/lit/ - Literature

>>14022718
Libraries? So that retarded roasties can fill them up couple days before the exam that they will inevitably barely pass and go on to have a great career because they are disgusting roasties who will suck cocks for cash? These cunts' unceasing chattering and giggles make me want to shoot up the place. The only time I enjoy libraries is at the beginning of the semester, because they're empty, because the roasties are all getting fucked and clubbing and sucking cock in some decrepit toilet room. But then the sinking dry-cum breath increases inversely proportional to the number of days from exam. Cunts all of them.

>>14022759
Three types of persons frequent libraries:
Roasties cramming for exams
Incels
Hobos

>>14022759
>>14022772
Please go back to your containment board

>>14022718
imagine not using libgen to get all your books for free

>>14022937
>imagine being so poor and dumb all your books are pirated from the internetz
lmao nigga get a job and buy the books you want lmao

>>14022718
i like having a few years worth of backlog on me

>>14022759
BASED

>>14022718
I don't like it when outsiders push for change in my country. The Ganges is an open sewer. Go away Patel.

>>14022948
>use inefficient means to get what you want when superior options are available because of boomer work ethic memes

go pop another blue pill gramps

I'm catching up fairly quickly with audiobooks. My commute is 1 hour both ways so all those books in my backlog are now worth it since I can just listen to them now

>>14022718
>buy
>books

>>14022718
Libraries are struggling with e-books rights. Macmillan just made it a rule that they can only purchase access to one copy for the first two months from release, so for a lot of recent titles you're looking at wait times similar to those for the physical book.

Tbh I think publishing needs a little guidance via sales. If everyone went out and bought Ducks, Newburyport, we might see some weird shit going forward. Instead, it's endless Ellen Hilderbrand/Ian McEwan/James Patterson titles which, by the way, are the only books your library is buying aside from a few token books talked about by the commentariat. The U.S. public library's not really a place where you're going to discover Henry Green or Clarice Lispector; with the hollowing out of social services they're moving toward a community center model to fill the gap, so books aren't really the main sell. A lot of them proudly declare they're "more than just books," though the "more" is really that they might have a little makerspace or cookware you can check out, and host seminars for Medicare for boomers.

Yes, buying books makes me feel good. Some day I’ll get around to reading all of them.

I got depressed when I checked out Pale Fire a week ago and saw it hadn't been checked out since 2014. And then I overheard the librarians talking about their favorite Harry Potter fan fictions.

>>14022876
This is my containment board. Go back to r/cuckoldry.

>>14023492
You can get depressed, or you can be hopeful because your checking it out helps keep classics in circulation. I check out as many books as I can get away with every month in order to make sure the library keeps the books that matter.
Consider emailing the librarian responsible about titles you'd like to see at your local library. Most people never make requests so odds are you can get what you want on site instead of usi g the state wide catalogue.

The extra time spent driving to the library is worth more than the $1 I'd spend on a book at the far closer thrift store

>>14022759
You can literally take a book out and leave. Hold your breath if necessary you seething incel

I agree because it's easier to steal from libraries than it is to steal from book stores.

>>14022718
Yes, I do. I have tons of books I have yet to read and I buy new ones each month

>>14022718
Or I could just buy books and not force financial burden on other citizens because you vermin hate the concept of personal property?

>>14022772
Hobos only go there to masturbate at the computers

>>14022718
Of course! When I see a good deal I don't let it slip by. I'll eventually read them, sometimes I buy a book and I read it right away, other times I read it months or years after I bought it.

I went to my local library between classes to try to find a copy if I, Claudius by Robert Graves, and not only did they not have it at that location, they didn't have it at any of their locations in the entire metro area. The book that's considered to be the first major work of modern historical fiction that kickstarted the contemporary genre. Fuck libraries if they don't even have something so barebones and basic, and fuck the commie in the OP who would say throwing money at bureaucratic idiots would solve the problem. Just pirate ebooks, intellectual property doesn't exist anyway because all possible arrangements of ideas and symbols are preexistent.

>>14022718
I'd use libraries but I like my things to be new. Second hand shit is usually gross because people are fucking braindead.

>>14022718
>You do buy more books than you can read don't you /lit/?
yes

as a child I would spend a lot of time browsing libraries and checking out random stuff, now I buy the books I want to read, or pirate them, though I do less of that these days, having become a bit of a kindle payfag

>>14022718
>STOP GIVING AUTHORS MONEY
yikes

>>14024521
Once the fully automated luxury socialism utopia is achieved authors won't need nor expect compensation for their work.

>>14024549
transhumanist ai monarchy when

>>14024549
Implying art, literature and creativity will exist in the so called socialist utopia.

Somebody please post the copypasta!

>>14024647
*ting*

>>14024592
neets write shitty fanfiction
artists living on government issued artists salaries make art
why would that stop?

>>14024592
>art, literature and creativity
all 3 are methods of coping for not cooming enough or experiencing a lack of luxury.

I actually need help
I can’t stop buying books

>>14022759
You are one pathetic loser!

>>14022759
what a fucking looser

>>14022948
what a fucking boomer

>>14022718
Somebody post the fucking pasta already

>>14022759
this

>>14022718
This moron doesn't know what commodity fetishism means

>>14022948
Brainwashed capitalist itt.

>>14022759
The seething ressentiment in this post is pitiful

>>14024364
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>>14025245
Pathetic incels-in-denial. I bet I'm better looking than all of you.

I’ve bought about 60 Everyman’s library books from abebooks in the last two months.
Someone tell me that building a nice library is a worthy investment because sometimes I feel guilty for spending so much money

>>14022718
nigga i read more books than i buy. like, way more.
>surely you are connected to people in publishing to get you free books, right, anon?

>>14022759
the only way this could have been more bluepilled is if you were to ask
>libraries? as in sharing books?
>sharing is for commies! fuck you!

>>14024850
What do you spend on books every month? At the start of every month take that amount and put it in your savings account.

>>14022718
>go to library
>95% of their collection are new bestsellers (shit)
>apparently they used to have an interlibrary loan system, but it had to go due to cut budget

I guess I'll have to buy my books if I want to read anything that isn't James Patterson or high-school-core classics.

>>14022759

>>14022759
>he doesn't enjoy the sight of roasties giggling

There is absolutely no fucking way you could be doing something at a library that is more interesting than enjoying the sight of obnoxious women pretending to study.

>>14023154
Superior opinion

>>14025272
>no u!
lel

>>14025272
Nigga he's the one who decided to hijack a thread for his own pathetic blogposting, no one asked for the elliot rodger story

>>14022759
>>14022772
>>14023492
>>14024459
Imagine being American

>>14023415
>If everyone went out and bought Ducks, Newburyport, we might see some weird shit going forward.
Hi Lucy

>>14024376
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>>14024850
>>14025298
i share your pain anons

>>14025798
Retaerd

>>14024364
Nah. Fuck you and fuck women.

>>14022718
I really hate this post

anyone with eyes can see that libraries established in poor communities serve NO function other than a repository for the homeless.
one should be demanding education. this whole 'free access' thing is crap and only serves to allow out of touch morons like OPs pic to virtue signal in the face of logic