Why buy books when you can borrow?

[Anonymous No.21928544]

Piracy and stealing are good options too

[Anonymous No.21928558]

>>21928544
this. i've read more books than your average mcdonalds employee but i have never paid for a single one. i only borrow them from my local library using the Libby app. i'm a naughty boy and borrow from 2 different county library systems because i still use my previous library card too. you could say i am gaming the system.

[Anonymous No.21928559]

>>21928544
t. only reads surface level stuff

[Anonymous No.21928612]

>>21928544
You have to support the industry so writers can make a living. If you have money to spend, spend it on books.

If you're too poor to buy books, nobody is going to condemn you for borrowing or stealing tho

[Anonymous No.21928644]

>>21928558
>more books than your average McDonald's employee
So 1 book?

[Anonymous No.21928660]

10 to 20 bucks here or there wont break the bank and its like the only consoomer hobby I have

[Anonymous No.21928698]

If an ebook is 99 cents I'll buy it for conveiniance. If you're trying to charge me $15 you can fuck yourself and I'll find a copy elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.21928779]

>>21928544
I download and if I really like it and want it in my shelves, as in I'll read it multiple times and may want to loan it out or pass it along to my kids one day, then I'll buy it.
Fuck paying 10-30 dollars for a book I've never read.
NIGGA-YOU CRAZY OR WHAT?

[Anonymous No.21928781]

>>21928779
I sometimes make exceptions for self-published or indie books esp ones that will never see the light of day through a major publisher.

[Voluntary Fool No.21929684]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM

[Anonymous No.21929695]

"Why get a book when you could have a text instead?"
No thanks.

[Anonymous No.21929701]

>>21928544
Ive stolen several hundred thousand dollars worth in rare manuscripts from my university library. They still haven't noticed. If I was going to a 1st tier school I'd probably be a millionaire by now.

[Anonymous No.21929702]

Because I like having them on hand should I desire to read them again and I'd like to have a modest library that my children can grow up with.

[Anonymous No.21929736]

I want something worthwhile in my personal library I can return to without having to pickup these demonic tablets of glass and metals all the time. I don't want an ereader either although it is preferable to a screen. I want something that can be mine to do with whatever I so please. Sonething I can smell and feel the texture of. Something that's weight coincides with its size. That does not need electricity or moving parts to use. I don't ever buy new books (I hardly know where to go to find out what's not shit that's been published in the past decade). I don't simply want to consume or collect but own what I have read and reimburse the publisher for naking that possible (if they deserve it). I also want to keep having reasons to go to second-hand bookstores where I don't pay over $10 for any paperback regardless of condition and the owner and I have a wonderful time talking literature with them where I learn something from the more experienced reader, expanding my horizons and they get to relish in sharing that knowlege theycve accumulated over decades. It nourishes my very soul.

[Anonymous No.21929747]

>>21929736
By not buying new books I mean newly published. I buy mainly older books already canonised.

[Anonymous No.21929758]

>>21929701
How

[Anonymous No.21930559]

i like having physical books, and having them on hand so i can re-read them on a whim. I also like the idea of amassing a decent collection of my favorites that reflects my personal thoughts and feelings and interests and pass it on to someone, either my kids if i have any or my sisters kids

[Anonymous No.21930587]

I am a hoarder
I like going to thrift shops and finding volume 2 of the Story of the Stone or The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson
I like reading nice editions
When I studied at university I was able to borrow books from there and that's what I did
My local public library has nothing

[Anonymous No.21930596]

>>21928544
I am not poor ;)

[Anonymous No.21931071]

>>21930587
My library tebds to have a huge waitlist on books i want to read now or doesn't have them at all

[Anonymous No.21931113]

>>21928612
I think e-books are a sweet deal for that. I pretty much find everything under 5 dollars. No book is worth more than that.

[Anonymous No.21931124]

>>21928544
I like reading physical books and I like seeing them on my bookshelves. More importantly, I'm a writer myself, so unlike TV, movies, or video games, books are the one thing I'll always pay for.

[Anonymous No.21931185]

>>21928544
renting?

