/shelf/ thread general

>>8979171
I sort them by authors first name

Mine are sorted by date published

>>8979171
I alphabatize mine according to the author's country of origin

>sorting
>like how rights are sorted by race, gender, and class

No thanks, fascista

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>>8979171
Currently living in the corner of a friends studio so my shelf is very smoll

I sort by how T H I C C the books are

I maneuver my books in a way so that they can all fit on my cinderblock and plywood shelf.

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I started with alpha by author but have since run out of room.

This might be unpopular but i sort them by size. This way they fit perfectly (legolike) and I have a lot more space. And desu I don't have problems remembering where every book is.

I have 30 books and I sort by my most favorite/recent reads, to books I have to finish

Alphabetical, first by author, then by title. I will only break the rule in order to put multi-volume works in their proper order. I've considered separating fiction from non-fiction, but the thought of exactly where to draw the line makes me anxious so I haven't done it.

>>8979171
by jewish to least jewish

sort by colour my man

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>>8981130
0/100 for not having any personal taste.

>>8981130
You spent a stupid amount of money at barnes and noble so that all the books you don't read could look presentable/10

>>8981130
how many of those have you read?

>>8981130
i feel really bad for you because i know spent a fucking shitload of money so im not going to be too harsh, but this is incredibly tacky and ugly and you should probably feel bad

>>8981130
Pretty clear you care more about pretty books than actually reading books.

>>8981327
My wife and I love reading and have been collecting these leather bound books from Barnes and Noble. Two trips ago put us just over capacity for our small bookcase but we can't help ourselves.

>>8981341
These aren't our only books but they're our prettiest so we separated them from the rest. She's deployed right now but I've been thinking about taking on a project and building us a new bookshelf, as a lesbian I have to have some carpentry skills hidden somewhere, right?

>>8981348
post the shelves of other books, that's the shelf that actually reveals your personality and tastes.

also please don't stereotype. You might be completely incompetent at woodworking

>>8981348
>My wife and I love reading and have been collecting these leather bound books from Barnes and Noble. Two trips ago put us just over capacity for our small bookcase but we can't help ourselves.
that's a small child's book case it took two of you to fill with books you picked for middle class prettiness.

consider on the other hand my gf have a treaty which entitles the person willing to pay for the structural support to the next bookcase, and you might see how less than ten each isn't "can't help ourselves". if you're going to collect "pretty" books at least spring for folio or antiques. most facsimiles have better paper quality. all you've done is build a shrine to low wage aspirations here

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>>8981130
Jesus fucking christ

>>8981335
In the stack thread he said he'd just bought them, so probably not many yet.

>>8981440
thas a different person, brosephine
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>>8981453

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>>8981440
how the fuck are there two of these people on this board right now

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>>8981368
Here's an older photo of our other shelves.

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>>8981130
you deserve crucifixion

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I'm a student, I haven't finished unpacking, and most of the books I own are at my family home. With that in mind:

1/3 Fiction

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>>8981905
2/3 (Mostly contemporary Atlantic Canadian) Poetry

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>>8981910
3/3 Politics and Philosophy

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>>8981479

i can't tell for sure, but is this one continuous image, or have you spliced several pictures together? like is this the wall i'm greeted with upon entering your apartment?

>>8981905
Thank you for showing us your unread books which anyone at all could have bought.

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>>8981914

canada fucking sucks. my experience with border control there has forever turned me away from that goddamn frost-covered nation. fuck you and your bland socialism.

on another note, are "but is it art?" and "inventing the future" any good?

>>8981916
Clearly it's multiple pictures spliced together, look at the angles of the shelves

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>>8981917

why do people get on others who buy books "anyone at all could have bought"? why is the conformity you seem to condemn in and of itself a bad thing? you assume that he hasn't read them--but if he has, then i'd imagine he'd be more educated than a considerable amount of the living human race. besides, it's not like pynchon, eco, etc are necessarily terrible authors, despite their meme status.

where is your wonderfully read, deep collection--oh you who profess against others? so far you strike me as nothing more than a paean to human uselessness.

