/lit/ - Literature

>>17057218
Why

Do

You

Type

Like

This?

>>17057225
Paragraph spacing is normal, no?

>>17057225
Are you not into the practicality of paragraphs?

>>17057218
Where do you buy your books?

>>17057264
Generally I go through (ordered by frequency) eBay, Amazon, and ABE for Limited Editions Club and other out-of-print publishers. Auction sites like LiveAuctioneers PBA Galleries are also very good. For modern-day private press, e.g. Foolscap Press (hoping to acquire John Mandeville--pic related--in January) or Thornwillow Press, I'll go through their direct websites.

The FS LE Moby-Dick that you see in the black clamshell case was acquired through a private conversation on LibraryThing.

>>17057225
>>17057236
>>17057257
It's reddit spacing

>>17057309
I imagine virtual turf wars don't meet the standard of discourse on /lit/.

read on your phone

>>17057225
Reddit typing
Also my shelf
>>17058114
No

>>17057218
that's the most basic bitch library i've ever seen

>>17058166
Based

>>17057218

>>17058166
based polyglott. why read heidegger in translation though if you know german well enough to read kant?

main ones, one out of view

>>17058560
non-fic shelf

>>17058565
Physical TBR pile

>>17058277
I get what is closer (local stuff of if i travel, shipping cost is a bitch) and cheaper, so I got a second hand copy of Being and Time in crostian, which is kinda good since croatian is just a bit less autistic than German, and the Kant set was cheaper than buying 3 individual books
Ill get a german copy of Being and Time eventually since I plan on writing my masters thesis on Heidegger

>>17058565
Based Moomin

>>17058560
>>17058565
>>17058572
I won't comment on your debatable taste in books but that setup looks pretty comfy

>>17058565
Better pic please so that the spines are readable

>>17057218
Nothing there piques my interest and I am not interested in discussing anything.

Picked these up yesterday.
What should I read first?

Already read Count of Monte Cristo, I just wanted a physical copy of it.

>>17059114
Everybody's tastes ever are debatable, but it's pretty comfy, you right

>>17057225
4chan is full of retards

Space out your thoughts

So you can assure that

Your point is not lost

>>17057309
it's normal spacing. it's only on 4chan where the shrieking mouthbreathers devote their lives to obsessing over things that are "reddit" that it is considered abnormal.
t. pro writer

>>17058166
this is the bookcase of someone who considers himself to be smart and probably gives off an air of self assuredness, but has never had a thought of his own in his entire life

>>17059503
can you post a pic of that East of Eden edition?

that's also what you should read first

>>17057309

>>17059780

This is reddit spacing

Where the user puts two line breaks every time they want a single line break

Because that's how reddit's formatting works. A single line break in the editor is rendered as a space when posted, not a line break. That's why redditors redditpost.

However, in response to redditposting
4chan users have decided that this is the correct way to write.
Even though it's unnecessarily unreadable in many cases.
Just to prove they're not redditors.
It's almost sad, really. But if you try to format your post so as to be readable,
No one will actually read it, they'll just comment on how you're redditspacing.
I hate this website so much. I wish it were possible to leave.

1/5

2/5

3/5

rotate your fucking images
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>>17060458
i do like a nice arty bookshelf
nice piranesi set

>>17060329
It's the 'Penguin Modern Classics' version

>>17059807
Jealous

>>17060376
Good stuff

>>17061088
thanks, this is the nicest cover I've seen. Will order it

>>17059503
paradise lost and bin the rest

>>17057309
You're retarded

There's been paragraph spacing on 4chan since it started

>>17061485
based

>>17057309
Reddit spacing is a forced meme with some dubious "that's how Reddit renders text!" argument. Paragraph spacing has been a normal 4chan practice since at least 10 years back, and probably longer still. The _overuse_ of spacing is however indicative of Reddit.

>>17059503
Read that as

"Picked 'em up from the printers yesterday."
"Good colouring."
"That's bone. And the lettering is something called Silian Grail."

>>17061088
cover doesn’t make any sense for the book. Looks like On the Road

>>17057218
>>17057225
>>17057236
>>17057257

>>17057218

>>17061534
> the _overuse_

Are you a pseud if you own more books than you've read?

>>17062353
Are you poor if you own more cars than you’ve driven?

>>17062575
False equivalence, /lit/terbrain.

>>17062844
Nope, it’s not. Just cause you have the ability to claim every equivalence is false does not mean every equivalence is false.

>>17063439
This one obviously is. Cars have nothing to do with the type of intelligence that a pseud lacks. Lack of financial savvy, sure, but that's not the same as one being a relatively meager husk that has developed the facade of being interllectually and spiritually fulfilled by hoarding unread fine literature.

>>17057218
>reddit spacing
>photo 90 degrees off
>gets more replies than me

>>17058166
Every well read person has Art of the Deal.
I'm not even kidding.
This will make people butthurt but it's true.

>>17058166
i see you have many hardcovers in german can you please recommend me german publishing houses which publish hardcover sewed books

>>17062353
What do you mean? Assuming you buy every book you read and don't throw them away, presumably you'd always have more books than you've read. I guess you probably don't have most of your books from early life though.