Shelf thread

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Shelf thread Anonymous Mon May 23 12:32:27 2022 No.20409867 [Reply] [Original]

Buy one set of books to display
Buy another to read

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 12:57:48 2022 No.20409963 >>20409867 >The Kalevala >Signed edition >signed You're an idiot.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 13:09:33 2022 No.20410028 File: 1.32 MB, 1617x2101, 345ht4yrnh.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Not pictured is the Iliad, an art book on Leighton, an english grammar book, and a latin dictionary, because they are on my table and not in the bookshelf

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 13:23:27 2022 No.20410099 >>20409867 I honestly think most of those leather bound books look worse than a standard clothbound, and I can afford them easily. Especially when resting on that Ikea looking shelf

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 13:25:20 2022 No.20410107 File: 879 KB, 1006x1000, antique-neoclassical-open-bookshelf-3487532519.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I prefer neoclassical shelves, myself

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 13:39:55 2022 No.20410165 >>20409867 I'm disgusted by your bad, ugly books and shelves, but your idea is even worse

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 14:22:02 2022 No.20410342 >>20409963 The artist signed it retard

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 14:33:57 2022 No.20410390 Nice Suntups anon.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 14:35:06 2022 No.20410396 File: 2.47 MB, 1186x911, file.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] started buying physical books again world is collapsing might as well piss away money on actual paper rather than pirating >>20409867 >tim ferriss you were doing well

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 14:37:21 2022 No.20410405 >>20410396 Good taste. I wasn't much of a fan of Fathers and Sons; I preferred The sportsman's diary. Why'd you want to read Hoolebeck?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 14:38:31 2022 No.20410410 File: 2.80 MB, 4032x3024, 20220515_153029.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Been posting this one in the last few threads

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 14:41:11 2022 No.20410418 >>20409963 Why do you have to be nasty over nothing? The signature of the artist who illustrated the book is just as good.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 14:42:06 2022 No.20410424 Is that bicameral mind book anything to do with Jayce and his shit? What is it?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 14:44:10 2022 No.20410429 >>20409867 You must have paid a stupid amount for some of those editions.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 15:17:38 2022 No.20410610 >>20410390 Thanks I snagged them both for 320$

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 15:21:37 2022 No.20410637 >>20410610 I guess 160 a copy is okay for high quality copy. I would never pay that much for anything Clive Barker.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 15:29:35 2022 No.20410680 >>20410610 I've been looking into some small press and limited edition publishers. Nice stuff but a man only has so much money. And they aren't cheap used either.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 16:20:41 2022 No.20410923 >>20410396 how much did that copy of the sumerians cost?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 17:02:31 2022 No.20411119 >>20410396 Steven Moore’s book is good fun. Read through both volumes over last summer. Enjoy. His discussions on religious literature is a bit pigheaded in the r/atheism way, but his range of reading is to be marvelled at.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 17:03:32 2022 No.20411125 >>20410418 Being nasty generates responses. It’s one of the rules of 4chan. Best response is to ignore it and move on.

Anonymous Mon May 23 17:11:01 2022 No.20411147

>>20410610
>>20410390
What's the deal with Suntup? Are they closer to Library of America or Folio in style? As far as Folio I've only seen their Tales from 1001 Nights in person, and I was really unimpressed; I could never imagine sitting down to read such an unwieldy volume. I like Library of America though.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 17:13:29 2022 No.20411156 >>20410405 >Why'd you want to read Hoolebeck? I wanted to give nihilistic contemporary bohemian eurotrash a try >>20410923 about $20

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 17:44:43 2022 No.20411300 >>20411147 I couldn’t tell you the specifics but it’s clearly a higher production value. It’s like a Corvette vs Ferrari. Like it’s how books should be made

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 17:53:29 2022 No.20411329 File: 1.21 MB, 1200x1600, 16533427665586540175979583172628.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20410637 The illustration is sick

Anonymous Mon May 23 17:57:13 2022 No.20411342
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>>20409867
I am sharing only one bookcase. Top row is religious material, second row is stuff on wildlife, third row is largely weird fiction, and fourth row is just miscellaneous like mythology and philosophy.

My other two bookcases are full of art books, wildlife photography, nature books that were unable to fit, children's books, picture books, and computer science manuals. I don't feel like sharing those.
Also, Kaczynski should go on second row. Ignore minor misplacements.

Anonymous Mon May 23 18:06:07 2022 No.20411391
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>>20411300
I looked at the Suntup page and I'm not impressed.
>"What drives me on, day after day, is the fulfillment I feel when I see how much joy and excitement our editions bring to our customers." (no respectable publisher would say this)
>really tasteless art (pic related)
>prints mostly shitlib crap or normiecore (presently printing Handmaid's Tale, Animal Farm) (notably, though the former has not yet been released, they'll soon be simultaneously selling The Omen and Butcher Boy, sure to shock audiences with tales of MURDERER KIDS gasp).
>"only the finest papers" (as if this communicates anything, shouldn't he be boasting about long fibres or smthn like that?)
Yeah pretty LAME. Thinking I'll... NOT BUY ONE.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 18:06:20 2022 No.20411393 File: 1.10 MB, 1512x2688, PXL_20220523_072658813.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It's been ages fellas. A few new books made it to the shelf, some left, and I've added some new bindings

Anonymous Mon May 23 18:09:03 2022 No.20411407
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>>20411393
A bit closer view, you can see the three newly bound classiques Garnier in the top middle. I found some high quality, thin and veg tanned leather at a second hand shop

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 18:11:01 2022 No.20411415 File: 831 KB, 1512x2688, PXL_20220523_002320389.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20410028 Nice shelf, rounded taste

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 18:14:18 2022 No.20411434 >>20411393 I need a shelf that big

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 18:17:45 2022 No.20411449 >>20411391 >>20411300 >>20411147 For that price you can get real rag paper and vellum classics or three, doesn't make sense to me. Do they use rag? Just buy a sewn book and pay 100 for binding

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 18:23:15 2022 No.20411488 >>20411449 It smells different than normal paper I'm if that helps

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 18:24:20 2022 No.20411494 >>20411488 Idk*

