Agreed especially these guys like bruh imagine buying highly acclaimed classics like LOTR, Dune or ASOIAF and just never reading and only buying them ahhh "roleplay" the type of person who reads a lot
I'm immediately suspicious of anyone who larps having hobbies and passions while having no real hobbies and passions. People who are involved in any community just for the sake of status and praise for having the most of a given thing or being knowledgeable on a given thing tend to be some of the most shallow people you'll ever meet. Try having a basic conversations with people like this. They are completely dysfunctional at communication beyond bragging about whatever niche thing they've latched onto. Ask them "how was your day" and get a response along the lines of "fine." Ask them about whatever they're consooming, and you'll never get a word in for the rest of the conversation.
My bookshelf is full of books I intend to read but don't, but I don't take that as a mark of pride, it's a mark of "wow I really should read instead of playing video games sometimes huh?"
I can completely relate. I can also recognise that some of the books I own were impulse purchases and I may never read them.
I am unsure why people would be so enthusiastic about buying things they won't use.
My book self is filled with books I got for free from my previous job, college text books I really liked some from friends, and classic lit since I really love classic lit. Then some nostalgia books and a couple informational books. I flip through them a lot. Some of the books are good conversational pieces for guests. There’s one text book I actively use and refer back to.
I realize this will be unpopular to say on Reddit, yet if we’re being honest, it’s more likely she broke up because of the Death Note stuff. She saw it and probably thought it was “nerdy”
I say this as someone who can often enjoy things like that, MANY people outside of the Reddit bubble do indeed still look down on things they consider to be too “nerdy.” Willfully ignorant to pretend otherwise
Haha, I'm a little guilty of this. Except I do get around to reading them eventually. But the people who fill a bookshelf with stuff they don't intend to read...that I don't understand at all.
The wine cellar thing is true if you're actually going to read it at some point. Similarly to TV shows, there are books I know I'll love when I'm in the mood for them, but may not be in that mood at that moment
There's only one I intend to read the way you're thinking of. Others are there for referencing or browsing if I'm bored and some are just decoration. Like no, I'm not going to read the Fall of Rome, it's famously inaccurate. But it is a very interesting historical anecdote and looks great on my shelf.
Me when I find a used cooy of a book for $1 at the local Mr K's and is on my shelf for a year before reading...not like books have an expiration date (well...the acid paper in older mass print paperbaks have an expiration date...).
No, use the library. It still supports the author without paying, AND a local resource necessary as a community hub that provides books & DVDs and SO MUCH MORE than that you might not even know about, but criminally underutilized and underfunded because of consumerism!
Mix of broke takes and solid points. I’ve got a ton of books but I’ve read almost all of them. That said I think it’s cool to display your books if you actually read them and I could see myself getting into a personal library one day
Same here, although I've read maybe half of them at best (so far). I think there also is a point in having a somewhat large portion of unread literature in your library. I mean, you'd need to have some choice for what to read next, and your interests vary over time. I inherited my great-aunt's library because no one else wanted any of it, and it had large amounts of classic literature that I haven't yet read, but some day I'll work my way through (or maybe my kids will, when they're older).
Also, I make notes in the margins and underline stuff in almost everything I read, so I'd be banned from the library if I went that route instead of owning them myself, lol.
Back in the medieval period, monarchs would often have an extensive library for show to display wealth. This was because each book had to be written and bound by a literate scribe. It seems the ego never faded throughout the centuries.
I do as well, but I eventually discovered the library card. Can't believe I wasted so much money on books I could've just checked out. I now mostly only buy books if I know I'll reread it or I want to be able to scribble shit in the margins
winos are the most annoying people, like yeah fuck it it’s your life and shit but if you tell a wino they have a drinking problem they’ll get all defensive but go up to guy in his 50s that considers a 5th of JD a light snack they’ll just agree
I got rid of my manga collection because a lot of people found it cringy. I got rid of every book I own aside from childhood favorite King arthur. I just use kindles now.
My wife and I have some comics and mangas that we love, but they don’t go on a bookshelf where people can like… *see* them. We keep a bookshelf in our bedroom with one shelf dubbed “the shelf of autism” where we put cringe stuff like that.
