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Anonymous Mon Dec 21 16:11:02 2015 No.7489200 [Reply] [Original]

Is it worth me buying books when I live 20 minutes away from a huge city library?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 21 16:13:30 2015 No.7489215 >>7489200 Just rent books dude, no point buying them unless you want to show off some guests

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 21 16:18:49 2015 No.7489236 >>7489200 >library is it worth the smell of piss, the hobo's, and the autistic people looking up porn?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 21 16:21:25 2015 No.7489250 >>7489236 Seriously what kind of library do you go to?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 21 16:29:24 2015 No.7489273 >tfw wish I lived next to the TRL

Anonymous Mon Dec 21 16:48:44 2015 No.7489361

Does the store clerk have good taste? Does he or she give you recommendations based on what you want to read? Is it a comfy place to hang out and browse? Do you want to support that business and give them money?

That's a lot of yesses required.

>Strike up a conversation with the people working there
>Get invited to a poetry reading
>Meet cute girl, whirlwind romance
>Bitter breakup
>Resent ever meeting her, write depressing soul crushing stuff, flunk out of all your classes
>You slowly forget her face, start taking pills and drinking

What's the worst that could happen?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 21 16:56:23 2015 No.7489392 >>7489200 Owning books is absolutely necessary. Thinking about a home without books in it makes me feel weird and sad. Don't get memed by "it's just to show off!!!".

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 21 17:15:06 2015 No.7489476 How can people read books that someone else has probsbly read on his toilet?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 21 20:14:17 2015 No.7490300 >>7489476 Fucking this. Knowing how many things the book has likely come into contact with, I wouldn't want to touch it, much less hold it in my hands for long periods of time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 21 20:18:06 2015 No.7490321 >>7489392 fell for the consumerism meme

Anonymous Mon Dec 21 21:21:09 2015 No.7490579

>>7489200
I live maybe half a mile away from a library, but I still buy books. I love having them and being able to just grab one and read a really cool section that I remember. One other reason for owning them is that I lend and borrow books with my friends and family. Especially with my Dad. It's one of the things he and I have been able to bond over the 10 years or so. Also, having the books in your house on a nice shelf is good decorating.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 21 21:37:26 2015 No.7490652 >>7489236 This but replace piss with must

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 21 22:09:12 2015 No.7490768 >>7489392 But you don't need to buy every book you read, just the ones you want to read again

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 21 23:55:48 2015 No.7491148 File: 111 KB, 736x912, jkoch.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7489200 >2015 >reading books poor people have touched never gonna make it

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 03:22:08 2015 No.7491729 >>7489200 want to read a book? go to the library like the book, might read it again? buy the book seems simple

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 03:32:51 2015 No.7491766 Late fees.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 13:19:37 2015 No.7493264 >>7489200 Just get them off the internet. There is no reason not to. Some of them have their copyrights up, too, meaning it's legal. We actually live in the best age to read. We don't have to leave the house or spend a dime to get quality books.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 13:34:10 2015 No.7493305 Yes. Build your own library but don't post it in a “bookshelf thread”.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 13:52:37 2015 No.7493373 >>7489236 Are you from SF?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 13:58:57 2015 No.7493398 There is no good reason to own books you will never re-read or reference. People who do are just vain or baseball card-tier collectors.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 14:01:55 2015 No.7493402 >>7493398 speaking of i saw some grown men trading hockey cards last night hearing them talk it sounded nefarious, so i looked up but by jove the man just wanted a mcdavid

Anonymous Tue Dec 22 20:08:15 2015 No.7494813

>>7489200
it depends whether you can afford it or not.

if you
>have enough money to buy the books and live a comfortable life, then buy them.
>have enough to buy but wont have other luxuries if you do, then buy only the ones that you think worth keeping
>dont have enough money to buy books, then why do you ask this, dipshit?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 20:10:54 2015 No.7494828 >>7493402 >mcdavid Should of tried to get an Eichel

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 22 20:44:19 2015 No.7494962 >>7493264 >not going to the bookstore and striking up conversations with qt's

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