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How much money have you spent so far on books this year.

>Me: $120.92

>> No.10997330

$864.32
Textbooks for 12 credits worth of classes this semester

>> No.10997336

i dunno probably around $20

>> No.10997337

>>10997330
>Being an American
>>10997317
Around 200 €

>> No.10997349
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>>10997337
I hate to say it but you’re right....

>> No.10997554

About $237.

>> No.10997559

>spent <$100 at bookstores/on Amazon
>spent several hundred to get my house fumigated when the library books I got had bedbugs from the homeless that sleep there

>> No.10997660
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>>10997554
Wow brainiac!

>> No.10997666

I have a library card.

>> No.10997672
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>>10997666
>library?
WHAT ARE THOSE!!??
Hahahahhahahahahahah!!

>> No.10997676

~300

>> No.10997702

>>10997317
I've downloaded and inherited all my books, so nothing.

>> No.10997705

About 100 dollary doos

>> No.10997818
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10997818

Easy over a grand no question. I'm burning through a book a week for the last year and still have a massive back log

>> No.10997836

>>10997330

Fucking christ dude I've spent half of that in 80 credits of classes.

Use google, torrent sites, library genesis, or just buy that shit used

>> No.10997947

>>10997818
52 books a year?

usually i pirate/download and only buy hardcovers / special edition of stuff i like, where do you even find space for all those books

>> No.10997948

>>10997330
>College
just

>> No.10997953

>>10997947
Look at this mathologist

>> No.10997981

>>10997818
>thinks 52 books a year is something to brag about

Try a book every other day and then get back to me. Even 100 books a year would be something to write home about. 52 books a year, lol.

>> No.10997987

>>10997981
I'm sure your family would be happier if you didn't write home

>> No.10997993

>>10997987
I'm sure your family is happiest when their self-important brainlet is away

>> No.10998000

>>10997317
0.00 because I’m still finishing the stuff I got for Christmas

>> No.10998189
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>> No.10998199

No idea. Easily over $100 though. I've bought 10 books this year already. Maybe closer to $200.

>> No.10998203

>>10997981
>Mommy I read all the goosebumps books

>> No.10998211

>>10997317
You got to pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers.

>>10997330
>buying textbooks

>> No.10998214

>>10997559
Horror story. Only consolation I have is that the homeless people never come into my school's library, and I think I'm the last person left actually checking out books, so I'm not too concerned.

Is fumigation effective?

>> No.10998231

$172.89 I think.

>> No.10998265

>>10997330
first year student?

>> No.10998284

Triple figures after next order

>> No.10998288

>>10997317
CAD$392.57
Jesus

>> No.10998300

43.25 + 94.05 + 113.99 + 18 + 9.58 + 9.82 + 78.98 + 100.49

Jesus Christ.... I've spent 468 dollars on books.

>> No.10998328

>>10997317
For my entire life: zero.

>> No.10998334

>>10998328
Thats ok sweetie I don't mind buying all your books for you
Anything for my smart little man

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>>10997993
>calls someone a self-important brainlet after writing >>10997981

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>>10998334
thanks mummy

>> No.10998486

>>10998480
shut up fat cunt

>> No.10998491

About 220 dollarydoos.

>> No.10998514
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>>10998486
mummy mummy !!!
im tellin daddy!!
daddy!!
daddy ! will beat u nuw mummyyy!!
u wil regreat crossin ur son bijch !!!!!

>> No.10998538

0.00€

Dowloading ebooks and reading them in your phone is the true patrician way

>> No.10998552

Around 50ish euro. Recently I bought the shitty American version of the odyssey from everyman by mistake that didn't have a ribbon.

>> No.10998594

>Paying for books whose authors are dead
>Reading contemporary literature

>> No.10998616

0.

I go to the fucking library

>> No.10998979

>>10998538
Enjoy not remembering shit and destroying your eyes

>> No.10998983

>>10998979
every person who suggests e-ink destroys eyes is helpful, in that you know you can immediately discard their opinion

>> No.10998988

>>10998983
Phones don't have e-ink you cretin

>> No.10999042

>>10998979
I used to think this way until I got a high dpi phone shit's lit

>> No.10999081

>>10998979
>not remembering shit
internet myth based on a clickbait article citing a study that never came out
>destroying your eyes
get an eink device

>> No.10999087

none b/c my gf works in a second hand bookstore and i get all the books i want for free lmao

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>>10999087

>> No.10999421

>>10997317
Around 300 euros so ~370 dollars

>> No.10999425

>>10999087
Do you have to give them back ?

>> No.10999453

so far this year, about 60. Overall from a year ago today, about $700

>> No.10999829

$2,188

>> No.10999850
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>>10998514
>tfw daddy beats mummy

>> No.10999852 [DELETED] 

Nothing. I just use the library or pirate stuff now. Fucking giving my money to the sorts of fags who work at publishing companies

>> No.10999869

£0

I pirate everything

>> No.10999910

>>10998594
>reading

>> No.10999986

$1400.

>> No.10999997

>>10997317
$1,432,634

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>>10997317
Does my mom buying them for me count as "spending"?

