Bookshelf critique thread?

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Anonymous Tue Jul 31 23:39:43 2012 No.2859796 [DELETED]

Bookshelf critique thread?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 23:40:43 2012 No.2859803 Not enough books.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 23:41:43 2012 No.2859811 >ernst junger FASCIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIST!!!!!!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 23:42:43 2012 No.2859814 >>2859803 I don't want to order any more until I finish all of these.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 23:45:46 2012 No.2859825 >>2859811 All Quiet on the Western Front balances things out.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 23:48:38 2012 No.2859837 >buys books >doesn't just go to the library, read them, and then not have to bother with books taking up space, having to pack them up when moving house, etc.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 23:50:33 2012 No.2859843 >>2859837 doesn't like decorations

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 23:52:34 2012 No.2859848 >>2859843 >feels the need to keep books on display as a form of self-branding

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 23:54:36 2012 No.2859854 >>2859837 But without those books of what use would those bookends be?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 23:55:36 2012 No.2859857 >>2859848 ashamed of what he's read

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 23:55:36 2012 No.2859858 Not enough books, as already mentioned. This isn't even a whole shelf.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 23:57:19 2012 No.2859869 >>2859848 >as a form of self-branding I suppose you walk around each day in a nondescript jumpsuit and come home to an unpainted house to cook yourself a tasteless bowl of gruel, all the while congratulating yourself for your virtue.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 23:58:19 2012 No.2859876 Bookshelf critique thread, Critiquing the bookshelf and not the books. "Looks Sturdy" "Needs better LIghting" can't stop Rofl.

Anonymous Tue Jul 31 23:59:19 2012 No.2859880

>>2859837

>doesn't just go to the library, read them, and then not have to bother with books taking up space, having to pack them up when moving house, etc.

I would have to leave my house every time I wanted to read or reread a book. I ordered them online, and they were delivered to my front door, now I have them to read whenever the urge tickles my fancy. You fucking JEW!!!

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 00:04:21 2012 No.2859894

>>2859880
I always have a book (or two) to read whenever it tickles my fancy as well. I take out a book or two from the library and when the fancy tickles me, I pick up one of them and read it. When I'm done, I walk to the library and get another book or two to have around for when I am tickled by the reading fancy.

I don't really see the point of spending all that money on books. Even when I love a book and know I'll want to re-read it, I won't want to re-read for several months at least so why have it sitting around when it can be making the library rounds, being enjoyed by countless others until I want to read it again?

Jew? I'm more of a socialist..

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 00:08:21 2012 No.2859906 >>2859894 >tfw I have to pay $50 an hour to have my fancy tickled by a professional.

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 00:08:22 2012 No.2859905

>>2859894

>so why have it sitting around when it can be making the library rounds, being enjoyed by countless others until I want to read it again

Well, I am making doubly sure that this hypothetical book will be available to the next library goer by not renting it in the first place. Publishers operate on profit which I am providing them.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 00:12:21 2012 No.2859922 >>2859858 >a whole shelf. Shelves vary in length. Suppose those books are gigantic, and that shelf so monumental in size as to make those books appear unremarkable.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 00:22:24 2012 No.2859934 Is Becker any good? I thought of reading some of his stuff once but I got the impression it was just more pseudo-scientific, quasi-psychoanalytic, unsubstantiated anthropology.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 00:28:24 2012 No.2859953 >>2859934 It's an interesting book. I don't take it as gospel. The premise of the book isn't really falsifiable.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 00:32:01 2012 No.2859975 >>2859958 >the gamer bookshelf

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 00:34:59 2012 No.2859978 >>2859958 "This is my virgin shelf."

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 00:39:59 2012 No.2859991 >>2859978 Well, that insult came out of left field.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 00:41:59 2012 No.2859998 >>2859991 Considering what's on the shelf, it's not surprising.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 00:52:03 2012 No.2860022 File: 103 KB, 652x571, wizzads.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2859958

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 00:57:02 2012 No.2860044 File: 17 KB, 600x324, l.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2859958 jesus that is atrocious..

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 01:00:02 2012 No.2860051 >>2859958 Christ, I remember that shelf. You've been here a long time, man.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 01:00:03 2012 No.2860053 >>2860022 Why did you save that. I don't get it, like...the whole joke is that he's stupid and black?

