>>509364124 (OP)
i recognize that yellow safe book, can we get the title

>>509364557
It’s How To Bomb The US Govt.

>>509364626
i knew it lol

>>509364647
It’s signed, unsigned ones go upward of $500 now lol.

>>509364124 (OP)
You could say that . . .

>>509365341
Is that Angostura bitters bottom left?

>>509365693
Jawohl

>>509364124 (OP)
What are those things?

>>509364124 (OP)
Unfortunately, I haven't read much over the last 2 or 3 years. Don't seem to have the time to put away 4 or 5 hours solid reading. Stupid, coz there's A LOT I want to read. Non fiction books mostly.

>>509364124 (OP)
waste of money
just download them and burn them to discs

intelligent don't buy things they can get for free

>>509366740
And I read somewhat extensively before...Hobbes, Plato, Mandeville, Pufendorf, Aristotle, Ellul, Durant, Aurelius, Machiavelli, Fromm...

>>509364124 (OP)

I have books. But not nice hardbacks like pic. I'm slumming it with paperbacks.

>>509365341

Lol, I have a bottle of lemon oil on my bookshelf also. I use it to clean the fretboards on my guitars.

Perhaps

I have a signed copy.

>>509366311
Whew.

>>509364124 (OP)
I only have warhammer 40k ebooks and poorly translated japanese isekai light novels

>>509368025
I have two of those books
>>509366311
Holocaust studies to help our jewish friends right?
>>509365341
For fighting antisemitism right?
>>509364124 (OP)
t. Failed calculus 10 times and went for liberal arts

>>509368500
Second from top on the left gurupartap

Not that fancy

having a book collection is like having a VHS collection, its simply an outdated format and waste of space

Also reading this one

>>509368687
They can change digital books.

>>509364124 (OP)
Everybody has books, even zoomers have books, I refuse to believe that there are people who have never read a book in their lives.

Reading Between The Woods And The Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Splendid.

>>509368858
You haven’t studied those books. Spines aren’t broken and none are rare so there’s no reason not to break and study them.

>>509369003

>>509369117
Did you chew it? My GEB looks like that lol.

>>509369003
I can assure you that I have read each and every one of those books. If the spines are not broken, it is because I treat them with the utmost care, because they are the only prized possessions I have and the only thing that matters to me in this life. If you look closely, you will see a bookmark on the last book I bought and am reading, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. If I don't leave it on my bedside table, it's because I don't want it to collect dust. If what you are suggesting is that I write in my books, I'm sorry but you should be executed

>>509369273
Those are cheapest prints, they are worthy of study but not collection.

>>509369254
Termites, forgot i had these and was looking for them,

>>509369338
I don't collect books, and I don't care what you think

>>509364124 (OP)
Middle shelf far left, Apple IIc binders? Possibly early Macintosh. Along with some HP documentation.

1/3

Here’s what I do, I download a book and decide if I want it or not, then I might buy a stand in and eventually add to my collection. Some stand ins are not cheap, I own about 20 Taschen facsimiles each of which costs $500-$1000+ in lieu of the real deal. I recently added Purchas His Pilgrimes in the original to my library, they total less somewhat north of fifteen thousand dollars.

I will be selling my facs’s of them on eBay soon!

>>509369585

>>509364124 (OP)
threw hitler's mein kampf in the furnace went to a nazi rally and punched em all spit on the grave of ss criminals death to european fascists die racists

>>509369409
You should, I will teach you.
>>509369631
Show me your secret stash

>>509369409
Fucking faggot, i'm a zoomer and even i have some books

>>509369631
3/3 though there are more, my office desk is lined with IIc manuals, a IIc, and various DOS-Win98 games.

>>509369273
I want to be like you anon

>>509364124 (OP)
>superforecasting
c'mon anon?

>>509364124 (OP)

>>509369778
You’re a good lad I like you.

Pick an interest, a specialty.

>>509364124 (OP)

>>509369778

>>509364124 (OP)
I only own books about law and history. Fiction is a faggy genre.
I'm thinking about searching for good books on genetics, epigenetics and eugenics. I'm accepting recommendations.

