/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2868855]

I buy more books than I read. How does that makes you feel?

[Anonymous No.2868859]

I do too. Now delete this thread.

[Anonymous No.2868869]

It makes me feel nothing.

[Anonymous No.2868879]

I guess this is technically a more worthwhile thread than the Hitler one.

You're supporting an industry that people value. Good for you op.

[Anonymous No.2868887]

It depends on how much you take to read a book. If you take more than a month to finish one, yet you buy a new book every week, it's a bad thing.

[Anonymous No.2868895]

meh, i usually buy a lot ~5 books while im reading 1.
they all just seem so damn interesting. I eventually read them of course but i'll usually have 10~20 in my to read pile.

[Anonymous No.2868896]

>>2868887
On average, I read 3 books every 2 months, and I buy 2 books every month.

[Anonymous No.2868897]

>>2868887
I agree. I buy at least 3 books a week sometimes but I read at least 1-3 books a week.

[Anonymous No.2868910]

I've bought tons of old books at yardsales and stuff over the summer. Not even planning on reading most of them, just put them on my bookshelf to look smart.

[Anonymous No.2869139]

>>2868910

...Why?

[Anonymous No.2869170]

Over the summer, I bought about fifteen books and I've only read two.
Get on my level, faggot.

[Anonymous No.2869238]

I'm the opposite.

I've read several thousand and own like... eight.

[Standard Toaster !TOASTxk3L. No.2869249]

The only book I own that I didn't finish reading is the second book in the Sword of Truth series (Stone of Tears) by Terry Goodkind.
Aside from that, I make it a point to read every book I purchase, or return it.
I sometimes purchase multiple books at once (like today), and read them consecutively, so, at those times, I have one book that I haven't read yet that I haven't started.

[Anonymous No.2869277]

I own maybe 50 books? Nearly all are hand me downs. Only bought maybe 5 in the past few years.

My issue is downloading ebooks(pirating) and than spending up to hours reformating them to make them as easy to read and accessible as possible... Than i log them away and never get around to reading them. I have over 250 PERFECTLY formatted ebooks on my computer(on avg i prob. spend 20 minutes on each book. Some less than 1 minute[nearly perfect to begin with] some a few hours...) and i have only ready maybe 10 of them.

Last one was Emergence... which was pretty fucking meh, to be honest.

[Anonymous No.2869285]

I steal books.

From high school when I was younger, from friend's houses, from book stores, from family member's houses, pretty much anywhere I can find a books, I steal.

How does that make you feel?

[Anonymous No.2869304]

>>2869285
you didn't say from libraries. fail troll.

[Anonymous No.2869307]

>>2869285

I can just imagine a friend inviting you over to their house and are like, hold on I'll be back I got to go pee

and you're left in their study and you begin to have a boner grow

and you whip your dick out and start rubbing it all over the books and jacking off

and then when you find an interesting book you cum all over it and inside it and then deeply waft the now defiled book

then run past your friend with the book as your flaccid penis flaps freely in the breeze and accidentally hits his thigh

[Anonymous No.2869328]

>that feel when buying and reading books is the only joy you have left in life

[Anonymous No.2869360]

i have a moratorium on buying books, except through used book sales, because my backlog is so massive that my anus requires codeine shots.

[Anonymous No.2869369]

>>2869328

[Anonymous No.2869417]

>>2869249

I've always been uncomfortable with the idea of returning books.

I've felt it similar to returning underwear...it's tough to prove you didn't use it....

I mean, you could read the book and then bring it back...what's stopping you?