shelf thread
post your shelves

Here's an old pic.
Currently reading The Tempest and Groundworks of Metaphysics

>>24614575
>sideways pic
>most of it out of focus
nice contribution

>>24614843
I can read 80% o'it

>>24610875
>>24610939

>>24614535
Ebook fondlers don't need to participate in this thread lmfao.

>>24614535

>>24614909
some books are just too expensive for most people

>>24614915
Examples?

>>24614919
Riverside Chaucer

>>24614923
That's 15 bucks but, I mean, if you're a third worlder then that's food for two weeks

>>24614919
red book
anything bardon
bottoms dream
academic works in general

>>24614931
(actually disregard the bardon part, prices seem to have dropped a bit)

>>24614931
>bottoms dream
>tfw two copies of it

>>24614936
my pdf does the job just fine

>>24614926
Exactly. Check your privilege dumbass

>>24614931
>bottoms dream
By the title, I thought this would be a cool homage to Shakespeare's Midsommer Night's Dream. Instead it's some dweeb jerking himself off to Poe. Sad.

>>24614954
one of the most important works ever written, regardless of your dismissal

>>24614961
I was cavalier and brusque. My apologies. What about it do you find to be so significant within the wide world of literature?

>>24614969
arguably the most thorough examination of the relation between a writer and his work

>>24614998
I'll put it on the list. Thanks.

>>24614575
you want the stack thread, friendo

>>24614513 (OP)
I see why a book about Narcisism is in the most prominent position on the shelf.
>>24614575
Hardback fetish freak
>>24614951
Obvious try hard here
Is that a sex toy or pokemon cards in that aluminium case?

>>24615323
>Obvious try hard here
Fine
>Is that a sex toy or pokemon cards in that aluminium case?
Cash and some silver

>>24615353
>some silver
you'd have been better off with pokemon cards

>>24615366
You dont have to remind me

I don't buy books. I read them without giving (((them))) money. I replaced my doomscrolling with reading, helped me quite a bit.

>>24614513 (OP)

My shelf is just the Bible.

>>24615436
>My shelf is just the Bible.
You need Moby Dick.
And the Illiad.

>>24615560
You are replying to a mentally ill homosexual

>>24615580
and now im as well

>>24614513 (OP)
I wish I could participate in these threads as I'm very curious to see what you lot would think of my bookshelf. Alas, I have no smart phone and refuse to hold my laptop up to take a picture with its shitty webcam. So, just imagine my shelf!

>>24614961
You’ve never read it

>>24614998
Vapid and superficial explanation. Did you get this “thought” from Dalkey’s website?

>>24614950
at the door!!

>>24614513 (OP)

>>24615742
>>24615743
>angry samefagging instead of adding your own take

>>24615738
>Alas, I have no smart phone
creep

rate my shelf bros

>>24615873
>doesn’t know what samefagging is
Doesn’t change the fact that you’ve never read it and you’re a fat, vapid bitch incapable of saying anything insightful

>>24616895
two posts saying the same thing, exactly one minute apart, now thats samefaggotry
im guessing it was you in the other schmidt threads as well, accusing any anon who mentioned it of not reading it without actually having anything to contribute yourself
thats because you are scared of getting exposed for whatever bullshit you would conjure up as an interpretation and why you hide behind lame putdowns and non-arguments
superficial how? are you arguing that the artist-work-relation is non-existent as an aspect or are you too stupid to realize pointing out one theme doesnt devalue the other ones?

>>24615323
Shut it.
You're just a butthurt ugly troller.

bump

I just got some more vintage Dosto and Jung but they're in the freezer cuz some of the boxes had bugs. He wanted $90 for an early Lord of the Flies but I passed.
>>24616842
Ugly color shelf

Just dusting them off today.

>>24614513 (OP)
I have a terrible shelves right now. Do you guys have any advice on cheap but quality small shelves I can buy? Also, like how do you guys keep your books looking so nice, I can keep a book on my book shelf untouched for years and it somehow ends up dogeared with a beat up cover and worn spine. What gives?

>>24614951
Why do you get those piece of shit fake classical bind covers

>>24618738
>Mayhem in the Morra
Based

>>24618738
>human accomplishments
Based

>>24614883
Alright, here's my English section.

>>24619134
go to a thrift store or the like
also don't cram your books in so tightly

Loebs on deck

>>24616842
>rate my shelf bros
"Everybody look at me, I'm different"
>>24618738
"I'm so cool and edgy cos I deliberately slip in the odd low-brow title"
>>24619114
"How the fuck am I going to pay off my student debt for my worthless humanities degree/s?"
>>24619204
"I've been here in this board for four years now"
>>24619558
"If I don't stack my books by color, my girlfriend gets angray at me"

>>24619751
Universities typically pay graduate students and waive tuition. Those of us from prestigious universities not only get a free ride, but also make enough to purchase our starter homes.

