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>ordering so many books that you can't finish them before you feel the urge to order even more books

>> No.5284125

>posting pointless greentext threads

>> No.5284185

>first time posting on /lit/. this gonna be a good thread.

>> No.5284326

>Buying 2-3 books everytime you go out.
>Can not read as fast as purchasing books.
>Books start to grow in piles.
>Stop buying second hand books from book shops.
>Can not stop the urge to buy books.
>Start to buy rare or first editions of books.
>Can not explain your credit card bill to your mom. Who still supports your NEET lifestyle.
>Get into fights over credit card bills.

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>>5284115
>have a wide variety of hobbies
>be passionate about all of them
>reading and collecting books is one of them
>cant correctly allocate money and time for all of them
>forced to listen to music and read while waiting or on the bus
>cant read, paint, draw, play vidya when home because tired from slave job
>working with friends on projects takes away free time.
>tfw no gf

>> No.5285450

A library not filled with unread books you want to read is no library at all.

>> No.5285481

everyone knows this feel.

everyone

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>>5284115
>ordering so many books that you can't finish them before you feel the urge to order even more books
>and then your eyes start hurting and you must rest them as your books stare at you in the face
>my face when this happens appears as the picture I have attached

>> No.5285538

>>5285432
>have a wide variety of hobbies
>be passionate about all of them

Qui trop embrasse, mal étreint

>> No.5285543

>>5285538
I don't speak Spanish.

>> No.5285547

>tfw reading backlog because poor
>tfw absorbed enough in backlog forget about being poor
feels good

>> No.5285550

>>5285538
I ain't speak mexican

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>>5285538
go back to masturbating to your forms plato

>> No.5285563

>tfw you want to read new books on your shelf you've been putting off
>tfw you're stuck reading infinite jest

>> No.5285573

unless those books were going anywhere, you aren't very smart with money

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>friend's moving to a new apartment
>he gave me all the books he didn't want to take with him
>mfw

>> No.5285584

>>5285563
>tfw you want to read a new book, but you're stuck reading Atlas Shrugged
>every day you read it it seems to get a little bigger like Borges' Book of Sands
>no amount of pages read can get you any further through it
>John Galt could filibuster God himself into conceding a point
>but you have to trudge through it

>> No.5285594

>>5284115
w-w-why are you buying those books, anon?

you still haven't finished what you bought before

>> No.5285596

>three new books arriving tomorrow
>a hundred pages left in current book

>still have a dresser covered in stacks of unread books

>> No.5285606

>>5285584
Just wait, it gets good when the spaceship hidden underworld alien city is built.

>> No.5285616

>>5285563
>stuck

read something else.

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>>5284115
>trying to finish all your summer purchases before going back to university
I only have two weeks

>> No.5285691

>>5285594
I need them

>> No.5285727

>>5284326
Trye and replace it with some cheaper addiction.