/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11643435]

There is no greater home library than this. Prove me wrong /lit/ show me your favorites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E8PGchwuGA

[Anonymous No.11643450]

Whats the point of amassing large libraries? Pseud-credit? Purely aesthetics? You could fit all those books in a usb stick size and much more.

[Anonymous No.11643451]

>>11643435
>penguin on his shelf

oh no

[Anonymous No.11643467]

>can have like 10x that many books on my laptop and still have plenty of storage space left
>current year
>owning physical media
Look at this pleb. A lot of the shit I read isn't even in print anywhere.

[Anonymous No.11643472]

>buying books

[Anonymous No.11643476]

>>11643472
Just because has them on his shelf doesn't mean he bought them.

[Anonymous No.11643483]

>>11643450
To be fair e-books most likely weren’t a thing when he started out.

[Anonymous No.11643490]

>>11643450
>>11643467
the only practical advantage i can think of is retention
aside from that it's nice to have a physical collection grow alongside you

[Anonymous No.11643519]

>>11643450
just because e-books are more convenient doesn't make it better. digital as a whole is depressing. you don't own it, you cant lend it out. i also like to physically see that part of my identity and revisit my intellectual journey - its nostalgic, and the older i get the more those feelings matter to me.

[Anonymous No.11643553]

>>11643435
>you should always have more books in your library than you have read
>if you've read them all you're not buying fast enough
>buy books
why is this pseud unable to grasp the concept of buying books as you read them?

[Anonymous No.11643604]

>>11643450
This.
Renounce material possessions.

[Anonymous No.11643626]

>>11643450
honestly it doesn't make much logical sense unless you're an academic and are going to want to consult the books at will. It's unlikely you're going to read them all again. But there is something pleasing about having a library, I think, just for aesthetic purposes. Being able to look upon it at everything you've read is nice. But also, a child that grows up in a home filled with books is going to be well read. You can pass on your books and share your library. Imagine being a book worm kid and your dad has a room filled with books.

[Anonymous No.11643644]

>>11643450

Reading on a screen is scientifically proven to lead to shit-tier retention and is solely for retards.

[Anonymous No.11643645]

>>11643450
I like the aesthetics of having shelves stuffed with books. Reading physical copies is comfy as fuck and I suspect I have an easier time with them than with digital copies.

[Anonymous No.11643646]

>>11643450
Talleyrand amassed a library about three times in his life, because every time he ran into financial difficulties he would sell all his books to raise the money. Probably wouldn't be so easy nowadays though.

[Anonymous No.11643695]

>>11643644
>a screen
E-Ink, retard. People who read on iPad and LCD tablets aren't book people anyways. Of course they're gonna get distracted by the LCD refresh rate and the urge to look up porn on it.

[Anonymous No.11643710]

>>11643435
>Prove me wrong /lit/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1h8-WvzexY

[Anonymous No.11643715]

>>11643490
Until you have to move. I've moved so many times...

[Anonymous No.11643785]

>>11643450
Yes, that and physical format always felt more comfortable and study-oriented to me than digital.

[Anonymous No.11643786]

>>11643483
Did you even watch the video? He really stresses the point that physical > digital for the very purpose of being able to have it there, in your hands.

[Anonymous No.11644744]

>>11643450
It's better because of the amount of extra space it requires, how much of a pain in the ass it makes moving, and the sheer fire hazard of it. Physical books just can't be beat.

[Anonymous No.11644756]

>>11643786
>the very purpose of being able to have it there, in your hands.
My kindle fits in my hand just fine. What's the problem?

[Anonymous No.11644767]

>>11643450
So I can cite actual page numbers. Kindles and e-books in general (unless they are .pdf scans of physical copies) for some bizarre reason never have page numbers. They are worthless for research, so I choose physical copies for both practical and personal reasons. Maybe if they implement page numbers I may make the switch.

[Anonymous No.11644777]

My library is better if only for the fact that it doesn't look like it's in a self storage unit.

