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11448986 No.11448986 [Reply] [Original]

why the fuck books cost so much

>> No.11449000
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>>11448986
I-i just want hardcovers

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>>11449000
i just want old/rare paperbacks

>> No.11449172

>>11448986
I just wait for second hand book sales (about 4 local ones a year in my area) and go all out.

>> No.11449188
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>>11449000
paperbacks are pretty expensive too. The average price of a paperback where I live is 13-18euros. Minimum wage is 300e.

>> No.11449208

>>11448986
>tfw trying desperately to save money so I can buy some land and live the comfy agricultural life
>can't stop buying shitty books that I never read

>> No.11449213
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>>11448986
I just use gen.lib

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>>11449208
>tfw some anon on /out/ is living our dream right now

>> No.11449249

>>11449232
I want this so much...

>> No.11449525
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>>11448986
What's a library card?

>> No.11449535

>>11449232
I'd love to have something like that out west or maybe in NC mountains. Imagine the hiking and fishing one could do

>> No.11449540

>>11449525
Library books are disgusting. I just imagine the germs of hundreds of people smeared all over them. I can't even open one without gloves on.

>> No.11449543

>>11449213
Absolute Chad Dmitri

>> No.11449547

>>11449249
Go do it then faggot. Oh wait you too balless and dont really wanna ruff it.

>> No.11449575

why?idk or care, but you have internet pdfs, libraries and you can even steal them.

dont be a fag. if you truly need them you will find a way to get them. if you dont, then you dont deserve to have access to them.

>> No.11449576

>>11449547
It's illegal in my country and very hard to get permission to do anything on your own land. I was living in a van but it's not the same.

>> No.11449580

>>11449540
wear gloves then you fag

>> No.11449602

>>11449540
I work in a book binding factory and I make sure to cum on every hardcover and quickly clean it off just for faggos like you

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>>11449525
>having a library card
>not just stealing the books from the library

>> No.11449619

>>11449602
how many times a day do you cum

>> No.11449620

What are the best e-readers?

>> No.11449625
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11449625

>>11449232
DELET

>> No.11449636

>>11449620
kobo readers

>> No.11449652

>>11449232
>implying it is enough to escape

you have assimilated the modern world when you adapted to it, and will carry it within you wherever you go. no matter how far.

the real forest is in the unknown part of your mind, and it is only after you explore it and let it influence you, that you will be able to see and get in touch with a real forest.

that inner exploration cant be done away from your usual world, for it requires, not new experiences or places, but new ways to experience the same old places.

dont get e wrong,it is great that people do that cabin stuff, but thats just a rearrangement of the same instead of something new. if thats your dream fine, but personally, instead of making my dreams come true, i prefer to realize how dreams and reality are not really different.

>> No.11449669

>>11449636
Can I put amazon kindle books and such on there?

>> No.11449670
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>>11449652
This Anon is right. We can't escape the industrial system. It's already been brainwashed into us. Man is like a domesticated dog, defanged, made useless and taught meaningless tricks.

((( They ))) did this to us.

>> No.11449677

>>11449669
yeah, you can use calibre to convert them to almost any format

>> No.11449735
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>>11448986
>Cambridge Ancient History - $300 pvol
>Corrington's philosophy - $110
>Oxford Latin Dictionary - $340
>Oxford Classical Dictionary - $160
>Pappus of Alexandria's Mathematics - $216
>most scholarly works - $50-$300

>> No.11449802

>>11448986
That's why i love my kindle.

>> No.11449865

>>11449652
its impossible to escape because no matter where i go ill still be there

>> No.11449884

I buy everything secondhand these days. I suppose for people on here who cannot allow any wear to show on their books whatsoever, that option is out for the majority of you. But it works for me.

>> No.11449971

>>11449884
All second hand books where I live are just as expensive as buying online.

>> No.11449983

>>11449884
there are no bookshops in my town and id have to spend like 8 quid on a train ticket to get to a good one

>> No.11450063

>>11449884
Sometimes you can find steals. I have a beautiful hardcover of Chaucer's complete works, printed in 1900, in near perfect condition for only $7.

