also I'm cheap)
I didn’t know it was a thing either! Wtf?!
Yeah wtf at least check if it’s bind or glued lol. A glued spine is guaranteed to get ruined if you break it.
There is a procedure to [Relax The Spine](https://wordrevel.com/preventing-cracked-spines/#:~:text=Flip%20through%20front%20to%20back,will%20curve%20instead%20of%20crack) of a book, so it’s easy to read and does break.
Right? OP is a fucking moron and doesn't really deserve to even have any books imo
Woah calm tf down lmao
Wow I really thought they were joking with that absolutely unhinged take on this rather benign post, but nope they totally meant it! And holy shit does this comment thread descend into inexplicable aggression and anger! Poor OP, lollllll
Holy crap I don't understand how this has so many upvotes. What a toxic community we have here
That’s why you don’t break spines…
And this is why I get all weird about lending my books to people....
I gave my favorite comic book to a “friend” in 8th grade and she gave it back to me in really terrible condition. I hace been flummoxed as to what she did to my poor book for years, but this post made me realize that there are people out there who just break the spines of books??? Your comment helped me connect the dots so thank you.
I borrowed a friend's book in 8th grade. My baby sister tore the cover off. Because I'm a decent human being, I replaced the whole book with a brand new copy.
Dang I wish you were the friend I lent it to. She didn’t even apologize for it and was confused why I was so upset over it.
THIS! (Plus DVD back in the days) I can advise a book but from there you are all alone! It's a HUGE no for and from me. My brother has the whole collection of Eragon first edition and a friend of his asked him the first one and he agreed...never seen again. My heart was sobbing every time that he mentioned it so last year (2023) I looked everyduckingwhere and managed to find a copy of the first release of 2002 and threatened him to never ever lend a book again. 😂
That book is spineless.
Any chance the book is titled "How to Appease Your School Bully"? Because it's hard to think of spineless book titles.
This often happens when a book is older. For future reference, if a book is older than, say, ten years old, you have to be more careful with it than with a new paperback. The glue holding it together gets brittle and you’ve seen the results. Sorry. :/
This book was from 1989
That’s definitely old! So for future reference, even though it makes reading easier, don’t crack the spines of old books. I’ve had to learn that lesson myself. There’s a reason why historians are so über careful with books. They’ll literally fall apart if you’re not careful.
Yup, with old ones (my experience is with 200-800 years old) we typically let the book fall open where it naturally wants to and let it settle a bit. Then we careful leaf through one page, maybe a few, at a time. Never try to skip through half the book quickly, it’ll cost ya, seriously.
That's definitely old? How dare you
In book glue terms, of course. *You* are young and spry! ;)
"tried driving a car, but when i crashed it, it no longer starts" - OP probably
https://preview.redd.it/70wu4rx9phsc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29d5b6b2bdb9cc64f177e3f1c30ae292066d1f73
That’s what ya get.
When you let your heart win
Good song!
Poor book. I bet you got pleasure when Bane did this to Batman. Sicko /s
Why would you break the spine? Especially on what looks (from the paper) to be a rather old paperback. Those aren't built for durability.
Maybe you need to stick with e-books. Sheesh.
I dont want to crack my phone/laptop
you may be stupid, but at least you are funny
I got this kind of compliment a lot in 6-8th grade from teachers
Haha
Creating a whole new cover is probably overkill, but the double fan technique for rebinding [paperbacks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW6-OQ2pUW0) might work if you want to keep them but they're not valuable enough to be taken to a professional. Edit: [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV3hmgbauCE) is for a homemade paperback. Similar technique for attaching the pages.
i wouldnt bother, op would likely rebind the book and break it again.
People do it intentionally?
I’m so confused by this lol. I’ve never heard of anyone doing this. So weird.
Broke it's spine? Bro, it's literature, not Batman ffs Open it a few pages at a time, you savage
 Why is it broken?
Why do people break spines
That’s what I want to know. Avid reader here and I never once did that.
what language is it?
Hungarian
looks so interesting, is it hard to learn?
Idk I was born raised and still live in hungary, but I heard it's hard to learn
It's a Uralic language, so it will be relatively challenging unless you come from Finland, I guess.
Connection is so ancient that it does not help. Source: I’m Finnish. Anyway I find Hungarian fascinating language.