>>24619168
Its GOATed
>>24619175
Basically the theme of my shelf
>>24619751
>odd low-brow title
Like what

Picked up The Shining at Albertsons today.

>>24620030
>Like what
Gnomes

>>24619751
>"I've been here in this board for four years now"
Since the beginning, actually :^)

>>24620258
Thats my wifes book

>>24620798
Is she single?
Tell her I said hi!

>>24620582
>my dick's bigger than your dick

>>24620798
how tall are you?

I call it my fun shelf.

>>24620861
6'5 in boots
>>24620809
You couldn't handle a woman taller than you

>>24620258
>>24620870
kys

>>24618738
How does this edition of Plato’s collected dialogues compare to the frequently recommended Hackett edition?

Over half the books on this shelf were either gifted to me or found for free.
tyFjFHBZ

A bookshelf filled with a lot of stuff I haven't read completely

>>24620870
>diary of a wimpy kid
>mein kampf
sounds about white

>>24618738
you get bonus points for placing the bell curve next to culture of critique.

>>24621933
>JS version of SICP
Get real

I’ve only been collecting books for about a month

>>24622440
Dust your fucking shelf.

>>24614513 (OP)
Mine

>>24622548
>>24620870
why do you guys live on the equator

>>24621802
Reddit doesn't like it so must be good
(I didn't read the Hackett translation, unless thats the vers of The Republic I read in college?)
>>24621960
Nice
>>24622205
You can't see but On Jews And The Lies is right next to it

>>24622569
I live in Ohio, dingbat. I was raised Lutheran but have considered Catholic conversion for some time now

>>24622589
Gravity is sideways in Ohio???

>>24622593
My phone uploads pictures wrong

>>24622440
kys

>>24622614
Lrn2crop1st

slowly building the collection

>>24622786
Faggot collection

>>24622802
It's the glass thing.. isn't..

>>24622813
nice faggot typing style

>>24622813
No. Only faggots read Jon Fosse.

>>24622825
out of everything on the shelf, Jon Fosse is what prompted the faggot

>>24622825
What do I need to put in my bookshelves to be a real man? Should I get a copy of Moby Dick?

>>24622831
Yes
>>24622833
Houellebecq

>>24622833
28 different paperback editions of Blood Meridian

that's what real men read

in fact they don't even read it, they just hold the book open performatively while drinking and smoking with the other hand

>>24622837
the french midget whose mother was a prostitute?

>>24622837
What if I read both Jon Fosse and Michel Houellebecq, what am I then?

>>24622842
He writes the most masculine contemporary literature. Outside of ironic manoshphere garbage, that is.

>>24622846
No I like his work, I just don't particularly see the connection to him and masculinity in stark opposition to Jon Fosse

>>24616842

where's the 1st edition hardcover copy of Lolita on the shelf?

>all these fuggin images of dead trees on shelves
>no collections of paedophilic erotica written by homosexual black women from French Guyane.
Y'all guys ain't open enough to alternate lifestyles.

>>24623021
>Y'all guys ain't open enough to alternate lifestyles.
nope

>>24622735
No thanks zoomie, lern2moveurhed

>>24622833
Only the /lit/ annotated Moby Dick
>>24623340
Im older than you. Respect your elders

>>24622833
Nothing. Building a collection unique to you takes a long time. The ultimate gayness is letting /lit/ dictate what should be on your shelf.

>>24614951
>Folio
>Christslop
>Jeetslop
Yawn

>>24619558
Based

>>24623520
Are you sure about that? Im 43

No nobleman would've bothered with oil paintings if they'd had access to photography, or paid an orchestra if he'd had access to a record player. Likewise, books were simply the best we had for the longest times. Ereaders have fundamentally changed that in that now a library the size of a small town can fit on an SD card the size of your fingernail and everything on it can be accessed on a single device which is not only smaller and lighter than a book, but has a backlight too.

Physical books are just Luddism at this point.

>>24623789
>/pol/tard
yawn

>>24614513 (OP)
digital is the way kek

Picked up these bad boys today. Already have a shitty, half-destroyed paperback version of consolation that I’ll donate. Unsure how I’ve gone all these years without a physical copy of meditations.

There’s really nothing better than getting great finds at a used bookstore. Truly one of life’s simple pleasures

>>24624366
>kek

>>24614951
Everything from the selection of titles to their editions just screams gamer that decided to try and get into "serious" literature.

Hey poors.

>>24625315
I imagine you can discern serious literature from the trivial literature that I read. Nice to see a man of taste like you.

>>24623792
Indeed.

>>24614513 (OP)
This is just one of them

>>24620870
>Contact Harvest
Based

>>24614951
needs picrel

>>24625514
Ah, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Quill

>>24614513 (OP)
why keep books?
you read them already. give them away.

>>24626312
>why keep videogames you played them already give them away

A little messy but what's there is there

1/2

>>24626377
2/2

Of course they get flipped

>>24626379
It has happened to everyone. In the future, slightly crop the image. Would love your edition of the Foundation Trilogy by the way.

