/lit/ - Literature

>>19214102
>t. misses the point every time

this thread smells like poorfag/e-consoomer cope

>>19214102
consoomer mindset
npcs have no purpose in life except to collect crap to show off to other npcs, be it stacks, funkopops, steam library, or mal list

>>19214108
This.

It’s supposed to generate discussion on recommendations

You can make a stack thread asking what people have READ.

>>19214108
>>19214171
>asking for recommendations so you can buy more books you won’t read

>>19214102
You’ll understand one day when you’re working 50 hours a week and on the weekend at the outlet mall pushing the stroller and carrying your wife’s shopping bags.

>>19214102
I don't see much of the harm other than a few pseuds feeling smug about buying dumb bullshit, but they're the ones who will lose out in the end anyway for not getting to fully understand them. You can use them for recs or specify only finished books if you want to keep bookshelf decorators out, and even then you'll have some zero retention speedreaders trying to show off how quickly they can forget everything on a shelf. The better question is why do you feel the need for this superiority complex or giving esteem to others about having either read or purchased anything? It's supposed to be an enjoyable hobby, not clout chasing

>>19215049
Then, don't buy more books. You don't even need to buy books to read them. And if you're one of those guys who insists on physical books, there is an option for you, the library.

>>19214102
>actually read them
"reading" a book is as bad as posting it to stacks
You write or nothing

>not caring about improperly shelved books
My autism won't allow it.
>not reading books you own
That's like taking a prostitute home and telling her you're on holiday all next month. Stop doing dumb shit that costs you extra.
>not reading books you own, and then stacking them
Serial killers who need to be killed for the good of society.

ITT

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.

I like to store the books I read in a chronological order, brings me good memories when looking at my self, for example the spring I spent reading Mishima's works, it has a sentimental value for me

>>19215171
This is basically what you just said.

>>19215288
If you understood what I just said you wouldn't need a picture to respond

>>19214102
can't afford books huh?
Once Bitcoin reaches half a mill I'll buy a house and turn it into a library.
Watch me

i also like to project onto strangers instead of reading

>>19215319
So never?

>>19214102
Thanks for reminding me that I browse this board with poorfags. I can smell your poverty.

>>19215990
>Buying books as a display of wealth
Embarrassing desu

>reading books
>impressive

>>19215995
> Buying books in yard sales for 5 bucks the dozen many times

"watch all the books I have in my bookroom"

>>19216012
I read books every day. Are you impressed?

>>19216012
Embarrassing

>>19215993
Control your insecurity, poorfag

i never read any books

If you're going to try to flex on the poors, you might want to make sure your bookshelf isn't full of a bunch of near worthless reprints and paperbacks like most of the shelves posted here.

I still don't understand why people are just allowed to "like books." I have an e-reader, I use it when I travel and stuff like that but I don't actually like reading on it, I like reading physical books. There's nothing else to it, no pros or cons, I just like physical books. I have a stable income, I can afford to buy them, I have space to keep them, I'm not hurting myself or anybody by owning physical books. That's it. I don't understand this need to be ruthlessly frugal or anything like that

>>19214324
>projecting this hard

>>19216012
Yes

>>19216110
Am*rica is so consumerist that they think that an electronical device is anticonsumerist. Sad, really.

>>19214102
and how the fuck can you know for certain if someone posting in a shelf or stack thread read the books? you cannot. its not hard to avoid creasing. unless you toss around your hardbacks, they will not show damage to the tops/spine.

what this is, is plain old trolling. or its a form of coping with envy. either way, its a moot point to say it at all. unless you are the poster of said shelf or said stack, you only PROJECT AND ASSUME

>>19216012
>he didn't become a bitcoin millionaire

>>19216433
> As expected, cohort members who became obese had lower adulthood IQ scores. However, obese cohort members exhibited no excess decline in IQ. Instead, these cohort members had lower IQ scores since childhood. This pattern remained consistent when we accounted for children's birth weights and growth during the first years of life, as well as for childhood-onset obesity. Lower IQ scores among children who later developed obesity were present as early as 3 years of age.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3813310/

>>19216455
had that ready to go did you fatty touch grass

>>19216717
>no punctuation
>doesn't read medical papers as hobby
>thinks I'm fat
Hmmm...

>>19216110
There's nothing wrong with liking books or having a shelves full of them. Posting huge shelves is the literary equivalent of girls posting selfies. It's just validation seeking.

>>19214102
I don't understand this "herr derr, you never read the books you buy."
You guys make reading sound like some doomed New Year's diet/exercise resolution, as if reading requires a shit-ton of discipline, whereas for many people it's as addictive as playing video games or watching porn.

>>19217942
Why does your anus ache so from people posting pictures of books on an anonymous imageboard? I've never posted in stack or bookshelf threads but I like to look at other anons' books and I sometimes find some interesting stuff.

The equivalent to girls posting selfies would be just that: posting selfies, but taken in front of your bookcases, which no one does (barring some exceptions).

>>19218340
The only good shelf thread was that one where that deranged anon had thousands of books stacked against his wall and it looked like they might collapse on him and kill him.

Does he still post here?