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>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 (OP)
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>>14929 >>15475
>buying things you can get for free
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▶ No.14921
I dropped it the moment the pronouns started popping up.
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▶ No.14929>>14930
>>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>>15403 >>15792
>buy one book
>read it many times
>lend it to other people
>have only paid once
Ahrimanic!
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▶ No.14970>>15402 >>15405
>>14908 (OP)
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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▶ 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 (OP)
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
>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>>15475 >>15762
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
>>14908 (OP)
>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
>>14908 (OP)
>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>>16141
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>>16149
>>16138
The return is you get to post in this thread and be /devilish/. That's good enough.
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▶ No.16149>>16150
>>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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