Pic rel my library at my house, ive been amassing books since 1985 when i graduated college, this is about 60%of them, i have plenty more books in my room, the living room, and books in boxes in the storage room upstairs, the books pictured here are stacked 2 deep in the shelves, so triple the amount you see here for a good idea of how many i have
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Mostly schlock
But I post mine all the time already. It's mostly art books, Arno Schmidt, Walter Moers, German Expressionism, and then lots of weird 18th and 19th century stuff plus, of course, classics.
wasn das für ein Beksinski-Buch?
It's this one: https://www.amazon.com/Beksinski-Art-Painting-Zdzislaw-Beksinski/dp/8375766011
It's much cheaper if you buy it directly in the gallery of his hometown.
I can't be assed to find the pictures I took when prepping to move but I have the same amount* with a classier collection after like 3 years of active buygayging.
*I was going to say I had you solidly beat until I re-read the OP and saw you only pictured about half or a third of your collection. Why so much random bad fiction? What's the point of holding on to those, just keep those as ebooks.
How's your experience with art books? I'm thinking about starting to collect them but I'd want something like a complete catalog of a particular artist's oeuvre, rather than what I normally see which is scattershot agglomerations meant o provide a sample of an art movement, like impressionism or whatever. I also hate when images of the paintings take up less than the entire page for no good reason, like a small picture of some painting all by itself on a page with tons of whitespace surrounding it.
>I'm thinking about starting to collect them but I'd want something like a complete catalog of a particular artist's oeuvre
I do that as well. Unfortunately, sometimes you have to wait months, sometimes years until a catalogue becomes available. If you're unlucky, the seller doesn't even ship internationally. And sometimes be prepared to pay a few hundred bucks for rarer catalogues. While I don't care too much about certain popular artists collecting books of lesser known artists from other countries is something that can keep you occupied and up at night. I still don't have every single book about Poumeyrol. And for other artists I have only a handful of books. And yes, sometimes the books have terrible quality, small images etc. It's still worth it though. Art books are comfy.
Ah well I'm still a mainstream pleb when it comes to artists so I'm not too worried about finding catalogs of like Rembrandt or Van Dyck. I do also worry a bit about private collections, too. At some point I'll have been to every public art museum/gallery and I'll have to start socializing with the rich people currently sitting on the remaining artworks I haven't seen yet. Like apparently some guy in NYC has a Leonardo Da Vinci in a private collection, and when it's the last one I haven't seen I just know it's going to eat at me until I manage to see it.
Oh, kek. But then again, there are always some paintings that turn up eventually. Some stay lost.
Even in that large Beksinski book there are paintings missing because that old Pole sold lots of paintings all over the place and some buyers never bothered to take good photos of them. Sometimes there only exist tiny b/w images of some of the paintings. Wanting to see every painting someone has done is a nice goal but ultimately futile. So I am happy with hoarding art books, catalogues, and illustrated books and I'm trying to be as complete as possible. It's great to not only have every literature classic on your shelves but also hundreds of books with pretty and inspiring pictures.
Its entertaining, books to me are tv shows and movies to most people, and "adult" sci fi/fantasy is much better then YA bullshit and i wanted my kids to grow up reading good books that they would actually find entertaining
Thoughts on Baxandall's Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy?
Hmm. Nah. Not feeling it.
Why not? I got it for almost free, just wondering if it's a good book before I eventually get around to it.
If a book is available for cheap I'd have some mistrust.
You don't think there are amazing forgotten works in low/zero demand? Do you have any idea how few people read niche books? You pay high prices for all of your used shit? Getting pseud vibes anon.
Even for my "forgotten works" from the 18th and 19th century I pay at least 50 bucks each. Sometimes way over a hundred. "Forgotten" illustrated works are nearly impossible to get. Looking at you there, Lorenz Oken.
I collect antiquarian books and get things like shenstone, early eighteenth, and even 17th century books for as little as 20 bucks.
But are those hidden gems or random things published during that time?
>since 1985 when i graduated college
>on IQfy
Jesus, you must be almost 60.
>dust covers still on
>mostly airport fiction
>ladder so manlet
>proud of spending money on and senselessly hoarding what is free at the library
Embarrassing.
Them grapes sure are sour
Why do you morons always bring up a library as if they’re actually good and have actual books.
