/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18134552]

>go to "independent bookstore"
>book costs 15$
>go to used bookstore
>book costs 1$ and theirs 3 different copies
who are they trying to fool?

[Anonymous No.18134560]

>>18134552
used bookstores are independent bookstores anon

[Anonymous No.18134579]

>>18134552
*there’s. Maybe the books there have broken English that’s why they sell for cheaper

[Anonymous No.18134582]

>>18134552
>go to library
>it's free
oh wow

[Anonymous No.18134584]

>>18134560
I knew that jackass. my point is the one that really promotes itself with that label is trying to rob you
>>18134579
i loled. fair game

[Anonymous No.18134594]

>>18134582
But you're not allowed to cum in them

[Anonymous No.18134602]

>>18134560
>What is Half Price Books

[Anonymous No.18134606]

>>18134602
Half price books is usually too expensive for me; the average price at mine is $8 per book

[Anonymous No.18134610]

>>18134606
Still, it must be cheaper than anywhere else, right?

[Anonymous No.18134617]

>>18134610
not cheaper than goodwill, but goodwill's selection is shit

usually I can find the book for $3-$6 online so I usually buy them online

[Anonymous No.18134620]

>>18134617
bro if you're gonna get your books online just use libgen and get them for free. what the fuck are you doing...

[Anonymous No.18134623]

>>18134620
I think he means buying physical books online.

[Anonymous No.18134624]

>>18134617
Goodwill usually gets a good haul for me. I've gotten the Complete Works of Shakespeare, the Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, a Herman Melville collection, Ulysses, and more. Each, of course, for $1.

[Anonymous No.18134629]

>burgers have all these options
>still complain

[Anonymous No.18134635]

>>18134629
Where are you? Antarctica?

[Anonymous No.18134650]

>>18134629
Used bookstores are fucking everywhere. Shit, here you can even buy them off the street, basically in bulk

[Anonymous No.18134661]

>>18134635
I live in the middle of the desert. I'm lucky to get the major titles at any price from some local guy who sells imported shit. There is no Goodwill here, either the American store or the literal meaning of the term. I'm no writing from the nearest town, 3 hours away from my home. I will visit the local prostitue, Kinka, after I'm done using this computer. Heard she's good with her tongue.

[Anonymous No.18134695]

>>18134650
I know, but not in my region. I have been living off my inheritance for the last 8 years. I get my stuff from a local man who sells overpriced imported books. I re-read a lot but it has helped me understand more deeply some books that if I had 100s. I know Homer by memory. Dante too.

[Anonymous No.18134722]

>>18134594
Who's going to stop me?

[Anonymous No.18134725]

>>18134722
The libraria's watching angel

[Anonymous No.18134734]

Thriftbooks.com is my go to, then ebay for the ones that are more rare and too expensive on thriftbooks because sometimes those types of books are a lot cheaper on ebay. But for your regular standard books you can get em for $4 each, free shipping on $10+ orders

[Anonymous No.18134736]

>>18134734
Thriftbooks, Ebay, and Abebooks are the holy trinity of online used book shopping

[Anonymous No.18134737]

>>18134736
>Abebooks
pretty based. lots of good shit there. even with cheap shipping from france.

[Anonymous No.18134742]

>>18134736
I've only looked around a little bit on abebooks but haven't really come across too many good deals so far. Seems a little bit more expensive than thriftbooks and ebay

[Anonymous No.18134752]

>>18134623
Ah i am retarded

[Anonymous No.18134762]

>>18134742
But now I'm checking it out again and it actually does seem pretty cheap. Guess it was just whatever books I was looking for before that were slightly more expensive than other places

[Anonymous No.18134763]

>>18134617
you need to go to goodwill every couple of days, they switch out their stock constantly. keep going and you'll come up on something real good eventually
t. works at goodwill

[Anonymous No.18134774]

I bought many fancy hardcovers from some dying collector guy from Florida, including Ibsen's prose plays. Many good editions from the 70s. I regret not buying more from him. RIP.