>> No.11450169
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>$16.95

>> No.11450174

>>11448986

Jews.

>> No.11450221

>>11450169
100% worth it, will be worth thousands in years to come too

>> No.11450232

Order on amazon negro

>> No.11450290

>He cant afford an average new book price which is like 12 dollars online.

How poor are you nigger?

>> No.11450312

Michael Wolff's Trump book cost about 35 euros in the book store. It's insane.

>> No.11450343

>>11449669
install koreader on it and dont waste your time with meme calibre

>> No.11450347
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11450347

>not getting ebooks and having a device filled with PDFs and EPUBs/MOBIs

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>>11450063
>tfw never-opened copies of the stranger and the myth of sisyphus for $2
I don't know why plebs buy philosophy, but I get great deals in great condition all the fucking time

>> No.11450387

>>11450347
I download tons of books, but there's something viscerally appealing about a wall of books.

>> No.11450395

>>11448986
kindle, saved me hundreds of pounds so far

>> No.11450590

>>11449602
Hot

>> No.11450600

>>11449213
reading on the internet on a screen getting thousands of lights flashed into your eyes or having it all downloaded on. a shit e-reader off ur slef

>> No.11450606

>>11449620
e-readers are for people who cannot handle doing something without looking at a screen conditioning themselves to only deal with technology don't read on those shits you fucking fucdk

>> No.11450622

>>11450606
Yeah, that's the reason, not the fact that they're absurdly convenient.

>> No.11450625

>tfw live in third world country where salaries are 4 times lower
>no local bookshops for English books (new/used)
>the shipping from ordering online to your country is 3 times the prize of the book itself
>bookdepository doesn't have used books and significant discounts
>translations to native language are ebola
>e-reading fucks up your sight

>> No.11450655

>>11450290
what if you go through 2 books a week though

>> No.11450766

>>11450625
e-reading doesn't fuck up your sight

>> No.11450774

>>11450766
>t.kindle shill

>> No.11450782

>>11450774
Powerful refutation

>> No.11450794

>>11450600
There is nothing wrong with e-readers.

>> No.11450821

>>11450625
this

they jew you out and make you wait 30 days for a book

>> No.11450869

i just use bookfinder.com to find the cheapest used copy that has a good price/condition combination, if there's nothing that fits the criteria i use keepa.com to track shit and have it notify me once the price drops

>> No.11450969

>>11450169

Is this book a meme? I've never seen it spoken about anywhere apart from the cover posted here every now and then

>> No.11451254

>>11450969
if you want to call the literary magnum opus of the modern day a meme then sure go right ahead

>> No.11451392
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>live in bumfuck nowhere town
>Shops never have anything other than pulp and sports biographies
>Travel to London
>First shop I go into has pretty much everything I want
>Go all over
>Get to the till with 15 books in hand
>Realise I won't have any money if I buy them all
>Have to settle for 2

I JUST WANT GOOD BOOKS AT A REASONABLE PRICE

>> No.11451401

>>11449213
>>11449620
>>11450347
doesn't smell like books though.

>> No.11451410
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>>11449188
>300 minimum wage
lmao

>> No.11451413

>>11448986
that's why iibraries exist, nigger. stop giving your hard earned money to the jews.

>> No.11451424

>>11449525
>tfw failed the library test

>> No.11451429

>>11451413
>going to libraries
the absolute state of /lit

>> No.11451440

Why the h*ck do you guys spend more than 10 (ten) bucks on a book

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>>11451440
Forgot pic laughing at you 3rd world y*robeans

>> No.11451458
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11451458

>be edgy teen
>find that books are better than edgy music and local concerts
>dive into them
>such huge amount of things to read
>library fuck yeah
>wanna own them to write on them tho
>be store
>they are all there
>so fuckng expensive to buy them all
>???
>man up and steal one while buying another one
>my fucking heart almost comes out as i was paying and walking out
>be out
>'i didnt faint nor am i in jail with a stain on my record'
>realize that fear is just in my mind, backed by symbolic elements as the guard or the detectors at every entrance
>repeat
>build huge library at a reasonable cost
>mfw

>> No.11451464

>>11451429
what the fuck is wrong libraries?

