Thread 24788483

I just bought my first book, a hardcover edition of Dracula. What am I supposed to do with it? I get read it, but, how often am I supposed to read it and pull it out to refer to certain passages, out of research, or to prove an argument? What is the typical usecase for the average book?

>>24788483 (OP)
I am already regretting this chaps. Am I just going to have this giant book with me forever? I am starting to feel extremely helpless.

>>24788486
Just use a kindle ereader

>>24788486
You read it and then you buy some more books and read them and you reread them sometimes and it doesn't get any easier anon

>>24788486
topkek

>>24788483 (OP)
>how often am I supposed to read it and pull it out to refer to certain passages, out of research, or to prove an argument?
Probably never, since Dracula is pulp schlock.

>>24788483 (OP)
Now you build yourself a bookshelf and put it on display. Then, after you look at it for a time (assuming you've already read Dracula), sitting on a bookshelf that is the product of your own work and it catches your eye, you remember how much you truly enjoyed the book, pull it off the shelf and begin reading it again in your favorite place. Maybe it's in front of the fire on a cool day, or that spot where the sun hits just right through a window. Reading physical books is maximum comfy and gives you a well earned break from the screens. I usually read books as an ebook first. If I like the book, I'll buy a physical copy for re-reads in the future.

Have you already read Dracula? I just finished it for the first time and Renfield is my favorite character. I also really like the cover on that book.

>>24788486
lmao

>>24788483 (OP)
Keep it on your bookshelf.
Continue buying books and reading them as you please, and put them on your bookshelf when you're done.
When your bookshelf is full, select the books that you know you're never going to read or reference again, and which you also don't care about keeping for sentimentality's sake.
These books are the candidates for removal.
When you finish reading a new book, which you do not have room for on the shelf as is, consider whether this new book is a candidate for removal.
Once you've decided, look among your set of candidates for removal, and remove the book that is the lowest of the low, the one that you're least interested in.
Donate that book to a used bookstore, thrift shop, library, or little free library.
Continue until your bookshelf is full of books that are good and that you are likely to either read again, reference, show off, or at least fondly reminisce about.
Then, buy a second bookshelf so that the process can continue.

>>24788483 (OP)
What an ugly cover , not even a good coffee table book for Spooky Season (TM)

>>24788483 (OP)
Discard it and start with the Greeks.

>>24788483 (OP)
>Nephew visits
>Sees my book collection
>Says "it's impossible to read so many books"
>It's a little over a hundred books

Grim.

>>24788486
>>24788483 (OP)
we just keep winning PDF sisters

>>24788483 (OP)
Are you retarded

Whenever I try to read a book or ebook it puts me to sleep so I have to listen to audiobooks while multitasking something else like playing a video game.

>>24790780
I am the same way. It is probably adhd. Sometimes randomly a certain passage or paragraph will be "gripping" enough, but most of the time even if im interested in the topic (I mostly listen to philosophy) ill fall asleep easy)

Tbh this even happens for some YouTube videos or Twitch Streams sometimes, so its not the medium per se.

But this is the double edged sword of books. They simultaneously cant be read alone for me, but I also cant listen while gaming, because my focus is going to have to "give" somewhere. This is especially difficult for philosophy books where youre constantly grappling with how and why a philosopher is using a particular word.

>>24788483 (OP)
Lube up and put it in your butt

>>24789004
>be Renfield
>will never get swole af on crappy asylum food
>start snatching the juciest flies to protein-maxx
>count calories by scratching tallies into the wall
>all the doctors jealous of your recent pigeon gains
>bounce to the abandoned house next door to lift in peace
>they make you come back
>at least this place has the best flies