/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12055120]

who has the largest personal/private collection on /lit? anyone have 5,000 books? 10,000?

[Anonymous No.12055125]

Most likely not a nigger.

[Anonymous No.12055131]

>>12055120
I have over 2000 books, some quite rare and special.

[Anonymous No.12055143]

>>12055120
nice cock comparison thread

[Anonymous No.12055151]

>>12055143
still arrange yours by size?

[Anonymous No.12055156]

I have 12 books. Not a large amount. Quite small in fact. But as you well know.... quality over quantity.
Each book was written by a person who knows the meaning of life. Separately, they make a good read, no doubt. Together however they form something so splendid that you'll hardly believe it.
Enjoy your struggles anons, soon lifes little secrets will be mine and mine alone......

[Anonymous No.12055167]

>>12055156
Is this copypasta or 15 year old trying to sound deep?

[Anonymous No.12055194]

>>12055156

what are the twelve

[Anonymous No.12055199]

>>12055120
I refuse to buy books.
If anything I have some text books and novels gifted me.
Even in hs when they gave us a book to read I either borrowed it fron the school library or downloaded a pdf

[Anonymous No.12055217]

>>12055199
used to be very anti physical copies but then i got money and realised books are very aesthetic

[Anonymous No.12055240]

>>12055194
they’re individual copies of each of the 12 rules for life

[Anonymous No.12055255]

>>12055217
You defeat the purpose of books by simply appreciating their aesthetics.
The literary life is more than owning hardbacks, smoking all night, being an alcoholic and taking pictures of yourself with books in your hand trying to be casual about it.

[Anonymous No.12055256]

I have like 2k ebooks does that count

[Anonymous No.12055269]

>>12055194

[Anonymous No.12055299]

At 25 I personally own 800 books. It's pretty good, I'd say. The only downside is that I don't know how I'll manage to carry them around once my rent contract expires and I have to move desu

[Anonymous No.12055328]

>>12055194
They are separate accounts of the twelve tribes of Israel

[Anonymous No.12055344]

>>12055120
Buying books is a pain in the ass, nothing positive comes out if it.
You waste space, money, precious natural resources for an unpractical and unnecessary object containing 2 dimensional media easily reproduced digitally.

[Anonymous No.12055664]

>>12055255
but I also do that

[Anonymous No.12055724]

>>12055255
who is to say that books can only have one purpose? why can't they be both intellectual utilities while simultaneously being aesthetic

also, just because you care about aestheticism doesn't mean you're a smelly smoking, loud drinking, obnoxious narcisist. get a grip.

>The literary life
you're a faggot

[Anonymous No.12055741]

>>12055120
About tree fiddy

[Anonymous No.12055748]

>>12055240
kek

[Anonymous No.12055858]

1500 or so physical

[Anonymous No.12055874]

hard drive has >3000 books on it

gas all paper and ink collectors

[Anonymous No.12055883]

>>12055156
why have 13 when you can have 12 right?

[Anonymous No.12057322]

11 books
9000 ebooks

[Anonymous No.12057365]

>>12055299
>The only downside is that I don't know how I'll manage to carry them around once my rent contract expires and I have to move desu
I'm facing this same predicament. may look into temporary storage and u-haul. in any case this will motivate me to clear the chaff from my collection

[Anonymous No.12057369]

20 year old here. I own very few books (less than 50). The ones I have as part of my collection are all some of the greatest books I've ever read. The only mediocre stuff I own are a few LNs (SAO, Index) and Atlas Shrugged.

[Anonymous No.12057373]

>>12055156
Are they all based and redpilled or not?

[Anonymous No.12057501]

>>12055724
Materialist cur, nothing as shallow as a colorful hardback will ever be of any use to a human.
You aren't any different from a magpie swooping shiny things to adorn the nest and Impress possible mates.
Grow out of your animal urges you beast.

[Anonymous No.12057516]

>>12055120
I think I have around 300 books, and I'm working on a Tolkien collection.

[Anonymous No.12057522]

>>12055120
that rapture guy with a whole academic library in his basement

[Anonymous No.12057872]

over 7,000 ebooks, but they're all free erotica from Amazon.

[Anonymous No.12057907]

Throughout the years I probably acquired over 100 but less than 200, scattered all over .. I keep my prized ones close, but the rest dont really give a shit about

[Anonymous No.12057929]

>>12055120
I have 30,000+ ebooks
12500 are the most snatched books on bibliotik and 12500 are the most recent iirc.