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Anonymous Wed Aug 1 01:01:03 2012 No.2860062

>>2859958
>series. series everywhere
Is it just me or does anybody have an aversion to books that are in series? I somehow feel as if I'm being cheated if an author stretches the premise for so many books.

Strangely, I feel differently about books split into volumes.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 01:01:03 2012 No.2860064 >>2860053 I guess the joke is that he is outside of cultural expectations. He's not terribly stupid. The author might be.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 01:02:04 2012 No.2860068 >>2860056 I'd hate to jump to conclusions over the fact that you own Lolita, but that anime shelf above it...

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 01:03:04 2012 No.2860072 >>2860053 The joke is that the girl doesn't know how to respond to the zany black man who asks for something with magic and wizards ("wizzads"), since it's a popular assumption that zany black men aren't interested in magic and wizards ("wizzads").

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 01:03:04 2012 No.2860075 >>2860062 I don't have the attention span for series. I never made it past the second LOTR.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 01:05:05 2012 No.2860078 >>2860072 That's not a very funny joke.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 01:08:27 2012 No.2860091 File: 18 KB, 274x305, Doctor_Who_reaction_face_8272.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2860053 >the whole joke is that he's stupid and black? >mfw do you even humour?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 01:09:25 2012 No.2860097 >>2860072 Nope. see >>2860064

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 01:12:25 2012 No.2860103 >>2860097 they're saying the same thing please learn to comprehend texts

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>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 01:13:25 2012 No.2860107 File: 988 KB, 1552x1164, eth-deer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2860091

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 01:18:30 2012 No.2860124 >>2860103 they clearly aren't.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 01:19:29 2012 No.2860127 >>2860104 You are a homosexual and a communist sympathizer.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 04:06:17 2012 No.2860478 >>2860104 you tidied up! yay!

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 04:21:20 2012 No.2860494 >>2860104 please stop posting your shitty images, you hipster piece of shit jeg håper du blir overkjørt av en trailer, din dritt

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 04:31:21 2012 No.2860509 Heh, I have 3 large book cases full of books, most of which I've read.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 04:37:21 2012 No.2860517 >reading >a competition pick one

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 04:41:23 2012 No.2860525

>>2859837
>>2859837
My nigga.

Between my e-reader and the library there's rarely a book that requires a purchase. I've also been replacing physical books by e-books, so I have less than 70 physical books left. Feels good to be less weighted down by my possessions.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 04:44:23 2012 No.2860528 >>2860525 Feels bad that bookstores are suffering

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 04:45:23 2012 No.2860531 >>2860509 Your smug demeanor is disgusting.

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 04:48:59 2012 No.2860535

>look at a small selection of my stock of books; aren't they lovely? see how they're all produced by different publishers? yeah - that's because i go out of my way to get a huge array of books from publishers that remain outside of the mainstream. but, seriously, guy, look at my books. see that one on the left? farmer's market, that one. aren't they all so pretty though? oh, books... (lol. you jelly? just kidding :D) anyway, anons, they're just gorgeous books so i thought i'd share them with you all x

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 04:48:59 2012 No.2860536 >>2860525 Fewer than 70.

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 04:49:59 2012 No.2860541

>>2860528
It doesn't. Bookstores are mostly shitty places full of pulp who never have what I want anyway and ask more for books than online stores while having a staff that doesn't know it's shit.

Most people just like the idea of bookstores, which I understand, but in reality they are quite useless.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 04:51:00 2012 No.2860546 >>2860536 Thanks my native speaking friend.

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 04:52:00 2012 No.2860550

>>2860541
I suppose that's true. I buy most of my books online anyway since there's much more choice and its cheaper.

I don't know why Bookstores don't just drop their prices to compete with Kindles and Amazon. Who wants to pay £8 for a book that you could get through in a matter of days or even hours?