[Anonymous No.18134815]

nothing
who are they?
why would anyone want to fool?
and not express?

[Anonymous No.18134820]

>>18134763
So you have first dibs on any good book? What's the best book you've found?

[Anonymous No.18134823]

>>18134820
Huck Finn with a Twain signature. $400.

[Anonymous No.18134828]

something can be true
even if it isnt
in fiction

it isnt that serious
to be a conctest its just neat

[Anonymous No.18134829]

>>18134823
No way! Pics plz

[Anonymous No.18134834]

>>18134820
na, bullshit policy makes me wait until the following saturday that anything is priced before i can purchase it.
most expensive books I've seen, although I have no idea how much they sold for, were some really old (150~ year old) bibles

[Anonymous No.18134838]

>>18134552
Those "new" books have cocaine in them, which gives it the distinct flagrance of new books. After you inhale all the cocaine it loses 90% of its value and gets sold for the value of the paper used in the book.

[Anonymous No.18134842]

>>18134829
Here is a photo

[Anonymous No.18134847]

>>18134820
Pics of the bible. It was in german

[Anonymous No.18134854]

>>18134847
One more

[Anonymous No.18134859]

Ill post this too for the sake of posting cool shit. That's all

[Anonymous No.18134877]

>>18134606
>$8 dollars is too expensive

America truly is a third world country

[Anonymous No.18134883]

>>18134877
Burgers are very Jewy with their money. Always looking for the "best value" and sales.

[Anonymous No.18134888]

>>18134877
you're the type who thinks spending 1000 dollars on a phone is ok just because you have the income for it
books relatively speaking can be bought for 1-5 bucks each, and spending more than that (especially if you actually read) can add up. especially if every book you read isn't 500+ pages, it might not be worth it

[Anonymous No.18134893]

>>18134888
>You're the type of person who..

Did i strike a nerve? If you live in a country where you can't afford to buy a book you should just hang yourself

[Anonymous No.18134897]

>>18134888
8 bucks is nothing, faggot.

[Anonymous No.18134954]

>>18134552
Please just buy used books in person, or online via sources besides Amazon. Too much to go into here, but your doing so very directly helps keep the bookselling tradition alive, and helps propagate actual taste down the years.

'Independent bookstores' might as well be Barnes and Noble if they don't have a wide selection of cheap used books. We want to preserve the meaning and tradition, not just the vulgar 'industry'.

[Anonymous No.18134964]

>>18134859
Neat.

[Anonymous No.18134966]

>>18134954
used books are disgusting. some faggot jerked off or took a crap and then continued reading that book.

[Anonymous No.18134995]

>>18134695
Where the fuck do you live? Are you sure the problem isn't the fact that you don't go outside and that you're seemingly fed culture by a strange and mysterious vendor that seems to arbitrarily name his own price? Does he look like picrel?

[Anonymous No.18135044]

Used books here in Sweden cost like $15-20. Sometimes more. I have to order all my books from the UK through Abebooks and pay ~$5 each book and double that in shipping per book.

[Anonymous No.18135047]

>>18135044
Ah, truly first world.

[Anonymous No.18135071]

>>18134883
Why would you want to spend more money for the same product for no reason?

[Anonymous No.18135075]

>>18135071
Because it's peanuts

[Anonymous No.18135112]

>>18135075
$8 is literally twice as much what I pay per book. Since I buy lots of books I would be paying hundreds of dollars more for literally no reason. If you guys like flushing your money down the toilet then knock yourselves out I guess though

[Anonymous No.18135148]

>>18135112
>I buy lots of books

Me too, hundreds of dollars is also peanuts. Sorry you're so poor.

[Anonymous No.18135162]

>>18135047
I never claimed that. We're a banana republic.