>>8981917
>le epic 'you must destroy a book's spine to have read it' meme

not falling for it today, anon
>>8981923
>on another note, are "but is it art?" and "inventing the future" any good?

if you have no knowledge of aesthetics or contemporary art then ya the Freeland is a great introductory text, very accessible and often fun to read. Very informative.

Inventing the Future draws, to my mind, dubious conclusions about the role of automation in the end of capitalism but the work is also very instructive as to how the left could/should be organizing in the 21st Century. Don't let "post-capitalism" instead of "socialism" fool you, thems are commies.

I sort mine basically like a library. I have my nonfiction sorted first by subject, with each next to the ones that make the most sense to me, so humanities subjects together, politics next to economics, the hard sciences and maths next to each other, etc. Within the subject I sort them chronologically, whether by the topic (a book on ancient pagan religions of the British Isles before Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People) or else when they were published if the topics are essentially the same (two books on world cultures), whatever makes the most sense to me.

My fiction is sorted like in a library, alphabetically by author's last name. For those authors by whom I havd multiple works, I sort alphabetically by title. Right before fiction I have works about literature, like Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces and a text on Middle English Literature for example, then works of antiquity amd epic poetry, then poetry collections.

>>8981947
Should've said
*right before things like novels, novellas, plays, and short story collections

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>>8981938

have you read anything by erik olin wright? what do you study?

>>8981967
I haven't! What would you recommend? I've looked him up and he seems interesting, I'll add him to my summer reading.

I study literature, despite what some might think my meme books might suggest

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>>8981973

what you wrote about the "invention of the future" reminded me of some of his stuff. if you're interested in that kinda thing, i'd recommend first his latest work, which i actually teach as part of a course on utopianism:

https://www.amazon.com/Envisioning-Real-Utopias-Erik-Wright/dp/184467617X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484591166&sr=8-1&keywords=erik+olin+wright

and one of his seminal early works:

https://www.amazon.com/Class-Crisis-State-Erik-Wright/dp/0860917193/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1484591166&sr=8-6&keywords=erik+olin+wright

some of david harvey's stuff might be of interest, too. if i think of others i'll let you know.

what period of literature are you most interested in? most influential authors upon your thought?

>>8979171
I have my China themed books sorted by theme.(Language,Big novels,Philosophy,Poetry,Religion)

I have a shelf for multiple volume novels (Tolstoy,Dosty,Mann etc.)
But I sort by nationality when it comes to that.
Slav next to other slav,hungarian between the slavs and germans,then comes the englis and after the english spanish and latin.

Christian stuff is next to eachother,Tragedy of man is both christian and a play,so I place my plays after that.

I own so many books of Karinthy that I put all of them next to eachother.Based on edition.

I mostly follow the Theme>writer>size format or the theme>writer>edition>size

>>8979597
I do height then width. Them thicc Amazonian girls go all the way to the left

>>8981130
Idk why everyone is hating. Nice books and the fact that they look so nice is a GOOD thing. I wish all my books were like this.

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>>8981916
That's several pictures together, so the titles are more visible. But it actually was all along one wall--here's an alternate pic of it.

>>8981989
Right on, thanks!

For pleasure I mostly read postmoderns, but academically I'm most interested in the medievals. I'm in my second year of undergrad and have only taken a survey of early English lit, but I'm pretty sure that's what I'll wind up studying.

>>8982017
(also yeah, it was the wall delivery people got to see behind me when delivering things)

I moved and now they're spread out between rooms, not nearly as nice to see. I'm hoping to get an addition built sometime soon that would have a den/library, but it's not too high up the priority list.

