BuzzFeed recently ran a good-to-hilarious-to-painfully-true expose on the “25 Signs You’re Addicted To Books,” with staffer Summer Anne Burton contributing insights and visuals from the exquisite to the excruciating. And for avid e-book readers, the takeaway is that your Kindle habit is not going to make the addiction any less urgent—only less obvious.
What reader, for instance, could fail to recognize themselves in this reference to the subtle influence of books on your mood:
Or letting books be the guide to everything—even those you don’t really need books for:
That said, there are some symptoms that the Kindle era is leaving rapidly behind:
Or rendering increasingly vain:
Still, there are some that an e-book reader is going to have to think hard about exhibiting:
Thanks, BuzzFeed! Check it out and enjoy totting up your symptoms.