Thread 24863182

>>24863182 (OP)
Ok, but these I'm going to pass down for hundreds of years, the fingertips of my progeny gracing the page just as mine currently are. WTF are you giving the future besides balding genes?

>>24863182 (OP)
>paying for words
>not pirating books over library wifi on his stolen smart phone

>>24863182 (OP)
I have multiple 500 dollar books currently being made. The cheap ones are 200 or so. That’s the price situation of fine press.
I actually find it bizarre someone who enjoys books thinks it’s all about the words on the page and not the pages and book as an object of art. On the same board people can complain about the page quality or printing of their 20 dollar books being shit. It’s a fascinating contradiction.

Even if you’re poor there’s plenty of letterpressed, leatherbound, illustrated editions you could actually buy for that 20 books. They’re just old.

I just spent $80 on a single book

>>24863203
Same but it is older than Napoleon

>>24863182 (OP)
I sold everything I owned for a book

Conspiracy shit goes for a lot and the real noided titles are impossible to find used.

>>24863186
They're going to get sold for pennies on the dollar at the estate auction to settle your debts.

>>24863182 (OP)
I hate reading on a screen

I buy most of my books used. The most expensive book I ever bought was a $100 on a large book of paintings and art from antiquity till now. Definitely worth it. High quality scans and makes for a fun book to bring out during parties and when people come over to look through and talk about. Unfortunately I lost it several years back so I don't remember the name, but it was worth it.

>>24863772
Why is this site full of such hateful, unpleasant people? To whose benefit is this behaviour? Certainly not to yours. I can smell the stomach acid on your breath through the screen.

>>24864795
Because it’s fun? And no one takes the insults seriously unlike you faggot.

it was kinda worth it for what i bought recently. was in serbia and bought an interesting book on a type of serbian tapestry called pirot ćilim. was written in both serbian and english inside and thought it was quite neat. paid about 20 bucks for that and its an incredibly cool book

>>24863182 (OP)
I agree that most books you buy should be under 20 dollars, but what about the giant tomes that only got a small number of prints? I think it’s worth it occasionally and 100 percent worth it if it’s an omnibus. If a work holds 4 novels within it and is 60 bucks then that’s actually a good deal if you think of it as 4 books instead of 1

Here are some books I’ve been looking at recently that are over 20 dollars.

> Paul Pine Omnibus- 900 pages (4 books) of golden age of noir detective goodness all in one volume- 65 bucks

>Alexander to Actium by Peter Green- 900 pages about the Hellenistic age- 60 bucks

>>24863182 (OP)
I’m not a destitute poorfag neetcel. I’ll drop $2000 on a book if I feel like it.

> intrested in reading x
> search on jewgle "x pdf"
> click first result
> download
> open on readera

>>24863182 (OP)
I buy the super premium hardcover edition of books I really love and pirate everything else
paperbacks are shit and I refuse to buy them

>>24865021
It's fun if you say something witty or clever. Otherwise it's just tedious.

>>24865078
Jew.

>>24863182 (OP)
What if I spend dozens of hours intensively studying it?

>>24863772
Source?!?!?! For why my future unborn children from my future born wife who I haven't met yet will not treasure the expensive books I currently own???