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>>8981130
>>8981139
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>>8981346
>>8981710
>>8982014

i dont get all the hate toward this. it looks fine; barnes and noble made those bindings to be consumed and presented within a certain cultural milieu, and that seems to be exactly what is happening. what's the big deal? half of these other photos are the same books, just in different bindings; and the other half are mere attempts at aesthetics, anyway.

besides, its not like any of you fuckers are really that educated, have tremendously deep or wide collections, or are broadly read. ironically, and if i remember right, this dude >>8982017
>>8981479 is working on a phd in japanese lit; apart from him, i highly doubt many of you have the grounds to complain in an aesthetic thread about an aesthetic image that, in all honesty, i have no doubt the author of that photo has actually read some of her shit.

y'all as hypocritical and vainglorious as ever, you stupid judgmental fuckers.

>>8981130
>all those tacky ass books
>cheap ikea furniture
>disgusting wall-to-wall carpet

go back

>>8982017
what's all that shit on top? is that legos and shit?

>>8982017
Pathetic.

"There are three kinds of book owners. The first has all the standard sets and best sellers -- unread, untouched. (This deluded individual owns woodpulp and ink, not books.) ..."

>>8981130
these are cute anon keep buying what you want

>>8982199
that's one kind

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>>8982199

what do you own, anon? what kind of book owner are you?

>>8982051
Because it's consumerism pretending to be culture. Here, I'm gonna sperg for a minute.

Yeah, I'll fully admit, in these threads you'll often get a lot of of the same (meme) stuff, and that's because the /lit/ crowd is pretty similar- a boring male college student trying to be intellectual.

but at least their bookshelves say something about themselves. You are what you eat, you are what you read after all.

Looking at >>8981130 you can tell nothing about the person's reading habits, only their buying habits.

Why the fuck do they have a copy of Gray's Anatomy, Star Wars novelizations, the Iliad and the Da Vinci Code all on the same shelf? Starship Troopers AND Wicked? Who the fuck is this person?

The answer: somebody who bought books for the way they look.

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>>8982196
Lego Architecture sets. They're pretty nice ways to spend a few hours. I also have some Nanoblocks, since they have more non-American landmarks.

Since I generally sort books by country of author origin, I'd eventually like to have the landmarks on top of the bookcases that correspond to each country.

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>>8982236

i have the illiad and gray's anatomy, probably even the da vinci code. im not sure what any of this says; it's like you mistake eclecticism for stupidity or contradiction or something. i could rehearse whitman and your entire argument falls to shambles: "very well, then i contradict myself, i am large, i contain multitides"

now where i do think you might have a point is in the nature of its consumption. i personally would be more sympathetic to super troopers being enxt to da vinci code next to homer, etc., if they weren't designed for purely aesthetic consumption. but i'm sorta just ambivalent about this--books come in many bindings, so its kinda like fuck it, who cares if your library operates secondarily as a work of (highly personal) "art"?

again, a lot hinges on whether the author of the photo has read their collection. but, too my greater point: i very much doubt you are any better read, or better stocked, than said photo. it's a matter of hypocrisy--equally as damaging to "culture" as you put it.
is "consumerism pretending to be culture" any better than a low-witted, insecure idiot pretending to be a cultural vanguard? y'all are equally fucked up, just from different angles.

>>8979171
From biggest to smallest desu

>>8982236
>Why the fuck do they have a copy of Gray's Anatomy, Star Wars novelizations, the Iliad and the Da Vinci Code all on the same shelf? Starship Troopers AND Wicked? Who the fuck is this person?
>You don't fit any of my preconceived stereotypes of what a persons interests should be REEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>8979171
Alphabetical based on title. You know. Like a non-autist.

>>8982276
>>8982337
There's a difference between dabbling in many things and, uh, skimming the surface so lightly your toes don't get wet?

but yeah, I agree with you, how else are you gonna find out what you like unless you try lots of things? A large palate is good. I shouldn't have implied otherwise.

I probably wouldn't think twice about their collection if it wasn't all the same publisher/series/whatever. But because it is, the presumption of consumerism is there, and it makes me skeptical(cynical?).

and heck, I'll even backpedal on my earlier REEEEE. Taking another look, they do have a nice collection of children's books on the top right there. That's cool, I like that! So I guess I'm wrong about that OP, anyways.

