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Anonymous Fri Apr 14 03:42:43 2023 No.21910170 [Reply] [Original]

What % of your /shelf/ have you actually read?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 03:45:53 2023 No.21910181 I swear to god I need to move somewhere without internet. I can actually feel myself taking psychic damage from being on this site.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 03:48:04 2023 No.21910188 >>21910181 Pussy

Anonymous Fri Apr 14 03:48:14 2023 No.21910189

>>21910170
10% read and 25% partially read. I only own around 80 books.
I also only buy 5-10 books per year so it's really about buying books but lack of interest that keeps me from finishing most of them and changing appetites (i've been reading doorstoppers for the last 2 years)

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 03:57:55 2023 No.21910211 Maybe 10%. I only keep things I haven't read yet or am very likely to reread soon on my shelves, everything else goes into storage to make room for more new books.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 03:59:35 2023 No.21910213 95% I buy a lot of books, unread books are a sign of a healthy collection

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 04:13:09 2023 No.21910243 >>21910170 Does kindle count? If so then I have only read like 0.5% of my collection.

Anonymous Fri Apr 14 04:32:56 2023 No.21910301
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>>21910170
>Buying things gives my life meaning.
>The more I own, the more value in my life.
>I cannot imagine living without my consuumables.
And last but not least...
>MuH ShElVeS!!!!1
Come now, anon.
Let's talk about ideas not virtue signal our capitalistic gorging fetishes.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 04:34:49 2023 No.21910304 Just thinking now... do you ask think it's possible to 'be' a Marxist but not a communist? I agree with (my limited understanding of) Marx's focus / obsession on class and class warfare. I just don't see the government as any sort of solution.

Anonymous Fri Apr 14 04:37:26 2023 No.21910312

I have a big box of comics that I got for free that I haven't read because I would have to basically do homework first to follow the story from the middle.

As for my normal books there is only one non-reference book that I haven't read properly.
A self help book about making decisions that I got for free for going to this spiritual center's equivalent to church service. It was just a bunch of very old new age people who had a convoluted mish mash of old spiritual fads strung together haphazardly. The book was repetitive, low content, and kept trying to shill seminars from the mentor of the writer.
This annoyed me so I never bothered to finish the book. But I haven't got around to getting rid of the book.
Everything else that isn't a random comic in my collection is something I have read.

Why would I buy a book if I wasn't going to read it?

Anonymous Fri Apr 14 04:39:46 2023 No.21910318
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>>21910181
Funny.
Just read books and use the internet as The World's Largest Dictionary/Thesaurus!
I.E. use those internet page blocker things. They work great. Esp if you set yourself some really hard text you have to type out in order to turn it off.
I... can't find the exact one I used to use, for free, but blocking any page with 'news' or '4chan' or, at the time, '8kun' or 'whatever' was a great boon to my mental well-being.
Try it, anon.
No point throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 05:41:36 2023 No.21910455 File: 22 KB, 548x491, images (11).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] How do I stop feeling anxious over my backlogs? It leads me to speedrun everything just to try and feel a bit less pressured

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 06:15:38 2023 No.21910516 >>21910170 40% roughly The pad is a different matter.

Anonymous Fri Apr 14 06:19:16 2023 No.21910523

The only point in having a personal library (a lot of books) is as a research tool.
Once you have read a book and do not plan to read it again then you can give it away or donate it.

For any intelligent person, most of the books on their shelf will not be read.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 07:05:58 2023 No.21910634 >>21910170 Was 99%, is now 95 ish%.

Anonymous Fri Apr 14 07:16:05 2023 No.21910654

>>21910304
>I agree with (my limited understanding of) Marx's focus / obsession on class and class warfare. I just don't see the government as any sort of solution.
Dictatorship of the proletariat is not a solution - it's a consequence, like market crash is a consequence of speculation bubble.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 09:38:14 2023 No.21910857 >>21910170 95% I feel anxious when I bought books but lost interest in them, so most of the time I prefer to buy just a few at once. I'm amazed to see some people buying a lot of books at once in stack thread.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 09:38:55 2023 No.21910859 >>21910301 What ideas are there to discuss? Philosophy is useless, ideas are useless

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 09:42:57 2023 No.21910866 >>21910181 skill issue

Anonymous Fri Apr 14 09:48:34 2023 No.21910879
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A home library is not a showcase of books you have read. It's a collection of books you have read and think you will reread in 10 or 20 or 30 years, books that you keep for research purposes (in whatever fields you're interested in, for example I have a lot of history and art books) and also (I'd say the majority) should be books you want to read at some point.

