/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21308898]

is it smart to arrange your books by color?

[Anonymous No.21308908]

>>21308898
for a woman it's at least some sign of pattern recognition, so yes

[Anonymous No.21308909]

>>21308898
No
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[Anonymous No.21308916]

>>21308898
o ja pierodole ...

[Anonymous No.21308917]

i arrange my books in order of rage i hold against the author for his flaws

[Anonymous No.21308924]

>>21308898
I find it incredibly gay and womanly. I automatically discard the opinions of people who have libraries like that.

[Anonymous No.21309041]

>>21308898
I would assume they had never opened any of those books if I saw that and had just bought a bunch of books at goodwill and brought them home to use as decorations.

[Anonymous No.21309215]

>>21308898
no

[Anonymous No.21309254]

>>21308898
No u sort your books on size, category, or alfabetic

[Anonymous No.21309273]

>>21308898
My books are sorted in random and disorderly stacks, which fall over a lot

[Anonymous No.21309291]

>>21308898
My books are ordered according to how far the strat from the message of the Holy Bible

[Anonymous No.21309403]

Clearly, femininity yearns to distinguish its pleasures by color; which is simply the echo of primitive times when women---who would gather and pick the fruits and berries and so on---were trained by the will of evolution to acquire a skill to distinguish what is ripe and good, or what is unripe, or poisonous by colour.
Women, in arranging their books likewise, are tapping into their femininity and associating it with their reading (which is also unmasculine).
This act, therefor, is the most aggressively feminine expression possible outside of sex, and in this expression womanhood orgasms in its rejuvenation and the breasts are made supple and the vagina made tight, so that the female reader is made more woman than woman, so to speak; and yet, to say that it is the most feminine expression possible outside of sex is misleading, as the feminine form rejoices exactly because it is in its feminine form's mind-sex organ unmanned but orgasming (yes, this is female masturbation! and it is glorious!)
But in the act of reading, it is simply impossible for the male to do the same; for in the act of reading there is nothing he can do to embrace masculinity. He is forced to curl up and read for hours, instead of working or fucking (which is man's primary use) and take the res cogitans which is the semen of the mind into his mind (which, as the analytic-synthetic cock, ought to be masculine; but isn't in reading; for it has been transexed first into a feminine penis by reading, and then into a mangled neovagina). But Socrates knew this, which is why he spurned reading and mocked it (specifically, using our analogy, because it makes the cock weaker, infertile, and dysfunctional two-thousand and four hundred years or so before Viagra was invented); furthermore, Socrates never wrote anything down (which arguably is more masculine than reading, yet this too he also spurned).
Women therefor enjoy the mind sex and energy so imbued by reading and the men who let their women read are made unwitting cuckolds to the mental cock that their women delight in (the author of the book gets off on this especially if they are virgins).
That is my theory anyway.

[Anonymous No.21309405]

>>21308898
Dear God, no - although, strangely, it was one of the most popular ways to organize a library before Melville Dewey (pbuh) came along.
>>21308917
Post shelf

[Anonymous No.21309452]

>>21309405
i don't "shelve" my books, i stack them. as they are orbiting my bed (which is a small futon cushion on the floor) i fear it would be impossible to show you without revealing too much of my life. suffice to say it is quite effective.

[Anonymous No.21309521]

>>21308898
If you want to, its your books. Do whatever you want with them.

[Anonymous No.21309730]

>>21308898
no elo opje

[Anonymous No.21309844]

I will never understand why so many on /lit/ bitch about colour arrangements of the books. In the vast majority of cases there's a girl using this method and in the vast majority of cases their bookshelves are filled to the brim only with YA, netflix novelizations, some feminist crap and/or bootleg scifi written by other girls. Do you guys really think that such a combination benefits somehow from any form of organization? It doesn't make any sense, it's the same shit regurgitated ad infinitum, who the fuck cares about any type of ordering lmaoing so hard rn.

[Anonymous No.21309891]

Arranged it according to how racist it is.

[Anonymous No.21309925]

If you arrange your books by color I assume that you are either a child, a woman and/or you do not read at all. My wife watched this home organization show called Home Edit or something like that. They go into people's homes and reorganize their crap. The show is horrible for multiple reasons but they always arrange things by color and especially books. It maybe makes sense for kids but it's retarded for adults. If I came home and someone rearranged my books by color I would not be happy. Luckily my wife thinks it's retarded as well and also she would never rearrange my things. Especially my books. I arrange my books by general topic and then by author. The size of the book can also play into where it is placed.

[Anonymous No.21309934]

>>21308898
Why do you care about this?

[Anonymous No.21309938]

>>21308898
Yes, absolutely. Most books are decoration and offer nothing of value after you read them. If you want value, you store it in a computer, where is more easy to index it.

