/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2472086]

jelly of my library /lit/?

post your dream library/reading space

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[Anonymous No.2472096]

Concerned about the safety of that ladder OP.

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[Anonymous No.2472118]

Threads like these show exactly how /lit/ cares more about having books (and showing them) than they care to read them.

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[Anonymous No.2472122]

Should I go to this place while I'm in Paris?

Shakespeare and Company.

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>>2472122
Fat tourist.

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>>2472118
shut up. its just that we like to read in cool locations alright?

[Anonymous No.2472131]

>>2472127
I'm 6'2, 67kg

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>>2472122
yeh there's really cute nery girls there that'll lust for ur cock if you show them your booksmarts

[Anonymous No.2472139]

>>2472131
FUCK MAN, I THOUGHT I WAS UNDERWEIGHT AT 6"4', 75KG.

[Anonymous No.2472140]

Powell's in Portland.
It's endless. It almost makes me tear up thinking about it.

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>>2472139
INVERSE THE " AND ', THANKS.

FUCKING AMERICAN SYSTEM SUCKS ANYWAYS.

[Anonymous No.2472160]

My goodness, some of these are absolutely breathtaking. I go to sleep thinking about having a place like this to read.

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>>2472139
4 feet 6 inches wat

[Anonymous No.2472174]

I seriously wouldn't leave.

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>>2472118
Of course people like being able to display their books. There's something really satisfying about looking at a full bookshelf and thinking "I've read all that" and there's something really nice about being able to read in an aesthetic environment with your past achievements around you.

[Anonymous No.2472177]

That looks like an old 386 laptop I have

[Anonymous No.2472182]

OP, I like your laptop the most. <3

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>>2472120
would definitely rape

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>>2472116
>>2472111
>>2472098

Oh god those views

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>>2472264
If you can't tell, those pictures are either partially or entirely computer generated.

[Anonymous No.2472343]

http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html

infinite library > *

[Anonymous No.2472355]

>>2472139

Underweight bros?

6ft on the dot, 61kg.

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>>2472355
Damn, got eat something before you float away.

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[Anonymous No.2472378]

People posting pictures of beautiful libraries make me laugh, because my personal library is my entire house. I'd hate to have all my books confined to a single room.

Not to mention I'm more or less shit poor and I'd never be able to afford a room big enough to hold them all *sob*

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>>2472374

I just ate a huge fucking stake with a load of Baked Potatoes. I exercise, but not enough to burn of all this food. And yet I haven't gained weight for the last three years. The mind boggles.

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>>2472380
Not to derail the thread, but I share your dimensions. I look like Christopher Bale in "The Machinist". shit sux bro.

[Anonymous No.2472386]

Library fetishization is an extension of book fetishization which is a barbarism.

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>>2472384
The Machinist was an awesome film just saying. It did Fight Club better than Fight Club.

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>>2472355
i'm 6''2'/6''3' 120/130lb

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>>2472406

Shit man, that's like 58kg ... fuck ...

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>>2472405
thats fine for coffee table books, but paperbacks? nah

[Anonymous No.2472427]

>>2472412
I DON'T THINK THEY REALISE THAT BEING THAT LIGHT (AS A MALE) IS NOT GOOD

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>>2472427

>>2472355 here

I'm not underweight by choice ...

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>>2472436
Eat tuna every day.

[Anonymous No.2472453]

Ideal room, I like messy cozy shit

[Anonymous No.2472462]

>>2472453

I agree, but what the fuck is that table on the lower left corner?

[Anonymous No.2472468]

>>2472118
Not really - it's just that threads like these attract all people. Everyone here reads. You get maybe one major one of these a night, then we get back to discussing books.

That said, I wouldn't scorn having an interest in books as physical objects. There's a real craft and history to books that may well be dying out, so it's nice to see this kind of thing get discussed.

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>>2472436
Even so, dude, you might have a problem.
Consult an endocrinologist. I'm serious.

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>>2472462
Why, the wiccan magic table from the looks of it.

But that room has so much potential comfy...

