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Do you just act on a commodity fetish by collecting books? If so, would you regard this as bad?
Obviously books are more than paper and printing ink, but it seems to me that they are often seen as more as they are.

>> No.11413342

>>11413327
Yeah probably
So-so, neither good nor bad
People have different reasons for buying and collecting books. I buy my favourites so I have them at hand to cite, since they're not available digitally.

>> No.11413418

High culture is alas hell of commodity fetishizing

Creating great literature, even

We all peacocks anon

>> No.11413730

bump

>> No.11413748

>>11413327
I collect them for safe keeping and to refer to again
also they are more then just books, they hold ideas and worldview, events and history, stories and tales, they make up the brunt of human knowledge

>> No.11413772

>>11413327
Somebody shoop in a can of Monster into his hand

>> No.11413828

>>11413748
Stop misusing "brunt".
You meant "bulk".

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>>11413828
Shit my bad

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>>11413772
one better

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11414036

You don't "act on commodity fetishism". It's the default relation of individuals to commodities under Capitalism. Every interaction one has with products, which is always already occurring, is that of fetishism. It's not a mind set or set of actions that one can overcome just by thinking or acting differently.

>> No.11414108

>>11413327
pls what's next, girl fetishism? Dumb commies

>> No.11414223

>buy 4 gb flash drive
>????
>post scarcity
You probably won't ever fill it, and as long as you don't delete stuff off it you probably won't wear it down either.

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>>11413327
>the patrician "pirates all books onto an e-reader"

>> No.11414644

>>11414036
Came to post this.

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>>11414638
epub is no replacement for proper typesetting

That said I find WQHD works really well on phones for rendering text

>> No.11414750

>>11414729
>typesetting
PFFFF HAHAHAHHAH, nigga, wtf, I just wanna read nigga, you're just a filthy book fetishist.

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>>11414638
>>11414729
>tfw only read on phone through android adobe knock off that auto enlarges text but skews everything

>> No.11414762

>>11413327
Absolutely.

I had a collection of about 600 books that I had partly read, partly dumpstered. It was wonderful to be surrounded by them. It also very much loved being able to mention a book, then pull it out from the shelf and hand it to the person. In a sense, books lend physicality to the otherwise ethereal world of ideas.

However, it is also definitly a fetishism and after a few unpleasantly moves I culled the vast majority of what I had.

>> No.11414769

>>11413327

>consumerism

LOL

>> No.11414770

>>11414750
oh god dude

>> No.11415785

>>11414769
So consumerism is bad, the concept of consumerism is invalid, or...?

>> No.11415802

The more books I bought the more I ended up selling at a used book store. Now I just download pdfs.