>Its embarrassing to have a paperback Bible
It's more embarrassing so think the cover is worth more than the words in it. As someone who has both, I can tell you that I've gotten much more mileage out of my paperback. I carried it virtually everywhere through all of college and it's still my go-to for a physical daily reader. Through rain and thunder, sickness and health, places familiar and remote, reading from it by myself and with others, always ready and at hand. It is among my most prized possessions.
What is Harari's fricking problem? I was going to read some transhumanism and Ray Kurzweil's position is something like "robots will become more like us until they are us and we will share our best qualities." Harari is more like "humanity bad, remove all humans, destroy human nature and replace with robots!" Not to lionize Kurzweil it's just Harari almost is trying to come off as an edgy cartoon villain.
Yes anon read Hyperion by Dan Simmons, any book by Heinlein, Martian chronicles by Bradbury (really really recommend, especially today!), Tuf voyaging by Grr Martin,.. etc my friend et-FRICKING-C
My classics department was giving away books and I was pleasantly suprised to find it there. It's been interesting so far, here it is on libgen. http://library.lol/main/F568B6133FDADD7743029EC6BC0BDC7F
This creates a reminds me of individual without qualities. A man with no friends, no enemies, but many acquaintances who struggle to place his name and appearance. It's unlikely many notice him, or his appearance in the world, excepting his mother, if she can find it in her to care about him at all, and it's unlikely that anyone will note his passing from this world. The mortician and the undertaker will be the last to notice and dignify him before all traces of his existence have been expunged from this world.
If it were all just random marvel/capeshit books, I'd tend to agree. The person that owns this shelf, however, is probably one of the most knowing star wars scholars on earth, if he read all that. Not something I'd find worth pursuing, but at least he excels at something.
>The person that owns this shelf, however, is probably one of the most knowing star wars scholars on earth, if he read all that.
Unless he makes money running a SW podcast or writing his own analytical books using the information, then it's a waste.
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It’s not a waste if he enjoys it. You’ll learn someday, kid
I was hoping someone would ask this exact question! The first thing you'll probably want to figure out is if you want to read Legends or Canon books. Legends was the older storyline which basically ran from 1976 to April 2014. These materials don't jive with any of the new content from 2014 onward (and sometimes don't super jive with each other). Anything after April 2014 fits within the new Canon timeline.
If you decided on Legends, you'll frequently hear the best place to start is the Thrawn Trilogy starting with Heir to the Empire. This is kind of the foundation for all post Return of the Jedi stories. However there are plenty of standalone books you can read that don't require prior knowledge like Kenobi, Darth Plagueis and plenty more. My personal favorites include The Han Solo Adventures, Yoda: Dark Rendezvous, I, Jedi (this one isn't really standalone) and the first three Republic Commando books (these conflict with The Clone Wars cartoon pretty heavily).
For Canon, there are fewer series which makes picking and choosing a little bit easier and requires less knowledge of things outside the films (though you'll miss some cool connections and recurring characters). So, basically decide which character or era and you are most interested in and you can start there. The post RotJ kickoff series is the Aftermath series. The biggest series is The High Republic which takes place 200 years before The Phantom Menace and requires no previous knowledge. The kick off novel for this is Light of the Jedi (which is one my favorites). Some of my other favorites include the Doctor Aphra audiodrama, the recently released Shadow of the Sith, and Victory's Price (part of the Alphabet Squadron series).
Jealous cope. Take care of your books and they will always be in great condition. You would be easily fooled by someone who bought a brand new book, broke the spine, threw it around, but never read it
>I can't read a book without manhandling it, folding it back on itself, and tossing it around
You can see how much I faded the Count of Montecristo, I actually changed how I held the book to avoid rubbing off the label.
A few of those books are unread, and some are reference books. The oxford history series I lucked into getting from a colleague when he retired. I have them all as PDFs, along with the CUP publications, and I keep those on the shelf because sometimes I grab a random book and open it for 1/2 hour to relax.
There is not a little effort made to avoid destroying my books when I read them.
I’m always unsure if this board is filled with teens who don’t know how to take care of their stuff, or it’s anons feeling insecure and wanting to knock someone down. Like a jealousy type of thing. It takes more effort to destroy a book than preserve it.
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>anons feeling insecure and wanting to knock someone down
It's this. This board is full of pseudo intellectuals that are too afraid to admit their favorite book is fantasy or science fiction. You would think being anonymous would calm their egos.
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Its the opposite actually. Board is filled with pseuds who think reading some classic smart sounding textbook makes them look sophisticated and well learned
Like look at some of these books. They have no business being read by people who are not doing a college course in history or philosophy.
2 years ago
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Professional scholar here
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I disagree with the History books being not needed. Even if you only have an interest in History it's still pretty important and interesting to read from the actual people who actually lived in that era or were involved in the event. Instead of just reading about some Modern Historian's summary or interpretation of an event or period.
2 years ago
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Agreed, they have a timeless quality
2 years ago
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Are you a masochist or something? With the level of assblasting you've faced in this thread I wonder if you're starting to enjoy it.
2 years ago
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I think it’s more that they don’t read so they assume others don’t read as well. It’s definitely an inferiority complex
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>I’m always unsure if this board is filled with teens who don’t know how to take care of their stuff, or it’s anons feeling insecure and wanting to knock someone down. Like a jealousy type of thing. It takes more effort to destroy a book than preserve it.
With some shelves it's obvious the books are unread. You can't read through an 800 page paperback without creasing the spine and scuffing the corners a bit. And "taking care" of a paperback is ridiculous they are cheaply made books intended to be abused. If you want a nice book to take care of you buy clothbound.
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I take care of my books regardless of paperback or not. And once you get a library with a few hundred books, of course not every one will be read. I’ve been buying a book every week for ~10 years. Sometimes I would lose interest in a book I just bought and that book would sit unread. But of my 300-400 books I’ve read ~80+ percent. It takes more effort to damage a book than to take care of it. Don’t open it more than 90 degrees, and put it off to the side when done. Wash hands too. It’s ridiculous to assume a book is unread because it is in good condition. Just because you don’t care about taking care of your books, doesn’t mean others don’t care either and you shouldn’t judge
2 years ago
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Some people keep reading copies of books you use for traveling or reference. I have a few nice copies of books and I also have a reading copy on hand for teaching or referencing at a conference.
