/lit/ - Literature

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>>16481642
>ywn have a smoke with him while talking about aesthetics
Why even live?

King's Inns library in Dublin

>>16481642
Please note the presence of lamps - they're basically Caps Lock for Comfy, lighting a room correctly is very important for atmosphere. I've stopped using the ceiling lights in my apartment and now just use lamps for this reason

pbuh

>you'll never have a comfy personal library

>>16481658

>>16481664
It's not too late, anon. Most books that aren't super obscure can be found on ebay for $5 - $10 dollars

>>16481664
You can start today anon. All it takes is a real wood shelf, poor lighting and a lot of books in various states of decay

>>16481685
Okay, but out of all the options available, what kind of uncomfortable seating do you recommend?

>>16481642
Rest in peace Roger, the world didn't deserve you.

>>16481681
Or Abebooks.com where they're $3 to $5.

>>16481716
No sweatie, you must have a comfy armchair

But not like an ikea one, get an old fucked up second hand one

Optional extras
>drinks cabinet (wood)
>open fire
>curtains
>carpet or hardwood floor
>lamps (for the poor lighting)
>musical instrument of some kind

>>16481758
Pith helmet
Maps
Chess set
Weird tribal African artifacts

>>16481776
I have a Brazilian tribal headdress made with feathers from an extinct bird. That was one hell of a trip through customs

>>16480015
Where is this? France? Austria? Looks very catholic (and comfy)

>>16481776
Globe
Astrolabe
Tasteful ceiling mural
Free-standing magnifying glass
Telescope

>>16482122
Udine

Inner Temple. Scruton presumably studies here during his abortive attempt to become a barrister.

>>16482768
There's too much tension when you enter those libraries. It's hard to feel at home.

>>16482768
>fancy library with tons of rare and expensive reference material
>the dudes are just on their laptops and phones
Why did they even go to the library?

>>16482811
You should ask them. Most libraries are filled with people like that nowadays.

>>16482768
I thought he qualified, no?

>>16482811
He's probably working on something which requires both. Also some chambers don't have access to both big databases.

>>16482802
I'm doing the course this year (paid for by an inn dw im not wasting my own money) any no bullshit advice on getting pupillage which you couldn't say in a non anonymous environment?

>>16482811
they're clearly working and may need the reference material

>>16482811
An example might be that they have a case online they're reading, but need to know what statutes were in force at the time which might affect the case law - old statutes are sometimes hard to find reliably online.

>>16482866
I think he did pass but never practiced

>>16482993
Are you from there, anon?

Daily reminder that we need a /britlit/ general

>>16483327
You already have the entire /lit/ for that

>>16483411

>>16483411
shoo comfy goblin shoo

>>16481664
>get job to afford house and make library
>after work too tired to spend much time in it and read stuff that requires actual thought

>>16483537
That's why you only make library when you're old

>>16483411
That staircase doesn't look very safe

The Soulful skytower >>16483411 versus the Souless earthblock >>16483435.

Mundane architectural environment fosters mundane thinking.

>>16483316
No sorry anon, i was there in August, i wouldve rather uploaded the pic i took there myself but it is over 4mb and i cant bothered to reduce it.
I liked bologna it was so very full of niggers they really made it awful

>tfw enrolled in oldest university in my country (1575)
>Completly botched anti-comfy modern library

My family actually owns this.
I live stateside, but I’m a dual citizen and whenever I head back to the UK I stay with my aunt in her castle. She has a little over 6k volumes.
My own library is a far different aesthetic.

>>16483776
The difference being that the first has seating for one, and the other is a community library. Neither look soulful imo.

>>16483848
I know anon... such a beautiful and ancient city ruined by niggers and leftists... I'm so sorry. Here is a pic of the University library to lift our spirits.

>>16483952
Wow. That's awesome. Do you have a photo without the warm tones?

>>16481657
many people don't understand the tyranny of overhead lighting.

>>16481653
Reckon people'd do if someone just climbed up on that there round table and dropped a log?

univ. of michigan law library.