>>509369811
Just place your books on a shelf away from sunlight, and control the relative humidity of your room (50% is ideal). Wash your hands before reading a book, dry them well and do not open them at 180°. Place your bookends without crushing the books and dust them every day. By the way, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a very good choice (my favorite book after The Desert of the Tartars). If you like it, read Chronicle of a Death Foretold next

>>509369697
You misunderstood my post retard

>>509369974
Yeah the chemistry stuff came about because a production chemical lab came into my control after the previous person was fired. As production manager, but dealing mostly with the debugging/re-engineering of R&D’s beta products, it came under my purview, as production would cease without the needed chemicals for calibration/quality testing. I’m mostly an electronic engineer type, with aviation as my hobby (along with RF and vintage cars).

>>509369645
Sybau nigga

>>509370256
Yes.

>>509370261
You have no idea how hard it is to display and catalog and access thousands of books.

You have a small shelf of cheap prints. No offense you’re doing better than 95% of people but don’t puff yourself up and take on airs. I have at least thirty thousands bucks worth of rare books at the most conservative and I don’t even puff myself like you are with your nigger tier $400 book collection which appears unread.

Nigger.

>>509369696
Here you have my rickety books, basically my work tool (t. lawyer)

>>509370261
Thanks for the recommendation.
These 2 and some others were lost others are fine I've read love in the time of cholera as well when I was in school pretty good. Kite runner is also good its from an iranian author. I will checkout chronicles of a death foretold

>>509370508
These are just a few, most of them I have in my office

>>509364124 (OP)
Why would you buy books from the book jew when you can pirate them for free like all the AI companies do?

>>509370508
Looks like a seconds bookstore, no cracked books.

>>509370508
I might get into some jurisprudence related books from Hume and Jane Austin etc. No time for the now, no use as well.

Data mining thread

>>509370613
Do you print them? That at least I can respect.

>>509370671
John*

>>509370435
I'm an obsessive fag, okay? I get nervous about damaged things

>>509370671
Kant is all you need anon

>>509364124 (OP)
I find Spiritual Warfare is cozy...

>>509371274
You need Hollywood Babylon.

>>509364124 (OP)
yes

>>509370674
At least it’s an engaging and interactive data mining thread, rather than the usual 1PBTID. See, feds? It wasn’t that hard, was it?

>>509371796
The only thing that sucks is the amount of bot replies. Would it really be that much more expensive to hire a couple hundred shitskins instead of using AI?

>>509371796
I’m just some anon. If I was a fed I’d be trying to make you think one thing or another.

Feds actually have the worst book collections sadly.

>>509364124 (OP)
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/behead-all-satans-mnm-dr/1122270988

>>509364124 (OP)
Yes, a lot. I trade crypto shitcoins to save up for insane book collection after eventual house purchase. That will be my equivalent of buying le fancy sports car.

>>509370674
Also
>C
Highly recommend picking up some material from Stroustrop himself, I have found his writing to be followable, and it seems somehow more legitimate to be learning/gaining information straight from the source. My $0.02

this is what i've read recently

>>509372228
What did you get out of The Prince?

>>509372066
Checked and I am literally you 20 years in the future.

>>509372030
I know, it was said in a sort of tongue-in-cheek kind of way, that is to say, I was joking in calling you a fed while also giving advice to those who may be paying attention.
>>509372003
I’m not contesting that there are a great many chatGPT/whatever bots on this board, but I’ll have to reread this thread once more, as I don’t recall anything standing out as being computer generated. Maybe some slight ESL clumsiness. At any rate I’ll double check, but as someone who has Asperger’s (the tism), I’ve been accused of sounding like a bot many times. After living a lifetime of being told that my writing/speech is robotic and too formal, and being told that my logic/rigidity is second to only that of a cold unfeeling IBM, it’s high praise to be mistaken for a computer.

>>509372488
Checked if I was a fed I would have to admit under the rule of Canley.