[Anonymous No.11644870]

>>11643604
>t. posting out of telepathy

[Anonymous No.11644904]

>>11643450
All the reasons already listed:

And so we can actually put some people to work. I just was dealing with a guy who lost his job. He was a book binder

[Anonymous No.11644913]

>>11644870
Yeah mannnn like just *takes a gigantic bong rip* read Nietzsche maaaaaaaaaa*exhales*aaaaaaan

[Anonymous No.11644919]

>>11643450
screens are distracting
i'm dreaming for my computer to break

[Anonymous No.11644922]

>>11644913
This but unironically

[Anonymous No.11644945]

>>11644756
no problems, just that I love having the book itself, watching the marker advance a tiny bit everytime I put it down after reading, watching time make the pages go yellow, having memories of the times you spent reading it every time you pick it up and read a random page...
i realise this is all subjectively superfluous, and i do realise the advantages of e-readers, such as free books, practically unlimited storage, ability to read in the dark...but I'm not ready to give up physical copies. And before someone calls me out for being a consumerist, even if I don't get to buy books, I'd rather go downtown to my public library and borrow books than to read through an eletronic device.
I cannot imagine not having books like the iliad and odyssey, don quijote, dante, shakespeare's works, aeneid, the bible, ulysses.

[Anonymous No.11644952]

>>11643450
I legitimately perfer to own a physical object, it’s material and petty, but I feel it improves my overall retention and enjoyment of the book.

[Anonymous No.11644990]

>>11644767
Imagine how autistic you have to be to have your entire field of research rendered impossible by digitization. There's no page numbers because you can change the font, the size, and the spacing of the text. Instead there are just "positions" in the text, independent of the way the text is rendered. Usually several thousand in a given book.

[Anonymous No.11645009]

>>11644945
Oh sure, there is plenty of subjective reason to own print books. One of the main practical advantages is being able to easily flip around to different pages, which you can't really do with an e-book. There's nothing wrong with preferring print, but simply "[having] it there, in your hands" is a moot point. I can hold a kindle in my hand as well.

[Anonymous No.11645029]

>>11643450
E-readers do not emulate the sensory qualities of a physical book; especially smell.
E-books do not have resell value; "rare" e-books do not exist.
An e-book collection cannot be passed-on to your children in the same manner that a physical collection can.

[Anonymous No.11645112]

>>11645029
>especially smell
I have a very far below average sense of smell, are books really particularly pungent or is that just a meme?

[Anonymous No.11645123]

>>11645029
>especially smell

[Anonymous No.11645130]

>>11644990
Yes. And that's the problem.

[Anonymous No.11645136]

>>11645130
>his job is destroyed by formatting
Your parents must be proud of your life choices.

[Anonymous No.11645145]

>>11643450
Look at this casual faggot.

[Anonymous No.11645227]

>>11643435
>a christian approach to the great books

So where's the torch?

[Anonymous No.11645435]

Watch the video he makes a compelling argument for physical books and libraries rather than kindles

[Anonymous No.11645531]

E-bookfags wish they could have an aesthetic bookshelf like so.

[Anonymous No.11645534]

>>11645531
Literally none of those look Greek

[Anonymous No.11645840]

>>11643450
for the same reason that you hang a picture on the wall

[Anonymous No.11646362]

>>11645531
What's the book between the trology and The Hobbit? I'm working own my Tolkien collection, pic related is a small part I have in my gf's house.

[Anonymous No.11646389]

>>11643435
my favorite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYsL7BUO6c4

[Anonymous No.11646480]

>>11643450
Wes addresses this in the video, but I can give you the reasons I collect books.
Firstly, I collect physical copies for my future children's benefit. All the books that were able to greatly benefit my thinking may also be able to benefit them by being a physical object they can work through and bring to me with questions.
I also really enjoy the temporal value of the physical copy. Knowing that one bad fire will remove them all, but understanding that their intrinsic value never lied in their physical form but in my mental comprehension of their contents.
To each their own I suppose, but I think we have enough people plugged into a digital world with their faces buried in tablets, computer screens, and smart phones. I think there is something soul cleansing with physical interaction that a kindle can never achieve.