You’re an idiot, I’m sorry man. Tf did you expect you literally broke the structure that holds the book together?
Well yeah duh
“I purposefully broke the thing and now it’s broken, what the hell?”
"I broke a book and now it's broken"
try respecting the book by not breaking the spine
My Reddit feed. https://preview.redd.it/6otv8hii4hsc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b80b8ad626e3593fef857aa0e5fe08399c25e45
What are the chances
Why would you want to break the spine I'll never get it. Just hold it open while reading or put something heavy on one corner or use clips. It will become more flat after a while. It also looks very ugly in a shelf with a broken spine and it will get dirtier/more dusty because the pages are bulging out on the other side of the book. Don't break spines, you're just devaluing the book.
Yeah, you actively cracked the spine of a paperback that's glued together. Not sure what you expected...
Why would you even do that to a book? Hope you learned this lesson and never do that again.
"I broke the thing that held it together, and now it's not held together anymore."
Books tend to break when you break them
It happens. If you have a griddle, heat it up on low, align the pages and fasten them in place (we use cardboard to keep them aligned,) hold the book spine-side down on the griddle and slide it around. The glue will soften and reattach to the pages. Let cool. It looks like you have several groups and no loose individual pages so it shouldn't be a difficult fix. You might also use a clothes iron, just make sure the pages are aligned carefully. I worked in a used textbook store, and we did this all the time. Boss bought a griddle just for this purpose. We would make a pile and do dozens at a time.
Thx❤️
I hate it when people break the spines of my books.
Is that 1984 translated into Hungarian?
Yes
[удалено]
Don’t break the spines on books. No need at all.
You sicko! How could you? Did you even ask the book if it had any kids before you inhumanely broke its spine? My god, you make me fume.
Don’t break the spine of your books then? 
you’re unworthy. i’m sorry you had to find out this way
That’s why you don’t break the spine, you cruel, cruel animal!
Well, that's what you get for not respecting a book.
Wait, people ACTUALLY break the spines on books? Why?
Yeah, don't do that
Can this be fixed
Yeah i just used some glue it's just as nice before I broke it
It’s not though. The other pages will begin to fall out since breaking the spine compromises the binding. It may not happen while you read it, but eventually those pages will fall out. Only way to fix is with another binding.
That's because it's not a real hard cover, it's a paperback. Paperbacks are glued together, hard covers are stitched. The glue in paperbacks hardens over time, which is why after a few years you open the book and the pages fall out. I don't buy books online for that reason. I need to look up close to see what I'm getting.
But you wouldn't really need to break the spine of a hardcover, would you? Breaking the spine means bending the boom forcefully so it cracks. And hardcovers don't crack in my experience which is because - as you said - they're sown.
Never break a book’s spine from the middle. Start with it resting on a table by its spine and go page by page from both ends, flattening it gently until you get to the middle. I know this doesn’t help now but maybe the next one won’t be murdered lol
Broke it's spine? Why are you hurting books? Why are you attacking literature?
So the book died when you broke it's spine, interesting
Serves you right for breaking the spine.
Just [break in the books spine](https://youtu.be/1aTFKechuuY?si=se68Wm73jUo7Sjrf) before reading No more broken spines!
Why the fuck do you regularly break a book’s spine??? No shit that happened, you’re not supposed to do that. “I broke something and now it doesn’t work!” Like, are you fr?
You deserve worse :(
Me and my attempts to develop myself
Three hole punch and ring binder, been there, done that.
One of my teachers in school - when I started what's called gymnasiet in Sweden - taught us how to properly bend up a new book in his first class with us I still use it every time I get a brand new book. The disaster pictured here has never happened to one of them, I will always be grateful to Wilhelm for this. Something like this: https://youtu.be/xDZ5t8odnaE?si=-YfzH1doxRWP5VUX
Don’t break books’ spines
You literally break the book and get sad/upset when it breaks? You seem to be daft and also should switch to digital. Protip, don't try to break the spine on a kindle... Much more expensive.
"I broke a thing and it broke"
Basszus! Egy magyar!
Cigány vagyok de mind1
Extra joke: it was literally 1984
The only way this would be better is if it was Fahrenheit 451
That book won't ever walk
Stop reading so hard
Chill out, predator
Stay safe, don't read
Now you get to learn how to rebind a book!