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 18:27:17 2022 No.20411500 >>20411393 >>20411415 Incredible

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 18:33:21 2022 No.20411527 >>20409867 What's the best Kalevala translation?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 18:36:54 2022 No.20411538 >>20411527 I couldn't tell you the one I have is Crawford and its not too difficult to understand

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 19:38:40 2022 No.20411839 >>20411393 >It's been ages And yet you still haven't finished your second shelf.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 19:42:21 2022 No.20411855 >>20411393 How did you become so rich?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 20:24:57 2022 No.20412073 >>20411855 97% of those books aren't particularly expensive, anon.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 20:29:43 2022 No.20412095 >>20411147 library of america is more about getting a bang for your buck. You get multiple works of literature in decent bible paper and okay hardcover.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 22:11:25 2022 No.20412532 Serious question, what is the point of box cover books with only 1 book?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 22:26:16 2022 No.20412587 >>20409867 How is the Easton deluxe edition of Moby Dick? Is it cumbersome reading such huge margins?

Anonymous Mon May 23 22:29:57 2022 No.20412599
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>>20411855
Books weren't expensive 10 years ago. Somehow the used and sale books I bought in college (mid 2000s) we're reasonable. Everyman's Balzac was like 5.00 new at Barnes noble, the chouans were 1.50. somehow books became expensive and I suspect it's booktubers.

At least 1/4 were free from publishers or retiring people. Right now I'm supposed to clear out two retiring friends' house.

There are three places I go for books:
1.local used bookstore that prices library of America dirt cheap. My heritage press books were 2.00 to 10 dollars. Loeb's are also 0.75 to 12.00.
2.Goodwill distro center. I get books for .59 a lb. I've bought a few everyman's there. You have to fight professional resellers. They're into kids books, textbooks, self help mostly and won't get modern library, library of America, taschen, or everyman's without dust jackets.
3. Little thrift shop from evangelicals. They clear out members homes when they die and you see things like 20 folio society books for like 2.00 each.

The rest are ebay

I've spent probably $1000 since last August when I started to develop the collection. You just need patience. When we go somewhere out of town I stop in little thrift shops.

These were 5.00 each at my used book shop. It helps that I pass it to go into town from my house. It's easy to pop in daily. That's how I beat the resellers.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 22:33:32 2022 No.20412608 File: 980 KB, 2688x1512, PXL_20220524_023209766.MP.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20411500 >>20412599 The problem with collecting is it's hard to stop. I do like having multiple editions of some books for the critical essays.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 22:36:36 2022 No.20412619 File: 1.18 MB, 2688x1512, PXL_20220524_023519842.MP.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20412608 These modern library giants were .75 to 5.00. the pleiades we're about 10 to 20 each. Some were free.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 22:37:16 2022 No.20412623 >>20411342 Read Schopenhauer's essays a while ago. Thoroughly enjoyed the one on women, not so much a fan of the others.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 22:39:24 2022 No.20412628 >>20412608 You're missing half of Decline

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 22:40:47 2022 No.20412634 File: 897 KB, 2688x1512, PXL_20220524_023421993.MP.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20412619 These are my favorite pleiades I've been reading

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 22:42:38 2022 No.20412642 File: 916 KB, 2688x1512, PXL_20220524_024200450.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20412628 I'm waiting to find it cheaper than 40 shipped. I have a few full ones, like this 1980s folio

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 22:43:45 2022 No.20412645 File: 968 KB, 2688x1512, PXL_20220524_024223528.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20412628 And I have a modern library, a Britannica, and an abridged I used for teaching.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 22:46:00 2022 No.20412652 >>20412642 >>20412645 Oh, I didn't realize you were such a retarded consoomer. Buying three or more copies of a work? Seriously man?

Anonymous Mon May 23 23:05:00 2022 No.20412705
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>>20411839

You wouldn't believe the other things that came up, lots of deck, garden, and neighbors needed help. My neighbors give me books when I do random things for them.

These will go on shelf two in the office

Anonymous Mon May 23 23:11:43 2022 No.20412728
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>>20412599
Since last August I probably spent around 2000 and it was just for a few art books. Fuck.
I swore to only buy new literature once I've read a significant portion of the books I already own.

Anonymous Mon May 23 23:13:45 2022 No.20412737
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>>20412652
It's more about special books. Gibbon is important to me, and I greatly respect h. Trevor Roper, he did the introduction and critical apparatus.

Balzac, Flaubert, Montaigne, Dostoyevsky, Lermontov, turganev, and a few others are the other authors for whom I have multiple translations and editions.

I'm less guilty of being a consoooomer and more of a bibliophile. I could have most of the library of America books, Ulysses Grant was there last week for 2.00. I didn't buy it because I have little interest in reading him. I had a chance to buy a Faulkner box set for nothing, but he doesn't appeal to me.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 23:16:10 2022 No.20412745 File: 774 KB, 1512x2688, PXL_20220524_024003026.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20412728 Wie geht's Bern? Wo wohnst du? >>20412705 These also go to shelf two in the office/nursery.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 23:16:42 2022 No.20412747 File: 31 KB, 320x320, 048118272722843636.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] part of my complete set of the unabridged golden bough

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 23:26:32 2022 No.20412774 >>20412745 >Wie geht's Bern? Wo wohnst du? Spending most of my time in books but also on /ic/. I'm currently in Leipzig.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 23:28:26 2022 No.20412783 File: 23 KB, 320x320, 548491836391547.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20412737 >gibbon an (incomplete) 1850ed set of decline, with the footnotes to gibbon's footnotes by the rev. milman. positively talmudic in commentary.

Anonymous Mon May 23 23:35:06 2022 No.20412817

>>20412774
Lots of students, I drove through there for a research trip in 2019. Stopped in the center of town at an archive. Very hip now, unlike all other places in the east.