>> No.11000152

>>10997317
£400 ish

>> No.11000181

>>10997317
Can't remember the last time I bought a book.

>> No.11000182

108,17 €

Last year I spent 691,19 € on books, manga & comics combined, they're all in the same spreadsheet. It's maybe 40% books, 60% manga/comics.
This year I haven't bought any manga or comics yet. Weird. I suppose I'll order some before summer.

>> No.11000197

>>10997559
Oooh now I'm paranoid.

>> No.11000215

>>10997317
£60, it's only April, i really only start reading at the height of summer and the darkness of winter. The weather is too bland right now for reading.

>> No.11000687

>>11000215
As if weather effects reading

>> No.11000733

>>10997317
i've spent about £17 on books this week
recently i bought a couple of technical books for about £35 and an exhibition book for about £25 i think
i think those might be the only books i've bought this year. i have such a massive backlog that i resolved not to buy any more until i'd cleared at least one box. didn't quite work out though.

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>>10997317
Well, it's hard to say. $890.55 on amazon this year so far, but I also buy around $20/books a week at library bookstores and thrift stores, so let's call that another $300, and I do go to regular used and new bookstores weekly, but I'm more restrained there, so maybe another $200. Probably roughly $1400 so far, or $3-400 a month (not counting free books I get). I need to slow down a bit. Here's what I picked up yesterday for $10.

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More from the library bookstores, $1 each.

>> No.11002533

300 euro’s

Went full patrician

> Homeric trilogy
> Dostoyevski (the idiot, C&P, brothers k)
> Usyless (pseud creds, never gonna read it)
> Goethe (Sorrows of young werther, faust)
> ...


Just listened to you faggots, and bought all the pseud books. I’m happy I did because they’re all masterpieces. Not 1 I haven’t enjoyed.

>> No.11002689

>>10999087
Second hand stores shouldn't operate this way. Do you borrow them? Or what?

>> No.11002712

>>11002689
WTF are you talking about?

>> No.11002748

>>10997337
>letting the government steal your money to give college kids 4 years of free partying

>> No.11003198

>>11002712
Second hand bookstores shouldn't give books away for free. Not even for the people working there. That doesn't make any sense.
I'm asking if he borrows them through his girlfriend, reads them and returns them to the store?

>> No.11003219

>>11002238
What're your favorites from Nabokov?

>> No.11003224

>>10997317
I haven't ever bought a single book in my entire life. I'm not going to give my money to some nerds for something I can get for free.

>> No.11003259

>>11003224
You can't even get all the books for free you stupid liar.

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500 reais or so, but I have kind of stopped buying rare books. I'll come back to doing it soon.

>> No.11004320

>>11003219
So far Ada, Pnin, Pale Fire. I haven't had a chance to read all my newer ones, though.

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>>11003259
Shh, he's going to start lecturing you about downloading e-books and how much smarter it makes him.

>> No.11004615

250€ from Renzi's money, so basically 0€

>> No.11004647

>>10997330
buy international editions you retard.

>> No.11004661

>>10997559
I have books who spurt a sort of stream of dust when I shake them... You think its bedbugs?

>> No.11004670

>>11002748
>Letting the government steal your money to give kids a proper education for free, a proper healthcare for free, social securities, etc, etc
FTFY

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I buy everything I don't steal from a single charity shop and do not buy any book above 5 euro except for a collection I bought a while ago for 50. This year I'd say not above 30 euro.

>> No.11004869

>>10997317
this image is the kind of shit I see posted on facebook by women who finished uni with me but with 2.95 GPA, having skipped good 60% of required reading, and never fully grasping most concepts of literary theory. Their favourite author is usually Susan Sontag, John Green or Haruki Memekami.

God fucking damn, why did you have this cancer on your drive anon.

>> No.11005279

>>10998189
did you create a spreadsheet to track your purchases?

>> No.11005282

>>11004869
It's a joke about buying too many books. Lighten up, for Christ's sake.

>> No.11005296

>>10997330
never gonna make it if you actually buy your books.

>> No.11005300

>>11004670
America has that.

>> No.11005324

>>11005279
I'm not THAT autistic. I downloaded a report from Amazon.

>> No.11005331

>>11005324
Keep telling yourself that...

>> No.11005337

>>11002533
>Usyless
Is that the autistic edition?

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>>11005331

>> No.11005439

>>10997317
About 50 EUR or so.

>> No.11006658

>>11003224
Did you steal all your books from the library then?

>> No.11006691

>>10999087
Fuck

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>>10997317
I haven't paid for a book since Soumission came out, pirated everything else.

Houellebecq is the only living author I want to contribute to financially.

>> No.11006755

>>10997981
Your bestiality literotica stories dont count anon

>> No.11006763

>>11006730
>Houellebecq
Absolutely dreadful. Picked up Elementary Particles and it read like a /r9k/ post. Threw it in the rubbish after I got to the ending.

>> No.11006796

0$
I don't read

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>>11006796
I believe you

>> No.11006847

A few hundred dollars probably. I spend about 25 dollars a week buying used books online.

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>>11006847
(YOU)!!

>> No.11007914

>>10997818
a book a week? I can burn 5000 books in a week