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>pull out book in public place to get some reading done
>try to make sure the cover cant be seen by someone since I dont want to look like a pseud who flaunts himself reading
Please tell me I'm alone on this

>> No.12755558

>>12755550
Just read on your phone

>> No.12755560
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>>12755550
>pull out book in public place to get some reading done
>try to make sure the cover can be seen by everyone since I want to look like an intelectual who flaunts himself reading

>> No.12755567

>>12755550
If someone thinks you're a pseud but is too much of a baby to confront you about it then who cares. If someone does and you're not then you can impress them with your literary leanings owo

>> No.12755595

>>12755550
>Pulls out kindle in public place
>Wishes he never bought one cos no qt3.14 will ever come over and ask if they are enjoying that great book you got in your hands
>Take out an old paperback with you next time
>Guys in the public interruprt you every five minutes and ask how you like th efucking book, they loved it
>Read 1 fucking page all night.

>> No.12755630

>>12755550

i did this earlier

why does this hurt?

>> No.12755634

>>12755550
>be me, on the train
>girl next to me is reading
>lean over and ask her what she's reading
>"um... paradise lost?"
>snort loudly without taking your eyes off her
>lean in closer with wide eyes, start breathing through the nose heavily
>a panicked expression plays across her face, 'w-what are you doing?'
>whisper "its pronounced paradife loft"

>> No.12755657

>>12755560
same

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>>12755550
>be me
>on the train
>pull out Schopenhauer
>flaunt the cover for everyone to see
>read and laugh my ass off
>leave the train energized
>time well spent

>> No.12756894

>>12755550
I feel like people who think this way never actually go in public. No one gives a shit what you are reading.

>> No.12757042

>>12756894
No I'm just irrational. I do the same when I have a physical copy OP, but I mostly read books on my phone when I'm out and about for convenience. Though now I get glares from old people on the bus for looking at my phone even though I'm reading a book.

>> No.12757055

I do the exact same.

>> No.12758530

>>12755634
Is the joke that the narrator is a pseud because he doesn’t know the difference between an f and a long s?

>> No.12758536

I taped over the cover of IJ while reading it, but I feel like it attracted more stares that way.

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12758550

>reading pic related on the train
>extremely articulate and sharply dressed black man walks over to me and asks what I'm reading
>I show him the cover and read the title
>"thanks" as he smiles at me and walks away
I have no idea what to make of this bros

>> No.12758572

If you hide what you are reading you look like a psued who cares too much about what others think of him. Also, it is a good thing for people to know what others are reading.

>> No.12758585

>>12758572
What if I'm reading pornographic magazines?

>> No.12758592

>>12758585
My first point still applies.

>> No.12759382

>>12755550
If someone sees you reading a book in public in my country they will immediately think you are mentally ill and they will gossip you and the whole town will know. I've never seen anyone with a book in his hands in my country.
This happens in small countries only it seems, last month I visited Berlin and every second bench had a person sitting on it and reading a book.

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12759400

>pull out books in public place to get some reading done
>try to make sure both covers can be seen by someone since I want to look like the intellectual that I am, flaunting my literary range between such classics as Infinite Jest and Milk & Honey

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>>12759400
>go home
>post on Somoan Fly Fishing imageboard and upload the incorrect image to go along with my post

>> No.12760385 [DELETED] 

>>12755550
I read in public a good deal. busy cafeteria at work, at the bar, and in restaurants (I'm alone and go after lunch crowd has left. It's never a big deal. But I never broadcast what I am reading. Hardbacks are read w/o dust jackets and a paperback only come with me if it's one I'm fine being associated with.

>> No.12760391

I read in public a good deal. busy cafeteria at work, at the bar, and in restaurants (I'm alone and go after lunch crowd has left). It's never a big deal. But I never broadcast what I am reading. Hardbacks are read w/o dust jackets and a paperback only comes with me if it's one I'm fine being associated with.

>> No.12760689

>read in public
>simply dont care about showing/not showing the cover
>JUST READS

>> No.12760712

>>12759410
>PROHIBITED ABOARD THIS TRAIN:
>Carrying Flammable Material
Get him outta there!

>> No.12760862

>>12755550

iktf exactly

>> No.12760887

I'll never understand this mindset. I could be considered a social autist, someone who continually makes errors in social judgements and puts his foot in his mouth on a regular basis.

However, I used to work as a chef. Every day, I was allowed an hour's break. I would head upstairs to the bar area of the restaurant, pull out a book during the busy post-lunchtime period (it was an inner-city bar) and read whatever book I had. Either people ignored me, or inquistively asked what I was reading. Whenever I told them a little about it, they would be nice about it. Some likely feigned interest, but never in a rude manner.
I'm sure at least some probably thought I was a fucking weirdo, or perhaps even went back to their tables to laugh at me.

