/lit/ - Literature

>>17500358
http://b-ok.cc/
http://libgen.is/

>>17500358
nigga just get free pdf's.

>>17500358
>make some tea
>sit down
>take a sip
>ask yourself when are you actually going to read those books
>realise that you could have bought no books at all and there would be zero difference in reading time
>stop buying the books

>>17500371
I like having my own collection

>>17500358
Commit yourself to read at least one third of your haul before buying another batch, ez.

>>17500358
Honestly, do you actually read all those books?

>>17500403
Print out the pdfs. No, that doesn't work for you? Then you are just using the books as a prop to impress people. Go be vain on /fit/.

>>17500549
75% of the books I own are unread

>>17500549
Also
>Then you are just using the books as a prop to impress people
I have no friends, I keep all my books in my room so no one sees them, and I posted in shelf threads like twice.

>>17500358
Buy one $800 book a month, problem solved.

>>17500358
Unread books result in an afterlife where Fran Drescher reads the contents of every single one to you. I dunno if that's something you want to pay 800 a month for.

Ever heard of libraries?

Whenever I see something I like I order it from the Royal Library website and get an email notification when I can pick it up.

>>17500358
Buy an $800 ereader

Realise it's not scratching the itch you have and get a better itchy scratcher.

>>17500358
Must be fucking nice

>>17500540
>>17500549
>The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have! How many of these books have you read?” and the others — a very small minority — who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.
Both Taleb and Eco already figured it out: unread books are a good thing.

>>17500403
>>17500632
Consoooom

Fagget

>>17501334
Thanks I don't feel as bad anymore

If you're not poor then don't worry about it. A lot of people waste more money than that on far less useful things.

>>17501334
Honestly, bad take from Taleb on this one. Owning books isn't about potential knowledge but consumerism. People like OP get more enjoyment out of waiting for their Amazon package to arrive and stacking shelves, than they do from actually reading. The value they receive is from social signaling or roleplaying as an intellectual.

There is no reason to buy a book unless you plan to read it immediately, otherwise, put it in a list. If you need a giant shelf to motivate you to read, you should stop being a pseud and hang yourself from it.

>>17501454
If OP is using their likely large library as an "ego-boosting appendage" as Taleb describes, then perhaps you'd be right, but I prefer to assume good-faith and thus assume that OP is using it as a tool to remind themself of what they do not know.

>>17501506
He's asking for help stopping an 800/month shopping habit. I don't think reminding him he would have to spend far more to have a grasp on how much he doesn't know will help. That seems like the kind of thing that would kick his spending and hoarding habit up a gear.

>>17500403
Then pirate them first and buy hardcover the really-really good ones. Tard.

>>17501334
Not being a book publisher, I don't think I'm going to subscribe to the waste a hundred thousand dollars on stuff I'll never use philosophy.

>>17500358
books are expensive! i think people are being hard on you. just be like marie condo and donate whichever of your books that you no longer need/want to a thrift store

>>17500358
Spend $50 on heroin. Soon, you wont waste any money on books anymore.

>>17500358
Seriously how.
I have trouble parting with £100 for books and a few other necessities.
I put off that purchase for 2 months.

>>17500358
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
FAGGOT

>>17501334
This is pointless after the internet was invented.

>>17500632
Embarrassing. What’s the point of having a shelf full of unread books? What if someone comes over and asks you about a book you haven’t read? It’s not like you’re buying valuable rare editions as a collector of antiquarian books.

>>17501810
I've spent upwards of $200-$300 on single rare books.

show us photos

>>17500358
>he could have bought his books used and saved a ton of money but instead bought new books
>he didn't spend a mere $150 to buy an e-reader and then never have to buy a book again in his life (best option here)
What a faggot!

>>17502853
Why do you assume I don't get used books? If I can get something used-very good or like new for a lot cheaper I go for that.

>>17502736
>What’s the point of having a shelf full of unread books?

Go ask the poseurs in stack threads.

Read them

Better, buy an ak.

>>17501454
This would only be a concern if you’re just not reading at all, or you’re going broke buying too many books.

>>17502740
For their contents or just collectible pieces?

>>17500358
Do you read them or are they just a showpiece?

>>17500358
buy an enterprise printer
buy cheap paper
buy binding material and comfy paper clips and staples
libgen.is
???
profit!!!!!$$$

>>17500403
Bro, I'm a bad case of overspending too but you've got to limit yourself. Read the books you have first.
Although consooming really is a bit of a problem. I order a book and upon receiving it start to ponder what next to buy while my backlog grows tenfold. I've been saying I'll start reading Nietzsche after this next book for a year, and time and time again they're books I've bought mere weeks ago.

>>17500358
Spend some time reading the books that you just bought. I probably average around $200/month on books, but that's largely because I'm usually buying older first editions of books (avg price there around $50-100).

Just stop. Simple.

>>17500358
What're some highlights of that purchase?

>>17500358
How the fuck do you start this behaviour? Consumerist capital must be out of control in the mind

you could start a book club with all those books

>>17503746
I got Ernst Bloch's three volumes of The Principle of Hope and Charles Olson's Maximus Poems. Those were probably the most expensive of my purchases.