You know, it used to be the center for European book trading? It's where all the contraband books came from, the Messe

Anonymous Mon May 23 23:38:00 2022 No.20412829

>>20412783
Very nice. I'd like an early 19th or 18th copy one day. I almost bought a late 19th but it was a bit too expensive

You should investigate leather binding for them one day.
Lots of people attacked him in bad faith, especially men of the cloth.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 23:38:16 2022 No.20412832 File: 2.68 MB, 4032x3024, PXL_20220523_222338675.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Rate

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 23:38:44 2022 No.20412834 >>20412832 3/10

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 23:40:23 2022 No.20412839 >>20412832 Not bad, when I was a grad student I had few of my own books as well. You can't go wrong with those Russians. Like the demons.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 23 23:52:06 2022 No.20412879 >>20412829 i paid $5 for mine. not counting the equity of >9000hrs scouting. go to library book sales. and yes, the right hon. rev. melman seems quite rustled by gibbon's take on the early christians.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 01:24:41 2022 No.20413206 >>20412879 I found a few large collections of Waverly novels online through library sales, still haven't bought one for fear of blowing the budget.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 01:48:46 2022 No.20413301 File: 1.21 MB, 3264x1836, IMG-20220514-WA0011.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] german reporting in.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 02:01:16 2022 No.20413329 >>20413301 I like your little octavos on the top right side, look like bdw edition

Anonymous Tue May 24 02:10:11 2022 No.20413353

>>20412783
>>20412737
>>20412642
There's been a full set of that Gibbons Rome series in my local bookshop for months but I haven't bought it because I'd never heard of the guy before.

I tried reading the wikipedia article about it but it's nothing but ranting without any actual encyclopedic information.
Is it a good series? Should I buy it if I want an accurate read of the decline of the Roman Empire?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 04:37:27 2022 No.20413737 >>20412587 I read it on a desk a couple pages at a time. Its too big for casual reading

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 04:46:27 2022 No.20413754 >>20413301 was soll man da abgesehen von den marx engels werken erkennen bei der kartoffelauflösung?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 06:03:05 2022 No.20413968 >>20413754 You can also see two trashy Karl May books.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 12:04:20 2022 No.20415047 >>20413301 post a better picture, Kraut

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 12:21:50 2022 No.20415118 >>20412728 Which art books?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 12:31:41 2022 No.20415153 >>20412532 It protects the book of course.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 12:38:02 2022 No.20415189 >>20412832 >STEMcel >Learning Japanese >anime weeb/10. Your lit collection looks pre-selected from the /lit/ top 100. You should also switch over to learning russian and spanish since those are the only (serious) writers you seem to care about.

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>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 12:58:32 2022 No.20415262 >>20415224 >that edition of IJ hope your hands don't get sweaty lol

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 13:00:16 2022 No.20415270 >>20415262 kek it survived the first reading without any significant wear

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 13:31:02 2022 No.20415396 >>20415118 Way too many French exhibition catalogues fromt the 70s and 80s plus rare Jim Woodring editions from Japan for example.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 13:45:27 2022 No.20415442 >>20413353 (((modern))) historians will tell you that Gibbons is antiquated and wrong; that he is racist, bigoted, imperialist, white, racist, whatever. To me, that just proves how right he is.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 13:46:28 2022 No.20415448 >>20415153 Protects it from what? The book is sitting on a shelf. The only time it could possibly be damaged, during use, the box is not on it.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 13:59:53 2022 No.20415505 >>20415448 Tiny droplets from sneezes, flying insects or whatever can fall onto the pages but not if it's in a box.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 15:20:52 2022 No.20415843 File: 36 KB, 320x320, 10990484458747563.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i keep mine in a floor to ceiling antique solid oak barrister bookcase.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 19:21:34 2022 No.20416930 >>20415843 I want a nice bookshelf

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 21:40:13 2022 No.20417495 >>20416930 Build one.

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>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 21:53:46 2022 No.20417538 >display books I'm a straight man so I don't care myself, and only my mother ever sees my room.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 22:05:54 2022 No.20417572 File: 2.13 MB, 4032x3024, 69ACF5FD-C68B-43B1-BECC-5D80887955B6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Need to reorganize but I’m bored so figure I’d post 1/4

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 22:07:12 2022 No.20417580 File: 2.66 MB, 4032x3024, 4C65A256-F7BA-49CD-A19F-F2E20A5F7170.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20417572 2/4

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 22:08:29 2022 No.20417585 File: 2.16 MB, 4032x3024, AB9B03E9-1402-4CCD-865E-D2BFBA21B8F0.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20417580 3/4

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 22:09:36 2022 No.20417588 File: 2.18 MB, 4032x3024, C5624297-396A-4685-885A-748386C0B5A6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20417585 4/4

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 22:32:58 2022 No.20417679 >>20415224 Very nice. What's your favorite Knut Hamsun novel? I just bought Growth of the Soil and I'm excited to read it. I haven't read anything by him.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 22:51:17 2022 No.20417740 File: 1.02 MB, 2688x1512, PXL_20220525_024949599.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20417495 I did today. Went outside, grabbed some scrap oak and walnut and threw this together with some 16ga nails. It's not permanent at all.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 22:53:28 2022 No.20417756 File: 941 KB, 2688x1512, PXL_20220525_025209348.MP.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20411839 I just put a second tentative one up. Used 6x4 oak beams too.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 24 23:22:19 2022 No.20417900 >>20417572 >>20417580 >>20417585 >>20417588 I like all the everymans, not a fan of the pynchon and wallace

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>>	Anonymous Wed May 25 01:32:13 2022 No.20418430 File: 1.03 MB, 2688x1512, PXL_20220525_052917028.MP.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20417756 Closeup of the new poetry books. The Coleridge is mid 19th century

>>	Anonymous Wed May 25 01:34:09 2022 No.20418436 >>20417509 Based Wolfe enjoyer.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 25 02:26:09 2022 No.20418550 >>20417679 I have only gotten through four volumes. So far I found Mysteries, In Wonderland and Growth of the Soil the most interesting

>>	Anonymous Wed May 25 02:38:01 2022 No.20418583 >>20410396 >>20411119 Should I get my hands on that Steven Moore book?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 25 02:43:53 2022 No.20418599 >>20418583 Maybe

>>	Anonymous Wed May 25 02:46:07 2022 No.20418604 >>20418599 That's good enough for me.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 25 03:09:31 2022 No.20418657 >>20417509 >Bottom's Dream Have you actually read this? How is this feat physically accomplished?