>>	mel !!2Wm3Fwc2bfW Wed Aug 1 05:20:04 2012 No.2860588 >>2860075 Only it's not a series, the publisher was responsible for it being split

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 05:49:34 2012 No.2860619 File: 422 KB, 1258x1968, IMAG0442-1-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Shelves are for pussies

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 06:00:05 2012 No.2860636 File: 1.37 MB, 2560x1920, IMG_20120801_115640.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] My entry level bookshelf

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 06:39:59 2012 No.2860693 >>2860619 The money you save by not buying shelves should be put to getting a better camera, nigga.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 06:45:00 2012 No.2860710 >>2860636 Hell yea tad Williams. I have every one of his books.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 06:53:16 2012 No.2860726 Tad WIlliams is a fag brah.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 06:55:17 2012 No.2860731 >>2860636 I have the exact same editions of The Count of Monte Cristo and 1984.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 06:56:16 2012 No.2860732 >>2860619 >Dalí confirmed for shit taste in art

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 06:57:16 2012 No.2860735 >>2859796 I keep books and clothes and shit all in my cupboards, Zizek style.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 07:01:36 2012 No.2860744 am i the only lazy fuck that has his books laying around all over the room wherever they seem to fit?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 07:33:24 2012 No.2860792 >>2860735 He's going to come around any day now to give you a high five, you unbelievable faggot.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 07:38:24 2012 No.2860797 >>2860619 I used my phone. I have no need for a camera at all. >>2860732 pffft

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 07:42:24 2012 No.2860801 File: 935 KB, 2048x1536, IMG_20120801_043942.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just started reading again last semester but I'm happy with my collection so far. 1/2

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 07:46:27 2012 No.2860808
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2/2
I was lucky enough to find a copy of 100 years of solitude in its original language. I'm a Spanish speaker but I'm mostly accustomed to books in English so trying to read it is a little awkward.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 07:53:32 2012 No.2860818 >>2860550 >I don't know why Bookstores don't just drop their prices

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 08:00:30 2012 No.2860826

I just moved house and gave away all my books, including:

Camus
Satre
Chekhov
Hemingway
Pratchett
Asimov
Ginsberg
Bukawski
Keroac
Pynchon
Franzen
Atwood
Murikami
Lawrence
Dickens
Verne
Dahl
Heinlin

Many more, approximatly 200 in total. I left them at an op shop bin, in cardboard boxes, on a night when the rain pissed down. Fuck it felt good. Still don't miss any of them.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 08:03:31 2012 No.2860829 >>2860826 Why? You rid yourself of all your past knowledge, hopes and dreams that came and left. Now it feels good?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 08:05:31 2012 No.2860835 File: 285 KB, 691x520, mfw.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2860826 >gave away all my books >Fuck it felt good.

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 08:06:05 2012 No.2860845
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2/2

The Dedlaus sections are utterly unintelligible without that hefty tome of annotations. To me, that doesn't seem like good writing on Joyce's part. Makes his most prized work inaccessible but to the intellectual elite.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 08:06:31 2012 No.2860840 >>2860829 >>2860835 You guys have a very long way to go.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 08:07:05 2012 No.2860848 >>2860840 And you're a hipster piece of shit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 08:09:03 2012 No.2860853 >>2860845 All the references he makes are obscure to us but would be quite familiar to readers of the time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 08:11:03 2012 No.2860857 >>2860826 Leave them in a place like goodwill or something so people like me can find them. I trawl stores like that for exactly the kind of books you had.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 08:11:03 2012 No.2860858 >>2860848 wow that was very immature of you dude. i have feelings too you know

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 08:13:03 2012 No.2860865

>>2860829
There were so many reasons why it felt good.

destruction, even an arbritrary one like on copy of crime and punishment, as pointless as it is was fun.

Lightening my carry around shit. I didn't want to be collecting shit. I didn't want to be forced to settle because accumulated ballast.

I smoked too much weed for too many years and my memory is fucked so if I wait long enough I can read all those great books again and think it is the first time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 08:14:03 2012 No.2860866 >>2860858 im sry :( x Really though, why did you dump them all like that?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 08:17:05 2012 No.2860876 >>2860857 Op shop is Australian goodwill. Some of them may have survived. It was devine will that determined the fate of the books.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 08:18:05 2012 No.2860877 >>2860853 I can assure you, even in his time the reader had to be ridiculously smart. To get that shit. They might have gotten a stray allusion or two, but overall it was as impenetrable then as now

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 08:25:05 2012 No.2860899 >>2860858 Wow, /lit/ has feelings.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 08:28:40 2012 No.2860912 http://www.gutenberg.org/ Here is my bookshelf

