i was wondering why women read more and i think i know a part of why that is. its become an aesthetic and a performative activity. this aesthetic has very little appeal to most men. but by browsing these video's comments you can tell that these girls and women spend more time browsing tiktoks about reading and literature and browsing books and bookstores to add to their collection than they spend actually reading. that black girl's videos are so carefully crafted.. im sure she has even convinced herself that 'this is who she truly is' but its bullshit because nobody lives like this.. people don't journal at coffee shops, take public transportation, walk around their room annotating their books and lighting a dozen candles in the middle of the day. im sure her channel is going to do really well. can't really criticize them either because these are all 'good' things afterall.

contrived personalities is probably my biggest pet peeve. and it has become the absolute most dominant way to move through society now.

>>510784386 (OP)
whoops

I can't read

>>510784386 (OP)
>own
>read or even understood

Those books look virtually brand new.

like i dont think this girl has read a single one of these books.. not a single spine is cracked.. which i know is possible, like people can contort their books and prevent the spine from being cracked.. but fuck off

>>510784466
Me neither.

It sucks because I think I’d really enjoy it if I were able to, but alas I never learned how. Do you think there are any resources that are out there that i could find that could teach me how to read? If I were able to read, then I think I’d have a much better life.

>>510784386 (OP)
Booktuber thread?

For me, it's leonie from The Book Leo

>>510784599
I hear talking helps

>>510784702
I suppose so, but i really wish I’d have learned how to read. It’s one of the many regrets that I have in life is not learning how to read.

>>510784386 (OP)
She didnt read any of them.

>>510784544
Yes, women's personalities truly consist of nothing more than trendy costumes and props.

>>510784888
but how are they able to take it this far? like watching videos like this all day knowing they are watching someone who is even faker than them.

i suspect some of them have fully convinced themselves that this is what a 'reader' is. i mean that concept doesn't apply to 90% of people who do read.. but the ones who it does apply to look like picrel

i hate that this lives in my head so rent free. i mean it gives me a fucking headache

>>510784386 (OP)
>Reading is now a performative activity

It always was

>>510785057
>Char fig

I kneel

>>510785108
Yep. Even /pol/ circulates an essential reading list that is missing Xenophon's Hellenica, the continuation of The Peloponnesian War - which of course /pol/ recommends.

No one ever mentions the error, even though you must notice if you're paying attention.

>>510785108

100% not true. honestly in the 20s-60s, especially when marxism introduced philosophical concepts to the average person and literary rates were getting quite high.. this was a primary, affordable, and enjoyable way to spend one's time.

reading kind declined when tv started getting affordable and popular and then tanked when social media took off.. so now anyone who does.. well fuckign anything can only do it if they film themselves doing it. that goes for helping stray animals, helping the homeless, philosophy, reading and really anything that is isolated and often thankless but people consider 'good'

nobody is going to plant a tree post-covid unless they can post about it online

>>510784386 (OP)
waste of space, the only physical books I bought after getting myself an e-reader are those I couldn't find in the epub form

>>510785057
>but how are they able to take it this far? like watching videos like this all day knowing they are watching someone who is even faker than them.
I found booktok just looking for reviews and commentary on my favorite books. They just filled a niche that publisher jews were happy to have filled and since zoomers are eunuchs that are horrified of seeing sexual women, these women are able to be fed into their feeds by the algorithm with no pushback.
Here's a better one to goon to btw

>>510784386 (OP)
Reading fiction is nothing to brag about.

It’s the same exact thing as binging a season of a show and spending a dozen hours on the fan wiki

They’re zoom meeting props

>>510784386 (OP)
Reading is almost pointless with fiction, especially so modern fiction, even more so if it was gotten from TikTok because those books are just pornography. Amy woman with a large fiction collection is a chronic masturbator

>>510785359

i 100% agree. i actually thought just having a well-worn book collection in my living room was cringe.. that was 5 years ago. i thought 'who would even care about this? if i saw this in someone's living room i wouldn't really care. so do i have it here just for me? are these trophies of some kind?'
thats when i donated 60% of them and boxed the rest and moved to ereader.
(now i think that whole process was itself pretentious that i would care that much to destroy my whole collection.. though im mostly happy i done away with it all evne if the reasoning was a bit silly. i just hate pretentious and contrived behavior)

saves a shit ton of money on libgen too.

>>510785359
based epub enjoyer

>>510784386 (OP)
Wtf kinda books are those. Most of mine are black, brown or white or green and some of them peeling from being >100 yrs old.
That book shelf is gay af frfr no cap

>>510785439
>Reading fiction is nothing to brag about.

i used to think that for a decade or more. i was wrong.
it was also a remarkably immature position to hold.

you will realize this too. but not likely today.

>>510784386 (OP)

Depends. My sister for example reads lots of books, but knows how to not speak about this constantly. She is self-aware enough to know that performing a basic human function doesn't make you special. Those whores, however, lack such wisdom. I suppose after a certain age their physical attractiveness wears out and they need to feel special in a different way.

>>510785359

Based pirate. I paid for the hardware, I won't pay for the software.

