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Anonymous Sun, Sep 25, 2016 13:54:28 No.8549377 [Reply] [Original]

>have a big backlog of books to read
>go out and buy more
Help me

>>	Anonymous Sun, Sep 25, 2016 13:57:10 No.8549390 >you'll never run out of books to read What's wrong with this!

>>	Anonymous Sun, Sep 25, 2016 13:58:52 No.8549401 Thanks for the rare.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Sep 25, 2016 14:01:38 No.8549411 >>8549390 >already trying to learn two languages >buy wheelock's Latin learner

>>	Anonymous Sun, Sep 25, 2016 14:16:47 No.8549465 >>8549377 Just think of yourself as a collector rather than a reader. Your problem is solved.

>>	slow reader Sun, Sep 25, 2016 14:16:48 No.8549466 File: 20 KB, 291x343, portrait.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8549377 Have you tried reading the books?

>>	Anonymous Sun, Sep 25, 2016 14:18:55 No.8549475 File: 34 KB, 450x378, gszzzz.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >buying books

>>	Anonymous Sun, Sep 25, 2016 14:45:56 No.8549569 File: 26 KB, 512x384, 1413861378883.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >try to read only short books so i can finish a round number of them by New Years >keep buying and starting dry, 500+ page books

>>	Anonymous Sun, Sep 25, 2016 23:30:39 No.8551147 >>8549411 >learning more than a language at a time How retarded can someone be?

>>	Anonymous Sun, Sep 25, 2016 23:36:12 No.8551184 >>8551147 Im focusing mostly on Spanish and just learning the alphabet for Persian

>>	Anonymous Sun, Sep 25, 2016 23:38:27 No.8551195 >low on money >buy a book I already read and didn't like just because I pirated it before

>>	Anonymous Sun, Sep 25, 2016 23:38:40 No.8551198 >>8551184 Why would you ever learn Persian? Spanish literature isn't that great either and you will never learn enough spanish to understand Don Quijote anyways so where's the point?

>>	Anonymous Sun, Sep 25, 2016 23:41:09 No.8551206 >>8551198 I just like learning new alphabets, even if I don't learn their languages And I live in California so there's a lot of Mexicans

>>	Anonymous Sun, Sep 25, 2016 23:43:32 No.8551212 File: 39 KB, 400x600, 1466481134396.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mother gives you lunch money >you spend it at the used bookstore

Anonymous Mon, Sep 26, 2016 06:58:14 No.8552003

I don't know about you guys but I have the problem that I find new interesting stuff every week. I might buy a book about the Eichmann trial but suddenly all I care about is the history of Japan, so I get a new book. But then I decide to finally tackle Heideggers work, so I'm off to the bookstore again. What can I do to stay focused on one thing?

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 26, 2016 15:24:58 No.8553263 >>8552003 >I might buy a book about the Eichmann trial so you read hannah arendt neat

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 26, 2016 16:29:06 No.8553517 >>8553263 Yep, and her correspondence with Joachim Fest as well, pretty interesting stuff.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 26, 2016 16:49:43 No.8553576 I have to be in the mood. Stop buying books for a minutes. Sit down with a stack of your books and let it be quiet. Pick up one book after another and read the first chapter until you find the one that makes you want to keep reading. POWER HOUR

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 26, 2016 17:06:45 No.8553634 *for a minute

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 26, 2016 21:37:58 No.8554412 File: 2.23 MB, 2186x1314, feelsgood.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8549377 >>8549377 read your damn books >just finished moby dick today >feels good man

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 26, 2016 22:23:24 No.8554475 >>8554412 i buy them faster than i can read

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 26, 2016 22:37:24 No.8554499 >>8549390 This pretty much. I would just make sure not to buy enough that you're discouraged by the backlog you've built up.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 26, 2016 22:41:36 No.8554506 >>8554475 So do I, just make sure you actually read them. I got books for christmas last year that I still haven't read, but then I might also read a book the same day I got it

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 26, 2016 23:44:23 No.8554629 I have a couple hundred in my backlog...

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 26, 2016 23:45:31 No.8554633 >>8549475 Less than a dollar each at goodwill. What, do you shoplift them?

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 27, 2016 00:45:32 No.8554777 I promised not to loan another book from the library until the year ends. I felt so relieved I sat down and read 200 pages in a day

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 27, 2016 00:50:34 No.8554792 I got bogged down 300 pages into IJ and absolutely dreaded every time I picked it up. Recently I bought 7 cheap books on a whim and I'm happily enjoying not reading IJ

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 27, 2016 01:43:31 No.8554879 >>8551212 Patrician

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 27, 2016 01:56:49 No.8554919 >>8549377 I actually just dumped about $500 on books in the past month. I finished my amazon list. Feels pretty good.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 27, 2016 03:50:37 No.8555087 >>8549377 Start by reading instead of frogposting on a tibetan theatre forum.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 27, 2016 09:19:26 No.8555553 >>8554879 But I couldn't afford a big lunch in exchange Only a small one.

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