Demand libraries. Fund libraries. Use libraries.

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Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:07:08 2021 No.19286743 [Reply] [Original]

Demand libraries.
Fund libraries.
Use libraries.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:09:06 2021 No.19286750 >>19286743 Holy FUCK she's HOT H O T And also, she's right. Books in the library are free. Get a library card, instead of wasting money on a personal library 80% of which (if that) consist of books you'll only read once.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:09:09 2021 No.19286751 File: 21 KB, 412x450, Aristotle_Onassis.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19286743 they are absolutely right and you can see the mindless circlejerk in every recent stack/shelf thread also just buy ereaders

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:09:21 2021 No.19286753 >>19286743 what if i like having it on my shelf?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:12:12 2021 No.19286764 >>19286753 then you're no different from the common consumerist s*ypiggie

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:14:01 2021 No.19286768 >>19286743 that isn't what commodity fetishism means

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:14:28 2021 No.19286772 >>19286743 nabokov said he never visited the library once the entire time he was at cambridge

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:16:47 2021 No.19286784 >>19286743 To rely on others to provide you with access for books especially non mainstream literature is the height of retardation.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:17:12 2021 No.19286788 >>19286772 >nabokov said he never visited the library once the entire time he was at cambridge By that time I bet he had already read the whole western canon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:17:21 2021 No.19286789 >>19286743 What a fucking boomer. Only slightly less embarrassing than the people she criticises. Sites like libgen are the future of libraries. Physical books are no longer relevant. Preferring them makes you a literal commodity fetishist.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:17:49 2021 No.19286790 That’s it, I’m throwing out all my books and getting a library card

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:19:36 2021 No.19286799 >>19286789 >Preferring them makes you a literal commodity fetishist. And what of it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:19:37 2021 No.19286800 >>19286743 Based Bookshelf fetishizers are the pseud equivalent of funko pop collectors

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:23:31 2021 No.19286809 >>19286790 Based. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH8AW4cijgo

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:23:31 2021 No.19286810

>>19286743
It's hard to imagine something less surprising than the fact that people whom this woman respects are wetting themselves with excitement over the prospect of a moral and intellectual justification for their disgusting habit of buying books as shelf decoration. Of course that behavior isn't limited to this particular political group but they're especially obnoxious about it. The fact that she managed to miss the incredibly obvious true motive and instead ascribed it to being hoodwinked by capitalism is also painfully unsurprising.

The library thing is fine although it's much better to download the books and be able to actually have them on hand anytime you want to return to them.

>>19286799
Forget that, what it makes you is an insubstantial person.

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:24:51 2021 No.19286818

I like having my books in arms' reach whenever I want instead of having to travel all the way to the library (its a 30 minute drive), and even then, unless I check the catalog, they might not have want I want; I can request an interlibrary loan but that still takes weeks, its just much easier for me to either get the book off of libgen or buy it on abebooks/ebay and get a physical version in a week

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:41:45 2021 No.19286880 >>19286743 YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:44:14 2021 No.19286890 Just let me be happy please. The world is already a very sad place, let's not hate on everything. It gets old.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:47:43 2021 No.19286904 >>19286743 ze is right recently donated all my books to a public library and am feeling much better

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:49:22 2021 No.19286910 All you idiots going on about ereaders: enjoy losing access to books when they're deemed bad and removed from the web except virus laden ebootlegs.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:50:05 2021 No.19286911 Ereader solves this issue and dont have to see either homeless people or ideologues

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:51:48 2021 No.19286920 >>19286750 i like to show off that im well read

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:51:58 2021 No.19286921 >>19286910 >virus laden ebootlegs jej

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:57:26 2021 No.19286941 having a book delivered right to by door is a lot more coinvent and if i was worried about price I would just get the epub version off lib gen

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 12:58:48 2021 No.19286944 File: 147 KB, 1004x506, anti racism display.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] here's your library bro

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:06:23 2021 No.19286972 I will not demand or fund any of that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:08:05 2021 No.19286980 >>19286764 >capitalism bad! >consumerism bad! This meme needs to die.

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:14:53 2021 No.19287006
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This poopy commie bitch is retarded.
I buy books, write in them, dog ear the shit out of them, and put them on shelf where the look pretty as hell; I will probably bequeath them to my kids one day so that they can use and cherish them, admire my studiousness, and give them to their kids (or so that they can sell them and make some quick cash, whatever).
The library is cool but only commie copium can make someone believe that sharing something with everyone else is just as good as owning it. Have they ever been in a library?

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:15:20 2021 No.19287009
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*ting*
I utterly despise libraries and the #SaveOurLibraries shenanigans you find infested in the internet, namely on the site Reddit.com. These are mere AstroTurfing campaigns to make people feel good about backing a cause which receives little to no opposition, as "surely", they think, "surely, who could be against libraries?".
This narrative couldn't be as morally wrong as it obsolete.

Libraries are worthless institutions, occupied by beggars, homeless, sex offenders, 'but alas', sayeth the Librarian, "think of the children!" Alright then, let's take a tally of these children, shall we? These snot-nosed little brats are taken to the library by their parents who think their bastard progeny, in their vernacular, 'is the next Einstein'. Wrong Mr. Mom and Ms. Dad, your little Johnny and yourselves included, yes, the whole lot of you, are pseuds.

Indubitably, you could give every child an e-reader loaded with enough books to last their lifetime, for a fraction of the price to maintain community library, yielding much greater dividends, as the depth and scope of the material will far exceed the "My friend has two dads" tier drivel that will infect their minds as maggots a carcass until there is nothing left. Liberté, égalité, fraternité, themes for the children, and pop-books for Mom and Dad, like Michelle Obama's recent book. Young Adult selection abounds too, lest we forget. To what end? The books, are limited to convey tepid neoliberal viewpoints that support the misappropriation of limited societal resources The only libraries of worth are substantially large university/city libraries.

