/lit/ - Literature

>>16418608
No thank you, OP. I'm happy with my library.

>>8368588
Christ, I hope they don't attract any more. I've already got two kids.

Old books are best books. Hero and Leander, in this pic.

>>8245822
Books take up very little space once you have tall bookcases (at most, they might make a room 2-3' smaller) and provide great insulation and visual interest. And that's if you're an illiterate assclown. If you can actually read, and enjoy large formats, colour plates, antiques, unusual designs, etc., the joys are endless.

>>8192465
Nice set! No, that's my only antique MacDonald, but I have a nice facsimile Calla edition of North Wind, and newer copies of Goblin, Curdie, Lilith, and some of the stories from Adela Cathcart (I'd love to have a complete Cathcart, but it's next to impossible to get a decent affordable edition) and a few copies of Phantastes.

>>6948783
Very nice start, OP. I like that Plutarch set especially. Personally I buy a mix of everything, but I appreciate a nice binding, especially on an older volume. I don't have much of the newer Folio/Easton stuff, but the few I have are solid and attractive. Here's a few of my older ones.

>>6822101
Yep, you have to plug it in to a power source, and into whatever hd you've got, and into some working computer to access. But it works well: I can take any hd from a dead system and access it from a laptop or wherever.

...and then there's the antique books.

>>6399253
Duly noted and added to my amazon wish list (1600+ and growing).

>>6338810
The pics are a couple years out of date now (I tend to accumulate several books a week) and a lot of the best stuff is hidden behind newer acquisitions. Some day I'll have enough room to properly sort and display them all again.

>>6279524
I attract books, so it's hopeless. Publishers send them, I get freebies at work, in my building's lobby, and buy them online and from stores all the time too. I keep reading, but if someone sealed my apartment doors right now, I wouldn't run out of unread books for years.