[Anonymous No.21309954]

>>21309925
One time my mother in law, a self styled interior designer, came in and suggested turning all of the books around so the spine was in the back and the books would look uniformly white/beige like pic related. I was at a loss for words. I went online to see if this was a thing and sure enough it was. The funny thing is that it became a design trend because designers on tv would turn books around so that the network did not have to get copyright permission for each book to be displayed on the show. Also, I found companies that sold blank books by the foot/meter for this very purpose. People decorate their homes with blank books backwards just for the look. They also sell decorative blank books. Yea.
https://www.etsy.com/market/books_by_the_foot

[Anonymous No.21309964]

>>21308924
>gay and womanly
I love that this is an insult.

[Anonymous No.21309965]

>>21308898
Yes! Women do it all the time and women are very smart.

[Anonymous No.21309980]

>>21309954
God that link is depressing
>these books are intended for decorative use only

[Anonymous No.21309984]

>>21308898
To me it makes it seem more difficult to discern the books from one another if they're ordered by color. (I've never actually done this in my home, and never will, but have seen it done in at least one bookshop. I found that it made browsing the books more difficult.)

>>21308924
I'm not really sure why women have the color coordination obsession that they have. It seems largely pointless.

[Anonymous No.21310005]

The only arranging I do is by series. Might rearrange by genre if I ever move. Color? Never.

>>21309954
Bro, you had me questioning everything for a moment there when I saw the thousands of reviews, but at least the most popular ones are selling actual readable old books. Still a retarded trend. Imagine the embarrassment when you invite someone over and they've read several of your prop books which you can't tell them a fucking thing about.

[Anonymous No.21310024]

>>21309984
>I'm not really sure why women have the color coordination obsession that they have.
See my comment here >>21309403.

[Anonymous No.21310047]

>>21310005
Yes on etsy most seem to be real books by the foot. In a search engine search for books by the foot blank. There are plenty.
https://elawrenceltd.com/shop-our-selections/by-the-linear-foot/

[Anonymous No.21310265]

>>21309403
based effortposter

[Anonymous No.21310346]

>>21309403
BASED! BASED! BASED!

[Anonymous No.21310350]

>>21308898
yeah
white authors on my shelf
black authors on the store shelf

[Anonymous No.21311152]

>>21308898
>sorting your books

[Anonymous No.21311169]

>>21309954
They are selling what could be interesting books as part of decoration

[Anonymous No.21311357]

>>21310005
>Imagine the embarrassment when you invite someone over and they've read several of your prop books which you can't tell them a fucking thing about.
Esse quam videri.
All of this posturing seems so inefficient. Instead of putting all this effort into appearing educated, why not invest the same amount of time into actually educating yourself?
The effect is largely the same and the knowledge you learn is pure profit.

[Anonymous No.21311361]

[Anonymous No.21311450]

>>21309925
>>21309844
You don't like how I've arranged them by color? I put Momsen's Rome next to Harvey because they're both leather octavos.

[Anonymous No.21311466]

>>21311450
>Woman moment.

[Anonymous No.21311560]

>>21308898
Try the Dewey Decimal System instead.

[Anonymous No.21311719]

>>21311560
>Dewey Decimal System
The fuck is that?

[Anonymous No.21311742]

>>21311466
Nta but you seem jealous

[Anonymous No.21312073]

>>21309291
Based

[Anonymous No.21312503]

you won't reread 95% of the books so they are only a decoration. It makes sense to arrange them by colour and the only reason you have a problem with that is your chudism.

[Anonymous No.21312511]

>>21309984
green berry good to eat. red berry good to eat. black berry bad to eat, stomach hurt. me give green and red berry to man, throw away black berry.

[Anonymous No.21312554]

'za on the log

[Anonymous No.21312605]

I have a bookcase for fiction and another for non-fiction.
I go by subject for non fiction then chronological from there.
I organised my fiction novels by nationality of author with a separate shelf for plays and poetry,

[Anonymous No.21312656]

>>21308898
I think its really cool if I had a nice big shelf I'd do it

[Anonymous No.21312811]

>>21309403
>Women therefor enjoy the mind sex and energy so imbued by reading and the men who let their women read are made unwitting cuckolds to the mental cock that their women delight in (the author of the book gets off on this especially if they are virgins).
rings true

[Anonymous No.21312826]

>>21308898
I arrange from least to most antisemitic

[Anonymous No.21312865]

>>21308898
No. Not even if you're a woman and can't help it. Learn to rise above these base womanish instincts. Do better.

[Anonymous No.21313780]

is it smart to arrange your books by color of the author?

[Anonymous No.21313782]

>>21308917
Yall made me lol

[Clyde White No.21313792]

The main reason to own a book is the aesthetic value of the book, otherwise one uses the library or a kindle. With that in mind arranging one’s books my color is artistic and practical unless one has an enormous, academic and personal library

[Anonymous No.21314611]

>>21308898
It really ties the room together