Thread 24636657

why aren't we doing this anymore?

tfw another man will never press me up against this cabinet, shaking it and causing the assorted knickknacks lying upon it to rattle audibly, and tfw he will never kiss me forcibly, sliding his warm hands under my shirt, tickling me, making me blush, and moan, after i offer to show him my collection of proust and montherlant books

>>24636657 (OP)
same reason we aren't doing pic-related — the abolition of slavery.

>>24636661
based beastmode faggot.

>>24636657 (OP)
Because many people pretend to read.

>>24636657 (OP)
>why aren't we doing this
>we
Speak for yourself, shelflet

>>24636657 (OP)
Me on the left

Because that is really uncomfortable to use as a desk

>>24636777
Is it?

Because e-readers have made Time Life obsolete

>>24636803
Yes. Zero leg space

>>24636657 (OP)
Because modern life is characterised by its transitory nature and a massive hardwood shelf is a bitch to move.

I would if I was rich

My boyfriend, and my mother who lives with us, refused to allow me to buy an adequate number of bookshelves for our house when we moved in. Said I was taking up too much space and the house is for everyone. The joke is on them, because now there are stacks of books in every corner and covering every surface. I think I will have to start spraying for silverfish.

You think I can afford this? The fact that I have a real wooden bookshelf is, by itself, already pushing it. Does give me an idea for checking some antique stores, but frankly, the used market has become overpriced.

Do you actually like the works therein or do you just like le aesthetics like a woman?
The people who post this will never oblige themselves to read the poetry of Cowper or the novels of Bulwer Lytton. It's just a cool aesthetic to them. They have no love for old literature

>>24636657 (OP)
Because it's for show, and the homeowner has never read even one of those books

>>24636813
That's why the platform extends out, retard. It's also an escritoire, you're meant to write letters at it.

>>24637723
Except it doesn't. Go back to your shitty country you dumb ESL faggot

>>24637723
go back to learning english frogeater

>>24636657 (OP)
People don't read any more. Why would they go to the effort of making nice books?

On a more serious note, I've had the insight for some 10-15 now that one of the main causes of modern design is that as we have filled our psychical world with massive riches in the form of electronic media, and as a result , because our psychical or mental world has become so crowded and dense, we wish to make our physical world as bare as possible.
This is probably not an explanation you've heard before.

>>24636657 (OP)
You aren't?

>>24636657 (OP)
>why
digital is the way

>>24637866
Maybe I just miss the smell of paper

>questionthread
Questionthreads are always spam, always wrong, and always dishonest. They are designed to get replies by being wrong. A shill posts 2+2=5 and anons give him (you)s saying it's 4. He doesn't read that, he's posting another zero effort questionthread, to slide the board.
>but we're not /pol/
They don't understand that, anon.

>>24636657 (OP)
Ok and?

>>24636657 (OP)
You mean being disgustingly rich and having books custom rebound in leather to have a uniform library? Damn I wish I had money.

>>24638034
I have a cabinet like that wanna see it?

Just took 40 years of cheap book collecting

>>24638044
Sure, anon. Why not.

Tada

It just takes patience and an aunt who likes books

>>24637866
>bored-games
Faggot.

>>24636777
You task your head butler to inform the master of the study who directs the steward of legspace, guardian of the knee drawer's key, to open said drawer at the proper moment so when you embark on your quest for knowledge you are not inconvenienced by matters of physical nature.

jews

>>24636657 (OP)
We hate god and 99% of the human population of earth is vermin that should be exterminated. Imagine a world of just 100 million white people.

>>24636657 (OP)
Because it's obsolete, all you need today is a comfy couch and a table for beverages, and MAYBE a notepad if you're that arrogant about the value of your reading

>>24636657 (OP)
I have a vacuum
don’t need to fuck with a glass case

>>24638152
Why we killed everyone else?

Are we retarded, why I have to marry my sister now?

What do we do with the corpses?

This instructions are not on english

>>24638062
Not a single good book in sight. Sad

>>24638152
>99% of the human population is now fat
This must be true hell

Yeah it's happened.

>>24637732
it does man
>t. about to build a secretary

>>24637866
share goodreads nonny

>>24636724
>the abolition of slavery.
there are proportionally more slaves in the world today then there have ever been in history. that includes the west.

>>24641400
How hot is she?

>>24641963
the furniture is called a secretary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_desk

>>24636657 (OP)

>>24636803
I have that type of desk and I will say it's way too small to be useful for anything as a desk. We just use it to store lithium batteries and fireworks now. I would say if you hope to use it with a computer there's no way to make it work because the height is limited to around 14 inches with that cover obstructing some visibility, and the area of the desk with unlimited airspace is about four inches deep. If you hope to use it for writing, it's not going to be spine friendly, these desks are intended for women at the 5'4" height range I think.

>>24636803
>Is it
I have that type of desk and I will tell you it's way too small to be useful as a desk. We just use it to store lithium batteries now. I would tell you if you hope to use it with a computer there's no way to make it work because the height is limited to around 14 inches with that cover obstructing some visibility, and the area of the desk with unlimited airspace is about four inches at the very front. If you hope to use it for writing, it's not going to be spine friendly, you had better get a writer's desk with the top that folds all the way back. I would think these desks are intended for women at the 5'2" height range.

>>24636657 (OP)
Because in the 19th century they had no computers so your study desk could be enhanced with a big ass built in bookshelf to have reference materials at easy reach. You could still do that today, but you’re never going to actually be using it for this purpose, it’s just a giant unwieldy desk to hold books you’re probably going to read somewhere else.

>>24636657 (OP)
these old volumes contain several books which is more impresseve
just one of those could contain the complete works of racine or a selection of greek plays, very nice

>>24636657 (OP)
Because Jews hate beauty and oy vey goy how many trees need to give their lives for your vanity instead you should be a doubleplus goodgoy and read from your Amazon Kindle approved library.