Anonymous Wed May 25 10:25:22 2022 No.20419771

>>20418430
Is Reclam a trustworthy publisher? I mean, I want to buy a few books in German and they have the cheapest editions and I know that Reclam is a very popular publisher of German, but I wonder if it's something similar to Penguin, which, as known, in some cases lacks editorial work and rarely comes with any Preface or critical apparatus.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 25 10:39:45 2022 No.20419829 Oh, I forgot I have a PDF of Hegel's Phaemenologie des Geistes and it actually comes with 20 pages of Nachwort from some weird modern philosopher, though it lacks any commentaries or Vorwort.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 25 11:04:11 2022 No.20419941 >>20419771 It has almost no critical apparatus and is a way to get your hands on the classics in a tiny form for cheap. They're great for carrying around and not having to worry about destroying them.

Anonymous Wed May 25 11:10:25 2022 No.20419967
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>>20409867
>Urantia
>Feng Shui
>Art of War x2 (massive volumes for a work that's short-story length)
>Multiple copies of the American
Lol what are you some conservative hippie?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 25 12:10:28 2022 No.20420285 >>20418657 Just start lifting, bro. There's also a """pocket""" edition. :^)

>>	Anonymous Wed May 25 13:40:50 2022 No.20420649 >>20415224 basert gløsing

>>	Anonymous Wed May 25 13:43:59 2022 No.20420657 >>20418152 Cozy af

>>	Anonymous Wed May 25 13:45:52 2022 No.20420666 Thwse threads are usually so boring. 90% of you literally get your taste from /lit/ charts.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 25 14:22:06 2022 No.20420796 File: 55 KB, 1200x713, 1653277215871.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Anyone live in a tropical climate? What is the best way to shelf books if its always hot and humid? Normal bookshelf or a glass display case?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 25 14:24:44 2022 No.20420808 >>20420666 >tfw you're the 10% and no one has heard of the books you're reading atm

Anonymous Wed May 25 16:01:04 2022 No.20421219
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>>20420666
As one of the last classically-educated types before no child left behind ruined the US, it's both a duty and a pleasure to maintain the standards bestowed upon me by my mentors. It would betray them and the efforts they made to develop my abilities were I to turn my back on them into obscuritism and genre fiction. Besides, there's too much excellence that needs reading to waste time on unknowns.

>>20420808
Sometimes scholarly interests take you to places few have traveled, or at least, untrod for decades.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 25 16:46:21 2022 No.20421405 >>20410410 How’s the text of the Dosto collection like?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 25 17:11:38 2022 No.20421508 >>20419967 One is "art of war" one is "art" of war I have read urantia but it seems interesting Feng shui is just interior design that makes you feel comfortable.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 25 17:36:33 2022 No.20421609 >>20411329 That is awesome, what is it?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 25 18:10:41 2022 No.20421776 >>20421609 Imajica desu I haven't read it and got it cause it looked awesome. I'm assuming its some sort of space horror feeling

>>	Anonymous Wed May 25 21:27:21 2022 No.20422539 >>20409867 Immediately lose all respect for people with a majority of untouched books on their shelves.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 25 21:43:35 2022 No.20422613 >>20422539 >not taking care of your books even when you're reading them

>>	Anonymous Wed May 25 22:44:12 2022 No.20422805 >>20422539 Same. Convenient how every single one of these larpers always keeps their books in 100% just off the press mint condition.

Anonymous Thu May 26 00:24:09 2022 No.20423186

>>20422539
>>20422805
My books look mint and I have read them all. Try not being a grubby autistic retard. Respect your belongings and treat them with care. Take the book off the shelf, gently open it, flip the pages slowly and gently like caressing a lady's cheek, close the book with reverence, replace it on the shelf. Damaged books indicate a damaged psyche.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 00:51:14 2022 No.20423269 >>20420796 I have silica gel desiccants placing in my bookshelf. They help a bit.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 01:32:52 2022 No.20423360 >>20422805 If I show you my annotations would it help?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 01:35:39 2022 No.20423371 Easton Press or Folio? Which one is best?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 01:55:36 2022 No.20423426 File: 854 KB, 2688x1512, PXL_20220526_055333411.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20422805 >>20422539

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 01:56:50 2022 No.20423430 File: 952 KB, 1512x2688, PXL_20220526_055204573.MP.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20422539 >>20422805

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 02:42:00 2022 No.20423546 >>20411393 You're like a real person.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 03:14:38 2022 No.20423649 >>20423546 A real human bean. I suspect there are always a few ai running around, think I've been dealing with one CIA email in customer service

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 04:40:44 2022 No.20423893 >>20422539 I have one book for reading one for collecting

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 06:56:47 2022 No.20424346 File: 11 KB, 300x300, 1611354112742.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20410028 >Collins thesaurus Did you get any use out of that?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 08:32:09 2022 No.20424588 >>20424346 It's a modern thesarus but I only use it so I don't have to use the internet. I keep my eye out for an older one

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 09:05:15 2022 No.20424681 >>20423426 >>20423430 Why pen? Why not pencil? WHY?!

Anonymous Thu May 26 10:51:53 2022 No.20425088

>>20411393
>>20411407
>>20411415
>>20412608
>>20412619
>>20412642
>>20412645
The sad thing about this is based on the types of books you're buying, I can tell you've read absolutely none of them and never plan on reading them. Maybe you've read a few. And yes, I am excluding duplicate copies.
>inb4 Umberto Eco said the best library is one full of books you've yet to read!
But you're not planning on reading any of them.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 11:08:17 2022 No.20425140 >>20424588 >I keep my eye out for an older one Huh, what makes the older ones special

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 11:09:29 2022 No.20425148 >>20425140 less jew juice

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 11:30:55 2022 No.20425225 File: 3.59 MB, 4032x3024, CD02A478-5A39-4A79-826D-557B9C0435FE.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20409867

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 11:39:51 2022 No.20425264 >>20423430 What book is this?