>>16481657
This will probably be the most imp0ortant post in this whole thread. Give me a reminder, where was that from, I think I read it somewhere years ago, and it was
>enlightening

>>16482604
Trash. Too much natural light will fuck those books just like the permanent stacking. Only a pseud would live like that.

univ. of michigan law library.

>>16484862
How does permanent stacking ruin your books?

>Only a pseud would live like that.
We all agree on that

>>16481652
Because you might see him in heaven =)

>>16480095
Hate that furniture
>>16482604
Nice

>>16481658
>>16481667
Who is this?

>>16484885
Too much weight on the face or back leads the spine to diagonally shift and bent. I'm collecting antiquarian books and it's sadly very common, even with leather bound hardbacks.

>>16481653

Souless white

>>16484921
That's not a problem if you stack softcover books though

>>16481664
Dark-stained bookshelves and used bookstores, Anon. We're all gonna make it.

>>16485105
It's even worse, the glued spine will bend even quicker. But than again, people who buy softcovers, don't buy to last.

>Bibliothèque Richelieu, France

>>16485270

>>16485270
>>16485283

>>16485177
Meh, it depends. I'm lucky to live out of the Anglosphere so I don't have to buy shitty Penguin editions. Some softcovers can be crafted very well and be durable as hardcovers.

>>16485302
>Some softcovers can be crafted very well and be durable as hardcovers.
No. Your paperback doesn't even have Fadenheftung, but will be glued. Glue is aalways temporaly and will dry, break and fuck up the spine after a certain amount of time, no matter how gentle you handle them. The best you can cheaply buy are hardcovers in Fadenheftung (sheets bound with thread instead of glue).

>>16485365
I'm pretty sure you're saying that because the books they sell in your country (no offense) are shit. I assume you're a native English speaker, like the vast majority of 4chan's user base, and I know what I'm talking about because I lived in the US for some months and the books I used to buy there were terrible. Not the hardcovers though, I seriously can't speak ill of them because they're objectively excellent. In my country (in Europe by the way) there's a couple publishing houses (not many) that print extremely good softcover editions where the glue never changes with the change of temperature (it remains unaffected even in a range from -40° to +100°) and it can last for decades. Books from these publishing houses are still sold on eBay and they're still perfect or in mint condition even if they were printed in the 1960s. It's all about the quality of the products you use. It's common knowledge that certain glues can virtually last forever. And, by no coincidence, you will spend 30-40€ on the average for one of these books.

Hardcovers from the 19th century are usually derelicts anyway, so your argument immediately falls apart.

small buddhist library i spent a lot of time in growing up (:

>>16486114
I'm german, we literally invented books, which is why I am clearly using german terms.
>Fadenheftung
Don't speak about the long-livety of shitty glue, when you can't speak from experience. I collect antiquarian books and also buy many current publications. Glue is simply inferiour. There is by definition no glue which would even be equal to thread bound books. They might seem in mint condition because they have never been read. Try to read them and sooner than later they will simply break. Especially the glues from the past, the synthetics, are prone to it.

>Hardcovers from the 19th century are usually derelicts anyway
I have books from the early 18th century, I think 1711 the earliest. They are still fine as tey are threaded, leather bound and stored properly and despite reading them regularly. You don't know shit about what you are talking. No wonder you argue for fucking glued shit.

>>16486215
Wow, falling for the illusion that something will last forever just because it has a fucking thread on it. I thought Germans were smarter.

For your own library it is sufficient that a book will last for the time of your life, and I'm sure that the excellent books I was talking about will. The rest doesn't matter.

>>16486272
Are you retarded? Glue wont even last a third read. I collect for my family, for generations and if there is the possibility of buying hardcovers, I buy them, because they are superior in every way. Anybody which publishes actually important books, will make sure to publish threaded hardbacks, after the plebs have bought the paperbacks.

Last but not least, we were talking about longelivety as well as their ability to remain "in form", which obviously is where paperbacks fuck up. If you're a poorfag, it's fine, but don't get so defensive about your inability to purchase actual books.