[Anonymous No.11646534]

pic related: my library

[Anonymous No.11646543]

>>11645009
You can also hold a phone to talk to your significant other with, but it's pretty different from hugging them in person.

[Anonymous No.11646554]

>>11646534
It isn't.

[Anonymous No.11646610]

>>11643519
>part of my identity
Bugman.

[Anonymous No.11646614]

>>11646543
In this case as well, the digital option is worse.

[Anonymous No.11646684]

Can someone please explain the purpose of reading middle age and christian thought? In a more concrete way than saying "Christianity is part of history and therefore necessary for understanding the world today". You could make that argument about a n y t h i n g in history. Why specifically do I need to know the thoughts of some obscure middle age scholar on the life of some obscure saint?

[Anonymous No.11646700]

>>11646684
You do not Need to. But you also do not Need to know much else. You read it because the understanding of most Topics in europe is like a puzzle, and christianity, especially in the middle ages, layed Pretty much everything out for future Generations. Without understanding their history and Evolution you will prolly not understand anything deeper which followed, be it modern philosophie and politics, Scientific Revolution or social changes. It's like the bible itself. You do not Need to believe in it to understand that the modern world was built on it's understanding. Without the divine understanding that God created everything in a perfect System, making miracles an exception, europeans wouldn't have bothered to understand nature as nature would be understood like in any other Religion to be random without a Connection. This understanding of the universe and the thought that god likes us to try and understand the world and the universe to be able to praise him even more, is the only reason science as we all knowit came About in the first place.

[Anonymous No.11646734]

>>11646700

>Without the divine understanding that God created everything in a perfect System
>europeans wouldn't have bothered to understand nature as nature

Even if you accept that dubious claim that the original motivations for scientific discovery can be attributed to Christianity, so what? You don't need to know Newton's thoughts on theology in order to understand calculus.

[Anonymous No.11646749]

>>11643435
He sounds pretty spooked.

[Anonymous No.11646751]

>>11646734
It's not a dubious claim, desu. Check out any other religion. Further the scientific method was literally invented by monks to understand their god. No Need to be a christcuck to aknowledge it.


As I said, you do not need to knwo anything. But than you would be nothing more than an automaton, without the deeper understanding and not able to cherrishthe beauty of human accomplishment.

[Anonymous No.11646768]

>>11643450
I prefer ebooks because reading in a dark room with the backlight on is the height of immersion and booklights are cumbersome and obtrusive.

[Anonymous No.11646781]

>>11646751

>Check out any other religion

My wikipedia skills inform me that muslims were the first bois to discuss the idea of a scientific method. Now if you're going to say "so what, it's still inspired by the idea of divine order, and it's still the abrahamic god too", to that I say so what? I still don't see how abrahamic theology, much less christian theology, is necessary for understanding those ideas.

[Anonymous No.11646803]

[Anonymous No.11646854]

>>11646781
>Wikipedia
Something tells me you lack the necessary skills to understand the Things you deem unimportant in the first place.

The mere concept to bonder if the universe is chaotic or perfect has been new to the judeo-christian School of thought. This is the same reason why the ancient greeks already invented the steam engines and Computers but only used them as toys Such simply Things as to expect a higher order or randomness will Change your attitude to the natural world. All muslims did was either burn the old books of the greeks down like they did in Alexandria because "what it has in comon is already has in the coran and what there isn't in the coran is useless". This Mirrors the mentality of the perfection of the coran, meaning that they are philosophically unable to evolve. The same reason why there will never be a Reformation in the muslim world, because that would mean they would Need to go straight against the coran, which they say is the perfect word of god, unlike the Christian bible which Always was seen as the >understanding< of humans of the word of god and therefore the possibility of error may occur and is to be eliminated through study of the world (which god created with perfect rules).