[Anonymous No.2472571]

Replace that floorbook with a Kindle, throw away the giant egg and it's done.

[Anonymous No.2472588]

>>2472398
Jew detected.

[Anonymous No.2472605]

Inside the Steinway (piano maker guy) mansion.

[Anonymous No.2472617]

>>2472605
>that feel when always a mere step away from a plunge into death near a bookcase full of existentialism

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>>2472617
I like to read dangerously.

[Anonymous No.2472631]

>>2472622
>that feel when reading existentialism in a crowded train so you sort of uncomfortably but cool and casually lean against the door, aware of your mortality

[Anonymous No.2472633]

>>2472571
devoid of humanity

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>>2472633
That changes soon enough when there's people in it, innit?

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>>2472633
>not practising for post-humanity

lol

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>>2472428
where in the shitballs can I buy these. that is fucking brilliant

[Anonymous No.2472793]

>>2472790
nevermind, i was able to internet it

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2472812]

>>2472095
Over a fireplace? Bad idea.

>>2472098
Almost cozy, but too angular. I hate modern

>>2472108
This guy doesn't read any of those

>>2472111
...I'll take that

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>>2472621
This makes me sick to my stomach.

Damn my fear of heights.

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>>2472653
We

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>>2473161
both asked for

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>>2473172
this.

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>>2473174
lyl

[Neutral Milk !Hotel10Eto No.2473192]

I already have the perfect chair
Fuck yeah, eames chair

[Anonymous No.2473202]

Get out of here, Jensen.

[Anonymous No.2473225]

>Adam
>JC
>Paul

Guys, I think I'm on to something here..

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>>2473225
>Alex
ffs.

[Anonymous No.2473270]

I'm not big into books

[Anonymous No.2473285]

Is it wrong that I think about how awesome it would be to have sex on that couch?

[Anonymous No.2473286]

>>2472621

Pretty sure I'd piss myself with excitement in there.

And set up a tent to just move in there.

[Anonymous No.2473288]

>>2473285

Now I'm thinking about it too. It'd be awesome.

[Anonymous No.2473291]

>>2472086
>unnecessary danger
A laughably stupid design for a personal library. One misstep on the ladder and you'll suffer death or serious injury.

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2473294]

>>2473285
Excellent setup

[Anonymous No.2473296]

>>2473291
It's very true. Some of these libraries are designed to be used only with all the lights on, and in a sober mind, and when the hell am I ever going to be both sober and alert in my life? Very often, but my point still stands

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>>2473296

This. Some of the best reading sessions begin with a friend and a bottle of vodka. Plus, you have to account for when you're and old fart or have a friend or relative over with limited mobility.

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>>2473192
That looks comfy as fuck. I'm jelly. ;_;

How many hours a day do you spend in that with a good book?

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>>2473361
2-4, depending on how busy I am, how much work I have for college, whether or not I go to the gym on that day
Reading is nice, especially with a good chair and some natural light

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>>2473372
jesus that cat is huge. what do you feed him?

[Anonymous No.2473394]

>>2473390
OTHER CATS

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>>2473394
oh no ;_;

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>>2473372
That is one good looking cat.

[Anonymous No.2473534]

Mine, along with my house, would be composed of very few rooms, but a shitload of dense garden. Post-modern embellishments, but with a minimalist feel. I would have a bedroom, bathroom, library and kitchen, all open to the outside in some way. That'd be it - the rest would be garden, water fountains, pagodas, useless porticos and shit like that.

I'd want it in a place where rain was very common too.

[Anonymous No.2473695]

>>2472086
kindle + comfy couch.

[Anonymous No.2473699]

This, basically

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCoJXqGn_kg

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>>2473192
Glorious. What did you pay for it?

