/lit/ - Literature

>>19136814
Serious readers have those they’ve read and plenty they have not read yet. This is normal and desirable.

Yes. I do not buy new books until I finish whatever I have. If I DNF, I burn the book

Yes of course we do. The >muh buying books but doesn't read them!!!!!!!! haha lol
is a retarded normie reddit meme. It's hardly even applicable to here.

>>19136814
I read them and then they go on the shelf. I’ll reread a lot of books though

>notes from the underground wider than c&p
it's been years since i read them but i could swear the former was way shorter

yes, also.
>translations

I've been working through my pile of unread books recently. Only have Demons and War and Peace left.

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>>19136835
This

>>19136844
Notes from underground and The Double and other stories. Also depends on the font.

>>19136814
Did you buy those editions because you wanted to read the Constance Garnett translation? If so, based, but the B&N Idiot has a revised Garnett if you didn't read the fine print.

I only keep books I haven't read yet or plan to read again on my shelf. When I finish they go into a box and I store them in my attic. If you keep books on your shelf as ornaments you are a posturing pseud.

>>19136828
I hope you are kidding, otherwise you are borderline retarded. Used books sell at ridiculous prices; you basically are burning money.

>Suffice it to quote the answer which Anatole France gave to a philistine who admired his library and then finished with the standard question, “And you have read all these books, Monsieur France?” “Not one-tenth of them. I don’t suppose you use your Sevres china every day?”

>>19136814
Sort of. I'd read most of mine before giving them away to a friend, but I have a bunch of Dean Koontz-tier shit my Mum and Dad gave me that I'll never touch.

>>19136814
https://fs.blog/2013/06/the-antilibrary/

>>19136814
some of them. I buy faster than I read though

>>19136882
you are missing out on the powerful blessings you could be receiving from Koalemos by NOT burning your books

>>19136814
Nothing better than a shelf full of unread books to choose from. My reading tends to drop off as the number of unread books I have to choose from drops, I like to keep it over 50, probably around 200 now and I love it.

I suspect most who avoid having unread books on their shelves fear others viewing them as using reading as an aesthetic and not actually reading, which is ironic since the fear suggests that it is just an aesthetic.

i usually buy new stuff when the opportunity arises so half the stuff i have i haven't read yet. i do actually read though so i dont really care

>>19136814
I buy books for their vibe, I don't need to read them as long as the shelf vibes

>>19137132
this anon gets it

>>19136856
Second
This photo's on the cover of one of my Isaac Disraeli volumes

>>19137132
Very nice

>>19136814
After the idiot (almost done, banger) I'll just have the possessed left from those

>>19136882
i keep my faves on the shelf for easy access, all the best passages are underlined so whenever i feel like it i can pull them off the shelf and re-read those parts.

>>19136814
All my books are on my kindle

>>19136814
no and that's a good thing considering i can be locked down at anytime

Not all of them but over time my percentage of unread novels has gone way done. It is different for nonfiction because reading one book is often a necessary prerequisite for reading several others. I don't own any books that I have no plans at all to read

>>19136814
How is Crime and Punishment so thin there?

Am I the only one who doesn't crack the spine? I didn't even know that was a thing until my gf pointed out that it doesn't look like I've read any of my books. It's not like I try to be careful not to crack them either, so is it just normal to pry open a book with both hands when you read?

>>19140110
It's a different edition. I have this set and C&P is only slightly slimmer than TBK

>>19136814
Which one is better, Demons or The Idiot?

>>19136814
No. Once I read a book I toss it straight into my kitchen bin alongside the potato skins and dirty bits of raw chicken cartilage I trim off making dinner. The three hundred or so books on my shelves and gigbytes of pdfs, djvu, and epubs on my computer are all unread backlog.

>>19136814
>Translations

Cringe.

>>19136814
no i just keepp on adding to it and pretend im smart.

>>19139191
She can Frexit on my dick if you catch what I mean !

>>19140228
>being Russian
Yikes.

>>19140463
Cope. You will never be this comfy.

>>19140150
Bump for this

>>19140150
Demons

>>19136814
No, I spend most of my free time browsing /lit/ and downloading books from Libgen.

No
I don’t read. I just collect books

>>19140228
>shittiest editions possible
congratulations

>>19140313
eat shit redditoomer

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>>19142463
Thanks

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>>19142853
i would advise making sure you get a copy with the censored chapter and read when it was meant to be read, as chapter 9 of Part II I believe.

I've read about 50 to 60 percent of the books I own. I keep buying them too fast

>>19140422
uh what??

>>19140150
The Idiot

>>19142600
cope, you're mad because i pointed you out for what you are.a fake intelectual. there is no otherr explanation to why you are mad at some ironic shitpost online. i am the mirror that you loathe to gaze into.