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 08:30:40 2012 No.2860916 you people don't seriously critique book shelves do you? shit, I just place them on by size and genre, I have too many books to worry about aesthetics.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 08:42:28 2012 No.2860946 >>2860525 I thought this was a good idea until my Kindle broke because the screens are so shit. at least if you drop a book the worst that can happen is that you lose one book

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 08:43:27 2012 No.2860949 >>2859796 >Ernst Jünger 10/10 bookshelf OP you deserve a blowjob every time you bat an eyelash. Thanks for not being like the rest of these pansy cunts.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 09:02:29 2012 No.2860982 >>2860911 oh, we have another IRfag don't like your ferris books tho, that guy seems like a total cunt

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 09:19:33 2012 No.2861006 File: 1.78 MB, 3072x2304, S7301721.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2860911 And my "to read" shelf.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 09:20:33 2012 No.2861008 >>2861006 wow did you buy all your books from the same place in the same year?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 09:22:33 2012 No.2861011 >>2861008 I bought most of those on Amazon the other day, for summer. I realised I haven't read many of the classics.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 09:23:33 2012 No.2861014 >>2861008 >scoffing at having many Penguins >shiggydiggy

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 09:26:33 2012 No.2861019 >>2860911 Defense of the Realm, mah nigga.

>>	Andy Wed Aug 1 09:33:35 2012 No.2861037 File: 2.63 MB, 2112x2816, AFewOfMyBooks.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Critique yourselves silly, folks...

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 09:49:25 2012 No.2861068 >>2861037 Agatha Christie? ... dude... srsly... your taste in movies seems to be high-tier though, so I'll let that slip

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 09:49:25 2012 No.2861069 >>2861006 Will Tao Lin get a penguin classics edition?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 09:51:28 2012 No.2861071 >>2859958 yo dawg, we head you like fantasy, so we put a fantasy book in your fantasy bookshelf, so you can read fantasy while you read fantasy.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 09:54:28 2012 No.2861077 >>2861014 i prefer an eclectic bookshelf, makes it look like i have been collecting for years and not like i just went out and bought in bulk to decorate my apartment

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 09:55:28 2012 No.2861079 >>2861037 Where are you from in Britain?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 09:55:28 2012 No.2861080 >>2861075 French and German books are bad for my neck. Good collection though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 09:56:29 2012 No.2861084 >>2861077 If you read them, you shouldn't worry about that. Also I've always thought Penguins to be highly decorative.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 09:58:28 2012 No.2861091 >>2861087 It's awful actually, he's right, but now it's so obvious that it sounds like an edgy teenager.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 09:58:29 2012 No.2861087 >>2861075 How's that La Societie de Spectacle? I've wanted to read that in English for some time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 09:58:29 2012 No.2861088 >>2861075 The three big books under Faulkner are Sophie's Choice, Underworld and Ulysses. It was really funny to discover /lit/ for me, seeing that I already loved Joyce and DFW and felt a bit alone in France.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 10:00:03 2012 No.2861097 >>2861006 Sup Welshfag.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 10:04:01 2012 No.2861112 >>2860911 >War, war war, guns, politics, guns, guns, war I wouldn't want to meet you. Diversify

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 10:06:04 2012 No.2861114 >>2861112 he for sure is studying that in school at least i really hope so

>>	Andy Wed Aug 1 10:07:04 2012 No.2861118 >>2861068 You should see the movie shelves.

>>	Andy Wed Aug 1 10:10:04 2012 No.2861122 >>2861079 Belper, Derbyshire. There are many of us now with the ability to read.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 10:23:06 2012 No.2861142 File: 2.17 MB, 2178x1342, ndnd.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] . Most of them I got from multiple trips to goodwill stores.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 10:30:06 2012 No.2861163 Going to a book sale Saturday, It's going to be cheap, and a wide variety. I'm essentially going to rape them is what I'm saying. I'm so excited. I almost made an individual thread but this is related enough, Going to pillage these guys. Gonna Plunder.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 10:41:08 2012 No.2861192 >>2861132 >>2861142 Noice.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 11:33:04 2012 No.2861287 >>2861112 This is my collection at my student digs, rest of my books are home. Although that bookshelf doesn't include the resources for my dissertation, i.e. about 30 books on T. E. Lawrence.