2 years ago
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>You can't read through an 800 page paperback without creasing the spine and scuffing the corners a bit.
There are techniques to avoid cracking paperback spines of even thick books. Just place it on its spine, bend the front and back covers back, and flatten out the pages a batch at a time on each side until you make it to the middle. Then you can read it.
You can see how much I faded the Count of Montecristo, I actually changed how I held the book to avoid rubbing off the label.
A few of those books are unread, and some are reference books. The oxford history series I lucked into getting from a colleague when he retired. I have them all as PDFs, along with the CUP publications, and I keep those on the shelf because sometimes I grab a random book and open it for 1/2 hour to relax.
There is not a little effort made to avoid destroying my books when I read them.
Must have sucked being insulted like that after you cleaned up your shelf for a IQfy post, sorry insecure, anon. 😀
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It caused no small amount of butthurt for the endeavors for which my earnest ambitions were well spent. To be made the object of scorn and ire reeved the tendons of my being through the openings of my soul.
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This
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Why did you think I wouldn't notice that this is you replying to yourself?
2 years ago
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I'm responding to all of the posts. All of them. You are the only other unique poster in this thread.
such a bad take, all my spines are close to mint, because I take care of my shit. My ex used to absolutely destroy her spines, so she would instinctively get the ebook version of whatever I was reading as to not destroy my collection.
10/10 kino. Sometimes I don’t understand the anons on here, most of the other shelves have been dogshit yet somehow everyone loves them, meanwhile your only rating has been a 2/10. Oh well
Thanks, taste is subjective. My friend deals in high end antiques and he said the new generation of young professionals like disposable furniture they can change every few years. Heirlooms, dark and old wood, and fine art have fallen out of favor. The same thing applies to books. People decorate with them more often than cultivate a collection based on their lives and personalities.
Dear friend, you simply do not understand our colleague
https://i.imgur.com/ydYpk0K.jpg
Shelf thread. Post 'em.
He lives in worlds, built entirely from his own sensitive heart, from which he set himself about as the first cause, the primary mover of the forces of motion and all generation, and while he might not seem capable of animation, lounging about in his cheaply appointed and shabby flat, the gears of his mind spin like windmills. Yes, our friend thinks of serene mountains. He envisions entire armies at his command. He pillages towns for provisions and demonstrates his benevolent mercy as he spares the hamlets the ravages of his hungering armies.
Our friend is a god of his own making. His imagination exudes a force and power so mighty we can barely perceive it. All of this happens within the confines of his head.
Maybe one day you can have books too. In the meantime you can rest well knowing life for you remains a prison of your own design. Bounded to this website, cast out from the normies, engaged in frivolities, you exist to assign values to images for free.
There's still time to turn it all around. You could sieze the day. You could read a few of the decaying, yellowed penguin classics littering your living space. You could choose lit life!
>There's still time to turn it all around. You could sieze the day. You could read a few of the decaying, yellowed penguin classics littering your living space. You could choose lit life!
I got several compliments for my shelf last month since it had Bierce collected works, also Carroll Quigely. It's a nice entry level selection of fiction from various times and places. I have bigger bookshelves on the other side but it may take 4+ years of reading to fill them.
PROTIP: If you're thinking of starting a proper, multi-decade book collection, prioritize hardcovers. Even if it means slightly less books overall as you go. Trust me.
Not often does one see another of those Horace Walpole Everyman's Library editions. He deserves to be read more than he is today. The Burke, Blake, and Boccaccio are also nice finds and less common here in the US.
For someone who lives in the UK, it makes sense you would have so many of those Everyman's.
I'm just a great fan of everyman. I highly, highly recommend their edition of Burke; a lovely edition. Have you read Walpole's fiction? I only know of it from his very self-deprecating comments in his letters.
great shelf, especially for the Lewis.
how nice is keats?
any other poetry to recommend?
I wasn't a huge fan of Keats, personally; Hyperion was brilliant though, a view (I believe) shared by Byron. My preferred romantics are mainly Blake and Shelly. Shelly for beauty, and a bit of that naive optimism and Blake for his... Blakeyness.
I like pope, Blake, burns, and Coleridge, Shelly, and Crowley (17th century) from the English, great stuff to understand the pathology of romanticism and the obsession with the distant past.
i've been trying to get into poetry, but there's quite a few things of it i dislike. might not be for me.
I have many of the oxford standard editions and I'd start there. Try reading it aloud
I definitely like it. Reminds me of visiting the Hebrides and Scotland. You could go to the most remote place where they barely have electricity and a road, but those people will still have a good selection of books. Scotland is awesome.
If you like poetry, the old japanese and Chinese pastoralists have some great works that appreciate rusticity, nature, and life in the country. They're probably best for their appreciation of fleeting moments. Saikakus amorous woman is a classic.
Literature from the east isn't as good, there are a few gems here and there like diary of a madman by lu xun. Tuttle has a good anthology you can get as a sample of many writers.
Nonanglo western lit has limitless greats like Fontane's effi Briest for a taste of aristocratic junker life, Krista wolf for dystopia communism, oblomov and Lermontov for the degeneracy of the aristocrats, and I've been reading lots of Maupassant and Flaubert for a harsher look at life.
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Ok, thanks. I'll check out some of tuttle's stuff, as I already have a few books from them and I think their quality is decent for what you pay.
I don't dislike Murakami per se. It's just his 1Q84 particular. He shouldn't have gone the Dickens route to making 1000+ page novels.
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Oh, well, I have yet to see if 1Q84 is any good yet. After reading Kafka, I picked up some of his other stuff, thinking it could be fun. Right now, I'm working my way through Musashi and Ada, respectively.