[Anonymous No.21932323]

>>21928544
cause I want to own books

[Anonymous No.21932398]

>>21928612
>reading current day authors
Yikes

[Anonymous No.21932407]

How am I suppose to impress people with my patrician taste in literature if I’m reading ebooks? They'll just think Im scrolling through tiktok

[Anonymous No.21932413]

If I like it enough I buy it, simple as. If I don't, I didn't waste the money.

[Anonymous No.21932440]

>>21928544
reading books is boring

[Anonymous No.21933379]

>>21928612
So what you'z be sayin' right iz I should be buyin' books from used book stores and bargain warehouses who sell old library stock, 'n' charity donation 'n' shiet?

yee boi

[Anonymous No.21933621]

>>21928544
Absolutely agreed. Had they not gone out of their way to shut them all down in my area, I'd be there all the time. Gives me hope to see the one in town is actually being renovated though.
>Piracy
Also this.

[Anonymous No.21933740]

>>21928544
I am not a fan of piracy or stealing, my conscience can not handle doing it. It may not mean anything to the author/publisher if I steal, but it means something to me.

[Anonymous No.21933768]

I only buy physical copies of books I really like and sometimes out of impulse. Just in case electricity goes out or whatever. I read a lot on the go and I prefer reading on my phone or a reader in that case. Too much hassle handling books in public.

[Anonymous No.21935328]

>>21928544
You should own your books. If you rent them, you keep them and they are your property. It's that simple. Taking this for granted is a foolish endeavor in today's world, just as it was in the past, for there are many people in this world who seek to eliminate ownership of anything altogether.

Keep your books, and buy the ones you need. If you must go to the library, you can check out books, and join in on the fun events that are held at libraries.

>Piracy and Stealing are good options
Deplorable. Begone, Crime Doesn't Pay. Only thieves pilfer and steal. Your actions will have consequences, even if not immediate.

[Anonymous No.21935485]

1. Library is far away.
2. I read at my own pace and pleasure.
3. I like looking at my shelves.
Tragically, I love in a small apartment so 1000 books is the most I can keep without it turning into hoarder-tier shithole.

[Anonymous No.21935711]

>>21935328
Piracy's a lot better than actually stealing and one of the few measures preventing us from losing ownership of a lot more things and getting around censorship. I wouldn't go so far as to call it deplorable. I would go to a library for a book I couldn't purchase for whatever reason anyway. This is just that without wait time, it also allows me to actually see if a book is worth purchasing. What's shown in samples is usually never enough to be indicative of quality and a shitty latter section can ruin the entire book.

[Anonymous No.21935767]

>>21935711
The solution is not to steal, but to create your own stuff. Your lack of creativity saddens me, copyright laws exists for a reason, it's meant to promote authenticity, so nobody's just mimicking and copying everyone else for profit, which is no better than plagiarizing.

Piracy is a crime, which you can be fined and serve time for. You've been warned.

[Anonymous No.21935786]

>>21928558
>Boob size can be accentuated or minimized through strategic shirt drawing.
What the hell?
>>21928544
Sometimes it's good to have an actual physical book sometimes.

[Anonymous No.21935839]

>>21935767
How does creating my own stuff preserve the old? Copyright does not exist within reason, that ship has sailed. I'm not even depriving anyone of any thing they'd lose by digital piracy. Piracy is the force able to back up defence of consumer rights. And also I wouldn't be giving them money anyway if I was resorting to piracy.

[Anonymous No.21935846]

>>21935839
Corps would walk all over consumer rights if there wasn't the threat if 'violence' through piracy. It's like having an armed populace, much harder to tyrannise.

[Anonymous No.21937050]

I gave up on library books after I scratched my anus with my bare fingernails once while reading one. I can only assume other people are as filthy as me and I'm not risking it

[Anonymous No.21937245]

>>21937050
>one of the books I own could have been touched by a girl's butthole-dirty fingers
Thank you anon, I had no idea one of my book could be this special

[Anonymous No.21937788]

>>21928612
The world is a zero sum game. I refuse to "support" anyone.

[Anonymous No.21937798]

>>21928544
Why borrow when you can pirate?

[Anonymous No.21937859]

>>21929701
Give them back

[Anonymous No.21938852]

>>21937798
I mean, to people who prefer physical books

[Anonymous No.21939901]

>>21929701
THey will catch you soon and we'll read about you in the New York Compost

[Anonymous No.21940249]

>>21933740
It means you're a faggot