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Excelsior!

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 No.14908

>buy book

>never read it

who else /devilish/ here

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 No.14913

I have an anthology of Peter Handke novellas that I've never managed to read more than like 10 pages into. Just didn't click I guess

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 No.14915

>>14908

I bought pynchon books just to have on the shelf for pretentious reasons with no intention to read them.

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 No.14916

>buying things you can get for free

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 No.14921

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I dropped it the moment the pronouns started popping up.

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 No.14929

>>14916

>not knowing the glory of investing and collecting bound books

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 No.14930

>>14929

>investing

>99% of cost is shipping and handling

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 No.14940

>buy one book

>read it many times

>lend it to other people

>have only paid once

Ahrimanic!

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 No.14970

>>14908

I bought a portrait of the artist as a young man, wanting to read it because (8/2)lit recommended it to me. I read the first couple pages and I'm too much of a brainlet to understand it. It's a shame since I hate having unread books on my book shelf, but at the same time, I don't think I can force myself to read it.

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 No.15392

>steal book

>read it, maybe, doing a social good by removing it from the shelf of uselessness anyways

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 No.15402

>>14970

>>14970

It's a great book there's nothing to understand, the beginning might seem difficult, just bear in mind it's written from the point of view of a child. Just relax and read.

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 No.15403

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>>14940

>Ahrimanic!

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 No.15405

>>14970

Y'know, you could always get rid of books that you've never read/intend to read. Problem solved.

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 No.15408

>>14908

I make lots annotations in my books and when there's no more room I write in a post-it and stick it in the pages.

I've also borrowed books from and never returned them.

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 No.15453

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>go out to buy book

>shit selection

>buy a book anyways

>wreck it and never read it

don't fuck with me

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 No.15462

I have a backlog of e-books for the Kindle app that I have yet to begin to read. Two I hope to start soon are Deep Ancestors: Practicing the Religion of the Proto-Indo-Europeans and Tengrism (book about Central Asian and Mongolian shamanism and its variants).

I have a few physical books I have yet to start too including Children of Húrin by Tolkien.

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 No.15475

me, but I'm not from /lit/ because I'm a slow reader, although uni makes me read which means I have no time for the other books I buy

>>14916

not all books can be found online

>>15462

That sounds good. Anything Mongolia can be hard to find good online sources. I once tried looking for information about the pre-soviet writing system and there is a surprising lack of websites on the subject. I sometimes feel as though the internet is getting smaller and smaller….

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 No.15497

>buy book

>don't read it

>download epub of it and put it on my phone years later

>don't read that either

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 No.15507

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>>14908

>op describes my entire library

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 No.15697

Every year I buy the latest copy of Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year but I never actually read all the stories, I just skip to the Laird Barron/Brian Hodge/John Langan stories and use those to gauge the quality of horror that year (2018 was a pretty good year for horror).

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 No.15762

>>15462

I need Tengri stuff for my library. Thanks for mentioning

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 No.15792

>>14940

>lend my favourite book to my (then) boyfriend

>break-up happens immediately afterwards

Woops!

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 No.16137

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>>14908

>get drunk and buy books online

>don't read any of them

>still get a smile when they arrive in the mail

>do it again

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 No.16138

Isn't this exactly like when /v/ buys a game they never play, so they're essentially giving money for technically little return?

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 No.16141

>>16138

The return is you get to post in this thread and be /devilish/. That's good enough.

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 No.16149

>>16141

Isn't it more angelic that you gave someone a sale without actually putting what you bought to use?

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 No.16150

>>16149

Not if we're talking about being fiscally responsible.

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