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Anonymous Tue Dec 22 20:49:56 2020 No.17095601 [Reply] [Original]

Like 75% of the books on my shelf are unread (225 out of 300). What about you lads?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 21:12:39 2020 No.17095826 >>17095601 I've read 30 out of 668 so... yeah

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 21:33:20 2020 No.17095964 >>17095826 anon wtf

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 21:36:40 2020 No.17095980 >>17095601 I caught up on my backlog over the course of the pandemic (25-30 books), actually. I just bought 5 books for the holidays that I'll start on soon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 21:37:30 2020 No.17095984 >>17095601 I've read about 90% of mine, about ~250 books

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 21:56:07 2020 No.17096085 >>17095826 no way. take pics i want to see your shelf.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 22:06:06 2020 No.17096132 >>17095601 nope books don't go on the shelf until they're read (reference books excepted)

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 22:27:49 2020 No.17096261 >>17095601 Dont you feel like an imposter by having all those unread books on display.

Anonymous Tue Dec 22 22:32:37 2020 No.17096285
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This fucking stack has been sitting here on my desk since December 2019. I‘ve read only The Stranger, Crash, and am currently running through Infinite Jest just because I can pretend it‘s the equivalent of three books.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 22:34:04 2020 No.17096292 File: 1.01 MB, 3088x2320, 05E1D8D2-6EEB-4F39-980C-A044DBFC0924.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17096285 That pic isn’t upside down on my camera roll

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 22:36:31 2020 No.17096304 >>17095601 >>17095826 cringe

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 22:38:13 2020 No.17096312 >>17095980 How much do you read per day?

Anonymous Tue Dec 22 22:40:14 2020 No.17096322

I might had read like 20% of the books i own, but i need to have them in mi library in case they run out of stock and in case i need to read them in the momento and there is no time to buy. This will get worst over time, since i buy books way faster than i can reas them. C'est la vie

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 22:43:07 2020 No.17096340 >>17095601 How do you guys do with poetry? I mean, I rarely read them cover to cover.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 22:46:13 2020 No.17096358 >>17096285 normie gtfo

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 23:03:41 2020 No.17096499 >>17096261 they are in my room and no one goes in my room except me so they aren't really in display

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 23:44:05 2020 No.17096726 When someone recs me a book I buy it (or cart it) and eventually will get around to reading it. 200 down 100 to go.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 23:50:02 2020 No.17096750 My shelf is probably 30% read a lot of books are my wife's that I will never read. Between the two of us maybe 50-60% read

Anonymous Tue Dec 22 23:53:11 2020 No.17096763

About 40% is unread. I tend to buy books on different themes when I see them because I enjoy reading multiple similar books in a row. It's much easier to gradually obtain them from thrift stores than it is to buy them new before starting the reading adventure. However this system is starting stop because I've completely run out of shelf space and don't want to spend my life dodging piles of books on the floor.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 01:31:34 2020 No.17097282 buump

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 02:03:38 2020 No.17097391 >>17095601 I have read or am reading every book I bought except one which i accidentally ordered.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 06:51:25 2020 No.17098358 >>17096340 You stop caring about completionism or numbers. I have a ton of anthologies/"complete works" where I don't read every bit of it. Doesn't bother me because I'm not an autist.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 06:52:32 2020 No.17098364 >>17097391 >except one which i accidentally ordered title? And will you give it a try?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 07:15:46 2020 No.17098434 I have like 10.000+ books on my calibre library. Only read 50 books so far.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 07:49:20 2020 No.17098569 >>17098434 see >>17096304

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 08:03:56 2020 No.17098655 Unless I REALLY liked a book and plan on re-reading it in near future, I put everything I finished on sale, so my shelf is almost entirely unread

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 08:09:23 2020 No.17098680 >>17095601 17/36. 47ish percent finished? I expanded my backlog of classics recently after looting a used book store and haven't got around to reading a lot of them.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 08:11:38 2020 No.17098694 >>17098680 also worth mentioning like >>17096750 some are my girlfriends Stephen King or Harry Potter i will never touch.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 08:15:51 2020 No.17098726 3/3 read

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 08:19:51 2020 No.17098752 >>17095601 77/92

Anonymous Wed Dec 23 08:22:13 2020 No.17098769

>>17095601
Quantity of books you read doesn't matter. Stop thinking in those terms. Several important books were the written sayings of illiterate men. What matters is your mind. Did you enjoy what you read? Have you learned things? Has your mind been sharpened? If all you cared about was checking off a list or getting to brag about reading some author (this is an extremely common ego-game on online literary forums) then you might as well go for some low-comprehension, high WPM speedreading strategy.

Anonymous Wed Dec 23 08:36:08 2020 No.17098821
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>>17095601
It got out of hand when I lived round t'corner from the Oxfam bookshop in Headingley.
Since moving to a more working class area there isn't anything good in the charity shops.
Fucking plebs why do we even waste money teaching literacy?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 08:38:25 2020 No.17098829 >>17098821 She has an amazing cock.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 08:42:51 2020 No.17098844 >>17095601 75? 85 for me at least out of 300

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 08:43:58 2020 No.17098851 I've read almost all of my books but finished nearly none of them.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 08:47:59 2020 No.17098869 >>17098851 based

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 08:52:33 2020 No.17098887 >>17098829 can fuck em for like £200 does whoring tours, well, this was before big govt covid lockdowns ended the golden age of tranny sex tourism.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 08:54:58 2020 No.17098895 >>17098887 Where does she live? I'm genuinely getting desperate to have my ass fucked by a tranny.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 11:50:37 2020 No.17099756 >>17096285 lazy australians..

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 11:50:56 2020 No.17099760 >>17095601 0%, started selling off books though since got a kobo so only books I need are ones I can't find for free online, currently got about 80 books left

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 11:52:45 2020 No.17099775 I have boxes of books that I haven't gotten to. A good portion of them are chess and computer science books, but still. My kindle library is also growing with stuff that I'd like to read, but dunno how I will find the time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 12:05:20 2020 No.17099855 >>17099775 >but dunno how I will find the time. probably by posting on a thread on 4chan in which a bunch of people talk about how they buy more books than they read

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 14:20:20 2020 No.17100806 bump

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 14:53:07 2020 No.17101073 >>17095601 about 15% unread I would guess (35/200 roughly). nothing wrong with having extra books to read. as long as you're reading.

Anonymous Wed Dec 23 15:30:15 2020 No.17101339

>>17096312
It varies depending on the week, work, etc. Over the spring/summer I was averaging a book every 5 days or so since things were slow due to the pandemic. I would say I read about 50pp (or whatever's close in terms of chapters) each time I sit down with a book.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 16:04:16 2020 No.17101547 >>17095601 I haven't finished one book yet and that's it but I don't own many physical books. I pirate them for the most part and only download what I will start reading in the next day

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 16:05:56 2020 No.17101556 >>17101339 How do you retain information? I'm reading exclusively non-fiction and it's hard to read more than 10 pages. Do you stop and take notes every once in a while?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 16:20:58 2020 No.17101649 413 books, 103 fully read, 36 half-read. Being generous to myself, that's 66%.

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