"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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So I've been reading Fire and Blood for a little bit now, and I'm enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. Just as much as Song of Ice and Fire for me, but as I said before I know this sort of history text type thing isn't for everybody.

But it reminds me of another advantage that hardcover books have - I'm really enjoying the illustrations that come with it. They really help hold the story together. A lot of the time each hardcover edition will have its own illustrations, or not have any. But they leave the illustrations out a lot of the time when the book gets published in paperback.

For hardcover books published from the 20th century onwards, the presence of a dust jacket and its condition also greatly affect value.
My original question was which was more important: The condition of the cover or the condition of the dust jacket? In other words, if you had to choose to put the wear on one or the other, which would be better?
 

“The 22 Rules That Flip the Script With Women… And How You Can Use Them Tonight”

Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.

Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers.  Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.

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So I've been reading Fire and Blood for a little bit now, and I'm enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. Just as much as Song of Ice and Fire for me, but as I said before I know this sort of history text type thing isn't for everybody.

But it reminds me of another advantage that hardcover books have - I'm really enjoying the illustrations that come with it. They really help hold the story together. A lot of the time each hardcover edition will have its own illustrations, or not have any. But they leave the illustrations out a lot of the time when the book gets published in paperback.


My original question was which was more important: The condition of the cover or the condition of the dust jacket? In other words, if you had to choose to put the wear on one or the other, which would be better?
The first bullet point mentioned the condition of the book, the fourth mentions the dust cover. I took that to mean the dust cover is less important.
 

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The spine is what's important to me, nothing I hate more than pages falling out even after I've read it (because maybe I want to lend it to someone else and who wants to read a book that's missing pages?).
 
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