[Quiet Man Cometh]

I can handle some "pre-wear" too. I don't mind buying pre-read books as long as the wear is light and the book is more or less in the shape - literal shape - it's suppopsed to be in. I hate it when spines end up at a slant, or books get flattened so much that the spine has apparently movied to the other side of the book and it opens more like a folder than a book. Ick! Can't stand pages falling out either.

Sheol, you think it would have come up but I guess talking about books doesn't take as much precedence as talking about what's in them. ;)

I do have a bit of a destructive streak too though. If a book I get is starting to look beyond hope, I have no qualms about taking my dad's read-an-toss approach or just ripping the thing in half and putting it out of it's misery. (So long as it's a reprint of course. ;))