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I'm going kinda crazy I just checked my bank account and I spent $1200 on books this year and I haven't read a single one. I save almost all my money and I get buyers remorse when I have to spend $400 on a phone but I didn't realize I've spent $1200 because of how cheap the books are. $4 here. $8 here $12 here added up to $1200 and I haven't read a single book. I thought I spent like $400 at most but I've spent $1200. I don't know what to do. Should I sell them off? I'm not working at the moment

>> No.19111966

My rule is I only allow myself to buy 1 book per week, unless I have have more than four books on my shelves that I haven't read.

>> No.19111975

>>19111966
I've been for months and months in a trance. I really thought I only spent like $400.

>> No.19111989

>>19111975
This happens to me at Goodwill, my stack is up to 200 plus books.

>> No.19111994

>unemployed and hasn't read a book all year

you don't like reading you like collecting and the idea of being very smart. sell them off. or actually read them.

>> No.19112006

>>19111959
start a bookshop and sell based books only

>> No.19112012

>>19112006
Oh my God the Karening

>> No.19112013
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>>19111959
Imagine spending money on books when there are PDF copies of it online.

>> No.19112014

>>19112006
They're all based books. I might actually be able to make a profit. I wait until expensive out of print books accidentally go up for like $13 used.

>> No.19112019

>>19112013
60% of the books I buy don't have any online versions. Even on Archive.org

>> No.19112062

>>19112012
I know I sound like a boomer, but OP got goods, storage, time, and the internet, you don't need more than that to start an online bookshop. Next step is moving into an apartment on ground level with space to sell and space to live.

>> No.19112102

>>19111959
I spent 2400.
Read them all.
Sent back for refund.

>> No.19112128

>>19111959
Not exactly a crazy amount to spend on a hobby you enjoy. Just kick back and get to reading.

>> No.19112147

>>19111959
There are certainly worse ways to spend your money.

>> No.19112165

>>19112019
Fake and gay

>> No.19112201

>>19111959
Spending $1200 on books for perceived intellectual cachet is unfathomably retarded.

>> No.19112215

>>19112165
Not fake. Read more obscure books. Most academic books have 0 reviews and don't exist anywhere

>> No.19112226

>>19112014
How do you know they're based if you haven't read them, pseud?

>> No.19112316

Kindlefag here. I'm contemplating doing what OP has done, I feel like a fraud

>> No.19112351

>>19111959
>4$ for a book is cheap
???

>> No.19112356

>>19112165
kek
go in thrift shops more

>> No.19112432

>>19112351

You think 4 dollars for a book is expensive ? Lol.

>> No.19113023

>>19112019
Name one and I'll find it

>> No.19113026

>>19111959
Don't buy another book till you finish the first one you bought.

>> No.19113071

>>19111959
Dude , you need to start buying at strictly book sales and estate sales. Also ebay or just go to the library. Don’t buy books unless you can get at least 1.5x you bought it for if u decide to sell it

>> No.19113080

>>19112351
Usual price for a charity shop Penguin here in London is £2.50, going up to £4 in central london or the Southbank

>> No.19113355

>>19113023
Ego & Soul John Carroll

>> No.19113361

Your subconscious is looking for a way out. It's overriding your logical faculties.

>> No.19113399

>>19111959
I spend $400/month on books - you're fine.

>> No.19113999

>>19112432
Let's say it's my upper limit

>> No.19114023

I noticed I was spending a lot of money on books so I stopped buying so many books.