But who gives a fuck? Reading is a pretty commonplace fucking thing to do. People are usually interested if they see a strange title, or a book they didn't expect you to be reading. I had zero problems with this. In other words, give yourself more normie credit, OP.

>> No.12760896

>>12755550
Anon, just read your fucking book, enjoy it, no one is judging you, and if they are, they be cunts.

>> No.12760902

WHO CARES WHAT PEOPLE THINK YOU WIMPY BETA FAGGOT

>> No.12760917

>>12759410
Well, but you have to admit he looks cool.

>> No.12761169

>>12760689
>just bee yourself :•)

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>>12755550
>pull out book in public place to get some reading done
>flaunt the cover as much as possible

>> No.12761207

>>12759410
this nigga fucks

>> No.12761339

>>12755560
i dont want to admit that i do this but i kinda do

>> No.12761383

One time a waitress said she liked In Cold Blood as I was reading it during lunch

>> No.12761394

>>12755550
how old are you?

>> No.12761966

>>12756876
Based and willpilled

>> No.12761978

>>12758536
gonna do this from now on

>> No.12761987

>>12755550
One of my biggest pet peeves is when I can't read the cover or spine of ppl reading books in public. I want to know if it's something I've read or at least ask them if they'd recommend it.airports are the worst...so many y people reading and waiting for their plane but I can never tell what book it is!

>> No.12761994

>>12755634
Haha nice one

>> No.12762000

>>12756876
kek

>> No.12762016

>>12758550
>That's why you ARE an intellectual.

>> No.12762064

>>12755567
thsi

>> No.12762124

>goes online and tells people anyway

you are a pseud

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>>12755560
Saw some danger hair low test male reading pic related on the subway here in Toronto. He was holding it up to make sure everyone could see, and he had a slight smile on his face. I observed his reading habit and he took about 5 minutes per page. Every now and then he would look around I assume either to make sure people were looking at him, or was weirded out I was looking at him.

>> No.12762203

>>12755550
>dont want to look like a pseud who flaunts himself reading
In my city's subway there always are a lot of people reading, either ebooks or paper ones. What exactly is pseud about that?

>> No.12762219

>>12762203
It would be pseud to carry around a book you're not actually reading just to create the impression that you're reading something for smart people, OP is afraid of looking like he's doing that.

>> No.12762226

>>12762219
It's 2019, no one cares anyway.

>> No.12762232

>>12762176
Now this is autism

>> No.12762299

>>12758530
S's in the middle of words used to look like ſ

>> No.12763474

>>12755634
underrated, made me me genuinely chuckle

>> No.12763520

>>12762176
Yikes

>> No.12763571

>pull out book in public place to get some reading done
>open to first page
>strangers of all ages gather round and sit criss-cross applesauce on the carpet in front of me
>I ask them what time it is
>a couple dozen excited voices respond "Reading time"
>"Ahem... Page 1. Chapter 1. Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named Baby Tuckoo."

>> No.12763582

I had a rather Sapphic presenting young woman see me reading American Psycho before a class.
She said, I don’t know how you could read that.
I said to her I thought it was funny in parts.
She just shook her head in disgust.
I decided not to tell her that other parts gave me boners.

>> No.12763593

>>12755550
>caring about literally anything
Pseud

>> No.12763617

Dumb frogposter

>> No.12763787

>>12755550
I always leave my books face down on the table when I read at a coffee shop. I dont want people to know what I'm reading.

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This
>>12755558

Its so much easier if you actually want to get some reading done especially in public. I only read paper at home, libraries or in parks if the sun is out

>> No.12764638

>>12759382
Where are you from, anon?

>> No.12764653

>>12759382
what country ?

>> No.12764992

>>12762176
goddamn i'm never reading on the ttc again. my biggest fear is people judging my pace.

>> No.12765017

Kek, modern industrial society is already alienated as fuck, and oversocialized people like you care how they will look like reading X. Man, you have far more important problems to think about than trying to live up to some imaginary society standards.

>> No.12765189

>>12764638
>>12764653
Macedonia

>> No.12765720

>>12755550
>get confronted
>ask for recommendations
Can't lose

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>>12755550
>not taking your single volume copy of Prousts’s In Search of Lost Time on the train to make plebs feel inadequate

>> No.12765982

>>12765189
crazy stuff man i've been to prilep, bitola and skopje and i must tell from what i heard my macedonian bros say and from what ive seen its like your whole country is like a small village full of ignorant people. Did you know the youth in your country is gtfo'ing as fast as they can? I know like 6 guys from macedonia working in low wage jobs in my rural area in germany

just keep reading bro and dont let the dumbass пичкas hold you down lad.

>> No.12766037

>>12765017
good post

>> No.12766453

>>12765189
fuck off asshole I'm the OP and I'm greek

>> No.12766499

>>12766453
You fuck off, I'm the real op and I'm your dad