[Anonymous No.12058037]

>>12055194
Finnegan's Wake
Lolita
Clifford The Big Red Dog
Atlas Shrugged
Behead All Satans
That niggerbook /lit/ wrote
Starting Strength
The Merchant of Venice
My diary
Bear
A guide to a Better You
Artemis Fowl: The Opal deception

[Anonymous No.12058046]

probably more than 1000 physical books, I inherited my grandparents and parents book collection and some are very very old and rare editions
as for myself, I only bought one book so far: bohemian lights

[Anonymous No.12058100]

> if you harm Daniel or any of the Sorrows or Dead Horses, I will find you. Make no mistake. God willing, you will not leave this valley.

[Anonymous No.12058279]

>>12057501
>Materialist cur, nothing as shallow as a colorful hardback will ever be of any use to a human.
>You aren't any different from a magpie swooping shiny things to adorn the nest and Impress possible mates.
>Grow out of your animal urges you beast.

[Anonymous No.12058288]

>>12058100
>he didn't choose to kill Salt-Upon-Wounds

[Anonymous No.12058528]

>>12058279
Articulate your insults instead of using prepackaged memes you little bitch.

[Anonymous No.12059080]

>>12055120

probably rapture. he probably has >10k

havent seen him in a while though

[Anonymous No.12059131]

I have around 5000 books (paper), between the upstairs and downstairs libraries in my house.

[Anonymous No.12059189]

>>12055120
i have a couple thousand ebooks

[Anonymous No.12059238]

>>12059131
Imagine wasting so much money on books and not only buying the aesthetically disgusting paperback version for all of them, but also storing them on such pedestrian shelving. If you're going to be a consumerist degenerate and throw your labour away, at least make it look good.

[Anonymous No.12059276]

I have a lot, never counted them all. Closest I came was when I shipped my books back from college, there were s little over 200. There are a lot more though.

[Anonymous No.12059288]

>>12059238
I don't think you understand what books and personal libraries are for.

[Anonymous No.12059338]

>>12055194
I'm not the guy but I only have a few books and think similarly though not as strongly. I believe Pareto's Law applies strongly with literature, but at the same time I'm fully aware that this might be a copout thought I have to cope with the fact that I've been stuck on the same dozen or so works for years.

My "books" (I'm fully aware than many are collections of several works)
>Plato's dialogues
>Aristotle's basic works
>Montaigne's complete works (personal favorite)
>The Medium is the Massage by McLuhan (I work in media and it's as big of a passion as literature/philosophy)
>Propaganda by Bernays
>Influence by Cialdini
>The Codebreakers by David Kahn (Kubrick's favorite book)
>Shakespeare's Complete Works
>Ulysses and some guide books
>In Search of Lost Time
>Borges' Collected Fictions (a personal favorite)
>The Brothers Karamazov

[Anonymous No.12059366]

>>12059288
They're certainly not for reading, as you can do that for free with a library or an eReader. You will not reread a fraction of those books and have thus wasted money on them. Their purpose then is to fill a void in your heart, a need for collecting trinkets, for signaling to yourself and others some kind of virtue you think having books indicates. As such, I say again: if you're going to waste money on shit like that, and have these dusty artifacts cluttering your home, visible at all times, then at least have the aesthetic sense to make your illness beautiful.

[Anonymous No.12059411]

>>12058037
Where can I get the niggerbook

[Anonymous No.12059535]

>>12059366
You sound very grumpy. First off, my local libraries are pathetic and don't have a fraction of what I want to read, and e-readers are someone else's custom, not mine. Second, I do reread many of my books, but whether I do or not doesn't determine my having wasted money on them. Third, my books have multiple purposes: I'm an English prof and teach a wide variety of courses, so it's useful to have a broad selection (not to mention I receive free books on a weekly basis). The hoarder psychoanalysis is amusing, but you undermine it with this nonsensical idea that your preferred aesthetic for book bindings and bookcases is a defining measure. If you read a range of books, you know that finding them in a preferred edition is often impossible or absurdly expensive. Paperbacks cost less, take up less room, and are usually more easily available. I have many hardcovers as well, and some beautiful and antique books, but aesthetics are not my first criteria. That said, my library is beautiful to me, and the bookcases bring me pleasure to look at and explore when I have leisure to do so. It would be a dull world if everyone wanted their homes to look precisely the same way. Bookcases don't "clutter" anything, especially if they're full of good books.

[Anonymous No.12059566]

>>12059131
Impressing, how old are you?
That's a collection worthy of a retired literature professor, but I can see you have brats around the house, so I'm guessing you're in your late 30s or early 40s.

[Anonymous No.12059570]

I was coming up on a thousand a few years back, but had to sell them all to make rent. Felt bad. Restarting the collection now, and it feels so small

[Anonymous No.12059575]

>>12059566
I mean Impressive

[Anonymous No.12059594]

>>12059366
>bro if you're going to waste money on books at least waste twice as much money so you can show off

[Anonymous No.12059599]

>>12059566
40s, actually. And yes, I'm a literature professor (far from retirement), so the books accumulate like snow. I have a lot of "fun" books as well, but since I teach fantasy, horror, SF, mystery, comics, and other genre courses, the lines are very blurred.

