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5333297 No.5333297 [Reply] [Original]

Hey /lit/, how do you deal with the fact that as your tastes become increasingly esoteric, eventually the books you are looking for are all out of print or are only available as used $80 paperbacks?

>> No.5333302

>>5333297
Also, if someone could photoshop a feel face onto my Faust picture, that'd be great. Thanks.

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5333352

Here you go

>> No.5335366

But seriously though, I had to look on the french version of amazon to find a book. this is becoming a problem.

>> No.5335375

>>5335366
what book

>> No.5335377

>>5333297
By making sure I put in all of my captchas accurately. Google is going to convert all of literature into a free library. That's how.

>> No.5335378

>>5333297
my taste is expanding not contracting

>> No.5335387

University libraries? Honestly you haven't moved beyond pleb tier if you read exclusively books which are in print.

Also I use amazon.fr too; it isn't a big deal to not be a monolingual faggot.

>> No.5335458

>>5333297
> reading paper books
Gramps, maybe reading isn't for you in this twenty-first century.

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>>5333297
I know that feel

>be looking for a copy Novum Organum Scientiarum in Latin
>want a hardcover because I find it easier and more pleasant to hold open and read
>here aren't any only paperback

>I wish I didn't have to feel this feel

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>>5335595
>Go to shitty chain book shop looking for Le Morte D'Arthur
>Find a bulky $25 paper back
>Go to glorious second hand bookshop which is my secret after
>See pic related for $250
>Purchase it
I regret nothing

>> No.5335708

I don't have that problem. That being said, I'm a graduate student at one of the better Universities in the northeast and I'm also an alumnus of another good one; both happen to have an extensive collection of absolutely phenomenal books.

Also, my tastes are still considered borderline plebian according to /lit/. That, or way too out there/foreign.