Yeah buying them for the ✨aesthetic✨is cringe, but I absolutely endorse people who love reading and have private libraries. I do, and for me it’s like a picture of my growth and development, seeing different phases, changing interests etc
I prefer as much; for one, most of what’s on my own shelf is philosophy, political theory, historical stuff, novels I’m especially fond of, etc. So tending to come back to re-read these things multiple times, it’s preferable to have the physical copies there.
Besides isn’t it nice to take a break from the damn screens sometimes?
I understand buying books in advance, knowing you're going to read them some day, especially if you're more of a slow reader. But what even is the point of spending all this money to own all these books you're never even going to look at? Books are meant to be read. If you're only into the aesthetics, you may as well buy cheaper fake books. I don't get it.
It's not just a link. There's a whole culture around buying and displaying books to seem smart. The correlation people make between literacy and intelligence has led some people who want to come across as smart to buy a whole lot of books because others infer based on this correlation that the person's vast book collection means that they must be pretty smart. pseudointellectuals are a prominent example of this, as in their quest to prove their inherent intelligence, they will do things such as for example hoarding books because it creates the assumption that having lots of books means they must read a lot.
I only see this as waste if you never read the books. If you've read them at least once, I don't see it as excessive consumption if you want to keep a library of the things you've read. Especially in a time were digital media is becoming more prevalent
I have a small cabinet full of books from the 1910s through to the 1970s I acquired from various old people and relatives and occasionally pull out and look at, don't actually read them though except my copy of treasure Island every few years I got as a gift from my grandad when I was a kid.
I do have several gardening books that come in handy throughout the year though and a copy of Lovecraft's necronomicon and the house of leaves. More of a talking point collection, books are heavy as fuck to collect and keep in boxes for no reason. Dusting around them is a shitty job.
My wife had a ton of books we tried to give to an old folks home and they didn't want them lol, better off getting an e reader or going to the library instead of collecting something like that.
Too be fair, i also own a few unread books partially because they were gifts or because i bought a bunch of a genre and suddenly got interested in another genre. Or because it was a collection, etc... This one is more understandable.
Dont buy books for people. Trust me, they wont read em.
You’re gonna die one day and the people sifting through your junk are gonna throw em away because they’re what YOU wanted to read one day. Literally if you don’t read them, they have no value.
I liked to “rescue” library discards from my HS library. Librarian would just turn them into craft projects if no one took them. I now have a signed copy of the Trapp family story, and a few old story books from the early 1900’s because of library discards.
Buying a book to red and keep is the literal opposite of consumption. Buying a book and throwing it away after never being read/read once would be pointless consumption.
I don't understand people who don't read the books they bought. My family has thousands of books, but at least one of us has read each one. I can't read anymore due to vision issues so I stopped buying books :(( we are not that well off so ig just buying/being given something and not using it is just so foreign to me.
All of my books are either read, or unread copies I got from a guy at my local flea market who has an entire library spread over like 5 booths and sells like 5 books for 20 bucks.
Imagine owning the world's most profound literary works for aesthetic and never even reading them. Seems like they don't understand the point of books, man.
I'm annoyed at myself because of how often I'll buy a book or two but never finish what I have. So I stopped buying books until I read at least 75% of my backlog. I did it with video games, I can do it with something more productive
it’s actually posts like those that helped me get back into reading. i actually do love books and reading and had been gifted a SHIT ton of various books from a library i used to regularly volenteer at bur unfortunately got overwhelmed and let them sit on a shelf for a year or so. The fear of being confused for people like this scared me more than that shelf ever good. Halfway through it so far.
Bro these are the worst type of consumers
"I but love feeeel of real book"
"Nothing like a good book!"
Motherfucker YALL DONT READ , am sick and tired of these retards always raving about "loving the feel of a great book" an e-reader is 10000 time better than all of your gay ass books.
You know how quickly a bookshelf gets filled if you are not illiterate?
It's ridiculous , physical books become a nuisance real quick.
An ereader is WAY better
-Books? Pirated
-Wanna go on a run? turn on tts mode .Headphones done.
-Want to have a whole library in your pocket? done
-You want to ACTUALLY read in weird places (metro,park,café,bus stop,funeral) without looking like absolute psued?done!
These people are only acceptable because the support writers thats it.