DISBAND,
DEFUND,
DECONSTRUCT LIBRARIES

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:21:30 2021 No.19287036

>>19286910
>enjoy losing access to books when they're deemed bad and removed from bookshops
I don't see the difference. If I already downloaded the epub file it's not going to be removed from my computer. Just don't buy an ereader that uses closed-source DRM

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:23:41 2021 No.19287045 >>19286944 Are you trying to imply that bookshops don't do this? They're much more overt with the performative social justice displays

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:24:59 2021 No.19287055

>>19286743
Before this thread devolves into shitposting, check to see if your local library does interlibrary loan. That way, even if you aren't attending a post-secondary institution, you can freely access more obscure scholarly works. Sometimes my public library has a display for woke cause du jour as in >>19286944
But that doesn't change the fact that I can get almost any book that exists in any Canadian university delivered right to me for free. Plus on the subject of woke displays, libraries here have actually stuck to their guns on free speech. They've refused to remove anti-trans books from their shelves and have held fast when local pride organizations cut ties and protested. Employee on-onboarding for my municipal library has an entire half day of training specifically to drill into new recruits that access and intellectual freedom are the fundamental values of the organization.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:29:04 2021 No.19287070 >>19286768 It's absolutely insane how much leftists seem to misuse that term. It has absolutely nothing to do with consumerism.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:31:00 2021 No.19287080 >>19287055 >They've refused to remove anti-trans books from their shelves and have held fast when local pride organizations cut ties and protested. Wtf I love libraries now

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:34:53 2021 No.19287097 File: 1.96 MB, 3264x2448, IMG_1038.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19286772 I never visited the big main one while I was there because the college one was so secluded and comfy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:36:40 2021 No.19287107 >>19286890 If you need the validation of others to feel happy and even the slightest criticism makes you have a panic attack don't hang out on 4chan. Too ez

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:37:42 2021 No.19287114 I will keep buying books and doing a heckin capitialism and make people like this seethe

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:39:22 2021 No.19287119 >>19286743 I love telling women no. It's a favorite pastime.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:40:13 2021 No.19287120 >>19286743 Shitty argument I keep books that libraries would throw away

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:40:31 2021 No.19287122

As the cancer of progressivism continues to spread, books advocating non-progressive viewpoints will become increasingly more difficult to obtain from libraries. Owning books ensures that you'll have continued access to the material you want.

In libraries there's a process called "weeding," by which library staff determine which books to keep and which to discard from the collections. It's becoming more common for weeding guidelines to include language about eliminating books that advocate "outdated" viewpoints.

t. public library administrator

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:41:00 2021 No.19287124

>>19286743
>check local libraries
>live in major city, should be good
>have lterally none of the books I want to read
>tried searching for a dozen titles
>1 available, locked in the university library, not free to access
>rest not found within 100 miles
libraries are probably responsible for the popularization of shitty books because it's all they stock.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:42:17 2021 No.19287130 >>19286789 >Physical books are no longer relevant. False

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:42:39 2021 No.19287133 >>19287009 >you could give every child an e-reader loaded with enough books to last their lifetime, for a fraction of the price to maintain community library, this. libraries are a waste of taxpayer money and should be abolished.

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:43:00 2021 No.19287134

>>19286980
You have done it! Your brilliant criticism of anti-capitalist and anti-consumerist ideology has destroyed communism. Anarcho-communists are shaking in their chacos knowing that their days are numbered. Portland is on the brink of collapse. I tip my hat to you, sir.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:45:28 2021 No.19287143 >>19287134 >Portland is on the brink of collapse. This but unironically.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:46:37 2021 No.19287153 >>19287006 >i-its a commie! Cut this shit. >She is most known for her book Migritude,[1] based on her one-woman show of the same name, which was funded by the Ford Foundation.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:52:15 2021 No.19287173 >>19286743 She's right. But in my case, I demand libraries AND quality homeless shelters, so they don't spoil the place. Of course, a final solution to homelessness would be even better.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:53:45 2021 No.19287179 >>19287122 Do they sell the books? Are there auctions?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:54:52 2021 No.19287186 >>19286743 yes

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:56:08 2021 No.19287189 >>19287124 Interlibrary loan. Only time they couldn't get me something is when there wasn't a copy in the entire country.

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:02:18 2021 No.19287207

what the fuck is the point of libraries in this day & age if you're not a college student or outright NEET?
I don't have any time to spare between my working hours/commute time & the little free time I get at home, I can't just drive to a library, especially now that every book I want can be found online.

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:02:41 2021 No.19287210
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>>19287097
A recent goal of mine has been to make my room look like this; been looking at those banker's lamps with the green shades for awhile now, also planning on painting the walls and getting new bookshelves to match my desk
Yes it is feminine and stupid but I want my room to feel like an old library dammit

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:04:26 2021 No.19287217 i like owning my books, i really couldn't care less if its "mindless consumerism" or whatever. i even like owning most my favorites in both paperback and hardcover.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:04:29 2021 No.19287218 >>19286750 My library has almost none of the books I've read. The books I have read it only has the oldest translations.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:10:59 2021 No.19287240 libraries never have the fucking book I want

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:14:30 2021 No.19287261

>you VILL own nossing
>and you VILL be happy
Fuck off. I like to own things. I can pass them off to other people. I can have different editions/translations. I don't have to worry about ze bugs and cum stains on my books.
I hate women so much it's unreal.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:14:40 2021 No.19287262 >>19287210 Same. I know it's cringe, but I've taken to crafting architectural drawings for the layout of my hypothetical future library. Right down to the exact books, decorations, and where I'd put everything.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:16:13 2021 No.19287270 No fucking way. Libraries are shit, with shit people and shit books and shit staff. I'd rather buy from amazon

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:17:51 2021 No.19287277 ITT retards getting worked up over a random tweet without context

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:18:29 2021 No.19287278 File: 35 KB, 592x437, FAgHCfGXIAAcTsB.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19287261 >>19287270 Repeat after me. Libraries value Black bodies Libraries value Black spirits Together, we will make libraries strong

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:20:08 2021 No.19287282 >>19287278 >Repeat after me No, because I'm not a cultist.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:22:42 2021 No.19287290 I've thought about getting rid of my books (at least the ones that are easy to find online). Is donating to a library the way to go? There's also used bookstores and thrift stores.