And even if nothing of that would be true, without reading the bible at least you will not have the same base as those which wrote about pretty much everything before you. Everyone before the 20th century had the bible as his best know book of morals, history and philosophie. Without knowing on what they base their works, it is like reading Mein Kampf without knowing the basic history of europe. You can understand what he is writting formaly but you will never understand WHY he is thinking the way he did and you will never understand the consequences of his school of thought.

[Anonymous No.11646874]

Jesus Christus almighty I would hate to have such a grand library. Imagine moving with that shit! I get depressed from the thought of living in the same place for years on end so that would be a lot of moving (international, even). Thank God for ebooks.

[Anonymous No.11646889]

>>11643435
>this is where the greeks start
really made me think

[Anonymous No.11646893]

>>11646874
>hates the accumulation of wisdom and a deeper ability to learn from the words written as screens have been shown to cause worse understanding
>makes himself the slave to electricity and global organisations which can at any moments end his software license for the reader or rights to read the ebooks itself
>can't tolerate the same envoirement for long for he needs to be constantly distracted to ignore his existencial angst for not having fullfilled his bioogical duty
>is afraid to use and train his body to perform basic tasks like moving semi-heavy objects
>doesn't care to pass rare books and the joy for literature down to his heers
>leaving his country for a new kick like the addict he is

[Anonymous No.11646912]

>encyclopedia britannica
Why tho

[Anonymous No.11646925]

>>11643435
hoarding is a mental illness

[Anonymous No.11646937]

>>11646893
first of all kill your self, I usually just write down kys, but you deserve it in full.

>accumulation of wisdom
>slave to electricity and global organisations
>software license
>bioogical duty
>rare books
>his country

mother of cringes. coping of this consumercuck faggot. shitlord with the pre-deluge values, embraced every mannerism associated with books, to confirm himself in his book-related fantasies, while being and remaining totally vapid inside.

[Anonymous No.11646952]

>>11646937
>mother of cringes. coping of this consumercuck faggot. shitlord with the pre-deluge values, embraced every mannerism associated with books, to confirm himself in his book-related fantasies, while being and remaining totally vapid inside.
Oh, so you're just poor and rather live a hedonistic existance than to to give through your inheritange a headstart to your children unlike your boomer parents.

[Anonymous No.11646959]

>>11646854
Either this post is bait, or english isn't your first language, or maybe both.

>Without knowing on what they base their works
You don't need to study the history of christian theology to understand christian influences in literature. A basic familiarity seems sufficient.

>but you will never understand WHY he is thinking the way he did
Seems like a waste of time, especially if the arguments stand on their own. Just like a piece of fiction ought to stand on its own without interrogating the intentions of the author. In the case of science this seems especially true- that is, the personal inclinations and inspirations of the scientist are not important when evaluating the validity of a theory.

Further, I would question the whole notion that one can know for certain why people think the things they think, that includes yourself.

>>Wikipedia
>Something tells me you lack the necessary skills . . .
not an argument.

[Anonymous No.11646962]

>>11646952
it's time to go back to r/the_donald to perform your duty to the white race and kek

[Anonymous No.11646977]

>>11646959
Not my first language and shitty explorer autocorrect.

>A basic familiarity seems sufficient.
It all depends what you want to get out of it. If you only want to understand it well enough to be able to have a basic gestalt, sure. But depending on the subject you'll lose much of what you could have otherwise benefited from. It's like reading a book in a foreign language you understanding JUST enough to get the idea, while not even knowing how many detils, subtext and lingo jokes or innuendos you missed. You'll get the plot but you will not get the book to its fullest.

>especially if the arguments stand on their own
>he reads for information instead of pleasure and the broadening of ones horizont
Well, as I said, if you want to embrace becoming an automaton, you're right. But that's like disregarding beauty just because it's "useless".