I think all the books in my Billy bookshelf have cost me more than $3000 in total

[Anonymous No.18135178]

>>18135162
ffs

[Anonymous No.18135199]

>>18135178
Yeah and I'm going to throw half of them in order to create a bookshelf consisting only of my favorites. Don't have any other hobbies beside reading and doing drugs so in the end it's quite a cheap hobby as long as you have a job.

[Anonymous No.18135221]

>>18135148
For literally no reason, not even convenience reasons, to waste hundreds of dollars makes you a brainlet. Sorry you're a retard. Are you suggesting that I should start paying twice as much money for the same exact book for no reason?

[Anonymous No.18135304]

>>18135221
Yes

If i'm standing and browsing a section and i find a book i like that cost 8 dollars i'm not going to the trouble of finding it cheaper another place and spend my time doing that.

This is a thought-process a poor person cannot understand. Again, sorry.

[Anonymous No.18135317]

>>18135304
That book is half the price and in my pocket at all times, sorry you can't understand that brainlet

[Anonymous No.18135333]

>>18135317
Oh. You're an E-reader. Sorry again.

[Anonymous No.18136691]

>>18134661
Where on Earth do you live? Mongolia? An Arab country?

[Anonymous No.18136731]

>>18134995
>>18136691
Kazhakhstan

[Anonymous No.18136737]

>>18136731
That's awesome. Are you Kazakh or ethnic Russian?

[Anonymous No.18137125]

>>18136731
I'm surprised. Given the size of the communist-era publishing industry in the former USSR I would have thought that there would be a gazillion pawn shops and used book stores full of old books printed by Progress and the like.

[Anonymous No.18137128]

>>18137125
It's ex USSR, they are all poor

[Anonymous No.18137137]

>>18137128
Even more incentive for poor people to sell their old books for next to nothing.

[Anonymous No.18137145]

>>18134877
>>18134883
you are fucking obsessed

[Anonymous No.18137150]

>>18134842
You know that's fake right? lulz

[Anonymous No.18137158]

>>18137150
It's a photo I took from the search engine.

[Anonymous No.18137180]

>>18137145
struck a nerve, matey?

[Anonymous No.18137183]

>>18137145
And you're fuckin fat

[Anonymous No.18137190]

>>18136737
Russian. Even my name is stereotypically Ivan lol
>>18137125
>>18137137
The problem is foreign-language books. They're harder to come by

[Anonymous No.18137194]

>>18137137
No, therefore they are third world and don't have any books. Decent books are therefore expensive

[Anonymous No.18137202]

If the author is alive, I buy the book used. Fuck their estates and buy used if dead, though.

[Anonymous No.18137206]

>>18137190
How big is the Cyrillic to Latin shift in Kazakhstan? Are people fine with it or will it be a major hassle?

[Anonymous No.18137208]

>>18137194
Americans cry because they have to pay 8 dollars for a book. Sounds like third world to me, too.

[Anonymous No.18137213]

>>18137190
I see.
>>18137194
You don't know what are you talking about.

[Anonymous No.18137217]

>>18137202
So you buy used either way?

[Anonymous No.18137222]

>>18137208
it is third world

[Anonymous No.18137224]

>>18134552
I find the best page of a book I read, cum on the pages, close the book and then donate it to a used book store.

[Anonymous No.18137225]

>>18134834
Just have someone else buy it for you.

[Anonymous No.18137228]

>>18137190
Then why not move to Russia? Do you have citizenship?

[Anonymous No.18137233]

>>18134552
>go to uni bookstore
>$200 per textbook
>go online and buy the "international version"
>$40
Better yet, adobe digital editions for free

[Anonymous No.18137257]

>>18137190
Do you play chess?

[Anonymous No.18137262]

>>18137233
The real pros get them from the library or through interlibrary loan.

[Anonymous No.18137276]

I hate living in a shithole. New books here cost at least 50 bucks, and used ones 20-30. I paid 120 on Infinite Jest... Jesus fucking Christ, the best decision I've made was to learn English and then buying a kindle. If I depended on translations to read I would have given up long ago. FUCK THIS GAY EARTH.