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:24:28 2021 No.19287294

>>19287290
I cleared out part of my library after I finished high school and university. I just took them to my local public library and that was it. Goodwill could've been an option, but they already have a hard time selling the shit they already have. At least the library will store it better.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:26:32 2021 No.19287300 >>19286743 Both are retarded, all you need is the Holy Bible.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:27:13 2021 No.19287302 >>19286743 You will own nothing and you will be happy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:29:19 2021 No.19287310 Just steal ebooks online what the fuck is this stupid bitch talking about

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:31:23 2021 No.19287320 >>19287262 >>19287210 >cringe >feminine Not at all. Why bother being so insecure on an anonymous message board? I would love to have a room like that; nothing wrong with that anons.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:35:28 2021 No.19287344 >>19287320 First anon quoted. I didn't mean having a library was cringe. I was referring to my autistic architectural drawings as probably cringe.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:37:04 2021 No.19287349 >>19286743 Ever since a librarian made Murakami's reading list public, I have sworn off libraries.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:37:27 2021 No.19287350 >>19286743 >pick up book from library >it’s unreadable because it’s covered by schizo scribblings and booger marks no thanks.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:38:35 2021 No.19287353 >>19287310 Keep in mind where she's posting this. I think it's more likely she's complaining more about people tweeting their colour coded shelves of YA that they'll only read once more than my shelves of used books that have actual sentimental value.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:39:16 2021 No.19287356 >>19287344 Share some of the autism with us.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:41:24 2021 No.19287367 >>19287344 They're not cringe, they're based.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:41:38 2021 No.19287369 >>19286743 Libgen gang gang.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:43:37 2021 No.19287377 >>19286920 to whom?

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:46:23 2021 No.19287392

>>19286743
>"Buy more books than you can ever read"
I actually agree that you shouldn't do this. You should only buy books after you finish the last books you bought, and if you didn't like one of the books you bought, you should either resell it or donate it instead of taking up space. However, none of that has anything to do with libraries.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:48:17 2021 No.19287405 >>19286743 What is a library? How do I use it? Does it offer something that the internet does not?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:50:10 2021 No.19287415 File: 37 KB, 679x676, 1633536244293.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >repeat after me Blasts 12 guage in their face

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:50:32 2021 No.19287418 >>19287009 Yeah, I’m thinking based

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:51:45 2021 No.19287424

>>19287405
>What is a library?
large building with lots (LOTS) of books, also public-access computers, and homeless people
>How do I use it?
go inside, ask for library card, give them required personal info, get card, check books out using card, return books on time or else pay the late return fee
>Does it offer something that the internet does not?
...no

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 14:51:55 2021 No.19287425 >>19287134 Imagine thinking anybody takes you faggots seriously. The cops are paid to just shoot people like you to leave us in peace.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:01:45 2021 No.19287472 >>19287424 How can I use the library in a way which would benefit me assuming I'm an average person?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:05:56 2021 No.19287481 Well I asked the questions, but the answers lead me in the wrong direction.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:06:45 2021 No.19287484 >>19287377 ur mom

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:07:41 2021 No.19287488

>>19287472
Once, I was writing a paper and needed to pull a quote from a nonfiction book. I found the quote on Google Books, but it didn't have the page number I had to cite, and neither did any online copies from the usual places. So I checked on the local library website and found they had the book. I then walked 10 minutes to my library, found the book, jotted down the page number on a sheet of paper as well as other information needed for the citation, put the book back on the shelf, went home, and finished the citation for the paper.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:09:15 2021 No.19287493 >>19287009 Extremely based and incredibly underrated

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>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:10:44 2021 No.19287501 >>19287472 check out books, read them, return them to the library, repeat. It’s literally free stuff

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:11:36 2021 No.19287507 >>19286751 A rare Onassisposter has appeared

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:11:58 2021 No.19287508 >>19286790 Or you can both, you fucking retard

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:12:37 2021 No.19287512 >>19286750 >80% of which (if that) consist of books you'll only read once. are people actually this retarded about what they purchase? its pretty rare for me to buy a book that i dont feel compelled to re read

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:14:18 2021 No.19287518 >>19286751 That person has never walked into a public library.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:14:55 2021 No.19287522 >DEMAND THE GOVERNMENT CONTROL WHAT BOOKS THE MASSES CAN READ No thanks

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:16:55 2021 No.19287529 >>19287009 I love this pasta

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:17:27 2021 No.19287530 >>19287133 >this. libraries are a waste of taxpayer money and should be abolished. More like, all the funding should go to the preservation of texts. The larger libraries also do that and it's invaluable.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:18:22 2021 No.19287534 >>19286743 But I'm an anarchist

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:19:23 2021 No.19287539 >>19287070 Plus if it is a pulp book I give it away. You don't need state run libraries to share books.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:19:52 2021 No.19287540 >>19286764 >you won't own any books >AND YOU'LL BE HAPPY

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:35:38 2021 No.19287622 >>19286743 No. I want to own my books and lend them to my friends. That's a valid method of distribution and supports the author more.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:38:04 2021 No.19287632 >>19286743 libraries are cool and I use them, however, If I feel like there is a book that will be of great importance to me, I'd much rather have a physical copy in arms reach :)

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:42:12 2021 No.19287643 Why not both? libraries are for textbooks and YA genre fiction you'll only read once and buying is for classics that you want to revist, take notes in, reference ect...

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:53:43 2021 No.19287682

>>19286751
>also just buy ereaders

Yeah, buy an ereader and have publishers retroactively alter and ban your books, then throw the thing into a landfill after a few years. I have books in my house that are 130 years old. What's the chance that any ereader being used today will still be functional 130 years from now?

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:54:55 2021 No.19287685

>>19286743
I believe in Science.
I believe in Covid.
I believe in Democracy.
I believe in Humanity.
I believe in Equality.
I believe in Human Rights.
I believe in Tolerance.
I believe in Diversity.
I believe in Women.
I believe in Minorities.
I believe in Sexual Liberation.
I believe in Progress.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:56:17 2021 No.19287689 >>19287210 i think bryan garner's (friend of dfw) library looks somewhat like this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=642YT4mjD7s

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 15:58:27 2021 No.19287705 >>19287143 literally actually

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 16:01:21 2021 No.19287719

>>19287189
dude i checked the entire region. you dont think i know about that? holy fuck
let me see, i can search in vain and travel 30 miles to a place that MIGHT have what i want. or i could go online and download it in 3 seconds.
end libraries, it's a waste of taxpayer money. just turn the building into daycare centers and sell them to amazon or whoever to expand into mass market childwrangling.
>>19287173
if not for cops i think residents would have taken every hobo out back by now. "yeah bro i have $20 for you, just come into this alley with me." BLAM BLAM BLAM
why the fuck do we have to tolerate hobos shiting everything up literally and rhetorically? just kill them already.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 16:05:43 2021 No.19287740 >>19287719 The homeless are there to scare us into working our shitty jobs

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 16:06:31 2021 No.19287745 >>19287488 Libgen?