[Anonymous No.2473826]

My great grandfather left his house to his 12 grandchildren when he died. By the time I was born, it had been tidied and cleaned a lot, but hadn't lost that comforting clutter it had in the old photos. Piled up on shelves and hanging from the ceiling, rusted old harpoons and glass buoys and lanterns. Hanging from the ceiling, near the potbelly stove

A good third of the house was taken up by the game's room, which consisted of a full-sized pool table and a dart board. There was no way to move the pool table into the finished house, so the house was built around it. It was at that table, lining the coloured snooker balls and pushing them into each other, that I began to learn of things such as the conservation of momentum, friction, elastic and inelastic collisions, all my little experiments to see how things worked. I got excited before my first science classes in school, only for me to find that I knew all this physics already.

My first visit there was before I could remember. There is a video of my asking, in that way toddlers do, to be escorted past the gorse and prickles and bees, to the beach so I could play in the sand and the sea. Using the few words that I knew at the time, I succeeded in getting my point across. "Hand! Hand! Beach!"

[Anonymous No.2473829]

The place was sold when I was 12 years old. Out of the 12 people that had a share, only a few wanted to keep it, including my mother. It was sold, and all the wonderful stuff that my grandfather had collected was sold or given away. I got the pool table's scoring board and a stuffed pufferfish nobody wanted. My parents have a glass buoy.

My parents spent the $50,000 we got from the sale of the house on a trip to and around Europe. That trip was amazing, moving between Paris, Venice, Rome, Athens, and a Greek island called Santorini. I still don't know what I would have preferred. I know I miss that place, and I wouldn't have missed a trip to Europe had it never happened.

My ideal reading place would be there again. If I can ever afford it, and it's on the market, I'll buy it again and live there. If I can do that, and spend the last 10 or so years of my life reading, picking up harpoons and lanterns and buoys from the sea, and living in that house, any other failures or successes of mine will be secondary.

[Anonymous No.2473835]

>>2473826
>>2473829
reminds me of a john crowley short story. "her bounty to the dead". it's fucking great. anyway, good posts.

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>>2473826
>>2473829

What is this from?

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>>2473869
I wrote it when I saw this thread. Thought a description might be more relevant to this board than a picture.

>>2473835
Thanks.

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>>2473829
>>2473826
'this is why i come to /lit/' he said, brushing away a tear

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>>2473879

Very well written, although I'm probably not qualified to judge.

[Anonymous No.2474030]

This is one of my favourite buildings.

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>>2472118
that's kinda true, I remember posting my collection and all i got was damn those are ugly books and wow whats your "reading space" like lol my reading space is the world

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>>2472122
It's certainly worth a visit

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>>2474053
Are the hipsters included with the library?

[Anonymous No.2474068]

>>2474049
Who the hell buys those fancy Chesterfield's and doesn't have the common sense to use a coaster instead of randomly placing a glass on top of a book.
>Mfw

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2474077]

>>2474058
Just another example of there being no such thing as "hipsters"
They're models dressed up as bookworms.

[Anonymous No.2474088]

>>2474077
If they're consciously dressing and partaking in non-mainstream material for the sake of it, they're hipster

[Anonymous No.2474418]

>>2474077
>bookworms
>suspenders, bowtie and two tone shoes

Nope, they're models dressed up as hipsters.

[Anonymous No.2474421]

>>2474068
A clean, dry glass of scotch poured by yourself in a neat fashion doesn't require a coaster.

[Anonymous No.2474495]

moar

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>>2474495
Aight, here we go...

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>>2474512
Oh God yes, glorious, delicious minimalism!

[Anonymous No.2475229]

2deep4u

[Anonymous No.2475264]

>>2474521
Who does those shitty designs and gets paid for it?

[Anonymous No.2476766]

bump

[Anonymous No.2477260]

>>2475264

Someone with far more business sense, and far less utilitarian desires than any of us. It's the exact same shit as the people who design logos.

I have a friend who has a masters thesis in some shit involving geometric patterns and symbolism. Neat, but way 2deep4me. He is making more money per year drawing up logos in his spare time and submitting them for review than he is teaching. The more garish and retarded the shit, the faster it sells. None of the stuff he makes requires more than a high school education and a basic understanding of photoshop. As long as its suitably outlandish and 'unique' someone is going to be willing to drop a fortune on it.

[Anonymous No.2478395]

This plus my kindle.