Thread 24857176

Post your recent cops or anything else you're reading.

only consoom-brains showing of on SoMe buy 10 books at a time. people who actually read buy one or two or maybe max three books at a time.

>>24857288
Those books are used. It's very easy to find used books for cheap. I try and pay no more than $2 per book

All from charity shops. Priced between 50p and £5.

The top book is close to 100 years old and also contains a copy of the original book of poetry released by the sisters.

>>24857288
Just say you're broke

>>24857288
You buy as many books as you want to build up a library to then choose what you want to read from what you have. Quit being such an insecure fag.

>>24857176 (OP)
1/2
>vance
I was going to buy two of his novels a few days ago, but I was on the fence because I wasn't sure if they were part of a series or not.
>>24857449
>wyndham
Early this year I read some of his novels. The Midwich Cuckoos is great, Stoaway to Mars is a bit generic.

>>24857818
2/2

>>24857176 (OP)
I just got Don Quixote so I can brush up on my reading and writing in Spanish. I'll probably start it sometime in December.

1/2

Le edition tourist

>>24857288
The point is having a personal library. Some random October down the line OP could browse his shelf and end up skimming Haunted Places and/or reading a Lovecraft story. At some point next summer he might want to finally read a classic and pick up Wuthering Heights. OP could hear some libtard sperging about how being against mass immigration is the same as being a racist and pick up Camp of the Saints. At any point OP could read the intros/bibliographies of any of those books and find a new subject he is interested in (e.g. Encyclopedia of Serial Killers...Edmund Kemper is interesting...I'm going to research and read about the psychology of "devouring mothers").

>>24858267
I've owned 4 copies of Journey to the End of the Night and 3 copies of The Atrocity Exhibition. For some reason those ones get stolen and/borrowed and never given back a lot.

>>24858867
Hell yeah, anon.

>>24857176 (OP)
I have a shelf (i posted it in the other thread) but I am also an e-book collector. Picrel is my recent purchases + "War And Peace And War" by Peter Turchin.

You guys only buy used books?

San diego anon and try to make it to The Last Bookstore whenever im in LA, nice selection and great prices, each of these was ~$3-5.

>>24857176 (OP)
I swapped out a book at a little free library nearby for this

>>24861590
No, but I do love me a gently-used...used book. Especially if it's much cheaper than a new copy.

>>24858845
>>24858850
Kino choices

>>24861715
I did manage to get to the last bookstore the one time I went to LA. Cool place. The Gulag Archipelago is on my list. Hopefully you enjoy it.

>>24857176 (OP)
Latest big brain library cop

>>24857822
More. Today's and yesterday's haul.

>>24861590
Going to used bookstores with a list of authors/books you carry around in your head is part of the fun. Sometimes it will take years before you find a particular thing but that makes it more rewarding. Chain bookstores suck because their shelf space is devoted to things that sell often so you won't find books that send you down rabbit holes.

>>24865863
Real. I will browse a bookstore or thrift store with the vast repository of books and authors I've accumulated in my brain from this site. Quite often I'll be in Value Village and I'll be like "I've seen that mentioned on /lit!"

>>24865863
>>24866743
these anons know

Used bookstores have been absolutely ruined by online pricing. You zoomers have absolutely no idea how much better it was even 20 years ago before all of the stores had scanners and instant market average pricing. I recently went on a bit of a spree visiting all of the used bookstores in my city and half of the shit that I bought for peanuts is now kept behind the counter as collectible and like well used trade paperbacks being sold for the same price as Amazon new. I really hope the market drops out from under thrifters and we can go back to normal for awhile