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 16:07:09 2021 No.19287748

>>19287488
>unis still require page citation in the world of ctrl+f
uni admin and profs should be drowned in a lake
>>19287530
>take all the old books
>scan them, clean them, format them, upload them to a free to access public website
you don't need local branches of physical libraries to do this. have a few libraries of alexandria buried in bunkers in case a global EMP event. scan the rest. let shizos print their own copies. done. some centralized pajeet run scanslave warehouse could do the work better than "library science" majors. it's amazing it somehow takes a masters degree to put shit in alphabetical order on a shelf.
>noooo you just dont understand the beauty of the dewey decimal system it's soooooooo complicated it takes 6 years of uni to understand it nooooooooo
dude you fuckface it would take 5 minutes to teach a monkey how to do it. i hated that cringe in ascendence of bookworm too, i skipped past like 5 minutes of that bullshit. people have more complicated systems to store and organize their pornography collections for fucks sake come off it. librarians are such cringe faggots

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 16:09:01 2021 No.19287760

>>19287392
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.

How many times do I have to repeat this?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 16:10:39 2021 No.19287773 >>19287424 >also public-access computers ??? >homeless people ??? >else pay the late return fee ???

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 16:10:40 2021 No.19287774

>>19287682
You don’t know about the chances, we don’t know much about the durability of our technologies. But you wouldn’t know since you are so technology illiterate that you assume files on any disk can easily be altered by anyone because muh Internet and hackers and shit

With blockchain technology in the future digital media could be even safer than physical media

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 16:11:42 2021 No.19287781
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It feels only natural to want ownership of things you find valuable. I feel that way about books so I like having them in my possession. I value them and want them to belong to me in some sense. Consumerists don’t give a shit about what they own. They buy things to throw it out next year. They buy things for the dopamine rush, for the bragging rights. Don’t compare me to them

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 16:12:09 2021 No.19287785 >>19287534 No, you aren't.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 16:13:25 2021 No.19287792 >>19287745 It wasn't there. Believe me, I checked everywhere. It was an obscure "oral history" pop book. In every other case, I had no trouble getting page numbers from Google Books.

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 16:13:53 2021 No.19287797

Don't you retards get it? If you use a library, or if you use an ereader--you are giving them control over what you read, in one way or another. Do not do it.

I will NEVER eat the bugs
I will NEVER live in the pod
I will NEVER get the vaccine
And I will NEVER, NEVER, N E V E R substitute my glorious private book collection for any globohomo communalist NON-OWNERSHIP reading facilities

Here is a relevant quote I saved from a thread from years ago. I always remember it when the pro-library, pro-ereader shills show up

>You buy books because libraries are literally throwing out old books that aren't popular with either the television-watching obese hoi polloi or the demented histrionic faggots running academia today. Libraries increasingly carry DVDs instead of books, throw out entire shelves to make room for more computer desks, and invite drug addicts and anarchists in to sleep, shit, and shoot up. Every year, they are becoming staffed more and more by childless, grasping, narcissistic women who seek to turn these public establishments into their personal fiefdoms. You buy books to build a personal library, a personal, physical store of knowledge and artistic beauty beyond the reach of the state and society, both of which have been coopted by people who hate you and want you to be weak and stupid like they are.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 16:14:06 2021 No.19287798 >>19287719 >i-if not for cops! Just do it, Rambonator

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 16:15:34 2021 No.19287804 >>19287774 >we don’t know much about the durability of our technologies (You) don't know much https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 16:15:36 2021 No.19287805

>>19287719
You have to go to a different library for your interlibrary loans? If it's a book they'll deliver it from anywhere to my local branch and if it's an article they'll send it right to my door. If you can find it online great, but that's not always possible. Also I pay the entirety of 75 Canadian dollars a year in tax for my municipal library. Big whoop.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 16:16:36 2021 No.19287812 >>19287797 meds

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 16:20:10 2021 No.19287837 >>19287805 >i have to pay for things i dont even want nor approve of taxation is theft

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 16:24:34 2021 No.19287860 >>19287812 Give one example from history where someone/something had power over some aspect of people's lives but did not abuse it for financial/personal benefit I'll wait

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 16:25:13 2021 No.19287863 >>19287837 Feel free to rise up in violent revolution then.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 16:30:47 2021 No.19287879 >Western “leftists”: NOO YOU CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS NOOOOO >Eastern leftists: To be rich is glorious. Is it any wonder why western leftists fail and the Chinese ones succeed?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 16:39:36 2021 No.19287912 >>19287682 Meds

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 16:39:47 2021 No.19287913 >>19286743 >Demand libraries. not while I can just download all this shit without any rubbish library fee

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 16:40:56 2021 No.19287919 >>19287879 >>Western “leftists” >Shailja Patel is a Kenyan poet funded by the Ford Foundation ???

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 17:54:41 2021 No.19288303

>>19287682
>implying you will be alive in 130 years
nigga why are you placing so much value on physical shit.
your books will eventually rot away one day, e-readers will stop working, its just the way it is.
if it serves you in your lifetime it is useful to you.
EVERYTHING can be documented in the digital age, you arguably live in the pinnacle of time where access to almost any information you want is a few clicks away.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 18:01:01 2021 No.19288337 File: 8 KB, 250x250, 1606666354624.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19286743 When my local library starts stocking books on esoteric Hitlerism and how to build IED's then maybe I'll swing by. Until then I'll be purchasing my own copies.

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>>19288337
>ywn borrow books on IEDs and how to wage protracted warfare from the library
>the qt3.14 librarian at the counter will never slip you her number when you do
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 18:09:01 2021 No.19288391 >>19286743 >Fund libraries >so that they can buy more books than their clients can ever read

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 18:11:06 2021 No.19288404

>>19287682
Ebooks are a lot more durable than physical books. I have a book from interlibrary loan printed in 1933 that is literally turning into dust. In the same space you store a physical book, which will fall apart over time, even if well-made and well-preserved, you can store thousands and thousands of ebooks.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 18:13:29 2021 No.19288421 >>19287785 Yes I am.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 18:16:55 2021 No.19288441 >>19287682 Pirate books and then buy physical copies of the ones you enjoyed, it isn't that difficult

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 18:30:20 2021 No.19288487
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A library is a tool, a resource, not merely a place where you put books after you've read them. It's completely fine to buy books that you're interested in even though you haven't got the time or energy to read them in the moment, because they will be readily available once you do want to read them. The fact that she sees the library as merely a glorified storage space for books once they've been consumed and the fact that she can't conceive that one might want to have a more personal relation with texts reveals that she is the one whose mind has been completely been swallowed by the utilitarian, consumerist logic of late capitalism. Her moralizing tone is also extremely annoying.