Either way, you wanted to know why people recommend reading beyond ones own primal interests and include christianity into it and that's my view. Take from it waht you like, I don't see a reason to convince you. Although I am certain that if you keep reading, one day You'll come around and embrace the roots. Rereading old books afterwards is like after a lietime of colorblindness finally beeing able to see the full spectrum. You'll fall in love with books you prior to that thought boring and memed. Mind my words and enjoy the journey.

[Anonymous No.11646983]

>>11646962
>getting kids and leaving them more than oneself started with is only something white people do
Like poetry.

[Anonymous No.11646987]

>>11646983
I did not say that moron. Now fuck off, this isn't the spooky ghost stories thread.

[Anonymous No.11647014]

>>11643435
>library
>filled with weird things with paper inside
what is this dumb meme

[Anonymous No.11647332]

>>11646893
Yeah, that’s why I pirate my ebooks, I don’t trust corporations

[Anonymous No.11647356]

>>11646803
BAR-TON FINK! BAR-TON FINK! BAR-TON FINK!

[Anonymous No.11647818]

>>11643553
Like he says, it's humbling to see all the books you haven't read, as in "wow i guess i don't know everything".

[Anonymous No.11647872]

>>11643435

Proved wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCsLFSR_Y94

[Anonymous No.11648069]

>>11643490
I haven't lived in one place more than 6 months in the last ten years. No way am I hauling 500 lbs of books around.

[Anonymous No.11648089]

>>11643519
>part of my identity
>he gets his identity from his material belongings
What a fucking fagwad. "Intellectual journey" my asshole you retarded pseud. You probably think harry potter is deep and meaningful.
DIOGENES
If the only way people can think you have a personality is by your showing off a collection of physical possessions to them, you have no personality.

[Anonymous No.11648186]

>>11647872
Unironically my life goal

[Anonymous No.11648202]

>>11643695
e-ink doesn't change the fact that you don't have a cognitive spatial mapping of the text like you would with a physical book you dumb pleb

[Anonymous No.11648213]

>>11643450
You can't make a video with books on your background if you don't own physical books.

I think the market for physical books is strictly oriented towards YouTubers nowadays.

[Anonymous No.11648242]

>>11643435
I usually dislike "durr dis be my library full of YA" videos but this one was quite pleasurable.

[Anonymous No.11648253]

>>11643450
What’s the point of collecting anything?

[Anonymous No.11648440]

>>11645227
The Library of Alexandria wasn't burnt by Christians. That's a myth.

[Anonymous No.11648465]

>>11643450
This. If you actually cared about reading and not just owning books you would just use the library or read on an e-reader.

[Anonymous No.11648470]

>>11643626
Or you can just give the kid a tablet full of books.

[Anonymous No.11648479]

>>11646684
Because Christianity as the one true faith revealed by God is the eternal truth of the universe and Jesus is the Son of God.

[Anonymous No.11648480]

>>11644767
Use pdf?

[Anonymous No.11648485]

>>11645029
>An e-book collection cannot be passed-on to your children in the same manner that a physical collection can.

Yes it can

[Anonymous No.11648498]

>>11648440
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Library_of_Alexandria

[Anonymous No.11648513]

>>11648498
Is this supposed to be offered in disagreement or did you read the article?

[Anonymous No.11648556]

>>11646389
>Machen

Ill be looking into him, thanks for posting this just for that

[Anonymous No.11648655]

>>11647872
>>11648186
>Os Lusíadas on his shelf
does our guy saddler know a bit of portuguese?

[Anonymous No.11649032]

>>11648480
Hard to find for most books, e-book is usually the only option.

[Anonymous No.11649192]

>>11643467
>not having a house
>not having a library in your house

why live?

[Anonymous No.11650045]

>>11646534
Where. Im what anon calls ebookfag itt, and I have about three times that. Not counting those I can't shelve.