>>16486329
I also have a personal library.
I agree that stacking is terrible and generally admire your standards. I believe we collect for slightly different (though shared, too) reasons, so our collections are vert different materially; but let me ask: why do you collect antiquarian books? Are there certain subjects that you collect in specifically? How long have you been collecting/how big is your library?

Give me the stacks any day:

Low ceilings, quite hum of air control, comfy chair in a quiet corner, polished industrial floor...

>>16483540
An advantage of this too is that when you're old you're less likely to move around. Moving boxes upon boxes of books can be a bit annoying.

>>16486329
>Anybody which publishes actually important books, will make sure to publish threaded hardbacks
Almost all major publishers use PUR-glue for their hardcovers at this point, they just hide it using a fake endband. Sewn binding is dead outside boutique and art book publishers.

>>16486355
I have multiple interests, mainly historical (in regards too nurture, culture and folksways). I sporadically collecting for 8 years, seriously only since three - now that money isn't an issue anymore. Currently I'm building UV-protective plexi-glas in wooden frame doors for my library to protect the older ones from light and dust. I don't count them, but I guess 10 shelves of purely antiquarian ones (1950 and older, mainly 19th century). But than again, I also have many fakesimilies and reproductions when an edition is simply unattainable. So all in all maybe 18-20 shelves of inheritange. But the longer one collects, the longer the lists of still not-owned editions get.

My favorite is a 1920 three-volume german literary lexikon, which is a great way to enlist more, lesser known works, as well as the "leader through opera" which began my journey through theatre and classical music.

>>16486427
Glued hardcovers are cancer, but I only once have bought such a book by mistake. Usually it's mainly pop science or YA tier which gets raped like that. Even lesser works, not even costing 20€ get threaded.

>>16486430
OK anon, very interesting, more questions; what is your hope with this? Is their an endgame in view? Are you collaborating with anyone else/any institutions?
Are you retired/is this your sorta main gig? What was/is your profession?

>>16486329
This >>16486427 . I never said that I prefer buying softcover books over hardcover books. (Of course I buy hardcovers, they're better in every way, also aesthetically). What I was saying is that certain softcovers can last as long as books with sewn binding, and you know it when they cost at least 25€. It's not something I'm claiming out of nowhere, it's common knowledge even among bookmakers. Polyurethanic glue lasts for decades and it's not less resistant than sewn binding. You can clearly see this in school manuals. They're all made with PUR glue and they never crack or lose pages even if children slam and beat them and treat them like shit.

There is, indeed, a reason if some book publishers nowadays only use that kind of binding.

>>16486440
With this post you basically disqualified yourself from the discussion, because you admitted you have zero knowledge of the present state of publishing industry.

>>16483537
read before work

I miss my old university library. Had lots of comfy areas to sit and read and admire other passers by as well.

>>16486440
>Usually it's mainly pop science or YA tier which gets raped like that.
The german first edition of gulag archipelago got that treatment. I also just looked and I have hardcover YA books from the last decade that are threadbound.

>>16486736
You shouldn't be allowed to enter a university library with your legs completely naked.

>>16486769
Id rather allow naked legs than flip-flops.

>>16486756
Ironically, until a couple of decades ago it was much more likely for an hardcover to be used for YA novels than philosophical or academic books.

>>16486736
I miss Powell, though I think I spent more time in the Young Library, which I found to be less crowded and therefore more comfy. Miss having good library access and ability to get inter-library loan books.

>>16486780
Feet are part of the legs, so they shouldn't be naked as well.

>>16486808
Fair enough.

>>16486209
cool

>>16486803
Fair enough. I spent far more time in Young than I did Powell, but for general ambiance the second floor reading area in the picture, and then the basement level reading area surrounded by the stacks with the windows out the back of the building were both super comfy, and I preferred them for just general reading than anywhere in Young.

>>16486808
If feet are part of legs, then the girl in the picture doesn't have completely naked legs because she is wearing shoes.

>>16487153
>>16486836
>>16486808
>>16486769

The UCL law library is pretty comfy. I caused a huge shitstorm by posting several times on an anonymous messages FB page that non law students needed to fuck off out of our space and take their mickey mouse degrees with them.

