29 Pictures Only Book Lovers Will Understand

When you're in the middle of so many books.

Posted on July 17, 2015, 13:40 GMT

Jamie Jones

BuzzFeed Staff

1. When you're in the middle of reading way too many books.

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2. So your bedside table ends up covered in books

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3. And so does practically ever other surface.

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4. When you can't find a bookmark and you're forced to improvise.

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5. Or when you're truly stuck and have to resort to the dreaded dog ear.

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6. When you visit a fellow reader's house and suffer serious bookcase envy.

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7. When your favourite book gets turned into a movie.

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8. And a new edition of the book gets released with a horrible cover.

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9. When you accidentally break a book's spine.

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10. Or bend a book's cover.

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11. Or even worse, the cover just completely falls off somehow.

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12. When you mourn the death of a fictional character.

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13. When you have no space for new books.

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14. But you keep buying new ones anyway.

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15. When you decide to rearrange your books and realise just how much your book hoarding has gotten out of hand.

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16. And you can't settle on a way to organise your books.

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17. When a book has an unpeelable sticker on it.

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18. When you can't decide which book to read next.

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19. Or when someone asks you the impossible: To pick just one favourite book.

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20. When you try, and ultimately fail, to read while walking.

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21. When you go on holiday and struggle to choose which books to take with you.

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22. And inevitably end up questioning just how many books you can actually take with you.

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23. When you see a book cover so beautiful, you just have to own it.

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24. Which often leads to you owning multiple copies of the same book.

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25. When you pass a used bookstore and end up spending money on even more books.

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26. And when you find a personal message inside an old book, and end up spending an unhealthy amount of time wondering about the lives of the writer and recipient.

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27. When you want to finish a book you love, but you don't want it to end.

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28. So you end up rereading it to the point where the book starts falling apart.

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29. And finally, the painful task of waiting for the next book in a series

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