>buy a new book >don't read it Anyone else do this?

there's an extremely simple solution to your 'problem'

Most library books I get I reach about a quarter until I get bored. I rarely really get engaged in a novel.

everyone on lit does this

>>7902851
I don't have any matches.

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What? Why would I buy a book and not read it?

Do you buy food and never eat?

Do you buy clothes and never wear them?

Do you "buy :^)" music and never listen to it?

I cannot understand how people can have a bookcase full of books they have never read. Do you buy books to impress people? who is actually going to see your bookcase and care? do you buy books to impress yourself?

1. Read book 1
2. Buy book 2
3. Read book 2
4. Buy book 3
...

What is difficult about this?

>>7902830
I currently have 16 books I have not read, sitting on my shelf.

>>7902891
I actually do all three of these things on occassion. Usually an impulse buy, sometimes circumstances change. We're not perfect, anon.

>>7902891
>Do you buy food and never eat it?
Yea but i throw it away when it gets mouldy
>Do you buy clothes and never wear them?
Sometimes yea, often i just give them to other people
>Do you 2"buy :^)" music and never listen to it?
i dont listen to music i listen to the hum of my mind factory
>Do you buy books to impress people?
Bingo
>Who is actually going to see your book and care?
Random non reading girs who will be
>Do yo buy books to impress yourself?
I impress myself every time i look in the mirror

>>7902908
>>7902891
I can honestly say I like reading intellectual books NOT for the sole reason to impress people but because I genuinely enjoy it. But when I do buy something impressive I make sure everyone else knows.

heres a funny story of mine
I went and bought like 3 brand new paperbacks from this little local book store
ended up forgetting about them
ended up finding them in my backpack the other day
half-priced books offered me $15 for all of them
i took it
each of those books were $15 brand new and I never even opened them haha kill me hahah

>>7902830
>buying

If i buy a book its because i cant find it at the library or libgen or in my state library catalog. In that case, you better believe Ill read it.

Caveat: I go to a yardsale with a great selection of classics i have not read for a couple dollars and buy them.

>>7902891
I get like 1 and a half days of (mostly) live music from my friend like every few days so yeah I "buy :^)" plenty of music I will potentially never listen to.

>what is difficult about this
There are a lot of books that sound cool, and a lot of other things to do

>>7902830
It sometimes takes a while to read a book. A backlog is completely normal.

Sure, but this isn't exactly a bad thing.

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>buy book
>read it
>it sucks
>don't want to get rid of it though

At least half the books in my house I hate, but I don't want to see them leave my collection.

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I buy books every weeks on Amazon or book depository because in my country is very difficult to find some titles but eventually I read it all.
Its just to have a good reserve and good titles

Walter Benjamin did that.

on some clickbait i saw umberto eco advises a 9 to 1 unread to read ratio in one's library

I do this. buying books, opening them, smelling the pages, enjoying the idea that you'll read it and it'll change you even though you won't. It's enjoyable

nothing wrong with that m80

>>7902830
I donate to Christian organizations and sometimes they send me free books. I have a couple of RC Sproul books I'll probably read eventually.

>>7902888 (witnessed)
lol

>>7904507
We got a page-huffer here, folks.

I get a staff discount at Oxford university press so whenever they have a sale I buy a bunch of books that look sort of interesting but turn out to be way too scientific for me so I almost never read them. OUP don't seem to publish much of general interest.

DESU, I don't even like reading. I just read because people will consider me to be a plebeian worthless autist if I don't read.

I'm currently struggling through Great Expectations because I'm a UKer. Struggling as in being really really fucking bored.

>>7904597

You seem pretty stupid, falling for the "pleb/patrician" mentality.

>>7904505
this applies after you've already read, like, 10k+ books like he had

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>>7904597
I never finished Great Expectations either. I dig the David Lean film though.

>>7902891
>Do you buy food and never eat?
>Do you buy clothes and never wear them?
>Do you "buy :^)" music and never listen to it?
ALL THE TIME. ALL THE FUCKING TIME, BITCH. Capitalism, motherfucker!

