ITT: book collection and personal libreries

[Anonymous No.16657012]

Am I the only one who organized his books by color? I feel anxiety when they are not specifically organized this way

[Anonymous No.16657046]

>>16657012
>Pokemon and other shitty toys around books
You exist on a lower plane of consciousness.

[Anonymous No.16657145]

>>16657046
rude

[Anonymous No.16657290]

[Anonymous No.16657303]

>>16657290

[Anonymous No.16657306]

>>16657290
where the fuck can I buy that manga version of Alice's Adventures?

[Anonymous No.16657329]

>>16657306
Bruh use google
https://sevenseasentertainment.com/books/alices-adventures-in-wonderland-and-through-the-looking-glass/

[Anonymous No.16657518]

>>16657046
looks dope actually

[Anonymous No.16657536]

>>16657518
Pedo or underage retard?

[Anonymous No.16657602]

>>16657012
Shelf it up

[Anonymous No.16657611]

>>16657602

[Anonymous No.16657649]

>>16657611

[Anonymous No.16657659]

>>16657649

[Anonymous No.16657703]

>>16657659

[Anonymous No.16657707]

>>16657602
>>16657611
>>16657649
>>16657659
Gay meme shit the pokemon guy is better

[Anonymous No.16657829]

>>16657707
Philistine

[Anonymous No.16657906]

I gave most of my books away and what I have left are incredibly out of order for the time being

[Anonymous No.16657907]

>>16657046
I sort out all my white books and put them on the shelf across from my window, since they are immune to sun fading. Otherwise I sort my books by a mix of theme and chronologically by when I read them.

[Anonymous No.16657945]

>>16657906
Jesus Christ man, clean your shit up.

[Anonymous No.16657952]

>>16657012
>tfw have no space or money for books
>my library is a bunch of ebooks on my shitty Galaxy J5 book
Just kill me, bros.

[Anonymous No.16657958]

>>16657012
Galaxy J5 phone, actually.

[Anonymous No.16657987]

>>16657707
Gotta agree with this.
Muh curated editions meme shelve is somehow infinitely worse than weebshit among a thrown together collection of wildly different books.
I just can't feel the individual.

[Anonymous No.16658146]

>>16657602
>spending $1000 on meme hardcovers

[Anonymous No.16658243]

>>16657707
>>16657987
These bindings upset pseuds not only because they're new and lack any visible signs of wear, but because by virtue of being well-crafted hardcovers they're unlikely to accumulate them any time soon. These are very disturbing qualities in books to your average il/lit/erati who yearns to demonstrate nicely creased and cracked "definitely perused and totally not pseud" paperback spines more than he wants to actually read the very pages they hold together. In their eyes, investing in a sturdy, luxurious leather or nicely decorated buckram bindings to please the owner's eye and provide the books with more longevity is antithetical to the one and only reason of owning physical books at all; that is to serve as an achievement display that would quickly and unambiguously communicate to the two drunken girls and three college dudebros who visit their studio apartment once a year just how authentically e/lit/e and genuinely well-read the owner is, whilst definitely not trying to pretend to want to hope to look like it. Plus, the price factor also breaks some typical self-imposed illusions of being a chosen member of some semi-secret class of penniless bohemian intellectuals, engaged in cultural guerilla warfare on the back line of a grand army of philistine en-pee-see bougies, that so many younger members of /pol/-for-smart-people seem to be under. These are quite hilarious idiosyncrasies and I can wholeheartedly recommend skimming through some older shelf threads to find people both accusing someone of buying particular bindings to show off and chastising the others for not having their spines project the required aura of "well-readness" quite strong enough all in a single post.

[Anonymous No.16658369]

>>16658243
Gay and homosexual

[Anonymous No.16658383]

My nautical fiction shelves.

[Anonymous No.16658396]

>>16657602
tbqh this is just tryhard cringe

[Anonymous No.16658404]

>>16658243
Nice pasta.
Do you have that always at the ready when someone calls you out again on your vain need to display an image?

[Anonymous No.16658408]

>>16657659
Hello fellow leather-bound enthusiast

[Anonymous No.16658433]

>>16658383
Damn you must really like the sea lol

[Anonymous No.16658445]

>>16657703
Nice stuff, anon.

[Anonymous No.16658452]

Welcome to the jungle

[Anonymous No.16658467]

>>16657012
I don't know about other people, but I have a harder time singling out specific books when they're ordered by color. (I've never ordered mine this way, but a bookstore I used to frequent had a section where it did this, and I did not like it.)

[Anonymous No.16658512]

>>16658408
Nice Franklins. We share a lot of the same editions. Is that Aeneid the Dryden translation?