OTOH I could be some malificient actor out to sniff out blood.

But no. I just want to encourage people to collect books, they are immutable.

>>509372347
im not sure how much i 'got out of it'
in my late teens and 20s im sure there is alot of i would of gotten out of it. alot of these things i think you apply in life, if you're that sort of person to begin with. which i was working in sales/finance.
but since i have given up on that way of living in a transformational way.. id just say there is alot that you can see being applied on the tiniest of scales to the biggest. from low-wage office politics to world leaders. its not particularly comforting to me that people early in their career are reading this and are walking away inspired. but again, if you need to read about how to manipulate people then you probably are not naturally inclined to do so anyways and will likely wind up being manipulated yourself if you try.

>>509372760
It’s moral-less power. Maybe for a greater good. Oberstein.

>>509372488
Something I've noticed recently is this pattern of filename:
>IMG_20250703_063130(1).jpg
>20250703_002326.jpg
But especially this pattern:
>1000002443.jpg
Whenever I see this last pattern, there's a 99% chance it's a bot.
Otherwise, you can detect the bots by their use of perfect english or their attempt at making it appear more natural by using lower case, their use of — and recently - after many anons noticed the resemblance to ChatGPT, their boomer use of !, the arguments used by any side the bot takes being blatantly steryotypical of that side, as if the arguments were taken directly from plebbit or the data from /pol/ was fed to a plebbit-trained AI, and this leads to how these bots are incapable of original thought or can't into board culture, a trait you'll find when you manage to hook one into discussing a subject with (You).
Other than that, there's also all the plebbit spacing, which before was a tell tale of plebbitry, but since AI is trained on plebbit and other such forums, it's now also a tell tale of AI.
Also, in most threads these bots are employed, you can see that there's a "commander" in it, steering discussion in a way that takes the focus off of the blatant botting while also aiding the bots' effectiveness. This can be seen with how the most retarded takes on the first 10 replies of a thread get multiple replies but usual /pol/ replies that would rake in replies are left with just 1 to 3 replies. There also appears to be some kind of trigger words which make specialized bots engage you in a "deradicalization" manner, and then the "commander" starts engaging with you to take some of the heat off the bots. So far, I've seen specialized bots and their commander being deployed when holohoax is a subject.

Lost all my books in a boating accident

>>509373952
That being said, I've also seen "radicalizer" bots and perhaps their radicalizer "commander", though the radicalization they attempt is, as I've said before, steryotypical of a side, and when engaged in a discussion, you see that there's no content to their arguments, just pure radicalization for radicalization's sake, sometimes shrouded with normalfag humor pretending to be edgy, e.g. ifunny "memes".
All in all, it's really tiresome having to sift through hundreds of bot posts a day for a meager of real content. I guess I'm starting to understand how oldfags felt with the incessant JIDF raids back in the days where at least flesh and bone shills were behind keyboards.

>>509373952
>20250703_002326.jpg
I deliberately rename my pics with that pattern. Otherwise you risk that the model and brand of the cell phone with which you took the photo can be identified

>>509364124 (OP)
based and books pilled

>>509370123
I have a IIc+

>>509373952
This should be a 11111111.jpg filename, it’s typical of when one saves a file direct from here, as was once popular. Reaction images mostly, at first.

>>509374273
>IMG_xxxx.png

>>509364124 (OP)
I got a lot of books, but it is mainly a bunch of fiction that makes /lit/ seeth. Don't have anything against "classics" other than them usually being absolute slogs. Dumas, for example, got paid by the page (a common practice at the time) and it fucking shows. The concept of getting paid for volume of text produced as opposed to the number of copies sold is one of the biggest reasons older texts are such door stopper tomes. A ton of them could be 1/3 the length and the story wouldn't suffer at all, in fact, most would benefit.

Just written works? I got north of 50 books. If we are adding comics/manga and RPG source books? Got a couple hundred books. That's after I donated around half my shit to a local library.