[Anonymous No.11650051]

his age and that he hasn't read them all is pathetic

[Anonymous No.11650156]

>>11643435

>tucking your shirt into your belted jeans

why do americans do this?

[Anonymous No.11650322]

>>11643435
I have at least trice the amount of books in my house library, but they are not presented nor arranged in a way as neatly as his, some are on the base floor bookshelf, some on my room bookshelf, some on living room bookshelf, etc.

hope you guys enjoyed my blogpost, hit me up with any questions or in case you think i'm blowing smoke up your ass and you need evidence

[Anonymous No.11650467]

>translations

[Anonymous No.11650594]

>>11650322
Book pics or gtfo

[Anonymous No.11650650]

>>11643644
so use memory techniques to focus attention and improve retention, and also so you're not dependent on the physical aspect of a book. sure, physical books are ideal, but digital books are so much more convenient and resourceful. and i'm not talking about e-ink readers - their user experience is terrible.

[Anonymous No.11651116]

>>11648513
>Ancient and modern sources identify several possible occasions for the partial or complete destruction of the Library of Alexandria.[25]
During Caesar's Civil War, Julius Caesar was besieged at Alexandria in 48 BC. Many ancient sources describe Caesar setting fire to his own ships[26][27] and state that this fire spread to the library, destroying it.[27]

[W]hen the enemy endeavored to cut off his communication by sea, he was forced to divert that danger by setting fire to his own ships, which, after burning the docks, thence spread on and destroyed the great library.
—Plutarch, Life of Caesar[28]

>5th century scroll which illustrates the destruction of the Serapeum by Theophilus
The library seems to have continued in existence to some degree until its contents were largely lost during the taking of the city by the Emperor Aurelian (AD 270–275), who was suppressing a revolt by Queen Zenobia of Palmyra.[32] During the course of the fighting, the areas of the city in which the main library was located were damaged.[16] Some sources claim that the smaller library located at the Serapeum survived,[33] though Ammianus Marcellinus wrote of the library in the Serapeum temple as a thing of the past, destroyed when Caesar sacked Alexandria.[34]

>n AD 642, Alexandria was captured by the Muslim army of 'Amr ibn al-'As. Several later Arabic sources describe the library's destruction by the order of Caliph Omar.[39][40] Bar-Hebraeus, writing in the 13th century, quotes Omar as saying to Yaḥyā al-Naḥwī: "If those books are in agreement with the Quran, we have no need of them; and if these are opposed to the Quran, destroy them."[41] Later scholars are skeptical of these stories, given the range of time that had passed before they were written down and the political motivations of the various writers.[42][43][44][45][46]

Somehow retards will still blame muh christianity.

[Anonymous No.11651122]

Anyone who says that digital books are better is in denial, you can't compare having library of books in your shelf to having library of books in tablet or other device. Or searching books in bookstore to searching books in webpage.

[Anonymous No.11651138]

>>11648465
My local library has shitty YA readind and promoting female stuff, barely any classics of the ancient world (not even GIbbon), no classic history books only modern interpretations and is heavily politically biased without any serious chritian works (they didn't knew who dostojewski is) openly promoting islam instead in the west.

No thank you, I rather save up and invest in old books rather than to liquify my brain in (((public libraries))).

[Anonymous No.11651146]

>>11650322
>some on living room bookshelf
Sure way to destory our books long term.

[Anonymous No.11651176]

>>11651122
Honstey, most people do it because they rather not invest their spare moey into books as they don't know where to get their books cheap. I got most of my nearly 1K hardcover classics for under 2€ during the last 10 years in which I have been "collecting" them, Some of them so old that they are the only version in existance.

I like to think of myself as rescuing them and giving them the possibility to have multiple life through my family, as they will be given on to my children and they will grow up with them and start to cherrish their works early. One bonds with good books. If you encounter them years later you touch their spine and feel nostalgic about where and when in your life you read them how they changed you through your thinking and which path you have taken afterwards. Books are friends. Ebooks are like chatbots. Noone really puts value in them, and if they do, they will get them bound.