>> No.11451496

>>11451429
scared of peeeple?

>> No.11451525

>>11451429
i spend an entire day at the library sometimes, just leave to go get something to eat
find a quiet desk in the corner and its top comfy

>> No.11451534

>>11451464
>>11451496
>>11451525
only plebs visit them

>> No.11451545

>>11451534
but /lit/ is just a meme and shitpost library

>> No.11451591

>>11449652
>you have assimilated the modern world when you adapted to it, and will carry it within you wherever you go. no matter how far.
that's true but as soon as i'm innawoods with no audible or visible humans i feel extremely good, so it still works.

>> No.11451604

>>11451591
true, but that is only temporary. ive been there and fuck yes, it is an amazing rest, you can do it for years; but then, at some point,when the mind stills enough, it will need to move on and will start building new content on those two contrasting experiences. when that happens there are no woods to escape to.

>> No.11451609

>>11449576
It's illegal to live in the wilderness even on your own land? What shithole do you live in?

>> No.11451616

>>11449213
To any other autist who just NEEDS to know what the Russian text says: "A lion with the head and body of a pigeon". You're welcome.

>> No.11451619

average used book is $5 at the place i go to, expensive ones are like 8.50

>> No.11451631
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11451631

>>11448986
>MUH BOOK SMELZ
>MUH TEXTURE
>MUH WEIGHT

>> No.11451680

>>11449884
>buy a translation of The Illiad for $1.50 at a used store
>some ungrateful fuck 2500 years ago probably listened to it for free in the original greek

>> No.11451967

>>11449576
How the fuck could that be illegal

>> No.11452470
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11452470

>get library card
>get pic rel
>scan 'em all
>read

>> No.11452488

>>11449610
>that pic
The idiot here is you. Go back to 10th grade precalc and learn what a limit is.

>> No.11452498

>>11449735
https://archive.org/details/iB_Ca

>> No.11452527

Too many homeless people.

>> No.11452533

>>11452470
based

>> No.11452541

>>11449540
Lets be real, how many people actually check the books out at these places anymore?

>> No.11452551

>>11452470
what the hell does this do

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>>11448986
>spend $30 on a clothbound, illustrated hardcover of Divine Comedy; think that's a pretty good deal for a new book
>friend looks at me like I'm insane for spending that much money on a book

>> No.11452569
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>>11452551
its a portable scanner. it scans things.

>> No.11452573

>>11452569
As in to a computer to be read? I've always thought one that size would be useful but was never sure if it could be used practically

>> No.11452586

>>11448986
this is why we steal

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>>11452586
t.

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>>11452573
well yeah, just like a regular scanner. it basically takes a picture of a flat surface, for instance the page of a book, and stores it into a sd card. and as books are only black/white you dont even need high def.

i also had my doubts but decided to give it a try and it was the best thing ever, i have a huge library in my pc and its cost was only the library fee subscription, plus some chep chinese scanner from ebay.

heres a sample, after a contrast modification to make it mode readable on screen.

>> No.11452626

>>11452616
How well are these pages displayed on a kindle (eink version)

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>>11449540
>His library doesn't have a book steriliser free for use

>> No.11452654

>>11452626
idk how that works so i woudnt know.... it uses epub files? if so, then this wouldnt work unless you do an ocr of every picture and transform it into the proper format. but it could work on a tablet, as if you were browsing pictures.

>> No.11452722

>>11449540
My library has a sterilizer.

>> No.11452907

>>11449620
Boox Max 2, you're welcome

>> No.11452921

>>11452586
based black man MAGA

>> No.11452931

>>11452616
Couldn't you just download a online version of the book?

>> No.11453022

>>11452722
>needing sterilizer in the first place
This is like bragging about your car having some sort of secondary, engine lockout-type feature. Expel minorities and this will be far less an issue

>> No.11453035

>>11453022
t. a retard who also has no understanding of epidemiology

>> No.11453218

libgen.io

>> No.11453307

>>11449610
how do you steal books from the library?