You should try branching out into the less mainstream scifi stuff to see if you like it. Try Roadside Picnic

>>24626469
I'm down for recommendations. I've got tons on my kindle as well, either because I can't find them in various stores/libraries or simply cost.

>>24625429
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE POOR ANYMORE...JESUS IS HERE

>>24626337
I trade in games when I get tired of them.

>>24614909
if you aren't reading all three, you're ngmi.
some books aren't available physically, some aren't available digitally.

>>24622786
having the weeknd on vinyl is crazy
having it censored is even crazier

>>24614513 (OP)

>>24627164
If you're reading only ebooks you're living a pod and eating the bugs.

Tell me something about myself /lit/

>top left out of focus
>Gore Vidal Jullian
>The longest day
>various Beckett soft backs

>>24627243
You certainly like to take it up the ass every once in a while

>>24627243
the lion rapes the small dog when it barks

>>24627285
>>24627268
Neither of these things are true

how many of you seemingly just buy the "essentials" in new, $20 form. how few of you know the pleasures of buy beat up dusty obscurities from second hand stores.

>>24627305
New is almost never worth it particularly with reprinted paperbacks.There are good condition folios on ebay currently that are cheaper than their new paperback equivalent.

I got every Folio in >>24627243 except Blood Meridian and Moby Dick, from 2nd hand shops or Abebooks.
I spent more on the copy of Moby Dick than the other 10 Folios and had serious buyers remorse ngl, but it so far held its 2nd hand value so meh.


I got all of the Ezra Pound books from a thrift shop that had just had them donated, mostly hardback, all first editions, for €30. Ive no idea of the actual value but am certain it is more than €30

>>24614513 (OP)
how often do you non ebook readers consult the dictionary when you encounter an unfamiliar word?

>>24627366
>unfamiliar words
lmao

>>24627388
You must be a monolingual reader if you never see a word you don't know

>>24627388
the last 3 pages of my current read included:
gendarmerie
bolero
deciduous
manna
are you familiar with those

>>24627407
Well...yes

>>24627407
I had to google bolero I wont lie

>>24627290
>the lion doesn't rape the small dog when it barks
whatever retard

>>24627431
In what context would a lion be together with a small dog? Huh?

>>24627407
I'm ESL and I am familiar with those.

>>24627405
No, I speak five languages.

>>24627502
half of those are not English words, so that makes sense

>>24627505
that's nice you can say hello in five languages

>>24627415
>>24627502
alright wise guys, heres some from my kobo's 'saved words', how many out of the 15 do you know
>lupine
>parheila
>fronds
>balletic
>rictus
>peplum
>apperception
>kowtow
>profiligate
>echinacea
>hypertrophy
>tetrenatic
>maw
>topiary
>bucolic

>>24627540
I agree with your point but youre picking a lot of bad examples

here are words I highlighted
>barouche
>muezzin
>gobelin
>cholla
>liana

>>24627575
>bad examples
im not gonna pretend my vocab encompasses everything that isn't ultra obscure. Theres plenty in my 'saved' list that are relatively common place. I have to learn them somewhere.

>>24614919
the complete talmud in hardcover

>>24627540
Pretty sure those are just the names of 15 pokemon, bro.

>>24627575
>bad examples
im not gonna pretend my vocab encompasses everything that isn't ultra obscure. Theres plenty other words i've 'saved' that are common place. I have to learn them somewhere.

>>24627622
Yes, naturally, I just meant smart asses here would scoff

>>24625429
>has to double-shelve his books
>calls others poorfags
Nice collection of sermons and apologetics thoughbeit

>>24627540
>lupine
>parhelia
>apperception
>profiligate
>hypertrophy
>maw
>topiary
bretty good

Ive found its difficult to buy book shelfs at an antique mall. All the shelfs are full of antiques and not for sale

>>24627812
store owners tend to be more willing to sell shelves if you carefully relocate their contents before you approach them about it

>>24627366
You can just search the word on the phone

>>24627407
>he didnt win an FN gendarmerie parts kit

>>24627305
>>24627335
I typically won't spend more than $10 for a folio or any modern post war book. It's a good idea to look in second hand shops, nearly all of my folios were cheap, some as low as .50 cents. The exceptions were gibbon and the anatomy of melancholy which were 30 and 50.


>>24627784 fair enough, I need another shelf, but we're not certain if we're gonna expand the house on that side or another.

>>24628461
Something about the shelf looks dirty like I'm in the unabomber's shed

>>24627505
Im probably the only person here who doesn't speak a second language but then again part of the reason I don't bother is because it gets under everyone else's skin and I kind of get off on it

>>24628637
Any communication worth having is done in American. If it hasn't been translated yet it's probably not worthwhile.

I don't have a shelf. I read on my phone.
Yes it's fucked. I don't care.

>>24626377
>>24626378
>manga
gay