To best arrange your bookshelf my immediate impression is that I would remove the shelves, dangle a noose from the top of the cabinet, and hang myself from it. You have your best titles on the bottom shelves. If I were you, I would go through the books you have on the top shelf, choose your favourite one an put it on a coffee table, and store the rest in your attic/loft. Then, I would start from scratch. Your William Faulkner book I am envious of, and I would begin by making that the cornerstone of my new shelf. The necst step would be finding a few books that 'suit' your Faulkner. The two books to the its left and the book to its right appear to match, but one of your other books on the third shelf - I cannot quite make it out - is it Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy? It is to the adjacent right of your Henry VIII - that book, whatever it is, appears to be the natural bride of your Faulkner book, and together they would set the tone of a shelf. Unfortunately, all of those books I have mentioned are the same height, so you mar run into the 'going to war against Napoleon'. As well as that, a lot of your books are new, and because the only people that buy new books these days are women, a lot of the fonts and colours on the spines would look ridiculous necst to your Faulkner. A lot of them are look like 'sun room' books to me. If I were you, I would do away with the Ikea bookshelf entirely, buy some wall brackets, and put the books on their own shelf in their own room that suits the tone of them best.
I would love to expand the collection into other rooms but this is the best I can do right now. I have another shelf opposite from the one you see. I almost exclusively buy my books used, even the ones that look new, but I haven't read most. My current project is to read every book I own and then I plan to cull from there the titles I don't like as much.
Those are some good shelves. I like the 'Poems of Alecsander Pope' shelf particularly. That is a fine shelf. My immediate impression is that it does everything I said about in my other post, and I can take the shelf as a 'unit' as I see the 'individuals'. The range of colours and heights invites my inspection. The details are then discovered and, they seem pleasant enough. Across your other shelves, you manage to arrange your newer, more graphically designed books, which is not easy to do, but, it is snobbery that makes me critical. Also, there are a few books you own that stick out to me like diamonds, like 'The Diary of Lady Murasaki' and 'The Embroidered Couch'. And I also like your 'BRITISH COLOMBIA BIRDS' guide, a good bird guide is a wonderful addition to any shelf.
On your 'Pope Shelf' I am slightly set against books that are divided into parts, but I think your Monte Christo may look better if the Hardy was moved up to the Pope, and the Chritos were moved to the right of the Chilton. But that would be my ecsperiment.
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Thank you for your thoughts, here is what the whole setup looks like. The whole section is supposed to be arranged as a reading place. The reason the nicer books are lower down on the first shelf is due to the height of my seat. I tried to keep it eye-level.
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Forgot the picture
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How do the books not fall down from the ceiling when they're facing out like that? Are the page edges bolted to the ceiling?
2 years ago
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your bed seems a little small down there, anon
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what the frick
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That’s for when you get a book off the shelf and it’s too fuggn succulent you gotta start reading immediately or else you’ll cream ya trousers.
I would love to expand the collection into other rooms but this is the best I can do right now. I have another shelf opposite from the one you see. I almost exclusively buy my books used, even the ones that look new, but I haven't read most. My current project is to read every book I own and then I plan to cull from there the titles I don't like as much.
>tee hee some light reading not that easy no but big word books like heidegger hehe such lightreading i do am i right guys
dumbc**t, never post shelf again
>some light reading
You should’ve lost the need to be this obnoxious about the fact you have intellectual hobbies in high school. Are you still in high school anon?
God's chinese son is great, I met spence one time when I was going to Grad school and making a decision about which one. Totally nice and down to earth type, one wouldn't know his erudition
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Excluded some bundled sets eg. Tolkien because everyone has those.
Tasteful arrangement. The colours and heights of the spines are dispersed to give the impression of carelessness, but these books were not ordered randomly. Random book ordering tends towards ugliness, and the order is not ugly. The colours and heights of the spines are not allowed to clump, and yet they are not so obviously dispersed that it seems like they are being repelled like magnets. They also seem to be arranged by tone/type, and all three factors together - tone/colour/height - can take several hours of careful ecsperimentation to get right. Futhermore, there are a selection of famous titles, lesser-known titles of famous authors and relatively lesser-known titles from lesser-known authors. There is a blend of poetry, non-fiction, philosophy, and some plays. With what you have on your shelf, I would say this is a perfectly satisfactory arrangement of books.
Well done. You see a lot of shelves in these threads and the books look like they are marching to war against Napoleon. Although I am anal about how I order books, I've always felt that the bookshelf is more for the benefit of others that browse, and that the feeling of 'considered relacsation' (my 'ecs' key is broken) of the type your shelf demonstrates lends itself to more steady 'plucking' of books. It is also a curiosity for them, when they come across names they recognise, but not necessarily titles. It also gives the browser of the shelf more confidence in picking up and trying both a name and title they cannot recognise.That's one of my theories about the shelves. I also think that it is essential that one should be ready to give (give, not lend) out any book on one's shelf with the ecspetion of a few treasures. For that reason, I think second hand books are more desirable to acquire for the shelf, which your shelf appears to contain in spades.
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I admire your thoughtfulness on this subject. Would you take some time out of your day to give recommendations on how to order mine?
And my closet books that I have little interest in anymore
2 years ago
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>Burke in cupboard
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I have nothing against Burke. It’s more that I’ve grown out of trying to read nonfiction related to the French Revolution. It was such a vast and important era so I feel a few hundred page book could never do it justice. Also they will always be clouded by bias. I do like the writings of Saint Just, though
Neat. I've seen that one floating around for cheaper than others so I assume it got more printings. My FELs are Gatsby and Of Mice and Men, and I hope to get more over time.
2 years ago
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Yeah I like them. Some are obnoxiously expensive though. The FtA, TSAR from Hemingway, and Absalom, Absalom from Faulkner are the ones I own
2 years ago
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I've got the Sun Also Rises and Grapes of Wrath on my radar, but as you said, the prices are definitely a pain. I don't know if it's just camera reflectivity, but is your copy of A Farewell to Arms's dust jacket in a protective cover? I've been able to get protective covers on both Gatsby and Of Mice and Men, but unfortunately the slipcase for the latter is snugger than the former so the result is a tight fit though thankfully not impossible.
2 years ago
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It is a protective cover. I figured I’d keep it on.