I appreciate those quads but
>dust covers still on
You need to off yourself as quickly as possible, respectfully.
>they actually like and don't immediately throw away dust covers
Man...what happened to IQfy in the past year? I just came back and it's really gone downhill. Sad!
(You)
I put them in a box
>has a nice house
>no need to impress anyone. Reads what he likes
>girl on bookshelf obviously his daughter
>he married, had children, owns a house
>you never will
Nice cope anon
Appreciate the support fren
Op here,
>:(
>dust covers still on
Uh yeah? What kind of a moron are you? Do you eat them when you start the book?
Why are you here bud, looks like you've got a solid house, so you atleast have decent cash going on.
Op here, i like science fiction, sue me, this is just the books i keep out in the main room for my kids growing up, (also why i had the ladder, the room is about 12 feet tall and its impossible to reach the top shelf without it) theyre off to college now so i might swap them out for the books i want on display, i dont know, pic rel is the storage room with more of my collection, as for why im on IQfy, i was a early adopter of the internet and got rich in the dot com boom, pretty dissappointed in where the internet went but the non porn boards here are alright.
OP is a based empty nester. Hopefully I'll reach his level of comfy someday.
Based book enjoyers.
I just did a count and I'm at 179/596. Working through them though. I'm stoked about most of my unread books and I get rid of the ones I drop or just don't like all that much.
>179/596
Wew and I thought I was bad
I'm working on it. I bought nearly all of them in the last two years. I figure I'll be done with them or close by 2028.
I was actually asked by my local antiquarian if I wanted to take over his shop. :^)
Too bad I have an incurable circadian rhythm disorder and can't work during the day. Also, I'd be way too greedy and want to keep everything for myself and not sell it.
Nice collection OP. Zoomers don't know what it's like to be one of those guys who reads as much crap as good stuff. Smartest guy I know is like this - I asked him if he had read John Williams once and he said nope, then two days later at lunch he tells me he liked Augustus better than Butcher's Crossing and Stoner. But then a few days later he's reading everything Barsoom or reading a bunch of self-help psychology crap he just found interesting, or plowing through all of Madeleine l'Engle.
He made me realize that for some people, reading is like browsing IQfy/social media, or binge-watching films/shows, or simply zoning out while TV rerun crap they've seen ten times before is on. It's not effort for them, it's their default entertainment.
I am not that kind of reader myself, and while I think there are pitfalls to it too, I envy people who do read like that. He really do just be going home and reading 2-3 fricking Philip K Dick novels in an evening because someone left them on the desk. Sometimes I'd mention the most obscure shit that was trendy on IQfy to him and he'd have read it 20 years ago on some whim. Even when I try to read some fun schlock like Clancy I have to force myself to do it with some logic like "it's okay to read schlock once in a while," and I still end up trying to read the "best" schlock, which isn't the point. It's fun to just read what's there in front of you sometimes.
I had another friend sort of like this, where if you'd name some scifi or fantasy author to him he'd go through all 51 of that author's books over the next month and a half.
If you ever just want to start ditching books, someone once told me that you can list them individually on used books sites (including Amazon I believe) and over the course of a couple years people will buy one here or there. They told me they sold all their college books for $15-20 this way and made back most of their money, much more than if they had gone and tried to dump them all on some store.
It def used to be mydefaultentertainment, until videoganes got good around 2008, for me its always been about entertainment and being immersed in the world, some games do that better now, but i still read about one book a week
>videoganes got good around 2008
Anon... I
I played ttrpg's until then, halo 3 opened my eyes, ive gone back and played a ton of classics in recent years including system shock, the original fallout, and pathways into darkness/marathon trilogy.
you could open an all night cafe and bookstore for those other insomniacs if your schedule is regular enough. Depends in your city size also.
>way too greedy and want to keep everything for myself
This is an issue, but you get over it to some degree when you have 10,000+ books.
I have a big storage pile of stuff I have first dibs on though for sure.
Your kids look a bit chubby in those framed photos, mister.
Post body, dyel
kek I was just being silly
no worries my frends
Its genetics, 2/3 kids are in shape, on of my sons is overweight but dropping, we cant all be perfect ig
Thoughts on my based shelf?