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 18:33:25 2021 No.19288503
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>>19288441
This
I usually libgen a book and skim it, analyze the table of contents, or even read the first chapter or two
Then I buy the book on Amazon
Because I want to read in many locations
And because there is a more tangible sense of "location" to each page that I can return to. Something that is lost in an eReader of any kind. I buy books to absorb them and fully integrate them into my mind. I can retrieve the thoroughly underlined copy of a book I've read, and remember exactly what chapter an underline is in during discussion with friends. I cannot do that with eReaders, maybe some of you can.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 18:33:47 2021 No.19288504 >>19288487 By library here I mean one's personal library, I should clarify.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 18:34:53 2021 No.19288509 >>19287349 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/02/librarians-in-uproar-after-borrowing-record-of-haruki-murakami-is-leaked

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 18:35:29 2021 No.19288515 DEMAND DESIGNATED SHITTING STREETS

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 18:37:34 2021 No.19288523

>>19288404
>Ebooks are a lot more durable than physical books.

I was recently considering purchasing a copy of Satyricon from the 1620s that's still in decent shape and readable. Your ereader won't be functional a decade or two from now, much less 400 years from now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 18:37:50 2021 No.19288525 >>19287055 >Canadian https://www.wsj.com/articles/book-burning-censorship-cancel-culture-canada-conseil-scolaire-catholique-ontario-kies-11633543158

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 18:55:23 2021 No.19288632 >>19286920 That’s because you’re a vain faggot

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 19:14:17 2021 No.19288738 File: 292 KB, 758x644, 1634144090430.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19287797 Chad King

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 19:21:10 2021 No.19288770 File: 93 KB, 576x768, WHEEL OF TIME.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19287210 It's only feminine if you fill it with tacky YA books and display funkopops and other shitty collectables with it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 19:25:12 2021 No.19288790 >>19287009 Based pasta

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 19:42:57 2021 No.19288884 >>19286743 Why? So homeless niggers can jack off to internet porn while sterile purpled hair cat ladies defend tranny time story hour while making 52 grand a year against their six figure Masters of Library Science (oxymoron) student loan debt?

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 19:54:44 2021 No.19288936

>>19286743
She's basically right - though it has a negative economic impact on actual authors, but I can't stand how pretentious and arrogant she sounds. Reminds me of that Sally Rooney piece that was being posted a while ago, or Christine Lagarde. Whether it is or isn't, it has the feel of pure pageantry, devoid of genuine human feeling.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 20:03:45 2021 No.19288965 >>19288936 priggishness and its why the masses are turning away, silently, from these virtue signalling blue haired little pigs.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 20:15:50 2021 No.19289016 >>19288884 Yikes dude. Take a break. In real life, that only represents the dark side of the story. Don't ignore the light.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 20:33:43 2021 No.19289085 Don’t care. Still going to buy physical books. Will continue adding to my collection of 1,500 books of poetry, fiction, and philosophy that I already own. Performative leftis can sperg out all they want.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 20:36:08 2021 No.19289096 >>19288632 better being a vain faggot than a plain faggot like you ;)

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 20:37:38 2021 No.19289102

>>19288884
This is my like gut reaction too. Actually when I was young I loved going to the library but now whenever I go I really do see literally this. Plus as I get older and my tastes become more idiosyncratic I find them missing a lot of what I really want

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 20:39:28 2021 No.19289113 the only people crying about libraries itt are Americans that's what happens when your kike government spends more on blowing up heritage sites in the middle east looking for weapons of mass destruction than they do on educating the population

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 20:44:23 2021 No.19289139 File: 29 KB, 612x408, 1539782402425.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19287009 >calling children pseuds i never imagined based levels could reach such awesome heights!

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 20:53:10 2021 No.19289173

>>19286743
What if I want to read something that will take me weeks or even months to finish like let's say Aquinas's Sumas? What if I want to read a few articles now and come back to the book a few weeks later? Will the commie library allow me to keep the book for and inditerminate amount of time? No? Too bad. I like to do stuff at my own pace, and what's more, I like to own my stuff and use them whenever the fuck I want.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 20:59:03 2021 No.19289203 >>19287009 Based and redpilled

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 21:02:16 2021 No.19289218 Fumigate libraries. Solve the homeless problem

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 21:08:43 2021 No.19289249 >>19287009 Fucking based!

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>>19286743
>Only use the library
>Only stream your music
>Only stream your movies
>Only play your games through DRM
>Only use Uber or lease your car
>Only rent an apartment

What did the World Economic Forum mean by this?

Im pretty sure it's that the stoics were right, and that you should leave most areas in the first world before the decade is out.

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>>19286743
>move in with my gf's cousin because whatever reasons she doesn't want to disclose
>overall nice guy and he has a giant stack of cooking books
>meanwhile I study literature and I posses less than 6 books (even though I probably read more than him) because they were gifted to me/I was not able to find them at the library/I didn't had enough time to donate them
I find it weird how people like to collect a shitton of papers just because they make them less insecure

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 21:23:48 2021 No.19289322 >>19289260 you know that you can keep books from the library and pay less than what they'd cost at a store?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 21:33:06 2021 No.19289355 >>19287006 I wish you could see yourself through someone else's eyes...

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 22:57:36 2021 No.19289734 >>19286743 Start a library and give away books to friends to read. Make your own circulation and write in your own books. Make it a family heirloom, pass down your generations of knowledge.

Anonymous Mon Oct 25 23:01:40 2021 No.19289746

>>19286743
I agree with this. It’s unnecessary clutter that I don’t have to deal with. Pirating is free. As for libraries, I don’t care. It’s probably good to have - I know I loved going as a kid. What the fuck else are you going to put there? Another check cashing store and laundromat?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 23:09:34 2021 No.19289774 i hate libraries let them die

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Public libraries are an outdated meme. The only people who would really benefit from them (those who can't afford books, i.e. me when I was a kid and went to libraries for this reason) don't read in 2021 so it doesn't serve them, or at least having an entire library for the whole seven poor zoomers who do want to read isn't practical. Internet access for poors should not depend on libraries, it should just be a public utility with free wifi blasted everywhere and with publicly-funded internet cafes anyone can use for job search etc., so libraries are not a desirable endgame for that either.