Anonymous Fri Apr 14 09:59:14 2023 No.21910894

>>21910170
Books are not wine. When you finish a bottle it's gone forever. Wine peaks after a certain age at which point you have to drink it. Books do not vanish when you finish them. If every wine bottle refilled itself magically, yes, you would have people drinking everything in the cellar, every day. This analogy is retarded.

Anonymous Fri Apr 14 09:59:45 2023 No.21910897

>>21910211
>>21910213
>>21910243

I love the disparity, its either I have read everything in my collection, or I am on a fraction of it. But I suppose the people saying they've read only a fraction of it probably get books from net sources, which makes it much easier to accumulate books.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 10:24:35 2023 No.21910924 I have 10 publishing houses in my country pinned to my favorite and I check them from time to time. When they have 35-40% off I just buy a bunch of books from them and then in a couple of months I do the same with another publisher.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 10:54:39 2023 No.21910960 >>21910170 >food analogies

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 10:58:29 2023 No.21910967 >>21910960 This nigga eats wine.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 11:14:13 2023 No.21910995 >>21910967 >formerly grapes

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 11:20:14 2023 No.21911003 >>21910170 20 to 25% percent of my 2100 books

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 11:22:03 2023 No.21911009 Probably 10% to 14%. That being said, I have a decent number of anthologies that I use for reference material and never intend on reading the whole way through.

Anonymous Fri Apr 14 11:25:48 2023 No.21911021

>>21910523
>The only point in having a personal library (a lot of books) is as a research tool.
>Once you have read a book and do not plan to read it again then you can give it away or donate it.

>For any intelligent person, most of the books on their shelf will not be read.

Read book.
Finish.
Figure you hot what was available from book.
Give away or sell book.
Remember later some historical thing that was mentioned in book.
Try googling historical thing.
No results.
Have to purchase new copy of book.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 11:56:17 2023 No.21911090 I've read about a third of the 430ish books in my house. I'm working through them at a decent pace I think. I fully intend to try them all, getting rid of the ones I don't like.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 13:36:24 2023 No.21911336 >>21911090 Can u give us a list anon

Anonymous Fri Apr 14 16:29:11 2023 No.21911862

>>21910455
the book i start next is literally just determined by however i'm feeling at that point in time and if i'm not hooked by the first 50 pages (not including intros/prefaces etc.) i just move on to the next

also if you can't even go a month without adding shit to your backlog you're ngmi

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 18:03:47 2023 No.21912317 >>21910170 i agree with the twitterfag desu

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 18:15:19 2023 No.21912371 >>21910181 Same. Fuck, I hate the internet. I wish it could go back to the way it was when I didn't hate it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 18:27:34 2023 No.21912434 >>21910181 larn to don't let yourself get distracted by it

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 18:30:55 2023 No.21912451 File: 991 KB, 664x1010, q23tewq.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Ever since zlib when down I've become paranoid and try to scoop up as many as I can. I've read 25 books so far this year

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 18:40:50 2023 No.21912503 >>21910170 I've read every physical book I have on my shelf. Why else would I have bought it? The only book I have not read is the one I'm currently reading right now.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 18:43:37 2023 No.21912516 >>21911336 It's not an interesting collection unless you're into sci-fi/fantasy. I can take some pictures later if you're actually interested though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 18:53:56 2023 No.21912554 >>21910523 >For any intelligent person, most of the books on their shelf will not be read. Holy brainlet cope.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 19:29:51 2023 No.21912688 >>21910170 I've been banging out my stacks at a decent pace so this sounds feeble to me

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 14 22:54:20 2023 No.21913329 about 70%

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 15 02:24:13 2023 No.21914079 File: 173 KB, 2688x2688, 8098340593850.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I don't get it. Why would you buy a book and not read it? I only buy books specifically when I intend to read them.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 15 02:28:01 2023 No.21914092 >>21910170 Gotta be approaching half now, id say I'm proud at how consistently I've read aside from a few slumps. I guess a bit of burn out is natural with everything

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 15 02:50:20 2023 No.21914172 >>21910170 I own around 300 and not only I'm at 10% at best, but also I don't have any shelf to store them.

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