[Anonymous No.16658546]

>>16657012
I organise books first into fiction/literature/art and non-fiction/philosophy roughly; then alphabetically by Authors name (mononym or surname); then authors works by chronology of release
>>16657290
>anime Alice cover
Based
>>16657303
>anime statue
Cringe

[Anonymous No.16658624]

>>16657703
Nice shelf anon. Why no All the Pretty horses?

[Anonymous No.16658643]

>>16658624
The only used copy I could find had water damage, so I'm keeping it on the basement bookshelf. I'll get around to replacing it one day, the Rona has kept me out of used books stores lately.

[Anonymous No.16658668]

>>16658408
Why is your Aquinas Set in that order?

[Anonymous No.16658941]

>>16658512
Yeah it is. It's a pretty nice translation, I think. I'm also a big fan of the Norton prose translation they used for the Divine Comedy

>>16658668
I take them off the shelf regularly, so just carelessness when putting them back

[Anonymous No.16658961]

>>16657829
>Has an actual barristers bookcase
>Is full of paperbacks

[Anonymous No.16658991]

>>16657906
that necronomicon is dead

[Anonymous No.16659046]

>>16658961
Just had it refinished and haven’t rearranged all my shelves. Saw it in an old ladies house while working on a job and it was in real rough shape. She was using it to store preserves.

[Anonymous No.16659063]

>>16657602
>>16657649
>>16657659
Looks like those decorative bookshelves you find in hotel lobbies

[Anonymous No.16659073]

>>16658243
Sorry anon, you wasted your money. No one thinks your books are cool.

[Anonymous No.16659095]

>>16657649
nice ikea

[Anonymous No.16659113]

>>16659073
As someone who has a lot of the same editions, they're really not as expensive as you think they are. I got many of my leatherbounds off of ebay for the price of a normal hardback. They last for a long time, and come with a bonus of feeling really nice to hold and read

[Anonymous No.16659133]

>>16659113
>they're really not as expensive
I know, I own a few myself. A whole shelf of them though looks kitschy and inauthentic.

[Anonymous No.16659157]

>>16658243

[Anonymous No.16659173]

>>16658991
it's still good my rabbit just ate the spine a bit

[Anonymous No.16659180]

>>16659133
>a whole shelf of them though looks kitschy and inauthentic
Maybe, but I mostly just buy them for myself since I like them

[Anonymous No.16659209]

>>16659180
>Maybe
Definitely*

[Anonymous No.16659246]

>>16658383
100% based anon.

[Anonymous No.16660301]

>>16658452
Looks pretty cozy. Just keep the AC down and put a table in a corner somewhere and you'd have a nice reading spot

[Anonymous No.16660375]

[Anonymous No.16660417]

>>16658243
I hope this is pasta and you didn't take the time to write this. Also spending money on leather bindings but buying fucking mdf bookshelves to put them on. You just can't buy soul.

[Anonymous No.16660851]

>>16657952
get a used ereader for 30-40 bux

[Anonymous No.16660854]

Anyone have the pic of the dude's bookshelf with nothing but Warrior Cats?

[Anonymous No.16660874]

>>16660375
Joto

[Anonymous No.16660877]

>>16660854
I wish. That sounds pretty based

[Anonymous No.16661035]

My picture taking skills are non-existent and I'm running out of space for my books. Please rate.

[Anonymous No.16661036]

>>16661035

[Anonymous No.16661053]

>>16657306
amazon

[Anonymous No.16661062]

>>16657046
Based. Fuck hyclic scum.

[Anonymous No.16661091]

>>16658383
Holy shit, mirin' that lego pirate ship. I wanted those huge ship sets so bad when I was a kid

Sometimes now that I'm an adult with expendable income, I think about going on ebay and buying one. Would be super irresponsible but my inner kid is strong

[Anonymous No.16661111]

>>16657303
>rebuild asuka
acceptable...

[Anonymous No.16661117]

>>16661035
>>16661036
I feel like we would have a lot to talk about Anon. I give you a comfy 10/10. How is your Latin and Japanese?

[Anonymous No.16661149]

>>16661117
I know the Kana and I'm currently working my way through Japanese grammar. My Latin however is pretty much non-existent as I found Wheelock's course to be pretty impenetrable for a solo learner; I intend to start learning Latin using Lingva Latina once I have finished the three RtK books.

[Anonymous No.16661175]

>>16661149
By kana I’m guessing you mean hiragana and katakana? I lived there for four years so I speak it to a conversational level but my grammar is trash so I wish you the best of luck on that. Apparently it’s not hard I’m just retarded when it comes to grammar for some reason. I’m interested in learning Latin so I appreciate your thoughts on whellocks, Lingua Latina seems the better option I guess.

You also have a nice spread of history books. I studied spqr by Mary beard in university. What’s your favourite period of history and associated book/author?