And I do apologize if I came off as a vanguard. I am a pleb for sure.

>>8982051
The problem is that conforming babbies on this board find the Everyman binding the most aesthetic, so anyone with the sporty binding popular among millenials (Penguin Hardcover Classics or B&N Hardcover) is to be condemned for non-conforming within /lit/.

Same reason we condemn best-sellers like George R.R. Martin. Sure, most people are reading them and like to read them, but within our /lit/ circle doing so is gauche and considered a mark of the normie.

Despite the other anon's protests, you could read every B&N Hardcover front to back and it wouldn't make a difference. You'd still be a disgraceful normie for buying the millenial flashy binding.

>>8982236
>but at least their bookshelves say something about themselves

The things our bookshelves say is "stay the fuck away. this guy probably visits /lit/ and /pol/, and if you hunt enough around his house you'll find the jars he uses store his urine in."

>>8982679
You are /lit/. You may be the only one arguing it, but we all know we group-think that way if we're on here long enough.

Fucking normies, amirite?

>>8982246
that's cool. I like the Batman legos

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>>8982464
>based on title

>>8982246
>Since I generally sort books by country of author origin, I'd eventually like to have the landmarks on top of the bookcases that correspond to each country.

Aren't your books sorted by color?

>>8983015
No, by country. The color thing is a coincidence.

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>>8981967
i just watched that guy give a presentation at a conference.

spoiler: he's a marxist

but I like his presentation differentiating the relations of social, economic and state power to each other and economic activity

>>8981130
you buy expensive books to look nice but don't actually read them/10

>>8981348
>lesbian
>Wife in millitary
>wants to build a bookshelf
could you be anymore of a sterotype if you tried

>>8981688
Where can I get bookcases like these?

>>8981479
How is A True Novel? I've been thinking about picking it up.

By fit.

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The shelf at the head of my bed.
No, I am not memeing.

>>8979171
by literal size

>>8984896
why you got so much fucking lord of the rings

>>8984896
>harlan ellison
>redwall
>being this much of a pretty cool guy

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Shelf after one year of reading. Would love some suggestions.

>>8984896
oi thats a lot of fuckin redwall

>>8984980
You read any of that Japanese mumbo jumbo? It any good?

>>8984997
I have enjoyed all the one that I have read, my favorites have been Kokoro and Snow Country if you are interested.

>>8984980
Are you allergic to long books?

>>8985043
Yes

>>8984925
>>8984951
>>8984995
The reason I have so much stuff by Tolkien, is because I'm a pretty big fan of him, and even tho I don't read any of the Redwall books I'm still a really big fan and they're there for emotional reasons.
Also Ellison is just coo'.

>>8983015
In those pictures, yeah. I said "generally." I only did by color right before I moved, since they'd soon be shoved into boxes anyway.

>>8984508
One of my favorite novels I read in 2015, I'm sure even people not especially into Japanese literature would like it. The first ~150 pages might throw you off since they're autobiographical novel-within-a-novel set-up for the story, but you could honestly skip that bit and get right to the Wuthering Heights beginning if you wanted to. If you like doorstopper family-centered novels, you'd probably enjoy it.

>>8984980
What'd you think of The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong?

>>8985072
It was a bit hard to follow at times and some parts were very slow with not much happening but the majority of it was very intresting, I would highly suggest it.

>>8985081
What made it hard to follow? Lots of unfamiliar names?

What does seeing a particular book on someone's shelf mean to you? Considering owning a book doesn't mean they actually like it, let alone have read it.

>>8985127
Yeah, a lot of people are introduced and it was tough to memorize them, especially with Korean family names there were many people with the anems Kim, Pak, Yi, or Cho.

Those who sort shelves by author, how do you deal with textbooks and the like with multiple authors, classic works with no attested authors, or anthology-like books that contain work from several authors?