[Anonymous No.18137282]

>>18137222
All of this is sensationalism
>nj tweet
It wasnt justa tweet, it was harassment of a student
>saying im going to shoot up a school
In that manner isnt a joke
>veg garden
Was a dropped case

Etc

[Anonymous No.18137287]

>>18137276
>translations
Well, translations to my native language.

[Anonymous No.18137291]

>>18137276
Argentina? They live in extreme poverty there.

[Anonymous No.18137298]

>>18137282
Is this sensationalism?

[Anonymous No.18137300]

>>18137282
How about this? Is this sensationalism?

[Anonymous No.18137303]

>>18137298
This is idiots, which state is this so i can avois it

[Anonymous No.18137305]

>>18137282
Tell me, is this sensationalism or simply reality?

[Anonymous No.18137308]

>>18137291
Almost.

[Anonymous No.18137312]

>>18137206
It's going slow but steady. As always, old people are the ones who are resisting it the most. I'm an autodicact, so I have embraced it long ago.
>>18137228
In a few years, I will. I have some relatives there but my nuclear family has died. I'm writing poetry in the desert at the moment. Humanity really seems different from a place of relative isolation.

[Anonymous No.18137318]

>>18137308
Isn't there an Amazon Brazil? Is it expensive too?

[Anonymous No.18137364]

>>18137318
80 bananas = ~10% of the minimum salary.

[Anonymous No.18137390]

>>18137364
who cares brole u ballin u have kindle now that means almost any book is easy

[Anonymous No.18137395]

>>18137364
That's like 15 bucks. I had no idea that was a lot in Brazil.

[Anonymous No.18137458]

>>18134594
Yes, you are, if you're homeless.

t. worked at a library, aka a porn repository for the homeless

[Anonymous No.18137464]

>>18134552
>use zlib
>read any book published in last fifty years for free

[Anonymous No.18137465]

>>18137458
I work for a library and it is very depressing, and often suicide appears to be more attractive than working in this job. One might imagine that working in a library entails having a quiet, spacious office in which to organize the library's inner layout, making sure books are ordered and delivered on a timely basis, overseeing new technology being implemented and so forth. I am 40 years old. For thirteen years now I have stood and sat at the front desk of a large urban library whose most loyal denizens are the homeless and the clinically insane. Schizophrenics are drawn here like moths to a flame. Alcoholics come here to snooze and disrupt. Niggers crowd the aisles and spread their toxic subhuman behaviour. I thought I would be advising enthusiastic kids what to read next, or helping elderly peasants become introduced to the world of literature in order to enjoy their final years thanks to the offerings of high culture. Instead I stand silently and alone as my miserable colleagues discuss their boring husbands or browse facebook or holidays websites to look out for the cheapest package deals. I am forced to replace urine-stained seat cushions. Forced to "kindly" "usher" out the bums who vomit on themselves and the constantly wide-eyed middle-aged women who start to scream and talk gibberish at a rapid pace if I approach them and tell them we are closing up. What a pathetic life I lead. I imagined I would be like Larkin, like Borges, like the kind of refined, reserved kind of man whose job allows him an air of mystique and glum erudition. Instead I am no better than a janitor who has found himself at the till of a supermarket. In 2008 I had a brief sexual affair with a student girl who spent a month here as part of her training to become a librarian. We screwed in the storage room several times a day. It was purely physical on her part but deeply emotional on mine. Eventually she realized she didn't want this kind of job and admitted she felt sorry for me and thought fucking me would make me less depressed and her less experienced. She is now working for a marketing company and is earning more than me despite being a member of a different generation. Please kill me. Please. Please. Please God let this be the day I am struck by a truck on my lonesome drive home. Let this be the night the niggers break into my home and garrote me as I lay sleepless staring silently toward the ceiling.

