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Why do so many book communities encourage gluttony? I'm not talking about stuffing one's face with food, I'm talking about buying book after book after book even though one has no desire to read them or use them for anything else other than having a pretty cover.
You see a lot of people do "unhaul" videos on YouTube where they basically get rid of books they compulsively bought and never even read. It's never "I didn't like this book so I don't want it anymore" it's always "I never got around to reading it"
Is this normal? Should it be encouraged in the name of having full shelves? Why do people do it? Do they think they'll look smart by hauling books or do they have a shopping addiction?
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>>9395666
mental illness
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>>9395666
Shopping addiction. They're attracted to the gratification of buying new things and the aesthetics of the books. Buying a pile of books takes no effort, unlike reading them. This is why I couldn't care less about nice covers, it's what's inside the book that counts.
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>>9395666
Commodity fetishism.
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>>9395666
ish pure ideology
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I do this too, but with PDFs and things like that. I hear about a book and think, "Hey, that sounds great!", download it, and then maybe not look at the file again for months. It's more of an impulsive thing than anything else
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>You see a lot of people do "unhaul" videos on YouTube
/lit/-threads on anything youtube related are always cancerous bullshit, no exceptions
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80% of purchased books are never read. 20% of people even buy books. It's the end: don't bother writing, get a job.
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I will not buy any more books until I finished all the books I already own
Or at least I will buy less books than I finish reading in any given month
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>paying for books
why would you do that
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>>9397316
What else should I spend my money on?
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same thing with people who collect dvds/other physical media
part of larger nerd (really, wider than that) culture where it's about what you own, buying a book feels good and takes less time than reading it
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>>9397329
alcohol, tobacco and other cool drugs that you can do while you read your free book(s).
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If you get into any community centered around material goods, that's bound to happen. Books, tea, Magic: The Gathering, whatever. There will be people involved who encourage impulse buying and the like.
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