[Anonymous No.12059618]

>>12059366
cringe

[Anonymous No.12059621]

>>12059599
As I figured. How do you like teaching?
I bet you get along very well with your students.

[Anonymous No.12059655]

>>12059366
Based desu

[Anonymous No.12059660]

>>12059621
I do love teaching. Marking is a slog, but my students are interesting and often quite surprising. I had a past student come up to me a few days ago and thank me for --of all things--making him read The Velveteen Rabbit in my children's lit class. It became an instant favorite, and he found something worth contemplating in it.

[Anonymous No.12059674]

>>12055255
>either/or

[Anonymous No.12059706]

>>12055120

I have the largest collection in that I deliberately have no books. By renouncing books I have put them all into the Not Mine collection, and by affirming my renouncement I maintain them so.

[Anonymous No.12059717]

>>12059660
very nice.
Good luck with your teaching career and keep motivating you students to read, your's a precious work.
Godspeed

[Anonymous No.12059723]

>>12055120
I have like 20

[Anonymous No.12059761]

>>12059288
You ever get laid on that couch?

[Anonymous No.12060017]

>>12059411
it's out of print

[Anonymous No.12060141]

>>12055120
Why the fuck does that even matter.

[Anonymous No.12060149]

>>12055156
it better be some forgotten alchemical texts

[Anonymous No.12060279]

>>12059761
Nope (I've been married longer than I've had the couch), but my kids pulled out the bed and made a fort on it this morning.

[Anonymous No.12060293]

>>12060279
Do your kids read or do you read for them ?

[Anonymous No.12060420]

>>12060293
Usually I read to them, but they're learning too. They're learning French and English together, so it takes a bit longer to get functionally literate.

[Anonymous No.12061099]

>>12060279
Nice

[Anonymous No.12061296]

>>12055120
Been buying mostly used since the age of 14, buying trading and selling since 19 so although I have 1500 or so at home I would say close to 10k have been shuffled in and out. Lately a dealer (who knows much of what I have of value) expressed interest in an '82 first ed illus Fractal Geometry of Nature that I loaned some girl about 6 mos ago that she now cannot seem to find....

[Anonymous No.12061409]

>>12060149
not that guy but I got an ouroboros press print of the rosicrucian manifestos, probably my most prized text desu

[Anonymous No.12061489]

>>12061296
What's the most valuable book you've dealt with?

[Anonymous No.12061501]

>>12059599
>teach fantasy, horror, SF, mystery, comics
respect instantly lost

[Anonymous No.12062023]

>>12061501
As you wish. I also teach Victorian, Arthurian, Medieval, poetry, drama, and other canon. One must almost be a generalist to survive these days, and my interests are varied. Besides, literature is partly a posthumous label, applied to influential works that have survived the years and retained some respect. I teach Dickens, Stoker, Oliphant, Collins, Bronte, Austen, Shelley, and so forth, and their work wasn't generally considered any rarefied intellectualism in its day.

[Anonymous No.12062113]

>>12055156
calling it this guy is from australia

[Anonymous No.12062117]

>/lit/
>guy has books
>guy catches hell

sounds like 4chan to me

maybe you should just have Republic and the Bible

[Anonymous No.12062125]

>>12061296
>loaning first editions
Tell em to hit the library

[Anonymous No.12062477]

>>12055120
My own collection is about 200 unread books. 50 read books
But they're books that I want to read.
After I finish a book reading a book, I debate if I shall read it again or not. If not, I donate it to the prison system where some imprisoned bastard can read it.
I donated No Beast So Fierce once and the prison library rejected it. It was written by the guy who planed Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs. It got rejected because it was 'not appropriate literature for prisoner rehabilitation'. I was rather confused by that reasoning.

[Anonymous No.12062544]

>>12059660
To what age of students are you teaching a children's lit class? What's the purpose of the class – to teach people how to write children's lit, or how to read it?

[Anonymous No.12062707]

>>12062544
Undergrads (it's a second year course, but has no prerequisites last I looked). It's not about writing: it's a survey course of the rise of children's literature as a concept and type of writing (mostly a Victorian phenomenon). A good children's classic (for older readers, not See Spot Run) has just as much to analyze as an adult novel. We start with fairy tales and didactic moral tales and end up with a modern book or two, but most of the time is spent with the classics that kids should read growing up, but often don't: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Little Women, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Treasure Island, Anne of Green Gables, The Wind in the Willows, Peter and Wendy, Charlotte’s Web, etc.