Anonymous Thu May 26 12:48:43 2022 No.20425611
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Seeing all these huge shelves, I'm wondering do you guys keep books if you don't like them or if your interests have changed, or do you keep them? I sold almost all my books recently (about 15-20 and 2 left) and now I'm going to buy about 10 other books I'm interested in, but that may be because I'm poor.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 13:39:09 2022 No.20425873 >>20425225 How many of them have you read? Tell me about your views on Lasch, anon,; I'm curious.

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>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 14:33:49 2022 No.20426200 File: 3.91 MB, 4000x3000, 20220526_132311.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Turned a guestroom closests into a mini sci-fi library.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 14:35:34 2022 No.20426207 File: 3.18 MB, 4000x3000, 20220526_132318.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20426200

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 14:36:29 2022 No.20426212 >>20426136 Based retard. I'm just being mean. What have you read/going to read next?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 14:53:32 2022 No.20426331 >>20426212 red gas im almost finished with russiane nergy chains

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 15:00:18 2022 No.20426366 File: 1023 KB, 2268x4032, 2sddujceyw411.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I try to combine style with interesting/thought-provoking reading material to incite intellectual conversations with guests.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 16:27:23 2022 No.20426793 >>20426366 >no online results for this photo Oh no...

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 17:03:48 2022 No.20426961 >>20425088 I (op) have audible and I am listening to most of these but many of my books are autographed or very old so I like to keep them pristine

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 17:23:47 2022 No.20427061 I dont have a camera sorry

Anonymous Thu May 26 18:48:02 2022 No.20427491
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>>20425088
I have both in text annotations and copious digital notes since 1999 on my reading. Although I've recently purchased many of these copies, I have read more than half.

Several of the newer monographs we're given to me for reviews and prize committees. So I didn't fully read them, no one does, but I did review them.

Anonymous Thu May 26 18:55:44 2022 No.20427533
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>>20425088
What makes you believe this based upon my book purchases? There's definitely a theme on my shelves.

I have thousands of pages of notes like these, 20 pages typed for some books

>>	Anonymous Fri May 27 03:21:27 2022 No.20429198 >>20426207 Do you have other tastes? >>20426136 Those middle books caught my attention, and it's odd to see the Preussen here. Krockow isn't so well known even amongst mainstream scholars in the US. Most don't appreciate the expulsions

>>	Anonymous Fri May 27 03:27:19 2022 No.20429215 File: 986 KB, 2688x1512, PXL_20220527_045637534.MP.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] My most recent effort includes rebinding my ratty, but sewn copy of the vendee

>>	Anonymous Fri May 27 03:45:46 2022 No.20429253 File: 3.34 MB, 3001x4096, 20220527_094431.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] found this at my local used bookstore but I was way too broke for it sadly

>>	Anonymous Fri May 27 03:52:22 2022 No.20429266 >>20429253 Looks pretty. Is it a selling bookstore or a collectors bookstore?

Anonymous Fri May 27 04:14:13 2022 No.20429328
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>>20429266
selling bookstore, but it has a lot of old tomes laying about. It's my go to now that the second hand English bookstore has cucked out and commercialised

picrel, copped these at the same store. The right one is a highly propagandised biography of Dutch admiral Karel Doorman from 1947

>>	Anonymous Fri May 27 04:33:24 2022 No.20429386 >>20410405 >I wasn't much of a fan of Fathers and Sons Why not?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 27 06:07:49 2022 No.20429596 >>20427491 The fuck happened to your Dumas?

Anonymous Fri May 27 06:10:34 2022 No.20429604

>>20429386
Too topical. I thought it would be a more indepth look at the Paternal relationship, but is was mostly just focused on the changing of predominant ideas, fads. This always happens to everyone, not just boys and their fathers; time is a vagary mistress.

Anonymous Fri May 27 10:23:38 2022 No.20430210
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>>20411147
>What's the deal with Suntup?
Quality level is about the same as a 50gbp Folio, but they charge 110-200 usd instead. (Talking Artist Editions obviously, the others are even worse value).
The price Suntup goes for on the secondary market is so high you can easily start collecting letterpressed books that are hand bound with mouldmade paper. It's hype sustained so down the line some people will be deep in the hole. That said there are some outliers, Imajica is a cut above their others and impressive at that size and page count. I got all these in a scratch & dent sale and I'm happy with what I paid.

FS has a higher quality than Library of America, better paper, typesetting. If you're just after a good reading hardcover LoA or Everyman is the best value most of the time.

However, depending on the book, also consider getting second hand hardcovers on the secondary market. The quality on "normal" hardcovers used to be a lot higher than you can find now. If the book was printed 1920-1980 chances are it's cheaper and better quality than you could find newly produced.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 27 11:24:46 2022 No.20430480 >>20429596 Handling it while reading, I've used it in teaching.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 27 13:06:18 2022 No.20430873 >>20420666 Then when you share what you're reading with these folks you get belittled.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 27 13:51:56 2022 No.20431015 File: 1.50 MB, 1512x2016, 20220527_103530.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I haven't even read half of what's on both of these shelves.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 27 13:53:39 2022 No.20431028 File: 1.20 MB, 2016x1512, 20220527_103545.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20431015

>>	Anonymous Fri May 27 14:19:03 2022 No.20431141 >>20429215 looks like crap and with "crap" I mean literal crap.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 27 14:52:31 2022 No.20431309 >>20411393 Did you build this yourself? Looks unsafe

>>	Anonymous Fri May 27 15:11:59 2022 No.20431379 >>20426366 Is this what an NPC's bookshelf looks like?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 27 15:37:54 2022 No.20431505 File: 872 KB, 927x731, 345.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Poor. So all I have is a calibre library.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 27 17:36:32 2022 No.20432044 >>20430210 I've never had a book as nice as the two suntups I have but I'm scared to even touch them because I want them to appreciate. I'm in a FB group and someone was trying to sell rosemary baby lettered with the box for 8 grand

>>	Anonymous Fri May 27 22:37:13 2022 No.20433330 >>20431505 It's better than nothing anon. I honestly want an e-library myself just to have a digital backup for my physical reads. Do you use epub files exclusively or does calibre handle pdfs well too?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 27 22:41:24 2022 No.20433351 >>20410107 Shelf containing every book the average lit tard has read