In short, it's the coping of cheap people which don't understand that they don't really save through not buying books. The only excuse are third world people literally unable to get and afford physical copies.

[Anonymous No.11651231]

>>11643435
He seems like a good guy.
I wanted to call him a pseud but as I watched the video, the more I liked him. He strikes me as the sort of guy who doesn't say very much but if you let him talk, he will.

[Anonymous No.11651249]

Anyone know where to get his "Old Western Culture" course? It seems pretty expensive at $199 a hit.

[Anonymous No.11651263]

>>11643450
USB don't work when the sun EMPs us soon. I'll be in my bunker reading then while you're out in the world foraging for berries.

[Anonymous No.11651288]

>>11651176
Well I was being provocative. I have nothing against digital books. I personally like looking trough bookstores, flea markets and such, and have found great deals and cheap classics. Different strokes for different folks. Best thing is find intresting book you don't know, buy it for cheap, and read it. I've had surprising reading expiriences with this method.

[Anonymous No.11651321]

>>11651288
I like to pick a topic for a couple months and order the cheapest used books on it in my favourite antiquariate bookshop. Obviously you don't pick the clear trash but most topics have thousands of vintage books on it which are still at least 90% acurate despite the science having gone foreward in the last 200 years, so it's a great and cheap way to get a broader horizon. If one pays around 0.25€/ book there is also no pain ins getting 2-3 which one can still donate to a public bookcase.

[Anonymous No.11651361]

>>11643604
A usb drive is still pretty fuckin' material.

[Anonymous No.11651487]

>>11651321
Yeah it's great way to broaden your views. Personally I don't pick certain topic, I just see intresting looking book, read one page from beginning, middle and end. And decide is it worth the purchase.

[Anonymous No.11651554]

>>11643435
From a collection of a deceased pulp superfan/hoarder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4rkeuW8W-U

[Anonymous No.11651565]

>>11643450
I wouldn't read if I had to do it on a screen all day.

[Jeff Mangum Died For Your Sins !rAl8Mz2mp2 No.11651592]

>my nephew was given a cheap chromebook by his school and has to do all of his reading on a screen
How do we stop the LCD menace?

[Anonymous No.11651617]

>>11651592
>school is activly degenerating the childrens ability to retain read knowledgs
It's like the stupid gadget-thirsty cunts in the school are not qualified to teach your kids in the first place.

[Jeff Mangum Died For Your Sins !rAl8Mz2mp2 No.11651627]

>>11651617
He was moved from a Baptist school that taught him poetic meter, cursive, and prescriptive grammar, to a "progressive" school that teaches him programming because programming is a more useful (i.e. marketable) skill. It's all part of this stupid fucking cult of productivity.

[Anonymous No.11651630]

Whats the point of amassing large libraries? Pseud-credit? Purely aesthetics? You could not read all those books in a life. Get a life, virgins.

[Anonymous No.11651634]

>>11643435

boring books the video

>physical copies

reading epubs from my laptop is the most comfy experience

[Anonymous No.11651662]

Feel real bad for all you pseuds who have to face the shelves of books you don't read everyday.

[Anonymous No.11651667]

Whats the point of amassing large libraries? Pseud-credit? Purely aesthetics? You could not read all those books in a life. Get a life, virgins.

[Anonymous No.11651670]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGwqYzuTnik

[Anonymous No.11651672]

>>11651627
Disgusting. But if his parents don't see the benefit in homescholling there is nothing to be done. At least it's legal in muttland unlike in europe where you get harder sanctoned for it than for bombing a christmas market.

[Anonymous No.11651699]

>>11643435
>live across the street from a library growing up
>have this without having to purchase a single book
Not hating on the guy OP posted though. If you have the money, why not? People spend money on way dumber shit.