>>8979171
by era, then type (history, philosophy, poetry, etc.), then author.

>>8981130
>not pictured: collection of massive multi-colored dragon dildos

consumer/10 read marx

>>8985250
>textbooks

Non-fiction has its own section sorted by subject.

>no author

Put them at the very beginning or very end.

>anthologies

They go in the anonymous section too, but next to each other.

>>8985365
>>Non-fiction has its own section sorted by subject.
How do you sort within a subject?

>>8985379
I don't have autism, so I just put them on the shelf near books in the same subject. If I pull one out, it doesn't necessarily go back to the same spot, meaning not every book has its own correct location and it can vary.

I sort them by ontological scope

>>8979570
>Currently living in the corner of a friends studio

Sorry to hear that. At least you have a nice friend

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got a few for y'all
1/3

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>>8985438
2/3

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>>8985440
3/3

>>8985444
is that some brother cornel west?!

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>>8979171

This is the mess of a shelf next to my desk

>>8985463
lots of it

>>8981130
Where did you get all these similar looking books? Was it a single design team that did all of these?

>>8984980
why does everyone have this edition of 1984?

>>8985610
I don't

>>8981905
>Zadie Smith
>Tao Lin
LMAO

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Living abroad in France so just a small shelf. Sorry for picture quality. Best I could do.

>>8985805
>Living abroad in France
To learn French? How much damage has foreign immigration caused?

>>8981130
Abominble eye shore /10

>>8985805
>Patapon
hell yeha

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t. poorfag

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>>8985050
>big fan of tolkien
>every book looks in mint condition
>don't read the redwall books
>every book looks tatty as fuck

>>8988835
i kind of like the ego detachment that comes from just reading something on an e-reader desu, organizing a shelf and whatnot is such a chore sometimes

What's the point of buying so many books?

Right now I pirate all my books onto my Kindle. What I can't find online I borrow from a library. Is it really just for decoration or is there any better reason for buying physical books?

>>8982051
>working on a phd in japanese lit
>all english books

wat

>>8989671
For me it's a decoration, material preference, force of habit, and a bit of ritual.

>>8981130
If I had lots of money I would probably do something like this.

The main thing stopping me would be that Dan Brown book. To not have it would mean an incomplete collection, but to have it would mean having it.

>>8981917
>which anyone at all could have bought
Most retarded thing I have read this year.

>>8980963

>where to draw the line

This has worried me too...

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Thats my australian poetry up top, below that is fiction (left to right is least enjoyable to most), drama, general poetry

>>8985137
not necessarily similar taste, but if its a more obscure book that i have on my shelf its kinda like a solemn brofist
you bring up a good point though, lots of books on shelves are not read

>>8985137

It's an insight, kind of like why programmes like Through the Keyhole or Cribs exist I guess, also it enables a sort of masturbation for those who post pics.

>>8985444
got some journals on the right or what foo

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How pleb am I

>>8989781
reddit tier

>>8989781
disgusting

>>8989671
Many reasons why some prefer physical books.
I like reading physical copies, I feel more excited to read when I have a nice new book. I like showing people my collection, regardless of how plebby that sounds, and it offers something for conversation. I also like to lend books to friends/ women.

>>8989788
>>8989794
I'm just getting into /lit/ pls no bully

>>8985610
I see it at normie retail stores all the time, so it's probably just the most popular copy

>>8989781
Appalling, disgusting, worrisome, alarming, awful

>>8984980
The Makioka Sisters is great. Good taste. I was looking for a reason to bully your shelf, but now I can't

>>8989803
i do love dragon age though, is that book any good or is it pure autism?

>>8989836
It's good but not remarkable
It's a good companion to the games but not as a standalone book
The book is all about the circumstances around the wicked hearts and wicked eyes quest and explains how the civil war and shit starts

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Sup guys

>>8989748
nice stack of natgeo

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>>8989671
>Kindle
>Not Kobo

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>>8989781
The Catechism is the only worthy thing you have there.

