No one actually reads most the books that are sold

Yourself included, OP.

Keep trolling, OP.

Books only really look read/used if you carry them around with you. If you leave them on your bedside table, treat them well, and keep them away from food and drink, they continue to look virtually new, even paperbacks. Plenty of books on biblio.com and so on are described as "as new."

I was a huge bookworm as a kid (though partially as a way to escape a toxic home environment) but I now find myself downloading all these books to my kindle that I never ever read. Just possessing them gets the job done. My reluctance to immerse myself in books these days bugs me and is something I want to fix, but does seem pretty common

"most the"

Oh, dear!

Did someone say crack?

I take off the dust jacket of a hardcover when I read them.

I used to work in thrift shop when I was in high school and I remember us getting copy after copy of ‘A Million Little Pieces’ by James Frey after his controversy, which I can’t even remember what it was about.

I never crack the spines, breaks my mind.

R9 He lied about various things in the book.

Maybe the used bookstore is picky about the books they accept for resale. Maybe there are people capable of reading a book without wrecking it.

[quote] looked like the spine was never cracked.

That just shows how a book was mistreated. I bet you cracked them till they laid flat on the table and you read while you ate.

R4 your brain actually processes information differently on the screen than on the page so that’s why many bookworms struggle to adjust to ebooks