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Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:08:26 2017 No.9702015 [Reply] [Original]

>go to your bookshelf
>examine all the books

Up until this very moment, how much money have you spent on your bookshelf, anon?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:09:37 2017 No.9702017 >>9702015 bout 6-700 bucks, i dunno.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:11:45 2017 No.9702019 >>9702015 Max $200, as probably 95% of my the books I own were bought used/secondhand, save for the 5 or so books I wanted brand new, nice copies of.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:16:05 2017 No.9702030 $200 History books on Greeks, Romans, Middle Ages Japanese textbook Bible Homer Collected Plato Collected Aristotle Virgil Augustine Summa Theologica Divine Comedy Chaucer Hobbit Wizard Knight series Maus MetaMaus Not much but it's growing.

Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:19:26 2017 No.9702038

>>9702015
>Doesn't download free ebooks.

>>9702017
>Buying commodities that depreciate a more than half in value as soon as you own 'em, top fucking kek.
>inb4 books no comoditee!!!!!!

>>9702019
Happily owns someone's used/ruined books. Highly likely to get cuckolded in the future.

Fuck, /lit/, where did you go wrong?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:20:50 2017 No.9702040 >>9702030 >Gets tricked into falling for "muh wezzern cannon" meme. Fuck, /lit/, fuck.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:20:55 2017 No.9702041 >>9702038 >ecuck Go charge your gameboy, you fucking tool

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:21:16 2017 No.9702043 around 10k id say

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:22:18 2017 No.9702045 >>9702038 i have a couple of kindles as well.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:22:37 2017 No.9702047 zero. my mummy bought me all my books and now I read free ebooks on my kindle like an adult. paying for anything other than services and food is retarded.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:22:51 2017 No.9702048 >>9702038 >all the books that he wants are available in ebook protip: you're still a newfag pleb.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:24:28 2017 No.9702051 >>9702038 >used/ruined books Wrong. Most are in pretty good condition, actually. Kys.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:25:01 2017 No.9702053 nothing, my dad made it for me out of the old kitchen worktop

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:25:47 2017 No.9702056 >>9702040 That's my genuine taste. I'd like to get into lesser known medieval and comic books, though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:26:06 2017 No.9702057 >>9702047 >Reads free ebooks on Kindle. >Doesn't pay a stupendous amount to buy books that are worthless weight lying around, taking space. Ubermensch detected

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:27:59 2017 No.9702061 >>9702043 >Wastes 10k when all he needed was a couple of hundred for late fees at the library. >Brags about it online Fuck, /lit/

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:29:37 2017 No.9702066 0 because I'm a library patrician.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:30:23 2017 No.9702071 >>9702051 >Doesn't see that the condition of the book doesn't make it any less degrading to own someone's used shit Kek.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:31:12 2017 No.9702074 File: 59 KB, 522x583, 1497408545848.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9702047 >>9702057 >>9702061 >this peasant emotional support group

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:32:55 2017 No.9702077 >>9702074 you're a complete retard if you don't read majority of books on kindle.. Even if you're smart you're retarded in an autistic way,

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:33:31 2017 No.9702079 >>9702074 >Needs a picture to help him articulate his point. >Still thinks he deserves to live. Fuck, /lit/, fuck

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:33:38 2017 No.9702080 >>9702071 >Thinks that matters at all >Next-level autism You have to be 18 to post here.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:35:47 2017 No.9702086 ~2k Most used. Given most of my books away, too. Easily spent >5k over my life.

Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:36:29 2017 No.9702090

>>9702048
>Thinks people don't buy physical copies at all.
>Doesn't know smart people only buy physical copies of books not available digitally.
>Creates a dichotomy between print and digital, and doesn't use both as per his needs.

Fuck, /lit/, the autism here might trigger a weaker man

Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:37:22 2017 No.9702094
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>>9702077

i don't like annotating/marking on kindle. i loathe it, in fact. but then i'm not going to talk shit on people who use kindle for easy reads. of course that's fine. it's the guys who try to reason out of physical format in toto that let me know how newreader they are.

>Even if you're smart
probably.
>you're retarded in an autistic way
undeniably.