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If it still fits in the case, I don't see why not. After acquiring some old books from the 50s that were covered, I eventually took the plunge, bought a roll of Brodart covering, and did my whole hardcover library. Sure, it now looks like I robbed the local public library, but now they're safe from tears and no longer fingerprint magnets. The only dust jacket hardcovers I have that aren't covered are ones that have slipcases that are just too tight to fit them.
Curious if anyone knows if exposing a hard slipcase to heat could possibly push an extra mm out of it?
2 years ago
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What other publishers that have slipcase books do you know of? I know Folio, FEL, longer collections from EL, Heritage(or at least some)
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Aside from a one-off copy of Human Action from the Mises Institute, some Bibles, and multi-book slipboxes from EL and other publishers, I'm not sure. Folio and FEL are the only publishers that I have that consistently have slipcases for each book.
Your stained plywood with s.y. pine nailed into the end grain pretty sturdy. The shelves also lack appeal. The books are ok. Some hardcovers might add spice.
I looked at my shelf and realized that all of the texts were made by dead white men. I decided to purge the toxicity out of my home and replaced them with books made by people of color, minorities, and LGB+ individuals. I have to say, it’s a vast improvement and the writing from these authors leave a longer lasting impression that books by old white men that nobody will ever remember or care about.
Not an easy question to answer. It's intense, oneiric, thick, ritualistic, weird. I wondered at times- will this ever end? If you like the idea of personally undergoing some arcane process as opposed to tracking some plot in the usual (or even some unusual) 'sequence' then you may really like this book. I'm glad I read it but didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would.
sadly most of the shit I care about is in boxes, everything else is at the dump. Stephen King and other shit I'd already read and held no value and was only weighing me down.
But I have a big digital collection now after taking the ebook pill, so there's that.
haven't gotten around to properly organizing but here's my digital library so far. Still mostly only read trash web novels and LN shit but at least I'm reading again.
I am sharing only one bookcase. I have a few newer books I haven't added yet. Top row is religious material, second row is stuff on wildlife, third row is largely weird fiction & horror, and fourth row is just miscellaneous.
My other two bookcases are full of art books, wildlife photography, nature books that were unable to fit, children's chapter books, picture books, computer science manuals, and so on. I will share those other two bookcases if anyone else is interested. However, they are much messier than this one.
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YOU FOOL !
You need to be locked up
What app do you use for your ebooks? I'm sick and tired of using apple books.
It's called "EPUB Reader" on Android. It doesn't have highlighting and the bookmark feature used in its stead is kind of clunky but I put up with it.
Yaaawn typical mishima homosexual
BAP is a controlled fed spook
Doubt. He told people to not go to Jan 6
>Needs to read a book about social skills
lmao
There have been like 3 shelf threads in the past week wtf is going on
Very cool shelf, Aesthetically pleasing.
Ty anon :3
>owns absolutely everything that Lewis and Tolkien wrote
Based
2456317, correct!
I just picked up a copy of the individuated hobbit. You might like it. It's odd.
Nice post lighters
People don't read.
Your candles look like gore, especially the bottom one.
I didn't even know C.S.Lewis had written so many books.
Have you actually read all those tolkien books?
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not getting laid anytime soon
even your dog doesnt respect you
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upvoted!
One good thing about YA trash is how nice the books look on a shelf.
Have you ever brought a woman home? If so, how fast did she run away?
Holy fricking kek, thanks anon, I needed a good laugh
Oops! All Bukowskis!
>Bez
nice one are kid. sorted
Buy a proper Bible, or have it bound in leather. Its embarrassing to have a paperback Bible.
>Its embarrassing to have a paperback Bible
It's more embarrassing so think the cover is worth more than the words in it. As someone who has both, I can tell you that I've gotten much more mileage out of my paperback. I carried it virtually everywhere through all of college and it's still my go-to for a physical daily reader. Through rain and thunder, sickness and health, places familiar and remote, reading from it by myself and with others, always ready and at hand. It is among my most prized possessions.
Holy shit i nearly died of cringe when i zoomed in on the bottom shelf
The only books that have been read here are the weeb ones at the bottom.
You have not touched that Bible. The spine would look absolutely mangled even if you took the care not to destroy it.
I just treat it well as I do all my books.
Frick you moron nobody buys that. It's clearly a virgin spine.
Everyone should have a bible on their shelf, but trying to read that fricking thing from cover to cover is just a form of self-harm.
Nice editions of the bible have seen price increases the last few years. This dial press/oxford one goes for too much.
based Ho-oh and Giratina figures from the special editions of HG/SS and Platinum respectively
I lived my entire life in envy not getting that giratina but I had no idea it was that small of a figure
you should give yourself 69 lashes tonight as punishment for giving yuval noah harari money
What is Harari's fricking problem? I was going to read some transhumanism and Ray Kurzweil's position is something like "robots will become more like us until they are us and we will share our best qualities." Harari is more like "humanity bad, remove all humans, destroy human nature and replace with robots!" Not to lionize Kurzweil it's just Harari almost is trying to come off as an edgy cartoon villain.
sneed
Is Parzival on there?
john julius norwich writes bangers
nothing like a good house fire
the only thing in that shelf worth saving is that "art history" pen pot.
Havent been reading books for too long, but apparently I like sci-fi. would appreciate recommendations.
Greg Egan is the best, also Dan Simmons - Hyperion
Yes anon read Hyperion by Dan Simmons, any book by Heinlein, Martian chronicles by Bradbury (really really recommend, especially today!), Tuf voyaging by Grr Martin,.. etc my friend et-FRICKING-C
How recent in that 1001 albums book?
I need to find a place to put these today. The landmark books take up a good deal of space.
Dorm shelf.
Class struggle in ancient world? Huh
My classics department was giving away books and I was pleasantly suprised to find it there. It's been interesting so far, here it is on libgen. http://library.lol/main/F568B6133FDADD7743029EC6BC0BDC7F
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How can people read so much of the same shit?
Not a single book on that shelf has been read.
