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Some people read ebooks, especially if they’re in a small apartment
Or are poor and have to obtain them creatively™
Can confirm lol
Soulseek FTW!
Yeah, I have zero in my house now. I have over 1k on my ereader, in my pocket, and on my tablet. Even when I read physical books I never had this many, every time I got to a couple hundred I’d take them to Goodwill for others to enjoy. My reading list is so long, it’s not like I’m likely to reread anything. Every book I reread is one other book I won’t get to read before I die.
I see bookshelves like this these days it’s like someone with a lot of vinyl. They’re either old (old to me and I’m almost 50), or just into an old format for some reason. Nothing wrong with that, it just doesn’t mean the same thing it used to.
I have a similar mentality, but I do have some that are particularly memorable that I like to return to, like Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy for example. I also have certain books which are less for reading, like the Onion’s our dumb century or I have some railroad and travel books that have tons of cool pictures, but once I’ve read a book (especially fiction) if I dont forsee rereading it I’ll pass it along to someone or donate it to free up more space on my shelf for future books. And then my e-reader has a subset of my ebook library on it, with a mix of both re-reads and to-be-reads because that 32GB of storage will easily hold thousands of ebooks so there’s no stress to perfectly curate what I’m carrying with me on it
Keep your condoms behind the books, impress me
If no books, a well worn library card is a sexy substitute.
That person will have books, they will be overdue.
I think books are cool. Anyone who read books is a cool person and not yet lost to social media addiction. They can still be in the moment with themselves.
I had a period when I could not read a single page in a book because my mind was constantly wanting to use the phone instead. Many people are like that right now.
Sure, the guy has a ton of books in the shelves. But how many mysterious badly sorted storage boxes of books he has? Now that’s the real test of character.
Also ask probing questions about how many obsolete programming books he has. It may get awkward but it has to be done.
My friends have an Estonian book that teaches fortran 77 and BASIC if I remember correctly. It’s a truly wondrous tome.
I like books but its media in a different form. It could be great or it could be trash. The book format says nothing. I’d consider someone who watches the YouTube channel Angela Collier as more educated than someone who has a bookshelf full of Danielle Steel novels.
sure, but the point is if they don’t have any books at all
the former person would and should have books
Someone with no books but watches Angela Collier is more educated than a person with a bookshelf of Danielle Steele.
You know, I’m not so sure I agree, actually.
It is really, really, really easy to engage with content on Youtube passively. That is, without really paying attention.
If a person watches Angela Collier on a side screen while playing a video game or something, and can’t really recall anything she’s talked about, I don’t know if that really counts.
You could say that people who watch Angela corrolate with people who do pay attention, but then I’d say that people who watch Angela corrolate with people who own books.
Only fuck people who make an expensive signal like Jay Gatsby.
Hahahahaaa
Well it’s kinda hard to fuck the books when they don’t exist, so yeah that makes sense
I use the presence books or an e-reader in a home as a barometer for how much have in common with the people in it. I’m not a snob about it, either. I don’t care if its Harry Potter or obscure volumes of post-structural literary criticism. Just read, please.
But I can’t afford to keep books! They take up a lot of space that requires large rooms with shelves and shit. I can’t even afford a decent apartment!
What if I show you my Chinese e-reader with my digital collection of pirated books instead? You like Terry Pratchett?
Boox. Absolutely fascinating for pirated books and comics.
My last three books read have been on a Kindle. I am considering dumping all my books because I can fit a whole library on the Kindle and saves so much space in the (very small) house. Have I become unfuckable?
If you buy your books on amazon too, yes.
You guys buy your books? Haven’t you heard of anna’s archive?
May I remind you of the first rule of (lib) genesis.
No.
Yes
Says the man that hasn’t moved homes a lot.
Fuck them book boxes. All hail the public library where you most importantly give the book back!
I have lots of books and prefer physical media. I’ve organized them various ways, mostly by author, then by series name and book number (if applicable), then by book title.
I generally prefer mass market format because it’s easier to hold, but sometimes a collectible version is too tempting or, in other cases, the mass market option simply isn’t available. As a result, my library consists of a wide variety of shapes and sizes of books.
Unfortunately, for assorted reasons, most of my library is in boxes right now. Less unfortunately, I haven’t been dating for a long time. However, back when I was dating and my literature was on shelves around my bedroom, sometimes I would bring a partner home and they would complain about my books not being arranged by size or, alternatively, by color.
Of course they could setup their library however they wanted, but I did feel a bit of despair every time I heard this desire for form over function.
Arranging by size or color is the worst. Mine are arranged by topic/category
I read a shit ton of books. I don’t care if they’re on a screen or in my hands.
What if they’re hot
Give them a signed copy of the Kama Sutra, signed by me.
Take them to the library
Due to a few job losses, moves, and storage losses a while back, I lost and stopped replenishing my physical books, so most of my library is digital. Also helps since I need glasses now.
There are worrying drawbacks to digital also, like whether i might suddenly not own stuff I purchased, but so far it’s been better for me.
There are plugins available for Callibre to remove DRM from ebooks if you want to hedge against Amazon or whomever pulling the rug on you