>>8982236
>Because it's consumerism pretending to be culture.
Do you feel the same way about public libraries as you do private libraries? All these rows of books just there to look pretty! So many best sellers! Some of the books are even unread! ... ignoring the fact that they can be read by anyone on any day for the next century.

lol i am a americans so i sorted my book s by the 3 american jaunras Fantasy , SChifi or Tom Clauncys books

you plebs lol

>>8989859
Endut!
Hoch hech!

>>8989671
An eReader will become obsolete before a physical book.

>>8985464
You're less messy and a better person in general just by virtue of tentatively sorting by publisher and not going by some alphabetic or arbitrary thematic distinction, so good on you

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>>8989674
All my work is in Meiji and Taisho era lit, so it's up on Aozora Bunko for free.

We did finally get a Books Kinokuniya near me though, so I'm about to finally have a chance to build that up. The shipping from Amazon Japan just never made it worth it before.

>>8982337

He's not wrong, though. It's the same thing that happens in /tv/ top 10 threads. Someone will post a list of classic films that looks like the output of a Sight and Sound poll and they'll get upset when people hate on them or call them a pleb. It's not because of any one of those films, it's because of the entirety of it. People's bookshelves and lists aren't supposed to be surveys of critics or an overview of the canon. If you're a living breathing person who has interests and is pulled in different directions at different points in their life, it should be a shelf that says what kind of person you are. It'll also mean you embrace controversies. Your taste isn't an unassailable curated selection of master strokes. It's the story of you.

>>8989963
Any recs for anything before Souseki or recs in general? The oldest author I've read is Souseki.

Kinokuniya is really good.

>>8989881
I got it from a friend who didn't want it.

>>8989939
what

>>8989987
Older than Soseki but still Meiji would be Ogai Mori and Koda Rohan. Further back, my favorite on the prose side is Akinari Ueda, but there are tons of good poets too (Ryokan, Basho, Issa, etc.). Of earlier than that, I'd most suggest Yoshida Kenko.

Assuming you already know about things like Genji, but if you somehow overlooked The Pillow Book, it's entertaining.

>>8990032
Thanks. Do you really get everything from Aozora? Personally I buy all my Japanese books because I don't know where to pirate them.

>>8989671

I prefer reading physical books. I find it hard to read on e-readers for an extended period of time, I enjoy turning pages more, and also I pass books along to people (like my parents, brother, friends) which isn't as easy to do with a Kindle. I also have a kind of distrust of technology even though I do use it often. I generally won't take my phone out when I'm out with friends except for calls and I also feel weird about taking tablets and shit with me on trains or when I'm out. I find it easier to just take a paperback that I can let get beat up

>>8990084
Aozora isn't pirating though, it's just the Japanese equivalent of Project Gutenberg.

My other source is inter-library loaning, but it only works out sometimes without charge. Those and CiNii have got me manageably well through research despite pretty sub-par resources at uni. Eventually I'm going to start going after library travel grants to get access to rarer collections, but probably not this year.

>>8989671
>>8990091

Also, I tend to read my physical books all the way through. e-books I've pirated just seem to pile up on my tablet and I don't really get through them.

>>8989777
nice trips, and yeah the composition books are my journals from high school forward

>>8990096
Yeah I know Aozora is legal but I don't really like it because it's horizontal and I hate reading on a computer screen.

>CiNii
This is some uni thing right? Unfortunately I don't have access to that.

I guess I'll have to keep buying them like a pleb lol

>>8990183
Where are you buying them at? Kinokuniya, or? What all do you own?

Computer reading was always useful for me because I'm far from fluent, so the kanji is easier to look up.

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>>8990249
Kinokuniya, misc book shops, amazon (mostly what I can find for free)

>What all do you own?
A lot of modern novels. Shit that /lit/ wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole, like Murakami, Morimi Tomihiko and Kiyoshi Shigematsu. My mindset at the time was to strengthen my language ability through them lest I ruin my experience trying to brute force my way through a classic.