This creates a reminds me of individual without qualities. A man with no friends, no enemies, but many acquaintances who struggle to place his name and appearance. It's unlikely many notice him, or his appearance in the world, excepting his mother, if she can find it in her to care about him at all, and it's unlikely that anyone will note his passing from this world. The mortician and the undertaker will be the last to notice and dignify him before all traces of his existence have been expunged from this world.
I meant
"This image creates a vision in mind, and reminds me..." Phone posting from the tub
If it were all just random marvel/capeshit books, I'd tend to agree. The person that owns this shelf, however, is probably one of the most knowing star wars scholars on earth, if he read all that. Not something I'd find worth pursuing, but at least he excels at something.
>The person that owns this shelf, however, is probably one of the most knowing star wars scholars on earth, if he read all that.
Unless he makes money running a SW podcast or writing his own analytical books using the information, then it's a waste.
It’s not a waste if he enjoys it. You’ll learn someday, kid
you forgot to get your bottle of onions in the frame!
Minecraft yourself
What are the best to your taste? Or you just collect it?
Collecting is my game
I was hoping someone would ask this exact question! The first thing you'll probably want to figure out is if you want to read Legends or Canon books. Legends was the older storyline which basically ran from 1976 to April 2014. These materials don't jive with any of the new content from 2014 onward (and sometimes don't super jive with each other). Anything after April 2014 fits within the new Canon timeline.
If you decided on Legends, you'll frequently hear the best place to start is the Thrawn Trilogy starting with Heir to the Empire. This is kind of the foundation for all post Return of the Jedi stories. However there are plenty of standalone books you can read that don't require prior knowledge like Kenobi, Darth Plagueis and plenty more. My personal favorites include The Han Solo Adventures, Yoda: Dark Rendezvous, I, Jedi (this one isn't really standalone) and the first three Republic Commando books (these conflict with The Clone Wars cartoon pretty heavily).
For Canon, there are fewer series which makes picking and choosing a little bit easier and requires less knowledge of things outside the films (though you'll miss some cool connections and recurring characters). So, basically decide which character or era and you are most interested in and you can start there. The post RotJ kickoff series is the Aftermath series. The biggest series is The High Republic which takes place 200 years before The Phantom Menace and requires no previous knowledge. The kick off novel for this is Light of the Jedi (which is one my favorites). Some of my other favorites include the Doctor Aphra audiodrama, the recently released Shadow of the Sith, and Victory's Price (part of the Alphabet Squadron series).
Happy to answer any other questions.
Holy gigacringe
After some reorganization.
Literally untouched
Jealous cope. Take care of your books and they will always be in great condition. You would be easily fooled by someone who bought a brand new book, broke the spine, threw it around, but never read it
I’m always unsure if this board is filled with teens who don’t know how to take care of their stuff, or it’s anons feeling insecure and wanting to knock someone down. Like a jealousy type of thing. It takes more effort to destroy a book than preserve it.
>anons feeling insecure and wanting to knock someone down
It's this. This board is full of pseudo intellectuals that are too afraid to admit their favorite book is fantasy or science fiction. You would think being anonymous would calm their egos.
Its the opposite actually. Board is filled with pseuds who think reading some classic smart sounding textbook makes them look sophisticated and well learned
Like look at some of these books. They have no business being read by people who are not doing a college course in history or philosophy.
Professional scholar here
I disagree with the History books being not needed. Even if you only have an interest in History it's still pretty important and interesting to read from the actual people who actually lived in that era or were involved in the event. Instead of just reading about some Modern Historian's summary or interpretation of an event or period.
Agreed, they have a timeless quality
Are you a masochist or something? With the level of assblasting you've faced in this thread I wonder if you're starting to enjoy it.
I think it’s more that they don’t read so they assume others don’t read as well. It’s definitely an inferiority complex
>I’m always unsure if this board is filled with teens who don’t know how to take care of their stuff, or it’s anons feeling insecure and wanting to knock someone down. Like a jealousy type of thing. It takes more effort to destroy a book than preserve it.
With some shelves it's obvious the books are unread. You can't read through an 800 page paperback without creasing the spine and scuffing the corners a bit. And "taking care" of a paperback is ridiculous they are cheaply made books intended to be abused. If you want a nice book to take care of you buy clothbound.
I take care of my books regardless of paperback or not. And once you get a library with a few hundred books, of course not every one will be read. I’ve been buying a book every week for ~10 years. Sometimes I would lose interest in a book I just bought and that book would sit unread. But of my 300-400 books I’ve read ~80+ percent. It takes more effort to damage a book than to take care of it. Don’t open it more than 90 degrees, and put it off to the side when done. Wash hands too. It’s ridiculous to assume a book is unread because it is in good condition. Just because you don’t care about taking care of your books, doesn’t mean others don’t care either and you shouldn’t judge
Some people keep reading copies of books you use for traveling or reference. I have a few nice copies of books and I also have a reading copy on hand for teaching or referencing at a conference.
>You can't read through an 800 page paperback without creasing the spine and scuffing the corners a bit.
There are techniques to avoid cracking paperback spines of even thick books. Just place it on its spine, bend the front and back covers back, and flatten out the pages a batch at a time on each side until you make it to the middle. Then you can read it.
>I can't read a book without manhandling it, folding it back on itself, and tossing it around
You can see how much I faded the Count of Montecristo, I actually changed how I held the book to avoid rubbing off the label.
A few of those books are unread, and some are reference books. The oxford history series I lucked into getting from a colleague when he retired. I have them all as PDFs, along with the CUP publications, and I keep those on the shelf because sometimes I grab a random book and open it for 1/2 hour to relax.
There is not a little effort made to avoid destroying my books when I read them.
Must have sucked being insulted like that after you cleaned up your shelf for a IQfy post, sorry insecure, anon. 😀
It caused no small amount of butthurt for the endeavors for which my earnest ambitions were well spent. To be made the object of scorn and ire reeved the tendons of my being through the openings of my soul.
This
Why did you think I wouldn't notice that this is you replying to yourself?
I'm responding to all of the posts. All of them. You are the only other unique poster in this thread.
such a bad take, all my spines are close to mint, because I take care of my shit. My ex used to absolutely destroy her spines, so she would instinctively get the ebook version of whatever I was reading as to not destroy my collection.