>>	Anonymous Fri May 27 22:46:23 2022 No.20433372 >>20433330 azw3 as I read them on my kindle.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 01:55:51 2022 No.20433984 File: 731 KB, 1512x2688, PXL_20220528_050055257.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20431309 Nah, contractors man, they charged a fortune but threw in a few dover thrift editions, si bound them

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 01:57:58 2022 No.20433995 >>20410107 Those doors/ cabinets are made out of such shitty, secondary, paint grade wood, it's absurdity.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 02:00:21 2022 No.20434002 File: 68 KB, 690x920, wata.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ITT lit posters try to out-pseud each other

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 06:41:31 2022 No.20434530 File: 2.35 MB, 3000x4000, DSC_0205.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20418152 >>20425225 What no more Billy™ bros in this thread?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 07:13:59 2022 No.20434637 >>20425611 I occasionally give/throw away books that I consider poor quality but that's it. If space becomes a problem I'd probably consider being less picky with elimination

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 07:15:06 2022 No.20434641 >>20426200 W40K books get me hard for some reason

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 07:25:23 2022 No.20434665 >>20429198 Im German, not from US so that might be the reason its nothing special here

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 07:41:16 2022 No.20434700 >>20422805 what the fuck do you people do with your books? i can finish reading a book and it will looked exactly how it did prior to starting it...

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 10:04:31 2022 No.20435097 >>20415224 Gimi :DD

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 11:05:11 2022 No.20435295 File: 392 KB, 828x1080, 1A42F412-948D-418A-A09D-0404A6EAF3F3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20426200 If you like military sci fi you’d probably like my space opera series

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 15:07:25 2022 No.20436201 As a book collector, humdity is my greatest foe, one I must constanly be on guard against.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 15:17:45 2022 No.20436241 >>20417740 >>20417756 >>20418430 I like how rough it looks

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 15:37:39 2022 No.20436311 >>20435295 Post more

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 16:15:55 2022 No.20436462 File: 1.78 MB, 3930x1980, D55D4B2E-ABA9-4138-8078-02B04CE62AAD.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20436311

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 16:21:37 2022 No.20436498 >>20435295 >space opera Cringe.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 17:05:32 2022 No.20436710 File: 563 KB, 2048x1542, d0SFK2WO.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just picked these up from the used book store.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 18:10:42 2022 No.20436965 >>20436498 >talking shit about someone else’s project on the literary section of a Burmese pet trading board in 2022

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 18:13:50 2022 No.20436979 File: 12 KB, 345x373, serge 3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20436965 >doing literally anything else with your life

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 18:28:46 2022 No.20437040 >>20411393 WHERE DID TOM CRUISE GO?!

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 18:38:27 2022 No.20437082 >>20426136 >Mike Ma I have this aversion to those books for reasons I'm not entirely sure of. How were they?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 18:41:35 2022 No.20437098 File: 977 KB, 1500x1000, 1653488718043.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] r8 h8 appreci8, m8

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 19:22:58 2022 No.20437258 >>20436979 There’s no reason to be upset

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 19:24:16 2022 No.20437264 File: 214 KB, 885x1200, FRy6ygZWQAMvwVO.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20437258 mfw

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 19:25:19 2022 No.20437268 >>20437098 masturb8

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 19:27:34 2022 No.20437283 >>20415448 I worked at a bookstore. You would be surprised. Best was the sudden waterfall down a wall one day that did in over 100 books.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 19:37:26 2022 No.20437326 >>20437283 >sudden waterfall down a wall one day that did in over 100 books People live as if nature wasn't innately malevolent.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 20:05:32 2022 No.20437448 >>20437264 You don’t sound like it.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 20:30:55 2022 No.20437534 >>20437283 Yeah I'm sure the box protected it from a waterfall

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 22:59:26 2022 No.20438204 File: 917 KB, 2688x1512, PXL_20220529_025811504.MP.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20437040 He's next to dante

>>	Anonymous Sat May 28 23:37:12 2022 No.20438336 >>20437082 Plagiarism and questionable prose from a clocky troon

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 00:41:01 2022 No.20438574 >>20409867 I’ve actually thought about buying all the books I’ve read online physically at one point just to put them on a shelf. But I just noticed that would be a completely retarded and vain thing to do. (Still kinda wanna do it)

Anonymous Sun May 29 00:58:44 2022 No.20438624
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>>20438574
I've been getting the good books, the important books, and the classic books. Since the pandemic, when panic-stricken boomers limited my access to the university Library, the importance of having a good source of at-hand reference material has grown in my mind. Even though my computer has most of the CUP, California, OUP, and ivy presses in pdf from before 2011 ( when they cracked down on the ebook sharing) I still like the books on my desk.

You also can't download, or at least I haven't seen the option for it, the critical notes in the pleiades and other critical editions.

So it makes sense for me to have some books for my work.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 01:01:53 2022 No.20438635 File: 475 KB, 2048x1536, FSvDjLnXsAEyc5g.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20409867

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 05:38:59 2022 No.20439571 >>20415224 Where do you get that edition of Gravity's Rainbow?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 05:49:25 2022 No.20439613 >>20415224 based Alfa Romeo enjoyer

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 05:56:10 2022 No.20439633 >>20417572 >>20417580 >>20417585 >>20417588 How do you organise your books?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 06:01:49 2022 No.20439654 Unrelated, but I accidentally purchased a leatherbound book with a dirty cover. Any idea on how to clean it?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 06:01:53 2022 No.20439655 >>20439571 I got it and Mason & Dixon off AbeBooks. I hate the new Vintage covers

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 06:08:48 2022 No.20439684 File: 637 KB, 1600x1095, 20220529_120536.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Don't mind the random shit I'm storing in my nook. This is just my archive.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 07:01:25 2022 No.20439826 >>20439655 Thank you! I hate them too. I once ordered V. with the old Vintage cover from a dodgy book website and they instead gave me the new version.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 07:58:59 2022 No.20439974 >>20438635 Would have been a comfy pulp spot if it wasn't for the retarded tv placement

Anonymous Sun May 29 09:23:30 2022 No.20440214

>>20438624
What French editions are these? Are these Gallimard? I've seen them a lot here. I was thinking about getting Oeuvres Complètes de Blaise Pascal by Gallimard and it looks very similar. Thus, if so, Gallimard is the most trustworthy publisher in France or what?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 09:25:20 2022 No.20440218 >>20439684 What are the statues?