[Anonymous No.16661306]

>>16661091
I think about that too and then I look at just how expensive and unimaginative modern lego sets are. At least the lego sets I got as a kid ended up being good investments, since the harry potter ones went up over 1000% in value over the years

[Anonymous No.16661315]

>>16661175
>By kana I’m guessing you mean hiragana and katakana?
Yep. It took me some time to finally push myself to learn them, but after a certain point I found everything just kinda clicked into place.
>What’s your favourite period of history
I would say it is a tie between late roman antiquity (ending abruptly at 363) and Japans Meiji period. Close runners-up would be the Tokugawa period, high medieval period and pre-WW1 Europe; Peerage and landed-gentry have always fascinated me.
>and associated book/author?
Christopher Clark is in my opinion the best history author out-there. He manages to not only condense vast chunks of information into an immensely readable format. But is able to do so with a certain degree of wit and even emotion that keeps his works from becoming dry. His book 'Iron Kingdom' remains the authority on Prussian history for good reason.

[Anonymous No.16661372]

[Anonymous No.16661384]

>>16658243
projecting your own fartsniffing, nice pasta tho

[Anonymous No.16661672]

>>16657602
>>16657649
>>16657659
I was going to mock you for shelling out that much for high-quality hardbacks, but then I realised that you will be able to hand them down to generations of your progeny, while my $5 paperbacks will be gone. Good job

[Anonymous No.16661724]

>>16661672
dont think that way. if you can preserve a paper back it will last along time I have some pulps even from the 1950s-60s in great condition. But i must say i do love his hardbacks i always wanted one of those classic libraries like you see in English country estates.

[Anonymous No.16661793]

>physical books

[Anonymous No.16661833]

>>16661793
subhuman

[Anonymous No.16661876]

>>16661035
>>16661036
nice collection

shame about SPQR however

[Anonymous No.16661890]

>>16661876
>shame about SPQR however
haven't read it but was gifted a copy a while back, what's wrong with it?

[Anonymous No.16661946]

>>16661372
i like this one
why do french all books have those plain white spines, anon? someone explain it

[Anonymous No.16661949]

>>16657046
>You exist on a lower plane of consciousness.
This has to be one of my favorite comments in the last months. Based fellow, based.

[Anonymous No.16661953]

>>16657602
>>16657707
I want both together, I like pokemon, so the nice hardcovers with pokemon figures.

[Anonymous No.16661957]

>>16657703
You seem like a nice fellow, how old are you? Gender?

[Anonymous No.16661963]

>>16658243
TL;DR? anyone?

[Anonymous No.16661968]

>>16658383
What? Are you studying something related? Quite based.

[Anonymous No.16661970]

>>16657012
>i don't really read but I feel comfortable posting on /lit/ because I own like 10 books
eric. simply eric

[Anonymous No.16662023]

>>16661890
Nothing, in fact it’s probably the best popular history account of the Roman Empire currently available.

[Anonymous No.16662049]

>>16661890
Written by a woman who injects her left wing bias wherever she can

[Anonymous No.16662065]

>>16661890
it's trash

[Anonymous No.16662094]

>>16661035
>plato complete works
but why?

[Anonymous No.16662139]

>>16661876
I fully understand not liking the author, I don't particularly like her either. But SPQR is still a very solid book.

>>16662094
Why not?
Of all the books in my collection, I would have thought that the complete works of Plato would have been the least objectionable. I dislike how thin the pages are, but otherwise it is full of the best translations out there of Plato and other works attributed to him.

[Anonymous No.16662507]

>>16661793
What's the name of this program?

[Anonymous No.16662525]

>>16657046
fpbp

[Anonymous No.16662590]

>>16661946
Foreign publishers don’t see a reason to market their basic texts with flashy colors and eye-catching designs, they trust readers to buy the book for the writing alone. Just look at all the updated Vintage books or what Penguin’s been doing with those deckled edge paperbacks.

[Anonymous No.16663023]

>>16662507
Why would you want to know? Physical >>> Digital now and forever.

[Anonymous No.16663129]

>>16661793

Finish something, you degenerate.

[Anonymous No.16663153]

>>16663129
Digitards don't finish books

[Anonymous No.16663183]

>>16657611
You have a lot of nice books but you ruined it with the comic books

[Anonymous No.16663480]

>>16660375
Based and mexicanpilled.

[Anonymous No.16663567]

>>16658243
Your shelves are nice but you're insufferable.

[Anonymous No.16663637]

>>16657012
No you're not the only one, there's plenty of booktubers and bookstagrammers who do the same thing :)

[Anonymous No.16663696]

>>16657012
OP are you a woman? I've only ever seen women organize their bookshelves by color

[Anonymous No.16663708]

[Anonymous No.16663896]

>>16663708
>Arabic Book of Mormon
I feel like it must be dangerous to proselytize in Muslim countries.