>>7904611

It's not "pleb/patrician" like /lit/ says it. It's more like "educated / non-educated" like upper middle class people think of.

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>>7902830
same, I've had to quit drinking since I haven't read much this year.

Need to finish these before I buy anymore
>The Genesis Code, john case
>My early life, Winston Churchill
>Salems lot and Just after sunset (shorts collection) S.King
>how to kill a mockingbird
>Normal, Graeme Cameron
>Metro 2033, Russian dude.

Just started last night on Metro 2033

>>7904862
>how to kill a mockingbird
Have you really quit drinking?

>>7904622
Time to do the dishes, you filthy hoarder.

>>7902908
Just out of curiosity; are you an atheist?

>>7904622
>>7904892


if u suffer from hoarding instincts best thing to do is start hoarding stocks and other investments

>>7904879
I like to put a "classic" in between books I read, and yes they are rarely enjoyable. Oh I forgot I Robot is on the shelf as well.

This year:
>Biggest letdown: Asimov's Foundation
I just didn't really enjoy it to be honest
>Best read: Dune
aside from only being able to imagine a bunch of drugged up Muslims drinking recycled water
>what the fuck am I reading face: Undermajordomo Minor
I actually have no idea what I was supposed to get out of that book but it was a fun ride.

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>>7904879

>>7902830
>buy a book
>read 90% of it
>lose interest and never pick it up again

>>7904633
I live in the upper middle class and people don't give a shit about reading because that won't get you muh degree and six figure salary

Ive only bought about 4 books in my life. I mostly just use the library, having a due date really motivates you to finish the book

>>7905575
The only reason I still buy books anymore is because it entitles me to destroy it as I read it.

It's satisfying to pick up a book and crack open a fresh spine you know? Annotate the margins, highlight nice lines, handle it carelessly. Whatever. And as you progress it slowly starts to show more and more signs of wear as you're symbolically consuming it. Totally worth the $15-$40 per month I'd recommend it to anybody.

Post the books you have backlogged

>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
>The Man in the High Castle
>The Road
>The Fountainhead
>Metro 2033
>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
and many many more

>>7902830
>Anyone else do this?
That's /lit/. We're about collecting books for shelf threads.

>>7903775
I feel more secure with a backlog. I get fidgety if I already read nearly every book I own.

just make sure ur buyin good books lol

>>7902891
I have bought food that I never eventually ate.
I have bought clothes that I never eventually wore.
I have bought music that I never eventually listen to.
Much in the same way as the previous things, I have bought books that I have not read. A lot of them.

>>7907682
Wastrels like you should be put to death in the public square.

There's a really nice thrift shop I go to when I need clothes or dishes. They usually have some good books there, I'll buy hardbacks for like $1.50 but take a while to get around to them.

Otherwise I just download books on the internet. Saves tons of money.

>>7907821
This. I have a thrift store a few minutes away from my house and i have bought a lot of good books there for 1€.

Books like, lolita, a Confederacy of dunces, ficciones,anna karenina, the illiad,the stranger...

My backlog is getting huge, but there are so many great books there for a ridiculous price that i can't resist buying them.

>>7902830
Only because I buy them faster than I can read them.

>>7907909
god i blew a fortune on used books in nyc in the 2000s before all the used independent used shops got gentrified away (strand is run like a corporation, just a musty barnes and noble if u ax me) god there was one on 12th street that had a marxism section, asia studies section, a fucking labor history section, all stocked with new shit all the time from who knows where cuz most of it was too old to be from nyu or columbia kids but it was so dank i had the sickest library of marxist shiz but then i realized marxism was stupid and gave it all away (kept a printed in soviet union but english copy of selected works of marx and engles tho, which makes me wonder what kind of cancerous chemicals they used to make the bizarre plastic cover because i had some lenins like that too and i left some plastic on it and it fucking melted together despite not being in any heat, weird science brah)

>>7902830
I'm lucky to even buy books, I can't afford not to read the books I buy; there are no books stores here, and this is probably the worst part of the country for readership.

