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>23% of my books are from Penguin Books

>> No.11962027

Anyone who doesn't buy non-translated works from Penguin is a turbo-pseud.

>> No.11962031
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>69% of my books are from NYRB

>> No.11962058

>>11962017
Other %77 from other branches of the same parent company.

>> No.11962064

>>11962031
I hate this sorry excuse for a man. He is so sun deprived it sickens me.

>> No.11962066

>>11962058
>%77

>> No.11962069

>>11962031
What's with all the occult idols and pedophile statues on his shelf?

>> No.11962076

>>11962069
there was a human skull there one time but it must have been removed.

>> No.11962085

>>11962017
More than half of my books are YA

>> No.11962099
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I'm from spain. 'Penguin Clásicos" has lots of good books published, and I'm actually surprised at how cheap they are. Marlowe complete works for ~10€? What the fuck.

>> No.11962104

>>11962031
Seriously, what makes a man open his mouth that much? What's the science behind it?

>> No.11962106

>>11962104
someone should post the image about mouth-opening instinct of forfeiting animals
it probably originated on /pol/ to trigger sóybóys, but it's true from an evolutionary point of view

>> No.11962108

100% of my books are from authors.

>> No.11962113

>>11962099
they are the subsidiary of a publishing mega-corporation and those books are mostly public domain. if anything, it should be cheaper.

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>almost entirely Penguin and Oxford World Classics with a bit of NYRB

>> No.11962139

>>11962104
they don't like the way they look and feel uncomfortable smiling
that allows them to circumvent their insecurities and also give the illusion of a personality

>> No.11962143

>>11962108
now that's edgy.

>>11962139
partially true, partially false. >>11962106

>> No.11962217

>>11962017
70% of my books are from penguin though

>> No.11962235

>100% of my books are from project gutenberg and bookz

>> No.11962257
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Reminder that Wordsworth Classics is the cheapest and most patrician

>> No.11962439

>>11962257
Saw some of them with my own eyes yesterday, it was almost unbelievable.

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DOooooooooooooooVER PUbLICATIONS
PATRICIANS UNITE

>> No.11962530

>>11962452
Dover are great. Read most of Plato in the based Jowett translation from them.

>> No.11962561

>>11962027
There's no reason to buy from Penguin when Oxford offers the same product with better notes, more complete editions, and superior supplementary material for roughly the same price and sometimes less.

>> No.11962569

>>11962561
Also, Oxford's books are better built and show less wear and tear after reading.

>> No.11962587

>>11962561
I agree, but
>same price and sometimes less

The Trial by Kafka:
Penguin edition on Amazon: $6.25
Oxford edition on Amazon: $13.53

Where do I buy cheap Oxford books?

>> No.11962641

>>11962587
Amazon. It depends on the book but there've been times when I've seen the Oxford for 3-5 dollars cheaper than the penguin. They're both usually around the same price though.

>> No.11962733

>>11962257
I'm actually tempted to buy some of them. The Master and Margarita and The Iliad at the very least.

>> No.11962740

>>11962452
Dover paper turns brown in six months. Instant patrician collection of hallowed old tomes.

>> No.11962771

>>11962439
But the covers! Ugh... They might as well give us a boring single time cover instead of those ghastly pictures!
I cover my copies with newspapers.

>> No.11962852

>>11962771
The covers are the ultimate pleb filter. If you question their value, access to the canon should forever be denied.

>> No.11962880

>>11962852
No. Just a good piece of art deserve a proper frame, a piece of literature or philosophy that is a distillation of the human intellect, deserves a good cover.
Otherwise I might as well print them on loose sheets of paper and staple them after I'm done reading.

>> No.11962942

>>11962569
>show less wear and tear after reading.
(and that's a bad thing)
You want people to know you've actually read a book you dense fuck.

>> No.11962990

>>11962942
>by all my books second hand at police auctions
>nobody can tell I haven't read them

>> No.11963123

>>11962113
But the translations are not PD.

>> No.11963219

>>11963123
Yeah but I have zero qualms pirating ebooks.

>> No.11963342

>>11962990
>at police auctions
Truly lit and redpilled.

>> No.11963417
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*edits out any mention of Stirner in the book*

heh...nothing personnel egoists....

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>56% of my books are american

>> No.11963469

>>11962104
The same way women pose in pictures in order to appear attractive and available, these men show how docile and quirky they are.

>> No.11964590

>>11962104
the silent scream

>> No.11964863

>>11962031
Who is this guy and what was he holding in the original image

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>>11962017
>13% of my books are Everyman's

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>>11962439
I actually saw this copy of the Iliad in a bookstore today. I was really hoping this one was photoshopped

>> No.11964902

>>11964895
seriously, what's their fucking deal?

>> No.11964973

For some reason I only own kitschy trash in paper while everything else I consider to be worth reading is on my ereader.

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>> No.11965003

>>11962104
IDK the only time my mouth is that open is when im frying on alot of drugs

>> No.11965161

>>11964979
>caring about dead white men
read Settlers.

>> No.11965192

>>11962064
You must be sickened by most people, then.
T. spends at least 4 hours a day outside, shirtless

>> No.11965202

>>11965161
t. let's wallow in the mud of the earth for the next million years under the heel of wahmyn and based brown folks

nty faggot

>> No.11965235

I've got a lot of dover thrift because I'm a poorfag.

>> No.11965924

>>11964895
Truly amazing.

>> No.11966256

>>11964895
The book is being honest, it is full of faggotry. If you cannot stand the cover, do not bother with it.

>> No.11966823

>>11966256
>Illiad
>full of faggotry
No

>> No.11966844

>Not buying all from one publisher and series when possible to have a uniform bookshelf.
I'm stuck with the black spine penguin classics for my nineteenth century shelf, as all my books from that time (~20) are from that series.
They have the best end notes and often the translations on the market.

>>11962257
Their translations are always the worst available though

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>at least half of my books are from Inner Traditions and Sophia Perennis

>> No.11966869

>>11964979
I genuinely really want her to come up me and say that to me, so I can be a condescending cunt in response about her (probably) terrible taste in lit and make her feel as dumb as possible. She wouldn't be able to argue with me as per her ideology as I'm not white or male.

>> No.11966882

>>11962017
81% of my books are from dc comics
the rest are from verso and ak press

>> No.11966887

>>11962017
Can someone explain to me, pleb ESL, the inside meme about Penguin books?

>> No.11966906

>>11963438
kek

>> No.11966923

>>11966869
If you’re not white or male, you’re a loser

Just saying

>> No.11968134

>>11966869
>I'm not white or male
Post a photograph of your feet.

>> No.11968213

>>11966869
I looked up her list and they're about as bad as you might expect.

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>>11968134
You can have one foot. And it’s an ugly one.

>> No.11968686

>>11968327
It could be the foot of a man. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, though. Thanks femanon

>> No.11968692

>>11968686
... wait a second, it's not August 21!

>> No.11968699

>>11968692
>not using the Roman calendar where October is the eighth month
Pleb.