>what about the other gay shit they do like the various cultural events and outreach?!

All gay shit to keep boomers and white women with useless degrees in comfy jobs, a total waste of their donors' money. The library is just a relic of 20th century bougie propriety and they don't want it to disappear because it would make their racist grandparents sad or some shit. Who cares lol

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 23:25:10 2021 No.19289841 >>19289322 in texas this is a misdemeanor

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 00:01:51 2021 No.19290004 >>19289841 Miss Demeanor, you say? Is she cute?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 00:05:46 2021 No.19290024 >>19286743 Does pirating every book and reading it on your ereader count as a library?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 00:09:25 2021 No.19290050 >>19287278 This tweet has to be satire. There's no way someone wrote that out sincerely.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 01:47:08 2021 No.19290415 >>19287797 Actually pretty based

Anonymous Tue Oct 26 03:13:52 2021 No.19290713

>>19287804
alright gringo but this is when you buy brands and not even with all of them. im talking our technology in general. you can easily build your own ereader (the open book project) and likewise you can exchange parts on your ereader. i am talking about how long a hard disk really can store information before it gets diluted, lost etc. and still you could copy it

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 03:16:23 2021 No.19290720 >>19286743 She must be terrified that anyone can buy any book they want, without having to go through curators.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 03:17:16 2021 No.19290725 >>19286743 she's right If you don't read your fucking books there is no reason to see them as any more valuable than a wall of funko pops

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 04:16:42 2021 No.19290905 >>19287009 Good grief, you have just made me anti-library.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 05:06:09 2021 No.19291062 >>19287009 ting ting

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 05:08:50 2021 No.19291071 Libraries in my city (Sydney) are utter trash. They dont even stock any of the Greeks.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 05:22:06 2021 No.19291117 You can buy books on ebay for £2. Even the poorest of poorfags can buy books these days

Anonymous Tue Oct 26 05:39:30 2021 No.19291188

>>19288523
Who gives a shit whether my personal books will last for 500 years? I read books for myself, not some antiquarian from 500 years into the future.
>inb4 muh children
I only buy classics, textbooks and field manuals. The first they could easily buy on their own, the second will be completely obsolete by their time and the third will likewise be outdated.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 05:50:28 2021 No.19291237 >stop having nice things >own nothing >go sit in the state provided facility together with the rest of the plebs

Anonymous Tue Oct 26 05:51:01 2021 No.19291240

>>19287501
How can you not think about all the fucking ugly mouth-breathers that touched your book before you did. Think about all of their greasy little pretzel fingers going up and down every page, smothering them in their juices. And what if a Chad read it? I don't want an alpha-widowed book anon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 06:29:12 2021 No.19291340 File: 1.92 MB, 398x494, D13E93A8-737A-42AC-A305-44B4402C2BCB.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19286789 >implying owning a digital device plus internet access isn’t a higher barrier of entry than a library Scum

Anonymous Tue Oct 26 07:55:37 2021 No.19291577

>>19286743
>Go to library
>They don't have the book I'm after
>Download it instead
The time of libraries has ended because of two reasons. Fundamentally, a library is a place to learn or read lesuire books. The speed at which new information comes out means libraries can never keep up, and when a new fiction book that's popular comes out the library only buys a few copies, so you'll be on a long waitlist to read a brand new, coffee and crisp stained book.
Secondly, the library as the home of the scholar doesn't work anymore because only university libraries tend to be subscribed to journals, and even then not all of them.
Do a library then becomes some weird hybrid coffee socialisation building which is too loud for serious study.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 08:07:39 2021 No.19291624 >>19287097 Gorgeous. Is that Trinity?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 08:10:46 2021 No.19291637 >>19286743 ill go back when they get rid of all the homeless people getting high and shitting in the hallways there.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 08:16:59 2021 No.19291658 How about I just pirate everything?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 08:21:20 2021 No.19291673 >>19287488 The trick is to just not give a shit about labeling page numbers. Books are to be read, not consulted :^)

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 08:43:33 2021 No.19291738 >>19287773 >??? ??? >??? ??? >??? ??? what did ze mean by this?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 08:48:28 2021 No.19291757 >>19287804 you are crippled mentally and suffering from the dunning kruger effect. the other anon's idea went over your head like my cum went over you mom's head

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 08:50:38 2021 No.19291762 >>19289734 You don’t get to bring friends

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 11:03:44 2021 No.19292280 >>19287045 >Are you trying to imply that bookshops don't do this? They're much more overt with the performative social justice displays I'm implying that when I order a book from ebay I'm not met with SJW trash upon delivery

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 11:06:19 2021 No.19292299 >>19286743 I hate the cunts who work at libraries. They get paid to sit on their ass all day to scan out books.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 11:50:35 2021 No.19292480 >>19291762 they are not my friends

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 11:55:44 2021 No.19292501 >>19291240 Lmao I read books in the sauna pouring sweat onto them. My copy of Musashi completely warped and fell apart.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 12:41:49 2021 No.19292717 >>19287277 the irony of this post

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 14:30:57 2021 No.19293212 Libraries here won't carry the "controversial books" Also hard as hell to get them to get a rare hard to find book loaned to them But that might just be california being california

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 16:34:38 2021 No.19293791 >>19291624 Close—King's.

Anonymous Tue Oct 26 16:40:10 2021 No.19293819

>>19292299
A lot of them are dumbfuck third worlders who took up the job simply because it's basically a government sinecure. I do admin and HR work for a large library system and have to constantly read statements from library staff. Many of them are semi-literate morons. (Not all though, of course. Some of the people higher up the library food chain are pretty passionate about books.)