>>16487144
>super comfy

Ever go over to the little cafe area with the fireplace at Lu Valle Commons kind of by Young?

Nothing beats Knuth

>>16487299
I don't recall the fireplace, but I would go to Lu Valle to grab lunch or a coffee every now and then.

Graduated in '05 though so it has been a while and I don't know if things have changed significantly since then.

>>16487281
well done. its important that UCL stundents have a safe space where they can hide from the fact that people with "mickey mouse degrees" account for about half of newly qualified lawyers in the UK

Real Gabinete Português de Leitura, in Rio de Janeiro
It would be a very confy place if the tourists

>>16487425
*if it wan't for the tourists

>>16487386
People with conversions have a first degree and a law degree.

There were people doing art history using the law library and using 2 seats with their massive books man.

>>16487463
usually only a GDL though, if you want to be a barrister or solicitor, which is just a year.

also i sympathise with that, you'd think that there's an art library at UCL. but also it's a library, it's for everyone if they wanna do research, long as they act respectful.

>>16487495
It's 2 years worth of content though (all the mandatory modules to qualify), that's why it destroys those people's social lives for a year.

I just started spreading out in the art library to fuck with them.

>>16487538
ngl, i study history of art and english lit (tacked on HoA cause why not) and about 70% of the people on my course are insufferable and walk around with massive art books to flex. the law library at my uni is really comfy and i spend a fair amount of time there as i'm in my final year and writing diss. on cencorship, also seriously considering doing a GDL after graduating.

pic related, law library at my uni.

>>16486209
What kinds of books did they have there?

>>16480015
Greetings from old America

King’s College Library at Cambridge.

>>16484905
>Who is this?
Gustavo Bueno (pbuh)

>>16488051
Attempting again

>>16488065
>>16488051

>>16487654
sutta, language learning stuff, general religion and philosophy

>>16488079
based retarded cambridge student

>>16486366
Excellent taste, especially when they have the automatic lights that turn off after a while, it gives the stacks a moody feel. Unfortunately mine are closed and request-only due to coronavirus, I'm starting to really miss them.

>>16486526
The discussion was about stacking, later about glue being equal to threading. Non of those discussions has anything to do with moderns trying to cut money whereever they can and you people buying their filth.
>>16486756
First editions are mainly paperback, the hardbacks only come in when the publisher sees a wider market, which I already said. And it is why I have the hardcover edition from 1974.

>>16489226
I took the picture some time ago, and there was this strange thing where my previous phone would automatically flip all photos I took, then combine that with how phone posting on here also flips images sometimes and that's what happens.

>>16489336
I've seen this posted on here a couple of times and always have to do a double take to see if it's one of my photos, but it's not.

>>16489472
With raped like that I meant glued hardback.

>>16489336
That’s a beautiful library.
>>16489578
Oh, you’re one aisle in

>>16480015
>>16480095
>>16480131
You know, it was a real kms moment when I found out how these libraries come about. Rich people never actual read any of those books on the shelves, they buy them by weight en-masse to make for some nice decor or as a "cool" present for their friends. Thats why all the books look the same. None of them ever get read. I get quite sad thinking about it.

>>16490378
I was living my life so happily thinking you'd necked yourself already.

>>16487639
You get a pass then my dude

>>16490395
You're simply a pleb which doesn't understand why people invest in a private library. Your kind uses read books as decoration, those "unread volumes" on the other hand are there to be able to go into your own library, and pick a book by your own taste, to browse through and find something you want to read from a wide range of your very own special interests. In modernity this concept is called anti-library, because so many uncivilized posers have taken a collection of read bragging material to mean a library. Those people you think you can look down upon, are actually reading more than those posing shelf threaders, which make a point to only show off what they have actually read.

t. semi-rich faggot with a privat library

>>16490682
I've been working on a library like that even though I'm a poorfag (student). I buy every book that seems slightly interesting to me when I'm at the market.

>Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents

>>16490995
Very good decision. But skip to used books, if available in your location. Much, much cheaper and classics will be in a much better quality.

imagine having an entire building of books when you can just have a Kindle

OMEGALUL

>>16489226
kek

>>16490682
Uh you haven't really said anything here relevant to the conversation. The guy you quoted raised a real point, that people buy books by weight to decorate their living rooms. You can call him pleb and retard but he's right.

>>16491021
imagine having entire buildings dedicated to serving food when you can just have huel

>>16491105
Mini IQ test

Fill in the blanks:
1. ebooks are to books as _____ is to food.

Your answer:
huel

Your IQ score:
91

>>16491099
>>16490395
He’s right about some people, sure. He’s universalize go is totally off.

Rich people, poor people—both read, both don’t. The rich people that collect massive libraries? It’s just as mixed.

That he/you would assume the world is simply a certain “way” instead of a multiplicity of “ways” is the greatest indicator that he/you, whether rich or poor, are almost certainly in the “no-read” group.

I know this because I have a 25k private library and know other wealthy anons who have similar endeavors.
I’m guessing it’s simply not a world that you have a real window into.

>>16491099 #
>>16490395 #
He’s right about some people, sure. His universalizing is totally off.

Rich people, poor people—both read, both don’t. The rich people that collect massive libraries? It’s just as mixed.

That he/you would assume the world is simply a certain “way” instead of a multiplicity of “ways” is the greatest indicator that he/you, whether rich or poor, are almost certainly in the “no-read” group.

I know this because I have a 25k private library and know other wealthy anons who have similar endeavors.
I’m guessing it’s simply not a world that you have a real window into.

>>16491132
That's 166 bookcases. 133meters of wallspace. Do take a pic showing at least part of it.

>>16491145
Yes I've noticed left-wing people claim that the rich have expensive rare books on their shelves to signal their intellect. But I've also heard right-wing people say that they're the only ones that read, because working class homes don't contain books. The truth is the size of your library doesn't correlate positively with how much you read - after a certain point it's all show.

>>16491099
I explained to people like you why such great quantities of unread books, don't mean the people only collect without reading, just because the amounts go over the heads of most poor fucks. You can very easily differentiate people collecting for decoration (topics make no sense, no paperbacks or fucked up editions in between the expansive ones, sorted by colour or pure aesthetic value) from those selecting for an anti-library.

>>16491152
Are you asking me to post a pic? I keep my books underground primarily.

>>16491160
I agree that there does not have to be a correlation—what I’m saying is that there is a correlation at times, and that correlation shouldn’t surprise anyone. This idea that the rich only have a library for show and tell is dumb. It depends on who you are—like virtually everything else in this world. It’s just this blindness that the poor take toward the rich that i question.
Outside the city, I live in a 17k sq/ft barn complex. I have maybe 2 small bookcases that people walking around my place would actually see; the entire library is hidden underground. Not for show.

>>16491172
Ah I see you're regurgitating Taleb's nonsense. Sorry, I don't think a physical shelves of unread books is necessary to make me feel intellectually curious.

>>16480015
Man so much delicious flammable material in this thread.. really makes me want to unleash some fire and watch all of this burn to ashes... nothing more beautiful and erotic than burning a musty old volume...and I really love the smell of old paper burning

>>16491210
If I had a time machine I'd burn down the rest of the Alexandria library.

>>16491192
There’s also the impulse of the rich that you totally, totally ignore: the idea that i would own a library, a gym, a theater, even—all in my own house. Convenience? Sure.
But a lot of it is that we don’t have to run into filth like you. I could tell you: go to a library, educate yourself. What does that involve for you? Don’t know, don’t care. For me, i need to walk downstairs. Do you get the difference now?

Jesus, plebs are really gonna pleb.

>>16483860
Sorry to hear that, anon. I was actually looking forward for Leiden (aiming to apply for a MA. At least the academic community is still decent, r-r-right?

By the by, what degree are you doing?

>>16491192
Taleb counted the term, the kind of mindset is centuries older. It's not about intelectual curiosity. It's about availability. For example, where I'm from, our public libraries are absolutel gutter oil shit full of hobos and kids. 90% of the books I own are completely unknown or not even available in the native language. This is why I started importing and collecting by my topics of interests. Usually I buy 10-15 books covering a specific field when I feel like it, read a couple and insert the others into the appropiate shelf to be available once I feel like reaidng topic X again. This way I only need to go to my private library and can just as well change my mind and get another one, if I don't like the first couple pages. It also makes finding rare gems much more likely.