>> No.11453400 [DELETED] 

>>11453307
you cut out the little strip in a bathroom stall
remove the checkout card in the back if there is one and cut around it with an xacto
cut around all inside edges of covers if you cannot find the thin strip until you find it

place book with strip removed in bag

>> No.11453439

>>11453307
any one have book recs on why stealing is bad?

>> No.11453514

>>11452931
>leaving an online trail

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>>11452470
This is something worth looking in to.

>> No.11453567

>>11451458
getting borderline arrested for a copy of great gatsby

way to go bro

>> No.11453580

>>11449540
>>11452541
So I work at a library and unless its a James Patterson, romance or popular YA it will never get checked out

We have a copy of war and peace here and it's been check out once in 10 years.

>> No.11453586

>>11448986
because (((they))) dont want the masses to be learned

>> No.11453700

>>11451458
white people baka

>> No.11454034

>>11452931
lel. it is obvious theyre not found online, at least not for free, so thats why i do all that scanning work.

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11454609

>books
>expensive
>mfw

As someone who collects records, CDs, cassettes, VHS, DVDS, and books, I can say with certainty that books are the LEAST expensive part of any of my hobbies.

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>>11454609
>lamborghinis
>expensive
>mfw

As someone who collects mansions, cruise ships, gold bricks, priceless artworks, princess virginitys and lamborghinis, I can say with certainty that lamborghinis are the LEAST expensive part of any of my hobbies.

>> No.11454702

>>11454683

false equivalence

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>>11452907
holy fucking shit

>> No.11454712

>>11448986
People don't read anymore. Supply and demand.

>> No.11454725

>>11454702
prove it

>> No.11454860

>>11449971
>>11449983
I find places like abebooks do some pretty good deals. I got a copy of The Recognitions off there recently for £5. It's not always the case. But usually they're good.

>> No.11454948

>>11452616
You would do this for a 400 page tome?

>> No.11454975

>>11452907
>Boox Max 2
>$800
yeah no

>> No.11454986

>>11454683
>princess virginitys
how do you do this

>> No.11455040

>>11449232
nature is a faggot

>> No.11455090

>>11451450
This is good for Brits too because they cheat the postage by sending it through Canadian mail. At least the commonwealth is useful for something.

>> No.11455134

>>11449543
Screencapped. My name is Dmitri, and I use libgen

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>>11449540
YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY A VERY SMART MAN

>> No.11455141

>>11454948
ive done it for +1000-page volumes. i didnt come up with that to scan a couple of books, i have a whole library.

sounds huge but when you make it a part of your routine you dont even notice the work. plus,if you really want the material it is even fun. also, i listen to a lecture or something while doing it.

>> No.11455208

>>11453580
Don't lose heart anon. I check out real books from my local library. Although, not often; I mostly just purchase them. Oh, forgot to mention, I don't do anything nefarious to them.

>> No.11455682

>>11451401
You guys are a bunch of amateurs.

Step aside virgins.

>be me
>live by myself in uni
>books I want to read cost way to much, no library
>take a plunge buy ebook

Now here's what you want to do cocksucka, you want to get an authentic wood book like cover for it, after, you buy this candle, https://www.etsy.com/listing/159184877/old-books-8-oz-book-lovers-onions-candle and now what you do is you light that candle in a small room, but your ebook reader with the case right next to it and just let it burn baby.

BAM, YOU GOT YOURSELF A 100 YEAR OLD BOOK EVERYTIME YOU OPEN THAT SUCKER UP THAT'S HOW WE DO SHIT MOTHERFUCKING COCKSUCKA GO FUCK YOUR MOTHER

>> No.11455707

>>11455682

I MEANT WOOL MOTHERFUCKERS DONT BUY WOOD WITH CANDLE HH

>> No.11455843

>>11455682
what kind of shit uni do you go to that doesn't have a library

>> No.11455979

>>11449188
>Minimum wage is 300e

>> No.11455986

>>11451616
Thank you so much

>> No.11456092
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>>11455843
>tfw my uni library is open 24 hours a day

>> No.11457002

>>11453543
>screencapping your epic facebook posts
commit suicide

>> No.11457018

>>11451616
Is it some sort of Russian aphorism? I'm not able to find any explanation of the phrase on google.