10/10 kino. Sometimes I don’t understand the anons on here, most of the other shelves have been dogshit yet somehow everyone loves them, meanwhile your only rating has been a 2/10. Oh well
Thanks, taste is subjective. My friend deals in high end antiques and he said the new generation of young professionals like disposable furniture they can change every few years. Heirlooms, dark and old wood, and fine art have fallen out of favor. The same thing applies to books. People decorate with them more often than cultivate a collection based on their lives and personalities.
My eyes feel as though they have been set aflame by this horrid YA shitheap
Dear friend, you simply do not understand our colleague
He lives in worlds, built entirely from his own sensitive heart, from which he set himself about as the first cause, the primary mover of the forces of motion and all generation, and while he might not seem capable of animation, lounging about in his cheaply appointed and shabby flat, the gears of his mind spin like windmills. Yes, our friend thinks of serene mountains. He envisions entire armies at his command. He pillages towns for provisions and demonstrates his benevolent mercy as he spares the hamlets the ravages of his hungering armies.
Our friend is a god of his own making. His imagination exudes a force and power so mighty we can barely perceive it. All of this happens within the confines of his head.
>*listens to Andrew Tate’s podcast once*
please buy more tables
pyw
Maybe one day you can have books too. In the meantime you can rest well knowing life for you remains a prison of your own design. Bounded to this website, cast out from the normies, engaged in frivolities, you exist to assign values to images for free.
Imagine using the word "normies" unironically on IQfy and lecturing others on living in their own prison lmao
you're just seething because ratebro gave your shelf a bad review
There's still time to turn it all around. You could sieze the day. You could read a few of the decaying, yellowed penguin classics littering your living space. You could choose lit life!
Is this homosexual for real or is he just trying to bait. Was the moronic bookshelf a bait too?
Which one is the moronic shelf? Gonna need some help narrowing it down here.
yours
bro, look at what you just typed. and *you're* the one trying to pull the "touch grass" card on me? lmao
, look at what you just typed. and <<your>> the one trying to pull the "touch ass" card on me? Fml brosky, serious brah do you even have books?
>There's still time to turn it all around. You could sieze the day. You could read a few of the decaying, yellowed penguin classics littering your living space. You could choose lit life!
Isn't this the shelf of that terrible "booktuber" that acts like an infant?
>morons posting serious replies to a obvious humor thread
The absolute state of this board
Can't we try to be more positive? Most of use are drawn here by our desire to collect literature and read books, no?
I've been making an effort to post more positive comments. We all like the act of reading though our tastes might divide us.
I got several compliments for my shelf last month since it had Bierce collected works, also Carroll Quigely. It's a nice entry level selection of fiction from various times and places. I have bigger bookshelves on the other side but it may take 4+ years of reading to fill them.
>filled with Disney trash
ngmi
Not a shill but Disney's Jim Shore Collections is actually worth checking out
Redpill me on City of God, can I enjoy it as a fedora?
Definitely a valuable read to understand Christianity
very nice anon
Fairly random assortment I have
NONE of these books have been read.
Are these chicklit fantasies any good?
PROTIP: If you're thinking of starting a proper, multi-decade book collection, prioritize hardcovers. Even if it means slightly less books overall as you go. Trust me.
In some cases you may not be able to acquire easily either book and take whichever you find. I do a agree for the majority of books.
Your mom told me to tell you to stay out of her home office
pretty based, only thing is it's very unorganized.
Nice, these books have been read.
Not often does one see another of those Horace Walpole Everyman's Library editions. He deserves to be read more than he is today. The Burke, Blake, and Boccaccio are also nice finds and less common here in the US.
For someone who lives in the UK, it makes sense you would have so many of those Everyman's.
I'm just a great fan of everyman. I highly, highly recommend their edition of Burke; a lovely edition. Have you read Walpole's fiction? I only know of it from his very self-deprecating comments in his letters.
I wasn't a huge fan of Keats, personally; Hyperion was brilliant though, a view (I believe) shared by Byron. My preferred romantics are mainly Blake and Shelly. Shelly for beauty, and a bit of that naive optimism and Blake for his... Blakeyness.
i've been trying to get into poetry, but there's quite a few things of it i dislike. might not be for me.
I like pope, Blake, burns, and Coleridge, Shelly, and Crowley (17th century) from the English, great stuff to understand the pathology of romanticism and the obsession with the distant past.
I have many of the oxford standard editions and I'd start there. Try reading it aloud
great shelf, especially for the Lewis.
how nice is keats?
any other poetry to recommend?
I cant decide if I like this or wanna laugh at it
I definitely like it. Reminds me of visiting the Hebrides and Scotland. You could go to the most remote place where they barely have electricity and a road, but those people will still have a good selection of books. Scotland is awesome.
You a real homie squatting in some abandoned mining town
mmmmm...lead paint flakes are so darn yummers!!!!!
Should I get Cortazar's Hopscotch or Don Quixote?
quixote. good stuff.
I second quixote. Reading him reveals his influence across generations
Bedroom shelf, re-organized based around publisher, then author.
Pretty nice, if a bit anglo-centric, looks like a good start. You have some good volumes for a permanent collection
A small poetry section and field guides sit atop the router/modem area of the living room.
uins are from uni. Any good reccs for non-anglo lit? I like your collection of field guides
Penguins and vintage published, I meant.
If you like poetry, the old japanese and Chinese pastoralists have some great works that appreciate rusticity, nature, and life in the country. They're probably best for their appreciation of fleeting moments. Saikakus amorous woman is a classic.
Literature from the east isn't as good, there are a few gems here and there like diary of a madman by lu xun. Tuttle has a good anthology you can get as a sample of many writers.
Nonanglo western lit has limitless greats like Fontane's effi Briest for a taste of aristocratic junker life, Krista wolf for dystopia communism, oblomov and Lermontov for the degeneracy of the aristocrats, and I've been reading lots of Maupassant and Flaubert for a harsher look at life.
Ok, thanks. I'll check out some of tuttle's stuff, as I already have a few books from them and I think their quality is decent for what you pay.