Comrade
Only the first of the four shelves is based since it's actually Marx/Engels, the rest are kinda cringe if you actually subscribe to Leninist, Stalinist, or Maoist crap. If that wasn't already bad, you have fricking Shining Path works in there. Those frickers almost caused my non-existence before my birth, yet my family is and has always been lower working class. They are enemies of the working class.
needs gramsci
>commie bullshit
>trans flag
>menorah
Don't fall for it, anons.
based Roth appreciator, I loved The human stain and Portnoy's Complaint
Why are these books arranged the way they are?
>graduated college
>85
God I hate you, I'd kill to be that lucky birthyear-wise.
I live among books. Send help.
>it's the guy with a shelf of nothing but LotR
pls bro... don't be like this
HALF a shelf full of Tolkien. The lower half is a random assortment of books.
Money is king, if I see a Folio or an Easton for 10 or less, I buy it.
I get folios for as little as .75 cents. I don't display most because they're a bit garish, same with Easton, in fact, I have a few dozen of each I give away or sell.
>mixing franklin library with folio/easton
desperation isn't a good enough reason
just donated my entire 300+ book collection. these are the only books i have in my home now.
You should start a collection that isn't just paperbacks.
why do they always do this?
I think that was a poorly cut cover rather than a design mistake.
is this your sister's bookshelf?
how did you know?
Why do shelf threads bring out the bitterest anons?
To the people with huge book collections, what % of your books would you estimate that you have read? I don't have a large collection, but I only buy a new book when I finish the book I am reading.
80% at ~500 books. You’ve forced yourself to read something that didn’t click with you?
Yeah, I have the full Dryden, Goethe, fontane, Rousseau, most of James, I'm not reading all of it for sure
Some books aren't really meant to be ready entirely like reference works
I picked up a few new everyman's today, got a passage to India new for 8 bucks and the cossacks for 1.50
Hard to say,because some I've just skimmed or read a few chapters, especially with academic stuff.
This is the main shelf but there are six others in the house and two closets full of paperbacks, random books, and duplicates
Why do people post the most grainy, unreadable pictures of their collection? Just don’t bother.
I post them often enough for them to be memorable
Some of my faves
1k+
Things that I've learned having a large book collection: marginalia will piss you off in the end, you don't want a bunch of marked up books, they will annoy you and trigger your OCD. Make notes on ereader or separate notepads and buy nice hardcovers (if available) for shelves. You will get rid of a lot of your books during house moves. Focus on quality copies of quality works. Don't try to larp as Umberto Eco.
We bought a house at just over 3 percent. Doubt we're moving for the foreseeable future. I'll pay my kids to pack the books by then, and supervise.
Your kids will be fat and troon out, nobody is moving any of your books to anywhere but a dumpster.
Kek at this anon seething. What a bad of sour grapes
DONT TELL ME WHO TO LARP AS OR NOT
20%, +/- 10. I just go in used bookstores and grab anything even mildly interesting as long as it's not unreasonably priced, then I pay them in cash and tell them to feel free to keep it off the books so they don't have to pay as much taxes.
Around 30% but having a library is not about books you HAVE read. It's about the books you COULD read.
Books are so cheap it's hard to not be like this. It can reach incredibly unhealthy levels, but if you're not mentally ill it doesn't seem that problematic to me. A lot of people seem to have shelves of books they've never read or read once.
Compare that to the 400-some collected edition comics I have, that by my last estimation was 40-45% read. Those fricking things are not cheap and I am a total moron, helpless to fight the FOMO of missing out on a nice edition of something I might want to read later that they only printed a few hundred copies of.
Embrace the piracy pill my friend. The collectibles market is basically totally dead now that everything's digital.
I like the feel of a real book. I am in no way opposed to piracy other than that. I try before I buy typically, but with comics it was sometimes hard to do that if a release was obviously disappearing from stock in many stores. Books are rarely expensive enough to bother with doing that.
Plus, I'm librarypilled. Love the library.
I have like 2 shelves and I've read like 80% of them, a lot were picked up recently that I'm steadily chewing through.
> 1985 when i graduated college
Back to facebook gramps. It’s time to yell at clouds.
I love mine.
looks comfy, the ladder is soi tho ngl
>he doesn't want to feel like an A E S T H E T I C librarian while browsing through his shelves of industrially produced genre book words books
Damn this thread is still up? Cool.
The ladder was for my kids, and the room is 12 feet tall, you cant reach the top shelf without it, and it fits the aesthetic much better then a metal stepladder in the corner.