For Souseki I only buy Shinchosha editions like the one you posted because the rakugo shit makes them impossible for me to read without the annotations.

I take it you're studying in Japan?

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I don't have a lot of space

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>>8990375
I think I've seen you post them before! I remember seeing the Mori in Morimi and assuming it was Mori Ogai.

I just wish the Shinchosha editions had cuter covers like the Shueisha ones. I'd rather get the latter, but I didn't see any at the store.

Nope, I've never actually been to Japan yet. I ought to have done the year abroad as an undergrad, but my other half didn't want to go too, and I wasn't okay with LDR. Probably won't make it over there until kid is of traveling age. Have you been?

>>8981130
Those books are gaudy in the extreme...One or two might look cool but a whole shelf of them looks disgusting and tasteless.

>>8990464
Oh, that's definitely not me. I've never posted my Japanese book collection on /lit/. I try to read at least one Japanese novel a week so I don't get rusty. Now that I've finished Kokoro I'm going to try to finish the trilogy with Sanshirou.

>Probably won't make it over there until kid is of traveling age

Ah, that sucks. I went to Hokkaido with a tour group when I was really young so I don't remember much, just that the food was awesome. On the bright side you have a lot of time to plan out your trip.

I have to go to bed now, so thanks for the recs and best of luck on your phd!

>>8981130
I have that Jules Verne.

Thanks for posting this though. People are giving you shit but the amount of replies at least shows how interesting it is. Definitely saving the picture and you can't stop me.

>>8981130
This pic brings back my childhood urge to collect things that are shiny and colorful. Fucking pokemon cards all over again.

>>8990917
It was pasta anyway

How fucking obvious does bait have to be for you people

>>8990928
If it is then I got tricked by that guy earlier who reverse image searched it.

Is it /lit/ in origin?

>>8990935
Looks unique from the archive.

https://warosu.org/lit/image/vW9LhlJtWenlpWP43lb4jg

>>8990951
I have Seen it with my Eyes

>>8990935
I got it from an imgur post that went up 8 hours before I found it, so it wouldn't have been indexed by tineye when he searched.

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who /sci/ here?

>>8991321
>tfw bought the softcover of CLRS to save $20 and have regretted that decision since day 1

>>8979171
I don't sort them. I have a "book shelf" an "information shelf" in which I put books I'd use for reference, including religious texts and school books, a "comic shelf" and an "art shelf", which is where I keep say, photography books.

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This is my memeshelf.
There are many like it, but this one is mine.

>>8991321
I'm sure it is interesting if you are into it but that is the most yawn inducing image.

When I see bookshelves like that my eyes glaze over. Nothing for me there.

>>8991738
Maybe you should expand your horizons.

>>8991758
I should and am. Not in the direction of maths textbooks though. Sorry.

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>>8991795
That's unfortunate. You're missing out on one of the oldest and richest forms of expression ever conceived of. But whatever. It's your loss.

>>8989948
How on earth is sorting by publisher any less arbitrary than sorting alphabetically by title/author?

>>8991496
>Dem Norton Criticals poking in view.

Mah nigga.

>>8991496
pretty meme-y

>>8991321
>Lychee Light Club next to all that
Was it a joke or are you trying to hurt me?

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Here are some books.
I use milk crates because I got them for free :3

>>8993789

Lattimore represent. Also the milk crates look kind of cool.

>>8992022
>>8993598

t....thanks.

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>>8990446
>that warped/twisted book next to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

>>8990446
the woman who rode away is my favorite dh lawrence story

that is all

>>8993789
Cute walrus!

>>8989859

holy smokes mate, that russian transcription of j.d. salinger confused me for about 2 minutes; did you read remarque at school? is he the only german author youve read?

t. german who had russian for 2 semesters at university

>>8991816
bonjour monsieur reddit

>>8989886
what's wrong with White Fang?
Everyone needs at least one Jack London no?