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 11:39:07 2012 No.2861300

>>2860127
I'm bisexual and a democratic socialist, actually.
>>2860478
Hell yeah, I did! I just put most of the stuff in my newly acquired drawers, though.
>>2860494
I only post them when they're relevant to the thread, though. Og personlig håper jeg du ikke skades på noen måte!

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 12:10:33 2012 No.2861369 >>2861132 >>2861142 most of those look unread and untouched, how can you read an 800+ page book without even a slight crease in the spine?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 12:13:31 2012 No.2861377 >>2861369 Those are the ones I haven't read yet. The only large books I read on that shelf is 2666, Savage Detectives and majority of Moby Dick (not the one pictured, my other copy was filled with notes and ripped)

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 12:33:52 2012 No.2861416 File: 1.24 MB, 1840x3264, IMAG0040.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] My antiquarian collection. I have another wall of non-antiquarian books but it doesn't look quite as nice.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 12:51:27 2012 No.2861461 What is that, oak? I prefer my bookshelves to be made of spruce.

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 12:56:30 2012 No.2861477

>>2861416
That is a nice collection, but you need better shelving, and possibly humidity-related protetive stuff.
Also, books that old are supposed to be stored on their sides, not standing up. Standing up is not good for them, it puts strain in all the wrong places. Please lay them flat, you can stack them quite safely.

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 13:18:33 2012 No.2861537
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>You will never have a cache of books and artifacts in a future where such things are banned and burned by a tyrannical government which keeps the population drugged and stupid

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 13:20:33 2012 No.2861543 >>2861537 and i get to operate a clandestine lending service, right?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 13:22:33 2012 No.2861550 >>2861543 of course, but only amongst the circle you can trust.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 13:24:33 2012 No.2861554 File: 120 KB, 287x459, Jackie Chan.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2861069 >i hope do

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 14:02:46 2012 No.2861641 >>2861461 Particle board, actually.

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 14:03:46 2012 No.2861644

>>2861477

A friend of the family works at the Bodleian in Oxford. He says there's nothing wrong with what I'm doing. Books prefer to be stored standing up on a shelf, so long as they have friends as he puts it. A book left alone standing up will stress and fox, but a set is fine. And wooden shelves are apparently the best things to keep them on as well as out of direct sunlight. Humidity isn't a problem, they've weathered 200+ years in this country's crappy climate and seem to be holding fine in the modern extension in which I live.

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 14:07:46 2012 No.2861653

>>2861644
>Humidity isn't a problem, they've weathered 200+ years in this country's crappy climate and seem to be holding fine in the modern extension in which I live.

Well, that may be true, but it would only benefit you to learn a little about book preservation. Not saying I know more, just been following the thread. Even if you don't even /lit/, it's a good idea in case you ever need to go to Pawn Stars and sell them for gambling monies.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 14:08:46 2012 No.2861654 >>2861644 To add to that. He says that books that are truly old, like manuscripts and the such don't handle being placed on shelves well. But I own nothing of real historical significance. Just dust them from time to time and try to keep them in usage!

>>	sage Wed Aug 1 14:08:46 2012 No.2861655 >>2859796 I live in Oxford! I went inside the library when there was that god awful protest. Never went in again, no student card.

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 14:10:46 2012 No.2861663

>>2861653

>implying a pawn broker would have any clue what he was buying.

But yeah, book preservation is key. Hence why I weather the winter without strong heating and the summer without the windows opened to try and maintain a vaguely constant temperature and stop insect damage. It's a bitch, but no damage has been done to them as of yet!

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 14:12:46 2012 No.2861668 >>2861416 How much would it be worth? And where does one begin in acquiring rare books?

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 14:13:46 2012 No.2861670
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>>2861663
>implying a pawn broker would have any clue what he was buying.

Granted. Be sure to stay the fuck away from Hardcore Pawn though! I wouldn't trust any of those guys to hold a door open for me!

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 14:51:55 2012 No.2861732 >>2861668 Bumping for interest in acquiring rare books.

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 15:08:56 2012 No.2861748

>>2861668

I couldn't comment as to how much it was worth. Based on what I spent on it, somewhere in the region of £700-800. Some would balloon this figure considerably, because I bought from sellers who didn't know what they were selling, or there is a niche market for them. That figure above could balloon to waaay more than that on a good day. Plus americans are willing to spend mega money on books that are pre-1700 and I have a few in very good condition. It depends on who you are selling to and on what day.