>metaphysical bible dictionary
Oh cool, this has been on my radar for a couple years. I'll get a copy for myself one day.
It's pretty useful when reading (NRSV) tbh, and its pretty satisfying to open up a physical book and flip through it as opposed to google.
Great taste, anon. I would definitely see myself owning a similar collection like yours minus the 1q84 by Murakami.
Thanks! Any reason in particular that you dislike Murakami? I thought Kafka was a decent read, albiet a bit juvenile in presentation.
I don't dislike Murakami per se. It's just his 1Q84 particular. He shouldn't have gone the Dickens route to making 1000+ page novels.
Oh, well, I have yet to see if 1Q84 is any good yet. After reading Kafka, I picked up some of his other stuff, thinking it could be fun. Right now, I'm working my way through Musashi and Ada, respectively.
i wabi-sabi'd the shelf brackets on purpose, i swear
I wanna live your life
Murdered any prostitutes yet?
I'd volunteer to help if you want to make to feel the warm blood of a man for you to make it a 2fer.
please post a pic of your full room, im interested
i would but you all would bully me, i only own light novels and three bibles.
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To best arrange your bookshelf my immediate impression is that I would remove the shelves, dangle a noose from the top of the cabinet, and hang myself from it. You have your best titles on the bottom shelves. If I were you, I would go through the books you have on the top shelf, choose your favourite one an put it on a coffee table, and store the rest in your attic/loft. Then, I would start from scratch. Your William Faulkner book I am envious of, and I would begin by making that the cornerstone of my new shelf. The necst step would be finding a few books that 'suit' your Faulkner. The two books to the its left and the book to its right appear to match, but one of your other books on the third shelf - I cannot quite make it out - is it Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy? It is to the adjacent right of your Henry VIII - that book, whatever it is, appears to be the natural bride of your Faulkner book, and together they would set the tone of a shelf. Unfortunately, all of those books I have mentioned are the same height, so you mar run into the 'going to war against Napoleon'. As well as that, a lot of your books are new, and because the only people that buy new books these days are women, a lot of the fonts and colours on the spines would look ridiculous necst to your Faulkner. A lot of them are look like 'sun room' books to me. If I were you, I would do away with the Ikea bookshelf entirely, buy some wall brackets, and put the books on their own shelf in their own room that suits the tone of them best.
I would love to expand the collection into other rooms but this is the best I can do right now. I have another shelf opposite from the one you see. I almost exclusively buy my books used, even the ones that look new, but I haven't read most. My current project is to read every book I own and then I plan to cull from there the titles I don't like as much.
Those are some good shelves. I like the 'Poems of Alecsander Pope' shelf particularly. That is a fine shelf. My immediate impression is that it does everything I said about in my other post, and I can take the shelf as a 'unit' as I see the 'individuals'. The range of colours and heights invites my inspection. The details are then discovered and, they seem pleasant enough. Across your other shelves, you manage to arrange your newer, more graphically designed books, which is not easy to do, but, it is snobbery that makes me critical. Also, there are a few books you own that stick out to me like diamonds, like 'The Diary of Lady Murasaki' and 'The Embroidered Couch'. And I also like your 'BRITISH COLOMBIA BIRDS' guide, a good bird guide is a wonderful addition to any shelf.
On your 'Pope Shelf' I am slightly set against books that are divided into parts, but I think your Monte Christo may look better if the Hardy was moved up to the Pope, and the Chritos were moved to the right of the Chilton. But that would be my ecsperiment.
Thank you for your thoughts, here is what the whole setup looks like. The whole section is supposed to be arranged as a reading place. The reason the nicer books are lower down on the first shelf is due to the height of my seat. I tried to keep it eye-level.
Forgot the picture
How do the books not fall down from the ceiling when they're facing out like that? Are the page edges bolted to the ceiling?
your bed seems a little small down there, anon
what the frick
That’s for when you get a book off the shelf and it’s too fuggn succulent you gotta start reading immediately or else you’ll cream ya trousers.
>me reading Plato’s Meno
And yes, that's Jude the Obscure. Good eye.
some light reading
you are stupid
thats not very nice 🙁
>tee hee some light reading not that easy no but big word books like heidegger hehe such lightreading i do am i right guys
dumbc**t, never post shelf again
Rightoids seething I can feel it
Too many dumb, defunct leftist thinkers on that shelf.
>Too many dumb, defunct leftist thinkers on that shelf.
Why would John Oliver say these things?
Nah, I had a shelf like that my first year of grad school
>only interesting shelf
>he can't even take a proper picture
i shiggy diggy
>some light reading
You should’ve lost the need to be this obnoxious about the fact you have intellectual hobbies in high school. Are you still in high school anon?
hey
saved my own from a different thread
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Wishlist: entire works of Charles Dickens, Thomas Bernhard, and A Dance to the Music of Time series by Anthony Powell.
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Excluded some bundled sets eg. Tolkien because everyone has those.
Ooh, I've got Legacy of Ashes, too. Pretty sure he also wrote an FBI equivalent iirc, but I don't have that.
God's chinese son is great, I met spence one time when I was going to Grad school and making a decision about which one. Totally nice and down to earth type, one wouldn't know his erudition
Tasteful arrangement. The colours and heights of the spines are dispersed to give the impression of carelessness, but these books were not ordered randomly. Random book ordering tends towards ugliness, and the order is not ugly. The colours and heights of the spines are not allowed to clump, and yet they are not so obviously dispersed that it seems like they are being repelled like magnets. They also seem to be arranged by tone/type, and all three factors together - tone/colour/height - can take several hours of careful ecsperimentation to get right. Futhermore, there are a selection of famous titles, lesser-known titles of famous authors and relatively lesser-known titles from lesser-known authors. There is a blend of poetry, non-fiction, philosophy, and some plays. With what you have on your shelf, I would say this is a perfectly satisfactory arrangement of books.
4 sections: nonfiction, myths/poetry/plays, fiction and then a small French language collection at the end, all arranged somewhat chronologically.
