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I'll start, not all of my books, just what I can be bothered taking pictures of, lalalala.

>> No.499240
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>>499239

>> No.499243

>>499240
And apologies for the upside down volume of Mann stories, I was too lazy to retake the picture.

>> No.499246

>>499243
it's not like anyone looks at these hard enough to notice that

>> No.499250

>>499246
Trolls man, trolls.

>> No.499254

Wtf is Pali, never heard of it

>> No.499264

>>499254
Shit you are lazy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali

>> No.499266

>>499254
Google is your friend:
Pāli is a Middle Indo-Aryan language (or prakrit) of India. It is best known as the language of many of the earliest extant Buddhist scriptures, as collected in the Pāḷi Canon or Tipitaka, and as the liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism.

>> No.499267

Do you people really only have so few books that you can fit them into one photo?
I have three shelves in my bedroom and two in my living room.

>> No.499268

>>499267
Start posting.

>> No.499269

How is Pali going? I'm learning Sanskrit myself but I understand most texts (The Pali Canon comes to mind) are actually written in Pali. Feels d'oh man.

>> No.499277

>>499269
Going slowly, hehe.
Also, depends on what you want to read. The Pali Canon is of course written in Pali, but all the Mahayana Buddhist texts are written in Sanskrit, as well as a whole host of other Indian literature.

>> No.499286

My shelves are pathetically small. I don't have a used book store within like 50 miles of my house and I refuse to pay the ridiculous amount of money for new books so I just use the library most of the time. Most of the books I do have are either gifts or stuff I couldn't find at my library or on bittorrent.

>> No.499287

>>499264
>>499266
>>499269

Sounds like a pretty useless language, you native american or something?

>> No.499288

>>499277
Have you studied Sanskrit at all? God I hate it sometimes. It's like Pali on hardmode. 8 nominal cases, countless paradigmatic noun endings, 10 verb groups, 3 (singular, dual, plural) persons. GAH.

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Since taking these pics, I have purchased 20 more books, and read 4. ;_;

>> No.499294

>>499287
Won't. Be. Trolled.
>>499288
No, I haven't really had a look at it yet, maybe in the future.

>> No.499293

>>499291
Did you give up on your shelfari page?

>> No.499298

>>499291
>Has a book in Russian though he doesn't speak it
>Has stuffed animals on his book shelf

>> No.499304

>>499291
Mutual Funds for Dummies?

>> No.499305

>>499293
Someone looked at my Shelfari page? That's...hmm.

Yeah, I did give up on it. I don't really want to spend much time cataloging my collection and have the data belong to someone else. I've switched to Excel.

>> No.499307

>>499298
What's wrong with having stuffed animals on your bookshelf?

>> No.499308

>>499307
Nothing, if you are under the age of thirteen and have a vagina.

>> No.499315

>>499298
Married to a Russian native speaker. I've finally been studying Russian again, though, and soon I will be able to speak as well as a 2-year-old.

>>499304
I'm old enough to be concerned about retirement. Fortunately, I didn't follow any of the advice in that book.

>>499307
Abso-fucking-lutely nothing, that's what--if you're married to a girl who likes them. Also, they feel really good on your penis.

>> No.499323

>>499315
Old dudes don't know how to use computers you best be trollan.

>> No.499332

>>499246
Beg to differ.
I love books.

>> No.499334

>>499323
If you aren't concerned with retirement by 30 you won't be retiring until you're in your 80s.

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Handbuilt it myself, too. I have some more books not in it - I might need to build a second one soon.

>> No.499345

>>499334
I'm saving for retirement, but I also plan on never retiring, because my opinion is once you stop working, you die.

>> No.499346

>>499334
I'll bet you played on the atari when you were growing up didn't you!?!? What a fag don't preach at me bitch.

>> No.499354

>>499341
>handbuilt
No wonder it looks so shitty, nice Halo novels btw real classy.

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No shelf

>> No.499364

>>499355
I hope you are mentally handicapped, else why would you post books whose titles cant be seen.

>> No.499362

>>499323
37. Old enough to worry about it, young enough to know how to use the e-mails.

I grew up on Intellivision. Atari is for fags.