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14046413 No.14046413 [Reply] [Original]

>have entire bookshelf full of books
>have only read 10% of them
>read two of them twice
>have company over
>they ask if I've read them all
>say some of them twice

>> No.14046425

>look up how long it should take to read a particular book at around 400wpm
>swap out a new book anytime I'm in public so it appears I'm rapidly finishing books
>really just savoring a book reading it at my own pace

>> No.14046539
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>>14046413
>have entire bookshelf full of books
>all of them are the same book
Pic related is just a part of my Tolkien collection, I have god knows how many paperback editions of TLOTR.

>> No.14046554

>>14046539
what the fuck lol

>> No.14046561

>Have a bunch a books I want to read and want reading to become a daily hobby for me
>Haven’t read a book in 6 months because no motivation
HOW TF DO I GET IN THE MOOD TO READ

>> No.14046568

>>14046561
Pick up a book with your hands which God gave you

>> No.14046575

>>14046568
How do i know if god gave it to me

>> No.14046665

>>14046539
100% based

>> No.14046669

>>14046561
do any of them appeal to your sensuality

>> No.14046673

>>14046539
Jealous of the illustrated extended works collection. Other than that, it seems a little obsessive.

>> No.14046677

>>14046575
Read more books

>> No.14046802

>>14046539
What the fuck it's not even different translations it's literally the SAME text

>> No.14047123
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>Cum in a book
>Lend it to a cute I book share with
>Tell her I spilt Yogurt on it
>Make sure to always eat Yogurt when I'm around her to validate my story
>She's literally handling my cum whenever she turns a page

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14047416

>nearing the end of the year
>start to read short books
>goodreads peepee grows big
>challenge complete!

>> No.14047437

>>14047123
dried cum looks and smells nothing like Yogurt though

>> No.14047453

>>14046413
>chatting up an art hoe in the local
>mate starts going on about how he loves literature
>know he doesn't read
>ask him what his top 5 favorite books are
>struggles to name 5
>me and art hoe get back to our conversation
>he looks pissed off and goes to get a pint
serves him right for trying to get onto a lass I was clearly chatting to

>> No.14047603

>>14047437
She doesn't know that

>> No.14047616

>>14046425
I do this and hate myself for it.

>> No.14047679

>>14046539
At least they aren't a funko pop collection.

>> No.14047681

>>14046561
Start with short stories.

>> No.14047686

>>14046539
autism

>> No.14047690

>>14046677
and so the viscious cycle continues

>> No.14047822

>>14046539
autismpilled
I wish I could do the same, but with "The Master and Margarita"

>> No.14048004

>>14046413
I admire you

>> No.14048007

>>14046539
This is another person i admire

>> No.14048018

>>14046539
Literally why those books were a slog

>> No.14048082

>>14046539
absolute beast

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14048103

I still have more.

>> No.14048256

>>14047453
>socializing with fart hoes

>> No.14048265

>>14046413
Sounds legit.

>> No.14048328

>>14046539
>>14048103
For what purpose?
Were most bought new or used?

>> No.14048404

>>14047123
i think you actually did spill yogurt in it and we're the ones being lied to

>> No.14048423

>>14048103
How the hell are you supposed to even read those tomes on the right? That white one has to be the largest paperback I've ever seen.

>> No.14048498

>>14046425
wtf? who cares about you in a public place?

>> No.14049166

>>14048423
They're so heavy that they kinda just go loose at the spine and spread right open, just like your mom

>> No.14049948

>>14048256
>fart hoes
*SNIFF*

>> No.14051179

>>14046539
why are you so obsessed?

>> No.14051329

>>14048328
Most of them are used, I can't afford to pay full price for these books. Besides I live in Japan, foreign books are cheap as fuck. I think I've paid between 5 and 20 for most of those expensive looking editions.

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>>14051179
Why not?

>> No.14053195

>>14048018
nah

>>14048423
>he unironically hasn't seen a 1000 page paperback before

>> No.14053233

>>14047822
>The Master and Margarita
very very based
every time there is a favorite book thread, I say this and no one joins, unexpectedly

>> No.14053237

>>14046561
honestly, I always have trouble starting a book, but usually when I've started, I just want to read it all the time and the struggle becomes to stop reading and do something I need to

>> No.14053243

>>14047603
I think she might know what dried yogurt might look like.
doing this is one of the most autistic things I've read on here though

>> No.14054083

As a proud book hater I will not read a book unless I like the author. That also means I don't own many books but the ones I do I have read them at least half way through or have finished them. I also don't own physical books and instead read through my ereader since it makes reading less annoying.

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14054180

>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.

>> No.14054277

>>14054180
That's an outdated idea because of internet nowadays. You have Wikipedia and ways to pirate books/journals if you wish to consult something.

>> No.14054469

>>14054277
Why even have physical books at all at this point?

>> No.14054495

>>14054469
If you reference something often it is more convenient to have the physical book.

>> No.14054518

>>14054277
A lot of books that go past the beginners level don’t have an online presence, or are locked behind institutional logins.

>> No.14054523

>>14046413
I have a whole shelf of books that Ive never opened. Ive read all of them online though. Nobody believes me.

>> No.14054590

>>14046561
Start reading or i'm gonna find you (and cuddle you)

>> No.14054602

>>14047453
Post pics for reference

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>bookshelf is full of books
>can't bother reading all of them
>I buy the abridged version of each one
>tfw don't have to read 1000 pages and can still talk about them with qts and on /lit/

>> No.14054953

>>14046413

At least you admit it.

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>>14046539
impossibly BASED

>> No.14055394

>>14048423
>Could not read this tome.