Acquiring rare books can be as easy as searching through ebay, but it's really satisfying to go to book stores. I'm talking your typical back street book store who shifts paperbacks for a quid or so, but has a huuuge selection of leather bound books. The kinda store that smells like a bookshop and with shelves where the books are integral parts of the structural integrity. Plus get to know book sellers, they can give you so much advice and become very valuable acquaintances!

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 15:20:59 2012 No.2861784
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>>2861748
>The kinda store that smells like a bookshop and with shelves where the books are integral parts of the structural integrity.

How artful and true.

>Dude 1:"Hey, that looks like a First Edition right there!"
>Dude 2: "Where?"
>Dude 1: "Right there at the bottom of that pile. Imma get it."
>Clerk: "No, wait!"
>Dude 1: "BLAAAAAARRRGGHHHHH!"
>Dude 2: "OH FUCK, OH FUCK, WHAT DO WE DO!? HE DOESN'T LOOK SO GOOD, MAN! CALL AN AMBULANCE OR SOMETHING!"
>Clerk: "I'm sorry, I can't go back to jail again."
>Dude 2: "No, wait!"
>Clerk: *BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM....BLAM*

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 15:24:59 2012 No.2861795 So what's the consensus on using old whisky bottles as book ends?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 15:26:00 2012 No.2861804 File: 641 KB, 2066x923, checkit.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I DONT KNOW, I THINK I NEED MORE OF WHAT LIT TELLS ME TO READ

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 15:29:49 2012 No.2861813 This slim shelf can only hold little under half of my books; don't ask me how where the rest are. I need to get another one. Pictured: Russian lit, classics, philosophy etc.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 15:31:51 2012 No.2861818 File: 531 KB, 1944x2592, 01082012101.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2861813 Whoops damn Captcha

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 15:33:51 2012 No.2861827 File: 613 KB, 1944x2592, 01082012103.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2861818 General Anglo literature, and a misplaced Meditations The bottle is Ballantine's

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 15:36:22 2012 No.2861833
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>>2861827
Shitty picture. Anthologies and stuff that don't fit anywhere else for now. The two on the left are Norton's anthologies, and on the right you'll see Tao Te Ching and Narnia. On the foreground, an empty Highland Park.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 15:36:22 2012 No.2861835 >>2861827 >Ballantine's It's rare you see anyone on /lit/ with decent books AND a taste for whiskey. Good shit.

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 15:40:07 2012 No.2861845
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>>2861833
Stuff on my desk. The poster I got from 221b Baker Street. This is the stuff I should be reading, but instead I'm just buying more books than I can read at a decent rate.

Behind the Don Quixote you can see Leaves of Grass (Death-Bed Edition) and Le Morte d'Arthur, both from the Modern Library.

To the far, far left there are a couple of dictionaries and Fitzgerald's Short Stories. On the far, far right there's some miscelleanous reading (Les Miserables, which I have been reading on and off for three years (still a great book)), including textbooks.

This is all a huge clusterfuck, so I'll spare your eyes.

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 15:43:07 2012 No.2861855

>>2861845
Oh, and the 'desk' here is part of a re-appropriated work-place desk; it's meant for the computer monitor, but I use a laptop.

The rest of my books are on the top of a drawer, and is very much miscellaneous. I'll spare all you bibliophiles from having to see the actual mess.

The biggest threat so far has been humidity (unusual in my climate zone).

Question is, where do I put the Johnnie Walker Double Black when I'm done with it.

>>	mel !!2Wm3Fwc2bfW Wed Aug 1 15:44:07 2012 No.2861857 >>2861845 >Robert Fagles You're a scholar and a gentleman.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 15:50:40 2012 No.2861865 File: 747 KB, 1944x2592, 01082012106.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2861857 Yes, but don't expect me to actually finish anything. BONUS: my brother's bookshelf. He has, in his own words, 'the greatest taste'.

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 16:05:46 2012 No.2861883
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>>2861865
>>2861865
>Otoyomegatari
Yeah, this is great historical fiction.

>Sunshine Sketch
moe shit, but I love it myself

>Honey and Clover
I think there are soap operas on Teen Nick that do this same thing

>Yotsuba
No complaints

>Vagabond
I hear it's pretty good.