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 16:54:39 2021 No.19293881 >>19286743 why are city libraries so much better than country libraries?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 16:57:03 2021 No.19293900 >>19287682 i support your stance

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 17:00:52 2021 No.19293936 >>19287278 The other ones I understand the levels of delusion necessary but how anyone regardless of that think that vaush is anything but a complete lolcow is beyond my expectations

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 17:03:28 2021 No.19293951 >>19287122 yea this "weeding" bs happened to my local library. i was disappointed when they got rid of a book i enjoyed.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 17:04:14 2021 No.19293958 >>19293819 The chance of a "third worlder" immigrant being a dumbfuck is way lower than the chance of a local being a complete mess of a human being. You're a prime example of that.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 17:06:45 2021 No.19293976 >>19293958 >BROWN? BROWN GUY CRITICIZED? BROWN PEOPLE ARE BETTER THAN YOU I BET!!! BROWN PEOPLE ARE THE FUTURE!!! BROWN PEO- Shut up tranny.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 17:07:17 2021 No.19293979 File: 7 KB, 300x168, ghtjt.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19286743 no if they continue this tranny nonsense they should be defunded for denying biology

Anonymous Tue Oct 26 17:08:35 2021 No.19293990

>>19287122
>>19293819
You guys probably won't or can't do this, but please write a pseudonymous essay on this phenomenon for a site like CounterCurrents or Taki or UNZ or even Medium or Substack or something I don't give a shit what it is, but write it. You don't have to be some kind of avant garde cultural critic either, just get the information out there about how these processes work themselves out. It's not only valuable for libraries, it's valuable for understanding how the rot spreads through bureaucracies in a dying society like ours.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 17:09:30 2021 No.19293995 >>19293958 Jesus Christ you're so yikes.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 17:11:18 2021 No.19294003 >>19293958 Did I hurt your feelings, darkie?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 17:12:12 2021 No.19294009 >>19293958 Hope those thirdies are reading this bro

Anonymous Tue Oct 26 17:15:53 2021 No.19294027

>>19286743
I think it was Seneca who wrote something about there being more books than you can read, so be wise in your purchases. I agree, but also, if you've lived in a poor city, which 90% of these bluechecks on twitter haven't, your library has mostly shit options of books with a 50% chance someone's drawn a dick on at least one of the pages. Also I like to be able to go back to sections of books I've read to reread certain facts or passages (especially so with nonfiction).

tl;dr
>Don't buy too many books
based
>Fund libraries
cringe and check your privilege

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 18:19:02 2021 No.19294407 >>19293819 not here, most are middle age white women.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 18:24:07 2021 No.19294437 File: 18 KB, 400x400, chad.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19287685 you believe in wearing a dress

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 18:24:43 2021 No.19294442 >>19286743 Very few books that I am interested in reading are stocked at any shitty local library. Those places are turning themselves into DVD emporiums for ghetto niggers who are too stupid to be able to download torrents.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 18:29:10 2021 No.19294465 >>19287009 Unironically just made me anti-library. Thank you anon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 18:29:15 2021 No.19294466 >>19286743 No fuck you. Writers make more money when people buy the books.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 18:40:23 2021 No.19294550 >>19288525 Shitty and deranged, but not a public library.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 20:07:12 2021 No.19295042 >>19293212 >Libraries here won't carry the "controversial books" so they dont carry the only books that matter. ahh but the same people say the nazis were bad and evil tyrants huh?

Anonymous Tue Oct 26 20:09:49 2021 No.19295059
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>>19289355
Whats the point? A few people probably think he is a bad person, the rest of us agree and think he is great.
I will absolutely pass my library down to my children.
Fuck marxism and all of its derivatives.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 20:11:11 2021 No.19295064 >>19295042 He's talking shit, I just spent 5 seconds searching the LA library catalogue and can put the fucking Turner Diaries on hold. There's a disclaimer but that's it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 20:19:40 2021 No.19295114 >>19295059 My parents are in their mid 70's and are likely leaving lots of books to me and they are all fucking going to goodwill. Your mileage may vary on that inheritance concept.

Anonymous Tue Oct 26 20:23:39 2021 No.19295142

>>19287036
>bit rot
>machine shits itself
>state sponsored malware that looks for checksums of wrong think takes it out
I have both digital and physical copies of books. I hope you have backups with checksums, at least. Good luck.
>>19295114
>willingly admitting you were raised poorly
Let me know so I can buy your parent's books for cheap.

Anonymous Tue Oct 26 20:37:33 2021 No.19295246

>>19295142
Haha, you want their magical library of commie horseshit and woke word salad, you'll be doing me a favour dude. I'm sure it'll look better in your house than mine.
They could have raised me better, but honestly, I hope my kids jettison my old crap when the time comes for my dirt nap.

Anonymous Tue Oct 26 20:39:40 2021 No.19295261

Dogshit take
Allow the common man to own information at an affordable price rather than having to beg for it from his government.
I went to my local library the other day. The corner ceiling was being held up by a tarp and a bucket was collecting water below it. To call the selection poor would be an understatement. They had a single Hemingway novel and an entire wall devoted to women's romance/smut.
The interlibrary loan system, which has heavy late fees, costs as much money as buying a used copy of the book I wanted.
I'm buying a laser printer and saying to hell with the world

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 20:42:40 2021 No.19295281 >>19287797 Stay true king

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 20:42:42 2021 No.19295282 >>19295246 >free kindling I accept. > I hope my kids jettison my old crap when the time comes for my dirt nap. Well, good luck. Don't get too mad if they end up keeping all your stuff, though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 20:43:41 2021 No.19295288 >>19287122 Grim

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 20:45:43 2021 No.19295297 libraries are computer farms and homeless centers. Fuck them. The only way libraries will ever reach the year 2100 is if Amazon starts a book lending program like they did with video rental.

Anonymous Tue Oct 26 20:49:28 2021 No.19295322

The libraries in my area have nothing that I'm looking for but are full of momscience self-help books and autobiographies by people I've never heard of. Maybe you think the stuff I'm looking for is too obscure, but I'm talking very basic shit like dostoevsky or very popular textbooks. Besides the shitty selection everyone there is either a noisy kid or homeless.

>>19295059
Oh and every book is screened by librarians, so good luck obviously if you are looking for anything close to what's on this anons shelf.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 20:59:41 2021 No.19295373 >>19287682 You're obviously correct. Everyone who disagrees is a fucking retard.

