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18664744 No.18664744 [Reply] [Original]

i cant stop buying books. they'r ejust $4-$5 on ebay. i keep buing them i cant stop. help

>> No.18664746

Open a bookstore.

>> No.18664761

>>18664744
make your goal to find <10 books to re-read over and over again for the rest of your life. find the best and purge the worst

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>>18664744

>> No.18665022

>>18665005
This makes sense

>> No.18665050

>>18665005
>>18665022
*sigh*

>The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have! How many of these books have you read?” and the others — a very small minority — who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.

Books
DO NOT READ THEM.

>> No.18665054

lol wait till you discover 1$ paperbacks at used bookstores

>> No.18665056

>>18665054
So that is how anons build their bookshelves?

>> No.18665078

>>18665050

You are not a generation defining social commentator/researcher, dipshit. You have the internet.

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>>18665056
Yes.

>> No.18665088

>>18665078
???

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>>18665087

And a bottle to piss in to avoid house mates. Lucky guy.

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>>18665095
>projecting
I own this house, dude :) No house mates, there will never be any.

>> No.18665421

Same, hate that i'm becoming a loser who owns a large amount of books he hasn't read yet

>> No.18665427

>>18665421
what's stopping you from donating the ones you've read to the library? My local library doesn't use donated books for their collection, they resell donated books to raise money for the library itself.

>> No.18665509

>>18665427
I write in the margins of my books and I feel like my thoughts/interpretations might poison the book for other people who want to read it. IDK i'll probably donate some eventually anyways.

>> No.18665577

>>18665078
Neither is Umberto Eco.

>> No.18665584

>>18665005
oh fuck I've peaked

>> No.18665795

wanting to appear smart to whoever enters your room. If you haven't even read the shit you'll always be alarper midwit
Just get it over with, read the books you already bought and get an ereader

>> No.18665859

>>18664744
>buying books
>not pirating them
gen.lib.rus.ec

>> No.18665866

>>18665577
He wrote literally one of the top 10 bestselling novels of all time

>> No.18666627

>>18665866
so what

>> No.18666747

>>18664744
someone quote that dude who said that having books on your shelves that you haven't read is like something something I don't remember