>he hasnt read more than 70% of the books in his bookshelf

>>9822523
>70%
that's low. 90 is closer

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>>9822523
Why would I need to own books I have already read?

I have read about 5 books from start to finish in my entire life. Four of them are by Nietzsche, the fifth one is a Beethoven biography.
My bookshelf has literally hundreds of books: all the classics, philosophy, essays and so on. I have only skimmed them, some of them I have never opened. It's a shame I know. Will I be excused if I say that I'm battling with depression?

>>9822523
>efags need not apply
why?

>>9822596
>Will I be excused if I say that I'm battling with depression?
yeah. I know that feel. it's pretty awful.
start small. I mean novellas. really small books. Plays, actually. Puccini's La Boheme and Caligula from Robert Graves. They're like, 50 pages. It won't reinvigorate you suddenly, or anything, but it feels good to finish something.

obvious bait or ignorant pseud, the more you read the more books you realize you haven't read yet. if you've actually read 70% of the books you own it just means you view the canon as some kind of endpoint and you keep your books as trophies and proof of your path to the endpoint

>>9822523
I-I'll be finished by the end of 2018, I swear!

>>9822523
I don't understand this. Why do you people keep buying books and then not reading them?

>>9822781
compulsion
good intentions
boredom

>>9822781
>read something cool about a book
>fuck, I have to read it
>impulse buy it
>end up never reading it

Well if your bookshelf is small then the percentage rule kinda screws you over. I have ~35 books and haven't read 8.

>>9822781

i worked at a bookstore for a year and accumulated at least two years worth of reading. i figured it was a good move because i may as well get the most out of a 30-40% discount off MSRP while i can and books tend not to expire, both physically and in my favors.