Anonymous Sun May 29 11:43:04 2022 No.20440731

>>20440214
Yes, they're the definitive editions. Galliard is great on it's own, the bibliotheque de la pleiades is a rearrangement and authoritative version, lots of notes, but it uses bible paper.

I get them used and would only pay full for rare things like the new cassanova, which is the only complete edition available today.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 11:54:16 2022 No.20440784 >>20409867 >feng shui Hahaha. Poser.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 11:56:43 2022 No.20440789 >>20409867 I'm sick of being a brainlet. Is there a sticky for getting learned? Like a step by step reading guide on how to get started with economics, sociology, history, politics, etc?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 12:01:02 2022 No.20440808 >>20440731 Thank you very much!

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 15:38:09 2022 No.20441632 >>20440789 Plato.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 16:15:41 2022 No.20441839 >>20438204 It was funnier when he was facing out

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 16:20:30 2022 No.20441867 File: 2.98 MB, 4032x3024, 20220529_141921.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 16:47:20 2022 No.20442046 >>20410028 >Celtic Myths and Legends redpill me on that

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 16:49:09 2022 No.20442064 >>20409867 I do that. Ill read mmpb or listen to an audiobook then give it away and buy a hardcover or rare edition for my shelf. Usually wait for a sale so have a bunch of cheap paperbacks.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 16:53:05 2022 No.20442091 >>20415224 brother what is that edition of 2666 please. It looks hella grand.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 16:54:34 2022 No.20442097 >>20441867 Mind if I save your pic as an example of midwit-core?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 17:00:31 2022 No.20442147 File: 163 KB, 1205x678, PXL_20220529_191929624.MP.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20439684 Nice collection, are you dutch? My friend has a house in Maastritch and some of my other friends are professors at Utrecht I picked these up today

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 17:03:05 2022 No.20442166 >>20442097 yes

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 17:03:21 2022 No.20442167 >>20442147 >letter stencils >Xerox Bruh, what is going on here?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 17:56:01 2022 No.20442430 >>20431379 Yes, notice how half of the shelf is filled with toys, even though the owner is obviously an adult.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 19:23:07 2022 No.20442935 >>20442167 That's a Letterpress typeface I recently ordered. I'm thinking about engaging in some light pressowrk.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 19:30:22 2022 No.20442971 >>20442935 That's actually pretty cool. But who the fuck actually does anything with Xerox proper anymore?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 19:38:00 2022 No.20443007 >>20441867 >Saucony socks From what I hear they are suppose to be really comfy. Excellent taste in that regard. It's also nice that you read the classics, but I wouldn't give pride of place to ....... Sapiens.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 19:38:50 2022 No.20443011 >>20442971 That's how I print off things for the kids or mailing labels. Been selling my old videogames to finance the book operation.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 19:42:55 2022 No.20443025 >>20409867 Billy Graham - based!

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 21:05:03 2022 No.20443318 >>20437098 Wtf is that a wall painting? The wizard is cool but then you have the gayest shit I've seen on the right.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 21:06:46 2022 No.20443324 >>20439684 Based. It's my opinion, however, that shelves look better at a right angle, without the corner piece

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 21:08:03 2022 No.20443330 >>20438574 I buy books if I would like my son to read them one day

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 21:09:40 2022 No.20443339 >>20443318 nothing gay about staring up at muscular naked men every night before sleep

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 21:49:06 2022 No.20443493 >>20437098 This is cool but needs to be less gay

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 21:53:46 2022 No.20443507 >>20437098 w-w-what's the white stuff shooting out of his finger? Looks comfy though.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 29 22:14:49 2022 No.20443598 >>20443330 Here here, but for me it's three sons. I hope they all find something they like.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 01:09:58 2022 No.20444290 >>20442046 It's a fucking massacre, all the bibles are there to help me understand where the christian scholars fucked it all up with their revisionism

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 01:26:22 2022 No.20444322 >>20409867 too bad you have no thoughts of your own to discuss so you post this facebook tier shit instead

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 02:25:04 2022 No.20444458 >>20442091 It's the Norwegian first edition. Overpriced and glued

Anonymous Mon May 30 02:32:50 2022 No.20444470
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>>20431141
Yeah, I'm trying to get better. It takes practice. These came out well enough, will hold up for decades, but look clunkier than a fat girl on an eliptical wearing galaxy print stretchy clothes.

This 1853 Scott came out a bit better, but the leather was veg tanned calf at 1 oz

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 04:17:02 2022 No.20444728 >>20444458 >Overpriced and glued Rip sorry brother. Still looks impressive all the same.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 05:23:06 2022 No.20444932 >>20409867 What's the purpose of these threads? Other for vain and shallow anons?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 10:38:50 2022 No.20445780 File: 1.26 MB, 4000x3000, IMG_20220530_093754405_HDR.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20409867

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 10:40:21 2022 No.20445788 >>20445780 bane?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 10:43:50 2022 No.20445804 >Urantia Book Laughing my balls off over here.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 11:25:22 2022 No.20445939 >>20440218 I'm not sure. They're little warriors brought from Indonesia in 60s Would love to know more myself >>20442147 Yes. I've not even read half of this though as it's mostly inherited

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 11:26:59 2022 No.20445948 >>20444932 i get ideas of things to read in these threads

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 11:33:14 2022 No.20445968 File: 3.19 MB, 4032x3024, 2022-05-30 11.10.15.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] you anons are impressive with all your literature and stuff, i mostly just read non-fiction and random interest books.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 11:33:59 2022 No.20445974 File: 2.99 MB, 4032x3024, 2022-05-30 11.11.35.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20445968 sorry for sideways/exif strip. this will probably do the same.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 11:44:38 2022 No.20446018 >>20445968 >>20445974 What's your soundcloud link?