Naturally this method leads to 40% of the books I won being unread, but that's the point. I also regularly gift away read but not too interesting books, which aren't worth storing for my childen. But than again, I rarely let anybody into my library, so bragging is an non-issue.

People being poor and begrudging always look to trash talk their better and to increase the value of their own lowly actions (like owning an ereader and pirating books). Instead you could simply ask to benefit from people like us, as I said, I regularly give books by the laundry basket. Being nice gets you further than trying to be a cunt.

>>16491242
Oh my God shut the fuck up! Your posts are obnoxious, and even all the books in the world couldn't make you less of an asshole.

And this isn't even about reading for you, it's about telling other people about your fucking made up underground library. If you cared about books you wouldn't be calling people plebs when they have 50,000 books on their hard drive. Dumb fuck.

>>16491265
>bitches about people having more books than they read
>when they have 50,000 books on their hard drive
If you would have the money and place you would be exactly like us, so obviously that's why you are so angry, becausse you must make do with fucking ereaders kekerino.

>>16491252
I have about £120,000 in savings and I own two properties which I rent for £4,000 a month each. I could very very easily turn one of these properties into a library and stock it with thousands of books, making it look like of these nice libraries you seen the photos here.

Yet I still only use digital books on an e-reader. Money has nothing to do with this. It's a choice based on pragmatism. You find this difficult to understand and make confused arguments.

>>16491274
>me me me money money money
Read text above. You've just outed yourself as both intellectually and financially poor.

the posters above who seem to only be able to talk about how much better they are for owning a library have proved that people who own large libraries are egotistic plebs

>>16491287
Exactly, read the posts from the guy with the imaginary underground library. Nobody who reads a lot could be this much of an asshole. And the rhetoric in this post >>16491252 is the kind you find in pseudointellectual teenagers.

>>16491280
Only a poorfag would make up their riches. It's like wearing a blinky blink Rolex because you're too poor to have the self-confidence to rock some non-obvious expansive item or even cheap shit.

And you now what makes it even more hilarious? How unbelievably butthurt and angry you get over other peoples private collections.

>>16491291
>>16491287
Get a (cheap) room.

>>16491291
Yeah I hate him to but that’s rapture
It’s not imaginary
He’s been posting for years. Extremely richfag.

>>16481652
smoking is a shit tier addiction

>>16491291
>>16491318
He hasn't even read a tiny amount of the books he owns, hard to find someone more pseud than that

>>16491222

>>16491358
>assuming anything about how much I read
Plebs gonna pleb. Glad I don’t have to deal with trash like you IRL.
Do you see how you make it just so easy to be a “rich ass hole”? Either I don’t read, I’m a pseud, I’m a total fake with imaginary stuff; or I’m just insufferable for owning it.
You’re just sad and resentful.

>>16491291
>imaginary
pykewater.com/reading-lists

Ima go right ahead and preempt some of your bullshit: my shelves are selected very specifically. I move my library all the time between residences. The entire floor is atmosphere controlled. Whatever stacks I photographed were temporary—I don’t stack and think it damages books.

Either way, your attempt to just deny anything you cant conceive of someone else actually owning as “imaginary” is pathological.

>>16491445
>I don’t stack and think it damages books
Finally a non pseud. No surprise people on here get so absolutely assmad.

God I love how this board can fight about anything.

>>16487425
São Paulo > Rio. Faggot

>>16491274
>>16490682
> so many uncivilized posers have taken a collection of read bragging material to mean a library

this shit is just insufferable. good for you that you can afford to buy a wide selection of books for you to peruse and read new things, but the fact that you rag on people who will have a library of their read books just shows says a lot about you.

your collection is sick and i respect that. you clearly care about curating that collection but it's seems like it's not enough for you to have the fortune of a large personal library without shitting on people for being "plebs" etc. it just feels like your actual interest in those books is ony really merited by the fact that you see other people as beneath you.

libraries are for people to learn from, research and study. shitting on people less fortunate than you just defeats the purpose of that.