>> No.11458471

>>11456092
mine was too it was great

>> No.11458543

>>11454609
you suck

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>>11448986
>not going to flea markets or antique shops to find old, good quality books for the price of 2-10€

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>>11451410
It's $150 in Russia.

>> No.11458995

>>11457018
It's a tranny joke.

>> No.11459033

>>11458995
transgender persons are not a joke

>> No.11459133

>>11453022
>Only non-white people have germs on their bodies

>Keep non-white people out of the library then bitch about their mental capabilities

???????

>> No.11459191

Is 30 dollars worth it for Anna Karenina Folio society. Never had a book from them but found someone selling it.

>> No.11459859

>>11451458
Thats why books are so expensive because customers have to come up for thieves

>> No.11459876

libraries are farms for the anti-intellectuals

>> No.11459912

>>11454609
The investment in books is not the money but rather the time (=more valuable resource) it takes you to really read them.

>> No.11460121

>>11459191
Toлcтoй eбaнaя тягoмoтнaя ccaнинa, зa чтeниe кoтopoй тeбe дoлжны плaтить, a нe нaoбopoт.

>> No.11460137

abebooks is amazing, i just bought a hardback copy of underworld for £3

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>>11453307
Well I did it once or twice when I was a dumbass kid, bascially smuggled the book into the toilet and ripped the magnetic strip off, pretty easy considering they had almost zero security in the children's section

>> No.11460730

>>11460121
Yes

>> No.11461686

>>11459859
its the other way round, brainwashed faggot.

>> No.11462257

>>11454034
Do you upload the book onine afterwards?

>> No.11462351

>>11448986
If you have a job you can make more money than you can possibly read away in your free time

>> No.11462371

>>11449188
are you an eastern european?

>> No.11462499

>>11451680
This. I get mad every time.

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11462981

I just want a PDF of this that is not the dog's breakfast that the google scans are.

Seriously, if you have it do me a favour and scan it properly, it's 64 pages.

>> No.11462996

>>11450625
>translations to native language are ebola
Why I got good at English summed up.

>> No.11464007

>>11458990
Ia ruskii I ni hera ni ponel ochem eta fotka

>> No.11464015

>>11458471
>was
Boomers, please leave

>> No.11464032

>>11462981
o i am laffin atchu

>> No.11464128

>>11462981
pen out a paper copy yourself

>> No.11465424

>why the fuck books cost so much

The nearest used bookstore to me is run by a charity and all books are donated. The store is enormous. They sell nearly all of their paperbacks for 50p ($0.66). And most of their hardbacks at 3 for £5 (3 for $6.61) They have 5 long isles full of classics and pretty big sections for every genre.

I go once a month with £20 and usually buy 3 hardbacks and 30 paperbacks.

>> No.11465433

>>11465424
>I go once a month with £20 and usually buy 3 hardbacks and 30 paperbacks.

...And if anyone is living on the south coast, UK. This magical bookstore is off Winton High street in Bournemouth.

>> No.11465456

Consumerist shits. I torrent epubs and read them on my phone. If I can't find it to download only then I will buy it.

Same words. Same books. Same everything.

Wow. The only thing is that I don't have a way to really show the rest of the consumerist retards on /lit/ my booktuber-tier collections. It's a real travesty.

>> No.11465520

>>11462981
actually also interested in this

>> No.11465650

The $65 million advance for Obama's memoir has to come from somewhere.

>> No.11465677

>>11451254
what's it about

>> No.11465686
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11465686

>>11451534
>denying oneself access to a lifetime's worth of free literature because muh patrician lifestyle

I'm having a hard time finding a good answer as to why you faggots don't use your local libraries.

>> No.11465820

>>11465424
>I go once a month with £20 and usually buy 3 hardbacks and 30 paperbacks.
why buy so many books that youll never get around to reading