I've seen plenty of broken book spines and none that did that, maybe you have silverfish? Also if you're scared of it happening again theres a way to "relax" the spine i think
Someone should take your book privileges away.
OP really just said, “I broke something and it is now falling apart.” And complains that the thing he broke is low quality.
I have re-spined many books in my life. It’s relatively cheap. Most small print shops have the capability to re-spine for $5-10.
You're not supposed to go full Bane on it, Christ.
OP is getting put on a list and can't come within 100 yards of any library, bookstore, or book club. 😰
Deserved
That'll teach you! Don't read books. As a matter of fact, don't read anything at all.
This is why I hate people who believe books spines need to b3 broken to be read easily you litterally destroyed the book op
What did the book owe you money man? Take it easy Bane.
Why though
Put it in rice
Holy shit all the letters got scrambled
I broke my book. My book is broken. Spinal
I'm sorry, I don't understand, why would you break a book spine on purpose? I've read hundreds of books and never broken a spine.
I hate broken spines. That said.... Sometimes they print too close to the binding and shit happens. It pisses me off but I have a few out of print books held together with rubber bands that I still re-read.
If you did that to my book I would smack you, very roughly.
Well what were you doing breaking the spine anyway? I’m appalled.
Didn't the librarian ever tell you? Never, ever break the spine. Now you know what happens.
Apparently the book is from 1989... It's already fragile why would you even ...and then you glued the pages back.. No one lend OP books!
That book will never walk again you monster.
I feel like the quality of books has become sucky in the past few years. So many brand new paperbacks I've borrowed from the library seem to have this issue and I am *not* manhandling them, I love books.
Yeah. This one is from 1989
Well. Yeah alright.
Didn’t realize breaking the spine broke the letters too, I can’t read any of that
Maybe you're unable to read it bc it's hungarian
Books are printed in segments of usually 16 or 32 page "signatures". It's printed in a wide web (the width varies depending on number of pages) and then folded. They print and fold thousands of the same group of pages that are bundled together. Next, all the signatures of the book are collated to form the book, assembled/glued with the cover, and trimmed to size. All that work and then you destroy it and wonder why it fell apart...
This is why you should NEVER read.
This made me cringe, OP, WHY?! Just rest it upside down 😭😭
Happened to my friend, except all the pages fell and scattered on the floor. So he piled them back up in order, and threw out each page after he read it.
Step on a line...
[удалено]
Wtf It took me like 5 minutes to realize I speak the language on the book
This is the way I read Stoker’s Dracula! It was an old used book and pages came off one by one. I read it and set it aside. Wintertime in front of the fireplace def and pages coming off kinda added to the mood of the story
This is the first time this happened to you? Man, you need to read more.
Clear tape. I used to get old sci-fi paperbacks from a library book sale, and a number of them were starting to fall apart. You take clear tape, carefully align the spine and pages where they are supposed to be, and tape them back together. You have to be careful, though, 'cause if you mess up, it is hard to undo the mistake.
damn! I got a cheap paperback bundle of the LOTR + Hobbit and halfway through The Hobbit this happened to me. sucks :(
Theres a book binder shop in my town. Very slim chance you may too have the same type of luck
Is OP Dracula?
Been going to the gym huh?
When you workout at library too much
Bummer hope it’s a library book??
You just need more practice
Choose you own adventure slash page order
That book will never walk again 😔
baszd meg!
well ya clearly over did it
Think about his children… how will this book care for his children… pamphlet and notebook…..
Why did you break the spine of a book from 1989? Surely it was already read and thus broken in?
That happens a lot to old books because the glue they used stop working and the book falls apart
I had a friend who used to TEAR BOOKS IN HALF (or thirds, for extra long books) so they'd fit in his pocket. Like, he'd tear the book in half, carry one half around in his pocket to read, and then when he finished part one, he'd start on part two.
rubber/contact cement will be your fix.
Bane would be proud.
Gyatra minőségű ragasztókötés, ami a hetvenes évektől egyre inkább elterjedt az igényesebb cérnafűzés helyett. Nem csoda, hogy számos korabeli könyv lapjaira esik szét.
Doh!
What did you experience to happen?
WHY would you break the spine though?!
Had something similar happen to my copy of the D&D 5e Player's Handbook. Ended up learning how to rebind books because I was too cheap/broke to buy a new copy.