>>9702079

here is a picture of a dog with a smoke in his mouth. i don't think it helps me articulate my point any but he does look rather sporting in it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:39:31 2017 No.9702100 >>9702080 >Still lives with a trampled self-esteem which allows him to justify buying something as cheap as books second hand. >Thinks anyone who doesn't share his belief is autistic. /lit/, Fuck, really

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:41:09 2017 No.9702106 File: 43 KB, 570x587, 1498674861564.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9702100 >>9702090 >>9702079 >>9702071 >>9702061 >>9702038

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 03:56:34 2017 No.9702137 >>9702015 About $3000 give or take.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 04:01:21 2017 No.9702147 >>9702038 >buying an ebook reader/pc you're the only cuckold here t. at the library, posting on the library computer, ready to check out like 5 books

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 04:02:04 2017 No.9702149 Like £100-£200 at most, i pirate the majority of my books

Anonymous Sat Jul 1 04:12:24 2017 No.9702166

probably about $3500 in the last few years. I like buying books new and admiring how they look organized on a bookshelf. I only preview books digitally. if it catches my interest in the least, I go out and purchase a copy.

also
>highlighting a brand new, undefiled book gives me a rush like no other

Anonymous Sat Jul 1 04:19:45 2017 No.9702176
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>tfw rich family
>tfw live in house given by dead grandma
>grandma and grandpa were avid readers for their 90+ years of life
>tfw i have four walls covered in nothing but books
>most are very old
>most are very well kept
>they all smell very very much like books
>there are probably three to five thousand books there

>probably worth 10 - 100 thousand usd

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 05:15:23 2017 No.9702256 Thats way too much effort bud.

Writer Help Thread Sat Jul 1 05:31:00 2017 No.9702270 [DELETED]

>>9702015
How could I possibly know that? Half of them are used, and they span a decade of spending. I also have about three double rows of books.

Since I started buying books, maybe 1000(not counting my weeb phase)? Since I found libgen, maybe 30

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 05:32:10 2017 No.9702273 >>9702015 (OP) How could I possibly know that? Half of them are used, and they span a decade of spending. I also have about three double rows of books. Since I started buying books, maybe 1000(not counting my weeb phase)? Since I found libgen, maybe 30

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 05:51:25 2017 No.9702297 >>9702147 >Not installing an e-reader app on phone or tablet or laptop >Not carrying digital library everywhere he goes >Thinks e-reading devices are an anomaly Top kek all in all, but fuck. /lit/, what happened?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 05:58:05 2017 No.9702309 >>9702015 Possibly as much as £1000. I have two full bookshelves, and a stack of books (need a third bookshelf, no room for it).

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 06:04:12 2017 No.9702318 >>9702015 Counting only more or less /lit/-acceptable books, around $500. Then if you add various comics, fantasy, not to mention pretty much every single Discworld book, I'm probably easyily pushing $1000+

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 06:05:31 2017 No.9702320 >>9702176 Honestly fucking jelly. My dream is to have a big comfy library room. Right now I'm only buying paperbacks though, not sure if that's going to be as comfy in a library.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 06:05:55 2017 No.9702321 Around 20k.. But I am considerably older than most of you.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 06:07:50 2017 No.9702324 >>9702176 can you fly me to your house rich boy, i want to share in your wealth

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 06:09:40 2017 No.9702329 Probably like 800 dollars if I'm going to guess. Not that much. My bookshelf ain't that big, but it is nice to watch it sometimes because it only contains books that I like.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 06:10:58 2017 No.9702331 probably about $800 bucks over 5 or 6 years

Anonymous Sat Jul 1 06:21:41 2017 No.9702353

>>9702318
>Fell for the /lit/ meme
>Wailed his way through GR
>compensates for being on the bandwagon by buying graphic novels depicting prepubescent Japanese girls being raped by an anthropomorphic squid
>spent nearly 500 American shekels on it
>Actually confesses to it on the internet

Damn, /lit/

Anonymous Sat Jul 1 06:29:16 2017 No.9702371

>>9702353
Kek, literally finished GR a few days ago, so well played. But the majority of them are before I even started browsing /lit/, it's just a standard assorment of "classics", not specifically /lit/-core, like East of Eden, Fahrenheit 451, Keurac, Lovecraft, etc. As for the comics, only superior Anglo graphic novels for me, thanks.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 07:16:46 2017 No.9702453 This thread makes me feel rich. >>9702047 >paying for anything other than services and food is retarded. t. naked man in empty room

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 09:51:47 2017 No.9702683 >>9702040 You know putting things in "quotation marks" and spelling it incorrectly makes you look like a twat with no real argument right?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 09:58:02 2017 No.9702700 >>9702015 Well, I have ~12k books in my personal library. Many were free, many were a dollar, many were ten, and some of the rarer editions were a few hundred. I would guess I've spent roughly $80k, if not more.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 10:03:36 2017 No.9702714 >>9702683 >Thinks adding a question mark after a sentence turns it into a legitimate question >Mfw when the average /lit/izen's grammar displays symptoms of dyslexia. Kek

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 1 12:15:15 2017 No.9703025 >>9702176 Can you share a picture of this glorious place?

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