[Anonymous No.18137532]

>>18137465
I read all of this. I am sorry. Please try to find another line of work, perhaps in a completely different country. You may even consider visiting public libraries in another country to see what they can be like.

[Anonymous No.18137581]

>>18134552
>new books cost more
Wow shocking

[Anonymous No.18137792]

>>18134584
>anon discovers marketing

[Anonymous No.18138177]

>>18137208
But we don't have to pay $8, that's the thing

[Anonymous No.18138184]

>>18135333
No, buying the exact same book on a bookmarked page online is a few clicks away at all times. More convenient than going to a store actually

[Anonymous No.18138235]

>>18137465
Why not find another library not in the inner city or a used book store?

[Anonymous No.18138994]

>>18137465
kek holy shit thank fuck I'm not American

[Anonymous No.18140235]

>>18137465
not working at a comfy rural library you failed at life

[Anonymous No.18140289]

>>18138994
You can tell he's not making it up, look at the raw emotion dripping from the post. I would know because I have similar feels breaking my back 60 hours a week at a post office. This country is beyond redemption. Poor guy.

[Anonymous No.18140399]

>>18137465
holy fuck. if your life is that lame and lifeless you should start working out, do drugs, or both.

[Anonymous No.18140470]

>>18134877
>8 bucks is too expensive
I have money but I won’t throw it away on a book for $8 when I can read it for free

would you pay $3 to make a post here because it’s inexpensive? Retard.

[Anonymous No.18140501]

>>18140470
You can "read" it digitally for free but you can't own a physical book for free unless you steal it.

[Anonymous No.18140528]

>>18140501
I’m speaking about libraries, anyone who collects books probably doesn’t care about the money they spend

[Anonymous No.18140531]

>>18140470
poorfags are not human. Do not reply to me, as I will not reply to you any longer

[Anonymous No.18140533]

>>18140528
Oh, alright.
>>18140531
>poorfags are not human
Come on now.

[Anonymous No.18140549]

>>18134617
The secret to getting good books at resale shops is to volunteer there. They only put out bestsellers and college books, and then throw the rest away. I sniped some cool esoteric shit and /lit/core like Pynchon when I was volunteering.

>>18134624
This is what I mean. Resale shops are great if you want classics that are taught in a classroom.

[Anonymous No.18140554]

>>18140549
Also you can go and raid the dumpster of a resale shop. That is another way to find the good stuff. We were throwing out hundreds of books a day.

[Anonymous No.18142342]

>>18140289
>This country is beyond redemption
Or maybe, just maybe, you're just a pathetic loser since you seem to be stuck in that kind of shit job.

[Anonymous No.18142987]

>>18142342
The US Postal Service is the single largest employer in the country, and it's not the only terrible job around. What percentage of the population would you say consists of "pathetic losers?"

[Anonymous No.18143181]

>>18142987
Not everyone is stuck there forever like the seething faggot I replied to. Most of us start off with shit jobs and eventually move on to bigger and better things.

>What percentage of the population would you say consists of "pathetic losers?"
Generally? Maybe ~10%

[Anonymous No.18143366]

>>18137465
Is this pasta? Hope for you it is.

[Anonymous No.18143645]

>>18137465
>admitted she felt sorry for me and thought fucking me would make me less depressed
wow what an angel

[Anonymous No.18143699]

>>18140528
what do you spend your money on?

[Anonymous No.18143714]

>>18143181
>Most of us start off with shit jobs and eventually move on to bigger and better things.
I don't know why you believe that.
>Generally? Maybe ~10%
I think you live in a bubble. Have you ever considered the fact that close to two thirds of Americans do not have even $500 in savings to cover them in an emergency? This country is a much worse place to live than you think it is.

[Anonymous No.18143744]

>>18143645
kek

[Anonymous No.18144164]

>>18143714
Yeah 99% of humans are pathetic losers. And the 1 % is born rich.

[Anonymous No.18144220]

>>18137217

Lol, I meant buy new if the author is alive. If the book sucks then its my fault for being a faggot