>>16491445
you are insufferable. all i can say is stay in your fucking basement because WE'RE the ones glad we don't have to deal with bottom feeders like you IRL

>pykewater library
All that shit can be found online < 5 second google search lmao

>>16491523
>>16491531
Plebs gonna pleb.
See ya boys, it’s been a ball.

>>16491540
>pleb pleb pleb pleb pleb
what a waste of all those books. clearly none of them sunk in.

>>16491540
I'd honestly be surprised if this guy has read more than a dozen books a year. He's indistinguishable from a /pol/ shitposter.

>>16491522
I'm not the one you think I am, so maybe stop trying to psycho-analyse people, when you can't even differentiate their posts.

In regards to your points, seeing a natural hierarchy has nothing to do with being a bad human, as you want to claim. On the contrary, I never attacked people without them going out of their way to piss on things which are relevant to me, I share what I have with whoever asks for it, material goods and any other kind of help. The only reason why I said that many here are pathetic plebs, is due to their lowly character and clear ideological delusions. Which is the true mark differentiating him from the patrician individuals.

If you understand the point of a library than you clearly must understand why unread books are the ideal, not something to belittle people for. Especially if you have been told that some of us don't even have the possibility of a public library.

So, maybe just shut the fuck up about spreading envious bullshit about private collectors and let's enjoy nice libraries.

>>16491577
>>16491445
This hack has admitted before to only having read a handful of his books, he's the definition of poser.

>>16491632
Dude you mean how whenever someone asks me how many I’ve read and i reply that I’ve read 7, working on an 8th, and that 8th is phantom tollbooth which I hope to have completed by 2024–which is the only statement i make about how much I’ve read—you think that is serious? You, uh, can’t tell what sarcasm is?

Seriously man it’s this utterly low-level retardation that makes you such a pleb. Nothing to do with money, nothing to do with how many books one owns, everything to do with the fact that this type of poster >>16491523 uses the word “insufferable” because it’s the largest word he’s encountered all year and can’t figure out a better synonym.

Y’all are truly a joke.

>>16491660
It's obvious all those 7 books you've read were wasted time, you're just a spoiled rich kid who wants to score imaginary internet points on an imageboard for retards

>>16491677
Not him, but can you go be a bitchy cunt somewhere else and let us have a aesthetics thread, for fucks sake?

>>16491583
0 psychoanalysis is required to see what I wrote, my man. also I have no clue who you are, I was replying to >>16490682. (reply to >>16491274 was by mistake).

I never claimed that seeing natural hierarchy makes you a bad human. It's constructing an artificial hierarchy of pretension that makes you a shitty person, whether that be someone seeing themselves as better than others, or other people being jealous of richfags and screaming at them. Terms like "plebs", "lowly character" etc. are just retarded. I understand that you may only respond to attacks, but if you really are a "patrician individual", you can either disengage, or make a point that isn't based on outdated elitism.

I totally understand why unread books are the ideal. I never belittled anyone for it, on the contrary, I said that i respect those who have taken the time to curate something like that. I also strive for something similar. All i was saying is that there is 0 need to shit on people who have a different approach, or who can't afford to do it the same way as you. It gives people a bad image of you.

I have only respect for private collectors who share their libraries, and it makes me happy that you do that. However seeing pointless elitism is just as cringe as spreading that envious bullshit about private collectors. It's anti-academic and should be risen above.

>>16481652
>And then offer your boipucci as exchange for his precious time
Why even live

>>16491677
You sound like a whiny retard

>>16491305
(most) Women shouldn't own a library.

>>16491691
>clear words for subpar individuals are retarded
>just ignore insults and attacks
Just, nah. I also care as much about some randoms opinion, as I do about academia. Talk shit, get hit.

>>16491682
fuck off, tripfag
>>16491700
and so do you, whining retardedly about whiny retards

>>16491719
>I also care as much about some randoms opinion, as I do about academia.
Not him but you shouldn't do this, it's a waste of time.