Something just feels really good about ordering a couple of books from my huge wishlist and the incredible sense of anticipation I get before they arrive. It's like a drug.

>>7907935
Alabaster Bookshop? It's still there. I'm not a fan cuz they don't really take care of their shit and still sell at pretty high. If you come back go to MAST BOOKS. It's a 15 min walk from there.

>>7908387
no it was just called "12th Street Books", it was like one block away from strand and it was in a basement so u walk down a little metal staircase to go inside and they always had big art and architecture books on a table outside in the summer, and inside they had a huge table covered with vinyl records and on the right side when u come in there was a glass case filled with antique books, shit was so damn patrish...i think i know alabaster books tho, it's like over off the other side of union square? i never found anything good in that one, but there was a rad one on the same block that revolution books used to be, one time i was in there and they had some old ass literary journals from the 50s or 60s with articles by a bunch of big name french dudes, then one day they just disappeared...there's another one past washington square beyond nyu that i think is still there but they never had anything to glorious...12th Street was the greatest used bookstore i have ever seen to be honest with u, they moved to brooklyn for a while but then they went out of business permanently over there

>>7908419
and on the other side of that the worst used bookstore i have ever seen is that one on washington st. in hoboken, hoboken may be almost as expensive as brooklyn and filled with rich whites and jews, but holy shit u can tell it's a buncha plebs not from new england, seriously the lamest bookstore ever, best thing u might find is a unread bad translation of homer, most likely u'll just see dozens of shitty political books bashing or praising hillary clinton or like some patriotic history-lite shit by a guy with a tv show on cable or whatever

>buy kindle
>read 10 pirated books
>make up the cost
>all profit from there even if I only read 1 book a year

>>7908454
>ereaders in the current year
Top lmao to be completely honest with you my senpai

>>7908454
>load pirated epubs into my phone i already have
>don't have to buy a kindle
>instant profit

The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have! How many of these books have you read?” and the others — a very small minority — who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.

I did.
I remembered i judged on its cover.

I just started reading it with huevos.

As in. Just read it

>>7908470
That's retarded. There are things called 'public libraries' and 'bookstores'. They serve the societal function of storing everyone's to-read books. No need for everyone to amass their own vast private library of unread books.

>>7908462
>>7908467

>reading full length novels on a screen half the size of your palm

>>7908532
>implying ur palm isn't the best size to read from

just because it's impossible to bind a 800 pages novel to fit in the palm of ur hand doesn't mean that isn't actually the best size....to be honest with u, u sound like some ancient mespotamian motherfucker looking at a mass market paperback thinking "reading on pieces of paper and not clay tablets! that's wack!"

ur probably just old, when u die the rest of us will read our palms happily

>>7908511
Do you think that I am more likely to eventually read a book that is
1) A few dozen feet away, already purchased, inside of my house
or
2) In a library, me being vaguely aware of its existence at best?

Having a book is beneficial if you can spare the cost.

yeah so now I only buy one book at a time and refuse to get another until I've finished that one (or dropped it because it sucks)

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>>7908542

>>7904930
This reminds me of that one vlog of Dodger's where she said she had a bunch of books on her shelf she'd never finished because she had some pathological aversion to reading endings.

>>7902830
i went a step further and donated books i've never read last week.

t b h I was able to convince myself to stop doing this because I know I want to be an actual reader and not a book fetishist

I'm not saying you're automatically a member of the latter category but too many "I'M A BIG READER" types that I know irl do this and I do not want to be them

>>7908663
dude, i did that before, that's when i know i have to stop with the books, or even right now i'm downloading a ton of movies and pornos and shit...i'm not gonna have time to wack off to all this shit, god i have to stop hoarding shit

>>7908676
the worst part is i have all this expensive denim and office casual shit but i wear the same old beat up jeans every fucking day, like i where the same 200 bucks worth of clothes every damn day but have like all this expensive /fa/ish fag shit in my closet (nohomo) must .... simplify....my .... life