Anonymous Mon May 30 11:52:24 2022 No.20446053

>>20446018
I don't make music, I'm just a long time AV nerd (Interested in sound reinforcement, acoustics, and home theater). That's just some sound reinforcement equipment I have laying around and accessories/cables for my home theater in the other room or general household networking stuff.

Anonymous Mon May 30 12:01:35 2022 No.20446087

>>20439633
I actually just reorganized them and purged some for the first time in a while. I have a bookcase for favorites. Books I don’t care about as much go on the bottom shelves, while ones I like go on the top. And obviously I group multiple works by the same author together. Next thread I’ll post better pics

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 12:03:01 2022 No.20446096 >>20417900 Neither am I anymore. I don’t think I was ever a fan of DFW, though I wanted to be when I just started. Those books are actually in my closet now after I reorganized

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 12:19:54 2022 No.20446170 >>20444932 What's the purpose of complaining about these threads? Other than to show what a joyless scold you are of course.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 12:24:06 2022 No.20446191 >>20441867 Solid shelf

Anonymous Mon May 30 12:24:19 2022 No.20446193

>>20446170
I never understood the anons that come into these and stack threads to complain about them. Of all the threads to complain about, they chose ones that involve actual books? And why post at all? Scroll past if a thread bothers you. I don’t understand how they can though. They seem innocent enough. Such people must be bothered easily. But why not be bothered by the shitty catalog of lit that barely discusses books?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 12:37:11 2022 No.20446259 >>20443007 >saucony's nuts

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 12:44:49 2022 No.20446281 >>20446087 Which one is your 'favourite' bookshelf?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 12:48:50 2022 No.20446304 File: 2.66 MB, 4032x3024, F73DE6E7-2A4A-4FCB-BDA0-EEA9A0EB8BD3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20446281 Right now? This one 1/3

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 12:50:09 2022 No.20446313 File: 3.11 MB, 4032x3024, 5807302E-E336-4ABA-AF2A-46AD1BF5DC0F.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20446304 Fuck, it’s only 2 pics 2/2

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 14:54:33 2022 No.20446911 >>20446313 Solid German lit, I like the goethe

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 14:59:51 2022 No.20446932 >>20446911 I find him strange and unique. I like him better than any individual work. I think he is like a funnel. He took everything in and discoursed on it. He was a man of his times and representative of all

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 15:10:24 2022 No.20446976 >>20409867 All of my books are digital

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 16:47:32 2022 No.20447465 File: 1.65 MB, 1683x4032, 20220530_222945.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20409867

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 18:53:07 2022 No.20448108 >>20447465 Too white

>>	Anonymous Mon May 30 19:15:39 2022 No.20448202 >>20448108 thanks, Rabbi

Anonymous Mon May 30 19:18:13 2022 No.20448216

>>20410396
>started buying physical books again
>world is collapsing might as well piss away money on actual paper rather than pirating
you can always just pirate random paper books from those little free libraries by taking and not putting any back or just stuffing them with tom clancy

Anonymous Mon May 30 23:43:45 2022 No.20449342

>>20410099
I actually do agree. Doesn't help that they clash with the rest of the shelf's collection, although this could counter-intuitively be addressed by spreading their contents out amongst the rest of the books. Having them clumped together just makes the whole bookshelf clash with itself aesthetically. If it looked more like a chaotic, unsorted mess it could achieve comfy status.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 00:39:34 2022 No.20448552 File: 2.73 MB, 3024x4032, books.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20409867

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 01:20:32 2022 No.20448735 >>20409867 I loved that Smithsonian Animal book when I was a kid

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 01:37:44 2022 No.20448802 File: 3.94 MB, 4032x3024, 750398DA-6B3B-4509-A2AA-FB9FD9ABCD2C.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 01:39:11 2022 No.20448814 File: 3.89 MB, 4032x3024, CE6135CB-6C1E-43DC-B8DE-F9D1CE9FC0A3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20448802

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 01:41:32 2022 No.20448828 File: 954 KB, 828x1088, A6E8F958-2657-43DD-BDB6-6F71B7182201.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20448802 >>20448814

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 01:44:07 2022 No.20448838 File: 3.63 MB, 4032x3024, 5786C3CA-EA96-4C1A-A41F-CE6C3E6CBAEF.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20448802 >>20448814 >>20448828

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 01:47:15 2022 No.20448848 File: 972 KB, 828x1112, 54B82C6B-8C50-4B24-B495-D570769300A4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20448814 >>20448828 >>20448838

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 01:50:21 2022 No.20448857 >>20448552 Throw away that copy of 19q4, it's a pretentious piece of shit.

Anonymous Tue May 31 01:56:04 2022 No.20448878

>>20448857
I've definitely considered it. For some reason I've given Murakami more chances than I have any other writer; Kafka on the Shore, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Hard-boiled Wonderland, and Norwegian Wood are four of the worst novels I have ever read by a considerable margin. It could just be the translation, I tend to strongly dislike translated literature anyway. I don't know, I guess that will be "his" (the translators) last chance to impress me.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 06:35:40 2022 No.20450016 >>20434530 How's the Silo Saga? You should read The Fountainhead if you haven't yet. It's a great book.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 06:39:56 2022 No.20450032 >>20438635 >not raising your tv and having a shelf underneath it ngmi

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 06:41:22 2022 No.20450037 >>20442147 >joseph conrad folio uhh based?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 06:43:46 2022 No.20450046 >>20440789 >start with the greeks that's what i'm doing

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 06:46:01 2022 No.20450053 >>20442097 if that's midwit, then i'm proud to be a midwit. that's a decent shelf.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 06:47:29 2022 No.20450056 >>20445780 I'm looking for a good reading chair. Any suggestions?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 06:51:27 2022 No.20450068 >>20446304 I think I got filtered by Tolstoy. I read him in my early 20s (it's been ten years) and I found him wordy and annoying. I loved Dostoyevsky's House of the Dead though. Should I give Leo another chance?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 31 14:53:12 2022 No.20451448 >>20448216 >or just stuffing them with tom clancy Anon, you are a special kind of evil, and I like it.

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