>>16491745
You clearly deserve whatever position you have in life—which I’m guessing is a pretty low one.
Sad.

>>16491726
You clearly deserve whatever position you have in life—which I’m guessing is a pretty low one.
Sad.

>>16482604
my gosh that demon in the tree, im horrified

>>16486736
There is something repulsive about the modern college student. Everything about them, they way they dress, how they talk, their demeanor, interests, and hobbies; all of it screams that they shouldn't be at an institution dedicated to erudition and scholarship. What are they even doing there?

>>16491893
So much projection, anon, why do you feel the need to do that?

>>16491712
Ridiculous post. Most women don’t. Many more should.

>>16491986
>What are they even doing there?
idk studying probably

>>16491160
Whoever created this image made their insecurity palpable.

trent university library (ontario)

>>16490395
100+ years ago the great houses with big estates and whatnot would have a private curator to furnish their library. the old aristocracy actually cared about that kind of thing...though a lot of the men didn't read much either, usually the women read more

>>16491210
fuck off Montag

Way to derail a nice thread dickheads.

>>16492453
Honestly think there's a 50/50 chance of someone posting the oxford uni copypasta in this thread

>>16492083
>>16483776
>>16483411
Based brutalist anons, step aside baroquefags

ALL libraries should move towards rolling shelves or automation (all books pre scanned for browsing)
-less people standing around in aisles.
-less misplaced messes
-you can crush people with the shelves if they don't move
Public libraries should also join the university network in digitizing everything and allowing free accounts that can access from anywhere.

The library at my Uni is sliding down the campus hill. This engineering is sabotage by STEMmies im sure of it. They wanted revenge

>>16492595
this is a good example of why striving for efficiency can be pretty shit

>>16491017
Already did. I have a used books market in my city. Most books only cost 1€ no matter the age. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to afford it.
maps (dot) app (dot) goo (dot)/gl/HHsyi1PPAoT7Uer2A

>>16492632
ya internationalist style is mute
at least with brutalist or revival you get a reaction

>>16492595
Then you don’t get to browse though.

>>16483981
>...and the other is a community library.
That is no excuse; contrarily: communal facilities should foster a welcoming atmosphere, not a depressing one.

>>16492526
I like the autumnal baroque architectural style, especially in its communal manifestation, but I prefer the wintry brutalist architectural style for myself --it facilitates solitude better.

>>16491986
How would you like them to dress? I'd like for them to all be wearing plaids and tweeds but I think that ship sailed a few decades ago (and in southern california where that pictures is from those are far too warm regardless).

>>16491986
We expanded the pool of people we tell to go to college is part of it.

>>16491986
Having attended graduate school at UCLA myself, I’m not sure why I dressed even as formally as I did when I was there. I was always getting really sweaty because it’s in southern California, and a lot of the campus is just one big hill so you’re walking around all the time getting progressively hotter. I used to go into the bathroom stalls just to sit with my pants pulled down so the heat could radiate off my legs.

>>16483267
>tfw mother is a barrister but I never had any interest in it as a teen, so didn't study law
>now 30 and regretting it a bit
>could technically just go do it but it requires returning back home and spending either 3 years not getting paid or 5 years working part time before I can even start attempting to earn money as a barrister

>>16492083
Imagine posting this

>>16480015
Relatively near from where I live, there's a 1*th century library. The library belonged to the Cistercian monks.
I really wish I could make a visit there, but it's closed to anyone except for for book restoration or extraordinary consultations.

>>16495549
It's got to be hard to be a leaf.

>>16492595
Based NCSU

>>16495707
>It's got to be hard to be a leaf.

Don't worry, in a generation Canada will just be a bunch of Chinese people and then the real architectural brutalism will begin.

>>16495744
Honestly I like brutalism so I am OK with that. I can't imagine that the Chinese immigrants would settle anywhere other than the more temperate coasts and places like Vancouver though, so I would think the interior of Canada would still stay pretty sparse and white.

>>16480015
Don't miss out on God's free gift of eternal life /lit/