/lit/ - Literature

I like hoarding books, it's an enjoyable thing for me
If there's any possession I want to accumulate it's books, books make me happy
And while my collection is not only 'essential' books, if I took away the non essential books I'd still have a lot of books
Maybe 400-500

>>20363283
>Only read books by critically venerated or popular authors
sounds like a good way into herd mentality friend but whatever. you do you.

>>20363307

If an unknown author has something new to say, you'll hear about him through word of mouth eventually.

I don't consider a recommendation to be a literally who to be honest

>>20363283
>he doesn’t read extremely deeply into his interests

NGMI

arrogant autist

>>20363346
>If an unknown author has something new to say, you'll hear about him through word of mouth eventually.

Legendary cope for being too lazy to explore new ideas or broaden your intellectual ideas. Imagine unironically thinking your cohort of 90 IQ non-reader undergraduates is aware of what’s actually happening at the bleeding edge of culture or science.

>>20363403

You don't hang out with readers online?

> taking word of mouth literally in 2022

>>20363417
>mentally ill 17-24 year olds on a chinese knitting forum know everything that’s worth knowing

that’s even worse anon

>get interested in something
>buy twenty books
>read five of them
>keep them all
>find new interest
>repeat

>>20363444
How new are you anon?

>>20363461
lmao based

>>20363461
>I could write an entire theory of it
I doubt it

>>20363589
Why? Seems straightforward enough.

>>20363461

Based

>>20363283
I hoard books digitally, and yes, in a SSD

>>20363461
picrel is totally wrong lol. yes this convergence on an advisory consensus does happen but the results are just random garbage with no value. the fact that some piece of advice "wins" ie ends up being reposted more just means that it's more "repostable," not that it's actually useful, since most of the people doing the reposting are not seriously pursuing the subject but only vaguely thinking about it and end up latching onto whatever piece of advice "sounds reasonable" to an ignoramus. "starting with the greeks" is the biggest meme here and yet the most popular chart is total garbage with books listed in the wrong order etc etc. actually following 4chan advice is self-sabotage.

>>20363630
Almost nothing of value has been written since the Greeks, you absolute fucking retard. All of philosophy is a mere footnote to Plato.

Add in The Bible, Saint Augustine, Aquinas, Adam Smith, and possibly Dostoevsky and you'll have read everything worth reading.

>>20363630
You mean this chart? What's out of order?

>>20363630
Shut the fuck up, retard. Read the Bible and sit the fuck down.

>>20363630
cringed so hard reading this

>>20363655
It seems fine, maybe Hamilton and secondary texts are debatable, but otherwise it follows an ok path.
You may argue that there's no need to read the historians before philosophy but idk, doesn't seem to change that much

>>20363283
that is a patrician approach

>>20363461
>>get interested in something
>>buy twenty books
>>read five of them
>>keep them all
>>find new interest
>>repeat
This is exactly what I do:(

>>20363283
do surrogate activity niggas really?

>>20363754
>":("
I know that feeling all too well. I'm seriously concerned I'm never going to have the time to go back and catch up on all my reading. But I'm also hopeful that once I get settled somewhere and have time to do nothing but read full time, that I'll make really good progress and get caught up.

I've moved nine times in the past ten years. I don't keep collections of things anymore.

>>20363754
>buying books
NGMI

>>20364045
>current year
>not maintaining hard copy uncensorable versions of books before the great purge
I suppose not everyone has a sense of history.

>>20363283
You read fundamentally as the early middle age readers. You can find more details of that autistic way of reading in 'A History of Reading in the West' , compiled by G.Cavallo. And if you wonder, no, they were not based, it was probably boring and repetitive, with many cultivated people not having access in a whole lifetime, than to no more dozen books of actual, different and not repeated content.

>>20363283
>hoarding books
People hoard books?

>>20364045
I have an e reader in which I'll download less important books, or newer books you can't get at used book stores. Books which I intend on enjoying I purchase physical copies of. I try to balance my use of either

>>20363987
Exactly. There is always the solace that if you were to return to a topic, you've a shelf of books that you can consult and pick up exactly where you left off

>>20363630
this post really struck the nerves of the 4channelor cookie cutters huh

>>20363283
Let us do away with this old ghost that books must be read to be in one's library.

>>20363283
Seneca. Letter 2.
>Be careful, however, lest this reading of many authors and books of every sort may tend to make you discursive and unsteady. You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind. Everywhere means nowhere.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_2

You can only find the truly essential books by reading a whole lot though. I am carrying out my hoarding & sifting phase now so that in the future I will have solidified my personal canon of rereadables.

Incidentally, to save this shitty thread, how have other anons fared in this task? What books are on your eternal reread list?

>>20363461
The faggot in that pic wrote that on a 20yr old Thinkpad running Linux, he drives a Miata and for finess he does Starting Strength and Keto.

>>20367495
And lost all his money gambling on Crypto

>>20366306
the "this post sure triggered a lot of people huh" response after literally anything gets a handful of (you)s is getting painfully predictable

>>20367102
We have to read in the first place nigga lmao

>>20363288
I like hoarding funko pops, it's an enjoyable thing for me
If there's any possession I want to accumulate it's funko pops, funko pops make me happy
And while my collection is not only 'essential' pops, if I took away the non essential pops I'd still have a lot of pops
Maybe 400-500

>>20367890
You don't understand. The Hulk Funko Pop is bigger than the rest.

>>20363288
It's fake. You never touch the vast majority of them year after year.