Personal pop-culture rules

I just cannot bring myself to purchase new hardcover books. Partly it’s the price—$25 for a freakin’ book? You’d think trees are scarce or something!—but I also can’t stand the fact that a) dust jackets, as lovely as they can be, always slip off in my hands and get ripped way too easily, and b) hardcovers are needlessly heavy and portability-challenged, especially if I’m already hauling a laptop around in my bag. Personal pop-culture rules