>rest of that shit is cool too i guess

YOUR BROTHER HAS ABOVE DECENT TASTE, BUT NO MORE

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 16:08:45 2012 No.2861889 >>2861883 What manga would be included in "best taste" then?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 16:13:45 2012 No.2861902 >>2861795 try-hard tier

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 16:14:45 2012 No.2861903 >>2861889 I think that's for /a/ to decide, but who the hell cares about those fuckers? I'd guess Monster.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 16:16:45 2012 No.2861906 >>2861784 Or one that happened to me. >I wonder how old that one is. >picks up book >cover crumbles >Places book gently back on shelf. >Walks away nonchalantly.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 16:19:47 2012 No.2861914 >>2861903 Fuck yes. Naoki Urasawa is really, really good. Absolutely one of my favorite writers, and I usually don't really like manga that much.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 16:26:47 2012 No.2861926 >>2861795 If you have to ask then you can't pull it off.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 17:00:48 2012 No.2862004 >>2861906 >20,000 leagues is pretty alright so far. I do not have a book mark, and so I will dog ear this page. >corner snaps off >I already bought it, so it's my cornerless page now

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 18:17:44 2012 No.2862159 >>2862004 This is why I have bookmarks! Or bits of paper ripped out from my broken printer.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 18:28:20 2012 No.2862196 >>2861132 >>2861142 Wow Mason & Dixon is that much bigger than gravitys rainbow? And I thought Infinite jest amd GR were about the same size. I bet these books could lose about 30-40% with no problems

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 18:38:21 2012 No.2862214 >>2862004 >dog ear Guaranteed replies

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>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 19:19:04 2012 No.2862321 >>2862277 Lupin III. I can dig it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 23:15:12 2012 No.2862965 >>2860636 How do you have Dance with Dragons in paperback?

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Anonymous Wed Aug 1 23:27:32 2012 No.2863010
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How can you people stand having all these different colours and publishers on your shelf? It looks like a fucking mess.

See, here's a shelf that actually has some unity.

>>	Franz !!8ZELb56UWUx Wed Aug 1 23:29:32 2012 No.2863019 >>2863010 Given how homogenous it is, that makes the non-black books stand out more as blemishes. Normally stocked shelves celebrate literary and intellectual diversity, brah.

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 23:35:34 2012 No.2863039

>>2863010

When I'm buying translations from a variety of languages, for a variety of authors, there is little chance of getting them all by one publisher. I'm not going to buy a translation from Penguin just to keep my library homogeneous, if there are superior translations available.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 2 00:27:33 2012 No.2863241 >>2863010 That's like only buying certain clothes or something. Who cares what the fuck they look like, unless you're autistic or something?

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 2 00:47:36 2012 No.2863315 >>2863010 That's really stupid. It is a very impressive and nice collection so admire and appreciate it indeed, but you really should ease up on that collecting philosophy.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 2 00:48:36 2012 No.2863321 >>2863010 That 'unity' bothers me, I'd rather have a chaotic shelf than an orderly one

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 2 00:56:38 2012 No.2863348 >>2863010 Really no one is going to mention how his library is almost entirely penguin

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 2 06:04:52 2012 No.2863971 >>2863010 See, I can't help but to think that if I were gonna do unity, I'd just buy Everyman's library. At least they're a damn sight prettier than those awful paper spines.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 2 08:53:15 2012 No.2864310 >>2862196 > I bet these books could lose about 30-40% with no problems No. Just no.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 2 08:56:15 2012 No.2864322 >buying books >not just going to the library or downloading a free pdf like everyone else sure is elitist materialistic faggots up in here.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 2 10:33:20 2012 No.2864518 >>2863019 >>2863039 >>2863241 >>2863315 I think he's joking, guys. Then again, this is /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 2 10:48:55 2012 No.2864562 >>2863010 How shortsighted. Also, your study room must look gloomy as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 2 11:33:07 2012 No.2864637 >>2861075 Ah, a French who reads in english. You're the 1% bro.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 2 11:44:10 2012 No.2864677 File: 536 KB, 1024x768, my bookshelf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] my bookshelf :3

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 2 11:46:10 2012 No.2864690 >>2864677 4/10 good idea, but too obvious

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