[Anonymous No.11652169]

I used to be someone who would swear on his ebook and the thousands of books on the sdcard. But over time I became increasingly annoyed by one thing: the battery.
In the beginning I shrugged it off eveytime I wanted to read but the ebook was dead, thinking to my self "just start charging it more often", but over time the battery seemingly got worse and sometimes there is no place to charge (eg travelling).
So i made the switch back to physical books, and its not bad. I get to be more conscious again about which book to bring with me and i like the feelingn when i finish a book and i turn the last page.

[Anonymous No.11652619]

>>11646362
Looks like a Dictionary on Tolkien.

[Anonymous No.11652630]

>>11646684
I'm a historian, so "Christianity is part of history and therefore necessary for understanding the world today" is accurate for the subjects I work on. It's also interesting.

[Anonymous No.11652631]

>>11652169
I need to be disconnected from the abundance of choice a digital device gives you in order to concentrate. E-readers are better than laptops when it comes to this, but I still get too distracted by all of the other books on my kindle

[Anonymous No.11652845]

>>11651592
>How do we stop the LCD menace?
I've found that owning bookshelves encourages the consumption of physical books.

[Anonymous No.11652967]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-KB0XCrzPM

[Anonymous No.11652978]

>>11646734
>So what? You don't need to know Newton's thoughts on theology in order to understand calculus

[Anonymous No.11653048]

>>11646362
The Four Loves is the only good book in that picture.

[Anonymous No.11653099]

>>11643435
I like his library, and wouldn't mind having tea with him and discussing western civilization. That said, his library is lacking in fiction.

[Anonymous No.11653265]

>>11643435
>tracing the leaves of time

Cringe

[Anonymous No.11653292]

>>11643626
>It's unlikely you're going to read them all again.

Books you won't reread aren't worth owning.
That said, you can have a massive home library made up entirely of books worth rereading.

[Anonymous No.11653387]

>>11653292
>Lets capitalist's definitions of worth dictate what he should or should not keep

oh my

[Anonymous No.11653469]

>>11643435
>tfw you will never be smart enough to understand and appreciate them

[Anonymous No.11653776]

>>11651146
how so?

[Anonymous No.11653871]

>>11653776
The pressure from the weight will bend the spin over time, pic related. This bending will tear the firt page and show the inner binding, making it only a matter of time till page after page will fall out.

[Anonymous No.11653906]

>Any poor people in the crowd tonight?
>No, nobody?
>Fuck it, I'm gonna make fun of you anyway cause you all seem to be acting like the poor.

[Anonymous No.11653913]

>>11643435
>"this is my favorite
>...see how worn it is?"
/lit/ eternally btfo

[Anonymous No.11653933]

>>11653913
pedant. doesn't appreciate the aesthetic of books. lets even his favorite go to hell because only knowledge is sacred - though you'd never hear them say that.

[Anonymous No.11654349]

>>11644767
when you need to cite the page number just do a verbatim google books search

[Anonymous No.11654364]

>>11651630
>You could not read all those books in a life.
at a book a week you could finish those in a decade or two. but many of those are purely for reference too

[Anonymous No.11654557]

>>11651630
>You could not read all those books in a life. Get a life, virgins.
Have your (you) but try harder next time.

[Anonymous No.11654637]

>>11651249
I would buy it if it was $120 for all 4 courses.
$199 per course just seems like too much.

[Anonymous No.11654770]

>>11643472
>not pirating ebooks, printing them out, then bringing them together

[Anonymous No.11654775]

>>11654770
I meant binding
I’m currently posting on a phone in a comfy chair :3

[Anonymous No.11654819]

>>11651667
>Purely aesthetics?
what's wrong with this?

[Anonymous No.11654831]

ITT: back in my day...

go to bed gramps. all the reasons for liking physical books are starting to sound like old people telling you why they like dialling telephones and avoiding self- checkouts

the future is now old man