>>510785466
Bingo. It replaced the $8000 guitar that's just casually in frame (yeah i do a bit of noodling, i'm an artist at heart you know?)

>>510785566
she perhaps isn't the best example of what i meant in post..
she has 1M subs so all publishers and writers will send her their books routinely.
so it follows she has such a collection

i can already tell im going to wake up pissed off about this. god i hate social media

>>510784386 (OP)
Reading isn't performative, books are. They serve as an interior design accessory and "bragging rights" to show off to others how much you read. In 2025 there is no practical reason not to use an ereader and benefit from having basically an instant access to almost any book ever published in english language.

>>510784386 (OP)
Most of these channels are dedicated to reading abject crap that cannot be considered literature by any meaningful definition. Reading is only a valuable activity if you read good books, otherwise is wasted time at best, another manifestation of hyper consumerism at worst. TLDR: WOMEN ARE RETARDED CUNTS

It’s partly that but they really do get a kick out of the content of the books they read

t. Lit nerd that hangs out with girls like this sometimes

>>510784566
She has some books with papers along the way and a few she started and then started another book, I never start a book and not finish it, I won't go to my next book until the first one is finished, I don't know why people hop book it's definitely not my preference.

>>510784386 (OP)
Bro, my wife fucking loathes these women. Anytime any of her friends bring them up, she's basically pointing out the same shit this thread is. Her and I have more books than the cunt in the OP, but neither of us feel the need to broadcast it out to the world. We just enjoy reading for the fun of it. It's something we do for ourselves, not for anyone else.

>>510785903
I hate fuckers that use books like that as well. Our bookshelves and bookcases are split between our room and our office, simply because those two rooms are the most practical spots for them. We keep one small bookcase out in the living room for anything we're currently reading or for books we haven't integrated into the rest of the collection yet. The both of us agree on the e-reader part, though. More and more of our reading is done on those these days, especially after the birth of our first child. I'll always have a fondness for the look, the feel and the smell of a physical book, but the ability to basically have an entire library right at my fingertips is unparalleled when it comes to convenience.

>>510785903
>In 2025 there is no practical reason not to use an ereader and benefit from having basically an instant access to almost any book ever published in english language.
https://youtu.be/XNWE17GqibI
Makishima btfod your argument

>>510784386 (OP)
If each one of those books is worth ~$10 then she is sitting on a nice little nest egg. And when SHTF archives like hers will be even more valuable. Pretty cool collection.

>>510784386 (OP)
E-readers and audiobooks have replaced the practicality of real books. I don't even like the idea of having to use real books anymore the E-reader is just easier to use and the audiobooks can be listened to while doing chores.

>>510785903
People love showing off their shelf decorations. It's like how /pol/tards will from time to time show off a shelf filled with the same ideological political propaganda books.

>>510785903
Digital books can be edited. The physical copy I buy today will be the same 30 years from now. You already see movies and shows get edited and censored. Having physical media prevents this.

>>510785903
Yeah, specially if you are interested in the globohomo sanitised and approved version of the original works. Good goy you’ll reed what the Jew hands to you and you’ll be happy.

>>510786508
Mostly true, I'm sick of seeing "essential /pol/ book reads" and it's like 30 books just based on race theory that came out of nazi germany.
No one is reading 2+ books about race, no one is going to realistically do that and it's a waste of time.

>>510786421
Books devalue like crazy (like most things), and here we're talking about female slop fiction, not the collected works of Aristotle.

>>510784386 (OP)
I agree

>>510786696
I wonder what category of books that is because none of my books have devalued and I've owned them for a very long time.
It might companies demanding more selling or a miscalculation in demand based on previous sales of that year.

Chick lit garbage is not reading. What a ridiculous assertion.

my motto is not to spend money on books, i read whatever i can get my hands on, whatever people throw away, here at the neighborhood public library, they give away books donated by other people, a few days ago, i brought home a very nice atlas, was able to locate the two russian cities from a book i read, amavir and ekateinodar, the latter was renamed krasnodar by the bolshevik jews in 1920, why did they do that? that's interesting, but even more so is the fact that i learned about things that happened 150 years ago on the other side of the world and that have nothing to do with me, or do they? that realization is reading

>>510784386 (OP)
Somehow I stumbled across a video on YouTube of some former prom queen preppy looking girl reviewing Cormac McCarthy.
It was weird listening to her talk about Blood Meridian

I think one of the reasons I don't read is because I'm a 4 or maybe even a 5 on the aphantasia scale. A book can describe something, but I can't imagine it. So reading isn't very fun.

>>510787032
I feel like this meme is a gaslight, my "aphantasia" is 1 if not 10x better, I can generate apples in 3d, in moving motion as if it's a movie etc. If you claim that you can't do the same I think you're gaslighting.

>>510786820
>this thing that is constantly useful regardless of everything has devalued
That's a jewish way of looking at things. This is why I started buying land.
"Ugh. My land devalued"
"Nice, I'll buy it. It didn't stop being land, yuppie. Now you have less and I have more".
The utility of somethint doesn't magically change because retards are currently less interested in it.

>>510787177
I don't deny the utility regardless of the monetary value neither did the other guy.
But sure I agree with you.