[Anonymous No.16665265]

1/3

[Anonymous No.16665272]

>>16665265
2/3

[Anonymous No.16665280]

>>16665272
3/3
because of where shelf is now, some books on the far left were cut off. they are "great battles of the world" and "great battles of WWII" and also a japanese book, not anime

[Anonymous No.16665367]

>>16665265
>>16665272
>>16665280
>eragon
>dvds in your shelf
>tigers in the mud
>1984
>burzum on tape
fuckin based, post your augustus bust already

[Anonymous No.16665371]

>>16665367
lmao you know i keep that thang on me

[Anonymous No.16665389]

>>16665265
>>16665272
>>16665280

I've been following your collection. Any good new additions to the WWII/Fash lit?

[Anonymous No.16665405]

>>16665389
since last time i posted here like 2 months ago, ive gotten "dont make the black kids angry" by colin flaherty (mum is reading that atm) and "a history of central banking" by stephen mitford goodson

looking at getting "human accomplishment" by charles murray soon

[Anonymous No.16665421]

>>16665405

Interesting, thanks for the updates. I would post my collection, but it's about 550 miles away at the moment.

[Anonymous No.16665466]

>>16657611
Read Infinite Jest already.

[Anonymous No.16665497]

>>16665371
where'd you get it?

[Anonymous No.16665609]

>>16665497
>bust
https://www.designtoscano.com/
>column
https://www.touchofclass.com/

[Anonymous No.16665905]

>>16665265
>tapes
why would you
nice collection though

[Anonymous No.16665913]

>>16661890
I've met her in person on several occasions and her personality can be referred to as stand offish. It seemed like everything she did was calculated to fight some invisible boogey man that she felt was haunting her. SPQR is ok as it goes for pop history, but shes part of this growing cancer in classics that tries to inject identity politics into cultures that existed over 2000 years ago

[Anonymous No.16666028]

>>16665905
tapes are nostalgic T. 90s kid. and they sound good, will last longer than CDs.
i have a tape deck i found in my grandma's garage i got cleaned up so i bought a few of my favourite albums to play on it

[Anonymous No.16666073]

>>16666028
>tapes
>sound good
>will last longer than CDs

[Anonymous No.16666089]

>>16666073
that is correct

[Anonymous No.16666138]

>>16666089
you've obviously barely listened to tapes, bruh
but enjoy what you enjoy, i've got tapes and vinyl too
tapes are cheap, that's about their only good point
they've got a ton of noise, and without the depth of vinyl
not to mention that with enough heat or time they can degrade until you only hear bass
and they get randomly eaten up by cassette players all the time
if you take care of your CDs, they'll last longer for sure - tapes are going to degrade no matter what

[Anonymous No.16666219]

>>16666138
Tapes don’t get eaten by players if you clean them every 30 or so hours of playtime
Tape degeneration is something but rare desu. Tapes still sound very good, only one of mine have any hiss and that’s the Melvins promo. They will indeed last longer than CDs, since CDs will data rot eventually but tapes from the early 60s can still play fine. Of course it is down to your climate and how you store things long term.

Vinyl is the best choice, I’m just starting to get a few

[Anonymous No.16666231]

>>16666219
Or I should say, not rare but more uncommon.

[Anonymous No.16666270]

>>16661724
you can turn paperbacks into hardbacks. so you ll be fine.

[Anonymous No.16666295]

>>16666270
Red pill me on the logevity of paperbacks
>>16661724

[Anonymous No.16666300]

>>16666138
>>16666219
Why wouldn't you just rip your CDs?

[Anonymous No.16666307]

>>16658452
This looks risky. Too many bugs and too much moisture.

[Anonymous No.16666323]

>>16666300
I have already, I have about 220 CDs, 21 cassettes, 6 vinyls, and 2 8-tracks
I just like physical collections, never was interested in digitalizing things besides ripping CDs to my laptop so I can listen while I browse or do other shit

[Anonymous No.16666378]

>>16657046
based. All other opinions are weeb, sub-human cope.

[Anonymous No.16666464]

>>16666323
heh i remember freshman year of high school

[Anonymous No.16666478]

>>16666323
i've got tapes and CDs that are older than you kiddo

[Anonymous No.16666495]

>>16666478
Probably lol. I’m not that old

[Anonymous No.16666504]

>>16666495
so you probably don't know that much about how tapes and CDs degrade

[Anonymous No.16666514]

>>16666504
I’ve done my research

[Anonymous No.16666539]

>>16657046
fpbp

[Anonymous No.16667488]

>>16666138
CDs will all be lost to data rot one day, within our lifetime, provided you are 30's or younger

[Anonymous No.16667949]

>>16667488
CDs are barely used anymore
SSDs being the future, data rot is never happening