>the room is 12 feet tall
Frick you rich scum.
have a nice day and reroll for better stats then
Man, when I played baldurs gate, I rerolled for hours
I never could get into rpg's like baldurs gate, i keep expecting to be able to be as free as in a ttrpg, but the game is always more limiting then i want it to be.
Looks nice but having the shelf go all the way to the ceiling is elite level.
It looks nice but I get vertigo already when I'm on the top of my three step ladder.
I have houseplants, but not near.my books, that seems Ill advised
Picrel is a drawing of my current shelves.
>1985
That was 38 years ago, which means you were about 21 or so back then, meaning you are about 60? Our bookshelves are not really much alike but nice looking place you've got.
Kids books
IT SOO BLURRYYY AAAAHH IMG ING INSANEEEEE
This one too, it's just modern library and everyman's kids classics.
The lights in the livingroom are brutal and the books are recessed. The pics never come out great.
Please tell me your kids read on the bookshelf itself. That’s lit beyond belief.
Yeah,they also use blankets to make it a fort and read with flashlights. They're into a lot of books about animals and ninjas lately. Also Lego stories.
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Why isn’t it in English
maccaroni chaccaroni pizzeria mamma mia
I think you belong on a theology site
We really do need a /rel/, huh? I'm tired of seeing such shelves.
Massive collection, around 12 shelves full
You jelly?
Bro! Which e-reader is that? I like it.
NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO you are supposed to consoom consoom consoom and waste space!!! WHAT WOULD YOU DO WHEN THE WEST FALLS!? WILL NEED YOUR LIBRARY REMAKE CIVILZATION MILLIONS MUST READ!!!!!....w-what? when did I re-read those books your are pointing at? I haven't had the time but I will someday, I'm sure
I just like owning physical books. Like the physical sensations and all that.
You don't need to justify yourself or your decisions to anonymous buttholes on IQfy dot org.
>launch a valid criticism
>get called butthole and bugman
it's ok, keep consooming anons, your paper altars must be impressive
>launch a valid criticism
You posted a strawman impression filled with moronic caps and buzzwords, jerking off a guy you agree with.
justify your daily 16 hours of screen time however you need to, bug man
Here's my stuff. Mostly Medieval/Roman. Hopefully it should be really obvious what I'm reading right now.
Ignore the Funko pops for me
Not ignoring your funky pops. Everything you say from now on is invalid.
Some good broad reading here
Frick you rich piece of shit.
all those books, my plastic rectangle can fit them all
I could fit the fricking Library of Babel in your mom's pussy.
Are you a manlet or why do you need a ladder for a regular tall shelf?
All pirated, it’s a ‘destitute and cant find the social security for a bookshelf or physical books’ kinda feel, it’s something to dream of though aye
I've been going back and forth on whether or not I'm autistic enough to buy some dust jacket protector plastic. Like the ones one library books, but it wouldn't glued or taped to the book, just folded over to help prevent them from getting ripped.
My wife's bookshelf in the cabinets I made her.
Part ii, she likes the instant pot, she's also nostalgic for the 1990s
>wife's bookshelf is literally in the kitchen
I can't stop giggling
She's a minimalist library person with an e-reader. She has photo albums for each of the boys, wedding, and regional books from our youth, and the kitchen cookbooks
I like to choose random books to read weekly, that's why having a shelf is fun
I sometimes abandon my current reading list on a whim only to delve deep into something else. It's more fun when you already have all the books you ever wanted and not just a few dozen.
Resized
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>empty walls
uh-oh...
My library is like a 10x10 room and not much room for decorations. I have them in my other rooms if you must know
This. Although I was talking to this half jap girl who made a joke about me dating a weeb girl and said I'd have to put up with anime posters on my walls, so I gave her a look and then she realized I already have anime posters up. When I confirmed it we both laughed.
Anyway having anime posters up is better than totally empty walls. Up your game bookshelf poster.
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>shelves placed randomly on otherwise lonely walls
Anon...
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My closet books that are either duplicates or books I’ve lost interest in. I’ve always added a couple Rilke books and Anti-Education by Nietzsche since I took these pics
Kek. Forgot pic
One of the posters with a fairly robust and we'll developed sense of literature.
Pretty decent start you've got. A few older gems made from before the 20th would greatly appreciate your shelf