>>17500358
Do not buy another book until you finish reading all of those. Then limit yourself to buying 1 book per month. Use the library or pirated books otherwise.

>>17500365
>>17500371
physical copies make reading so much faster and more enjoyable though.

>>17503790
Don't know Olson will check him out

>>17503922
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520055957/the-maximus-poems
I got the Maximus Poems here. It is his masterwork and this is the only place you will be able to get it desu. It's pretty expensive but it looked like something I would love and I usually have a good eye for finding things I like.

>>17500358
There still a lot of books that you will never find online anywhere, so buying some of them isn't consumerism at all. I was about to buy one book which i found on relatively small online bookstore once, but didn't have money back then and was thinking that i might be able to buy it anyway anytime and forget about it, and when i'm finally decided to buy that book, it's been gone, cannot find it anywhere, and no one will upload it on archive org or libgen most likely at least in near future, like ~5 years ahead, and only way to read this book is to go into the few foreign library's, which is sad and much more expensive then it was.

So maybe you shouldn't stop if that's a good books and you think that you're gonna read at least some of them?

>>17503023
Just collectable pieces.

>>17500358
Try reading.

Bump

>>17500358
dumpster dive for them instead of buying

try book stores and libraries

>>17500358
actually read them

>>17500358
At least it wasn't on meth.

Lol why do all the ebook and pirate pseuds get triggered by people owning physical books?

>>17501245
Hot as fuck.

consume some consoom memes to make you feel bad about it

>>17501245
i came. thanks, fren.

>>17500358
What books did you buy? Any highlights?

I actually have a bunch of unread books but they're mostly older history books from Amazon or local bookstores. I plan to read them but just wanted to get them before someone else did.

>>17508203
"highlights" are here>>17503790

you want pics?

>>17508277
sure

>>17500403
Start reading. Sell back the ones you can’t bring yourself to finish. Start trimming. Hope that the act of selling back scratches the itch you have for rampant capitalist interaction.

>>17508321
K here are my purchases over the past month. The second volume of The Principle of Hope and The Maximus Poems still haven't been delivered. The book that doesn't show its name is Tomorrow In The Battle Think On Me by Marias.

>>17500358
>>17500375
The best advice of the thread. Op, you just have to take a minute or two to reflect if you should buy for that much right now.

>>17500358
Buy some pussy instead

>>17508469
Nice. There's some good books there sweaty I hope you read them x

>>17508469
>why yes I did spend 750 dollars out of 800 on those four library of America volumes, how could you tell?

>>17508547
The two Steins I got for 10 dollars in used very good condition. Melville I got 18 dollars used very good. And the Bishop I got for 30 because I couldn't find it at a better price used and I also needed that one for a class.

>>17501334
Extremely retarded take

>>17508595
Yeah but I appreciate that Umberto using his name to provide all of us with a solid cope

>>17503890
[citation needed]

>>17508469
Honestly this overspending is related to the homosexuality and pride. I can't give you humility over the internet but that is what you need. Good luck man.

>>17508616
True tho, Umberto was based af. God I miss him so much

>>17500358
librarium

>>17508644
thanks

>>17501334
this is a very elaborate cope

Best rule I’ve made for myself is ill only buy one book for every book I read, so when I finish a book I’ll buy another, I finish 2 I’ll buy 2. And the extra books you have you’ll read eventually anyways or they’ll be lent out to friends or family

>>17507816
poorfag cope

>>17508469
Almost all of those can be had at any used book store for $50 total in perfect condition.

>>17509763
there aren't any good ones around me.

>>17500375
that's the tea, sis

>>17509797
Even on abebook or the like you can get those for under $100 total.

>>17509806
no you can't. i looked on abebooks.

>>17509816
Most of those books are a glut on the used market, you are too caught up in getting certain editions for whatever reason. Just pick what ever good edition is cheap.

>>17509849
I got the cheapest stuff I could find online. If i could get something in used very good condition for a lot cheaper i got that.

>>17501334
I don't need a gigantic reference library, and I don't see why Taleb does either. He works at NYU so he has access to far more books and journal articles than he could ever hope to collect for his own personal library.

>>17501334
why dont you just buy a book when you need it, or go to a library for this exact purpose rather than hoarding

>>17509987
I will say his library looks kind of comfy though.

>>17509089
The best kind of cope.

>>17509942
This is not difficult. If you do not see a good price than instead of adding it to your cart a more expensive copy click "save for later." When ever there is a book you are going to order you just click on the ISBN of some of those from your saved for later list, find a few that good deals and buy them. The selection is constantly changing as are prices, show some restraint. Or except being poor.

Also, even shitty used book stores have good stuff, but it goes quickly, make it a regular habit to swing by once a week or the like.

buy e-book reader
all books become free
a library in your pocket

>>17501334
>having a bunch of stuff you don't use is good because... no real reason

>>17500358
Spend all your money. Now you can't

My grandma sent me money because she loves me
I only bought 3 (three) books
I am a titan. I am an avatar of self control