Well done. You see a lot of shelves in these threads and the books look like they are marching to war against Napoleon. Although I am anal about how I order books, I've always felt that the bookshelf is more for the benefit of others that browse, and that the feeling of 'considered relacsation' (my 'ecs' key is broken) of the type your shelf demonstrates lends itself to more steady 'plucking' of books. It is also a curiosity for them, when they come across names they recognise, but not necessarily titles. It also gives the browser of the shelf more confidence in picking up and trying both a name and title they cannot recognise.That's one of my theories about the shelves. I also think that it is essential that one should be ready to give (give, not lend) out any book on one's shelf with the ecspetion of a few treasures. For that reason, I think second hand books are more desirable to acquire for the shelf, which your shelf appears to contain in spades.
I admire your thoughtfulness on this subject. Would you take some time out of your day to give recommendations on how to order mine?
>lewis cosmic trilogy
based, a buddy of mine is a huge fan.
Guess what kind of person
im gonna say a guy who consistently misses the bigger picture
I can tell right away you're a boring person who reads boring shite.
its unbelievable that you'd prove my point so quickly
Don't play mind games with me, mother chode.
Lol.
fat kid
Habitual homosexual.
cool monkey
Those books look like they have t been read.
These are 4 books that I have read.
I hope you got this from reddit. I wanna puke seeing all this garbage.
They look totally fake.
And totally gay.
Hell yeah berserk
Kys
Stay mad, moron
You're insufferable.
You're a crybaby homosexual.
We're all here to bant, aren't we?
Is that not what we are doing?
Yes?
I'm glad we're on the same page. Have a nice day homosexual!
>only one volume of H2G2
I agree with what the other guy said. kys
These pictures are bait taken for reddit right?
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And my closet books that I have little interest in anymore
>Burke in cupboard
Shamfur dispray
I have nothing against Burke. It’s more that I’ve grown out of trying to read nonfiction related to the French Revolution. It was such a vast and important era so I feel a few hundred page book could never do it justice. Also they will always be clouded by bias. I do like the writings of Saint Just, though
Is that a FEL of For Whom the Bell Tolls?
Yeah
Neat. I've seen that one floating around for cheaper than others so I assume it got more printings. My FELs are Gatsby and Of Mice and Men, and I hope to get more over time.
Yeah I like them. Some are obnoxiously expensive though. The FtA, TSAR from Hemingway, and Absalom, Absalom from Faulkner are the ones I own
I've got the Sun Also Rises and Grapes of Wrath on my radar, but as you said, the prices are definitely a pain. I don't know if it's just camera reflectivity, but is your copy of A Farewell to Arms's dust jacket in a protective cover? I've been able to get protective covers on both Gatsby and Of Mice and Men, but unfortunately the slipcase for the latter is snugger than the former so the result is a tight fit though thankfully not impossible.
It is a protective cover. I figured I’d keep it on.
If it still fits in the case, I don't see why not. After acquiring some old books from the 50s that were covered, I eventually took the plunge, bought a roll of Brodart covering, and did my whole hardcover library. Sure, it now looks like I robbed the local public library, but now they're safe from tears and no longer fingerprint magnets. The only dust jacket hardcovers I have that aren't covered are ones that have slipcases that are just too tight to fit them.
Curious if anyone knows if exposing a hard slipcase to heat could possibly push an extra mm out of it?
What other publishers that have slipcase books do you know of? I know Folio, FEL, longer collections from EL, Heritage(or at least some)
Aside from a one-off copy of Human Action from the Mises Institute, some Bibles, and multi-book slipboxes from EL and other publishers, I'm not sure. Folio and FEL are the only publishers that I have that consistently have slipcases for each book.
If those book titles were serious, it sounds like the "Ultimate Star Wars" would be the only one needed, m8.
Well it’s good thing I didn’t take the title literally.
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Do you live in tenn?
nah
why is the spine of that gravity's rainbow grey and not orange?
show me the back of that silverstein book
i'm autistic
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>Tom of Finland
And gay apparently
Your stained plywood with s.y. pine nailed into the end grain pretty sturdy. The shelves also lack appeal. The books are ok. Some hardcovers might add spice.
they're old cabinet built-ins; I took the doors off. i don't have a lot of floor space but hopefully in the next move i can upgrade.
Ah, makes more sense now
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I looked at my shelf and realized that all of the texts were made by dead white men. I decided to purge the toxicity out of my home and replaced them with books made by people of color, minorities, and LGB+ individuals. I have to say, it’s a vast improvement and the writing from these authors leave a longer lasting impression that books by old white men that nobody will ever remember or care about.
Make sure to purge your shelves of Japanese men too.
Proud of you, sis.
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comics for scale
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Mashallah brothers..
Portion of one...of fifteen, but no worries, I'll spare /you/
Do you actually read these?
I do
>hypnerotomachia poliphili
the madlad actually bought it, kinda jelly. is it worth it?
Not an easy question to answer. It's intense, oneiric, thick, ritualistic, weird. I wondered at times- will this ever end? If you like the idea of personally undergoing some arcane process as opposed to tracking some plot in the usual (or even some unusual) 'sequence' then you may really like this book. I'm glad I read it but didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would.
"The Enchanments of Mammon"
rare kino
yo that title slaps fr no cap
sadly most of the shit I care about is in boxes, everything else is at the dump. Stephen King and other shit I'd already read and held no value and was only weighing me down.
But I have a big digital collection now after taking the ebook pill, so there's that.
this is the most no pussy shelf i've ever seen
you sure about that anon?
Chud
haven't gotten around to properly organizing but here's my digital library so far. Still mostly only read trash web novels and LN shit but at least I'm reading again.
i'm currently in the process of packing up my books in preparation for moving house. this is the shelf i am about to pack.
I would also like to have sex with you, woman.
I am sharing only one bookcase. I have a few newer books I haven't added yet. Top row is religious material, second row is stuff on wildlife, third row is largely weird fiction & horror, and fourth row is just miscellaneous.
My other two bookcases are full of art books, wildlife photography, nature books that were unable to fit, children's chapter books, picture books, computer science manuals, and so on. I will share those other two bookcases if anyone else is interested. However, they are much messier than this one.
>3 editions of the same book
do people really?