>>509374273
Ah well I’m phone posting so it was automatically renamed when I saved it.
>>509374256
Hope you enjoy it. I haven’t had the IIc+ yet, maybe someday, though it’s not like it’s a big improvement over the IIc, and I already have an external 3.5” drive for mine. I also have it connected to my server via serial and ADT Pro, for accessing the full catalog of Apple II disk images. I also have a DEC word processor and a Mac II, though neither are complete in boxes like my IIc. You can still buy ribbons for ImageWriters in office supply stores to this day.

based. stack books. kikes HATE archivists who keep the knowledge alive.

>>509373952
I remove exif data from images, (1) if it's duplicate, 1000002443.jpg random non duplicate name, also I'm a bot

>>509372228
lolita is so funny bro
>oh no i have been shot!

>>509364124 (OP)
Many. It gets expensive.
>inb4 some NoBooks tells me to get a Kindle

>>509372066
what kind of insane?

>>509374543
I have like 20 Apple ][s and six Mac SE/30s. I even have a IIfx and also 4 IIgs’s. Among others.

Classic Apple was peak home computing.

No I've got a big dick and girls prefer that to your collections of weird old books

>>509374751
>1000002443.jpg random non duplicate name
Yeah, so random, a mere coincidence that so many "anons" use the same pattern, huh?

>>509375056
Full 60% of sexually active British women have genital herpes. You probably have it too now.

>>509368858
>>509369273
That's a nice collection Anon, you have good taste. It's actually very refreshing to see someone on /pol/ who reads real literature and not just fringe stuff about Hitler and WWII.

>>509375090
You're a monkey, figure it out yourself

>>509375259
I've had it for 20 years anon.
40% of them probably carry the strain i brought back from Cambodia.
It's not too bad, it only flares up occasionally, a few sores on the shaft If I get really tired and stressed and clears up in a few days

>>509364124 (OP)
Why should I have books if I have 10 TB of ebooks? Do you enjoy having random crap in your house?

book worm! what you reading... bookworm?!

[spoiler] manga [/spoiler]

>>509375528
No offense but as a pureblood I think it’s grody. Like if I learned you had herpes I would distance and estrange myself from you.

>>509374894
>Frank Stanford
Nice taste. I have his collected works and 'Battlefield...'
>>509374918
A lot of theology/metaphysics. A lot of poetry and fiction. Full set of Loeb, full set of Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, collected works of Thomas Taylor, collected Northrop Frye works. A separate first edition collection for a few things. Uh, a bunch of others but they're all in saved lists. Can't recall right now.

>>509375662
I just don't tell them.
I don't care what you think or do because you are dude

>>509368858
>anagrama lolita
imagine reading the worst translation in existence

>>509369920
>jaynes
based

Yes

>>509375528
>haha having herpes isn't that bad, it only flares up occasionally
>at least I've had sex incel haha
this is next-level cope, holy shit. I'll stick with books, thanks. keep your roasties.

>>509375809
I am dude.

Tru dat.

>>509364124 (OP)
I have a whole library, and a reading loft.

>>509375787
>I have his collected works and 'Battlefield...'

You're my kind of guy! I have everything save for his short story collection atm which is tough to get a hold of.

That sounds absolutely spectacular. Could you please post some of your poetry rares and favourites?

>>509364124 (OP)
a few

>>509376103
>Julian Jaynes

Pretty impressive for a leaf

>>509376103
reddit

I have thousands of books. I won't post them for glowies to take notes.
>>509366951
>french revisionist artist cartoon Konk
Based Konk, he made me laugh in the mid 2000s.

>>509364124 (OP)
I do, but I catch myself trying to scroll up instead of turning the page.

>>509364124 (OP)
Books are for insufferable nerds

I watch YouTube or YTshorts or insta

anons pls post your conspiracy books
best ones, favs, proven true, etc

>>509377069
depends how deep you want to go. There are tomes of angel interviews for tens of thousands of dollars if you know where to look. I know I would buy them all had I the money.

>>509377265
as deep as you know is reachable without losing it entirely