Anonymous Tue Oct 26 21:02:01 2021 No.19295382

>>19295261
seriously, libraries are just dreary and cheapen literature.
>books are so worthless they're free and we have to have public outreach programs to get people to read
>all books are equally valuable, whether it's 50 shades of grey or brothers karamazov
>who is writing it matters more than what they wrote. we promote based on race and gender of the author and characters
>yes, yes, reading a dozen crappy smut books makes you just as much of a literary high-mind as reading a dozen classics! books for everyone, no matter how stupid and trashy they are!
for the good of literature public libraries must be abolished.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 21:02:38 2021 No.19295383 >>19286751 Zlibrary

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 21:06:20 2021 No.19295396 >>19287685 I believe in literally none of those.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 21:12:44 2021 No.19295415 >>19288361 >wow anon that's a lot of fertilizer >you must do a lot of farming tee hee

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 21:25:08 2021 No.19295459 >>19289322 Yeah but they come with the stickers and whenever I show off my bookshelf at dinner parties everybody gives me shifty eyes.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 21:29:10 2021 No.19295473 >>19289305 Thanks for sharing

Anonymous Tue Oct 26 21:35:37 2021 No.19295510

Posters ITT are nothing but a bunch of contrarian pseuds. Libraries always have tons of warm places to sleep and it's usually really easy to buy drugs in the bathroom facilities. You can use the flush toilets for as long as you want and there are comfy armchairs to sit in.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 21:38:54 2021 No.19295519 >>19295510 t. heroin junkie

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 21:46:18 2021 No.19295544 >>19295519 at least I have a library card

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 21:52:49 2021 No.19295572 >>19287797 I hope you like the books I bought you

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 26 23:21:38 2021 No.19296028 >>19295261 the chad home book binder vs the virgin library dweller

Anonymous Wed Oct 27 04:03:17 2021 No.19297044

>>19288884
I go to my public library to write. I concentrate better there, whenever I try to write at home I'm more tempted to mess around with the music I'm playing, pop on my phone, whatever. I can't really get in the zone. Sometimes there are weirdos at the library but with headphones on they're easy to ignore.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 10:11:41 2021 No.19298024 >>19295042 >but the same people say the nazis were bad and evil tyrants huh? Irony, like humor, is lost on these people.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 10:15:37 2021 No.19298039 File: 944 KB, 2560x1347, 1616464340604.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >TFW I work for the library, but don't have to work with the public >Have access to the building during non-open hours, and a key to the stacks Get on my level, homos.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 10:22:34 2021 No.19298059 >>19287278 Even my anarcho-communist friend hates Vaush and thinks he's a pedophile. How are there people who think he's worth listening to?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 10:31:07 2021 No.19298103 File: 64 KB, 592x600, 1602304174496.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19295142 >print out forbidden knowledge on paper >stick it in a binder It's not hard.

Anonymous Wed Oct 27 11:12:49 2021 No.19298257

>>19287122
I'm not sure normies are sure "weeding" exists. I still remember when some an older (early to mid-1990s) on edutainment titles disappeared from the local library system; probably the first time I realized that libraries aren't unlimited storage collections that will be there indefinitely.

>>19287124
Even big city libraries seem to have the worst selection of everything. I remember looking for a movie to watch (not even a book) at a library in Houston, and everything was either the shitty sequel of the movie, some knockoff designed to look like the real thing (not the third-world mockbusters, could be something like a DVD of Iron Man but actually a few episodes of Iron Man: The Animated Series), I think even some softcore shit.

>>19287290
Libraries will resell it and not put it in their collection. Used bookstores will pay you a pittance and jack up the price to 5x what they paid for it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 11:15:53 2021 No.19298273 I never used my public library aside from borrowing Pokemon vhs tapes

Anonymous Wed Oct 27 11:26:41 2021 No.19298315
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>>19287179
There are usually library book sales where you can buy the books they're getting rid of (or the books that were donated to them but that they don't want to stock) for a pittance. I've gotten some good no-longer-kosher stuff from the library sales in my area. Case in point: an early edition of Uncle Remus stories that was being sold for $2.

Anonymous Wed Oct 27 11:56:25 2021 No.19298449

>>19298059
Zoomers need to watch someone. They aren't watching someone because that person is good or says good things. They NEED to watch SOMEONE. If there were only one influencer left in the world, all zoomers would be watching him or her, regardless of content. Zoomers are trained from birth to think that Important People have internet presences.

Imagine if all the best, most interesting, most worth listening to were also the tallest, richest, best dressed, most attractive people with the best hair, and on top of all that, they kind of sparkled and had a faint golden aura around them, like a demigod's glamor. That's how a zoomer sees anything that's a "thing," as measured by having an online presence or being constantly mentioned in zoomer subcultures. Zoomers go around looking for "things" to "follow."

Try to find videos of zoomers reacting to social media figures, before and after they know the person is a social media figure. In that split second where the person says "I'm a youtuber with n million followers" or "I'm a streamer with n million followers," watch the zoomer's eyes light up. For him, it was like that person went from being an anonymous, gray, featureless nothing of a person into a 7 foot tall shimmering demigod with a Chad "OUCH!" shirt on.

Zoomers like Vaush or other streamers in the same way you "like" your family. You are obligated to know your family, you are obligated to care what your dime a dozen frumpy sister is doing lately, you feel that obligation as something deeper than rationally reasoned interest. It's just the way it is. Zoomers feel that in a formless, anticipatory way when they are searching around for "a streamer" to watch or "a feed" to browse.

You should see how bad the even younger kids are.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 12:06:46 2021 No.19298489 >>19293791 Oh nice, applying to King's myself - hope I get an interview.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 12:11:01 2021 No.19298504 >>19286750 >she

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 12:16:35 2021 No.19298530 >>19287009 based. Bring back the personal library.

Anonymous Wed Oct 27 12:19:03 2021 No.19298550
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>>19298489
You'll love it if you go. I have many fond memories of the place, particularly reading out behind the chapel and punting on the river with friends. Wonderful times; nothing like now.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 13:13:44 2021 No.19298785 >>19298039 Based janitor

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 13:15:19 2021 No.19298793 >>19287009 I can’t believe Jannies let him get away with this. Absolute madlads

Anonymous Wed Oct 27 16:16:49 2021 No.19299571

>>19286743
>another twitter screencap thread
I went to my local library today and had the pleasure of listening to an old guy with tourettes muttering curses under his breath in the quiet study section, all the while they replaced half the DVD section with a second 'help desk' staffed by a woman yapping at the phone all day to her friends. Or I could go to my university library and have a 5' tall mystery meat student worker nag me to wear a facemask when there's nobody else in a 30 foot radius and there's about 5 people on the entire floor. All that aside, the picture in the OP is the platonic form of a midwit twitter post, complete with vaguely sexual innuendo ("naked commodity fetishism") and REDUCTIVE ASSERTIONS IN ALL CAPS.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 27 16:35:57 2021 No.19299656 >>19287009 Based and babelpilled

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