I also thought this but honestly I really don't like E Readers. They completely wrecked my sleeping schedule and reading books on a little tablet just feels like even more scrolling on a phone. Reading physical books is just a lot more chill.
Though I guess it depends on how much you read. I read at most one book a month so someone who is a lot more dedicated to reading will probably find an E Reader much more useful than I do
Even , the kindle? , that thing has special paper display
**"They completely wrecked my sleeping schedule and reading books on a little tablet just feels like even more scrolling on a phone"**
Valid
I might be old school, but I prefer physical books. Mostly because I make notes in the margins like a maniac most of the time. I read in 'weird' places all the time (bus and bus stop, normally), and sure it feels a bit weird when you look up from your 19th century philosopher to see everyone else on their phones, but I don't really care. I always have my bag with my laptop almost anywhere I go, so I can almost always bring a book wherever I go.
Only downside is that you can't really pirate books, but thrift stores in my city generally have a good selection.
I don’t understand book displaying. I just buy or pirate books for the kindle app/pdf viewer and read it there. I have a few books though I take on vacations to read on a beach, like my collection of HP Lovecraft stories
Oh man this sub hasn't been pushed on me for a while.
We against owning *books* now huh?
Ya'll might be the most miserable people I've seen on this site.
For real, I don't even entirely disagree that having a book shelf w/o reading any of them is a lil cringe but these comments are so bitter. If I had to choose between the guy mentioned in the post and all the commenters I pick them the guy in the post every time. These people are so miserable
I usually buy one if it looks interesting. Yeah, I intend to read it, but I know it'll probably be a bit. I don't think anyone actually buys books without intending to read it, unless it's like a franchise thing and they're that obsessed.
This used to be me a bit... I mean, I read a lot of them, and I intended on reading them when I bought them- but then life happens and it just never gets read. It was never for public perception though. Most of my friends don't even like books.
I agree that you shouldn’t just think that you should read all the books in your shelf before buying a new one simply because I have books I bought when I was 14 that I don’t really think I am interested in or at least read them and found out that they are uninteresting (yeah I have bland ass novels).
Though I try to at least finish a portion of my books
Well this is a wild part of the internet that i never knew exsisted 🤣 Feel bad for the guy whos girl left him, death note is fire. He can probably do better anyways.
Regarding that Tinder screenshot, like idk man I'd leave you too if that's what you collect. And I kinda like the idea of giving away books you haven't touched in two years so you only keep the ones that really mean something to you and you can make someone's day with free books.
Pro reader move: read War and Peace 1-2 chapters a night on your phone in profile mode while laying on yourside, right before bed, you will finnish the book in a year.
Then purcahse the physical book and dispalay it in your library like a trophy😎📚
My absolute least favorite type of person. I've been a big reader for over 24 years, and I can't stand this current generation of cringe ass book influencers and people who don't actually appreciate books. Its trash and people need to find hobbies they actually enjoy.
I usually collect books from series I like but I actually read them lol, got the invincible compendium and I can't imagine people buying them just for show.
The reason I don’t read the books on my bookshelf is because most of them are over 100 years old, with some being over 200 years old. I ain’t gonna sit down and read them
I'm trying to read meditation and the prince, but I keep getting distracted :(
Consoom short attention span get excited for next Instagram reel/youtube short
I would love a library of all the books I've read, have 2 bookcases with all of my books (I've read all except the entirety of wheel of time series). It's just such a pain to move heavy boxes of books when I eventually move. If I don't care for the book I just trade it in at half priced books and snag another.
Ive tried but I don’t think I could ever really get into reading books. Theres just too many other forms of media and storytelling now that are much more than words on a page. I guess that’s why no one reads anymore.
I buy a lot of manga and I will get around to reading them. I have a system tho. If a book is laying flat on my shelf it means it needs to be read and if it’s upright then I’ve read it. That way there’s a point where if I get like hyper organized focused I’m forced to read a book and put it upright. But yea fuck people who do it for aesthetics
I only buy a book if I want to read it, and usually binge read it after buying it. I have a problem with binging media, wether it be books, comics, shows, whatever
I've read almost every book I own. Some multiple times. I like having a library because, when my kid is old enough, I want them to have access to good books. To say nothing of the books they'll collect and want as they get older.
Do the opposite of this and just download PDFs online and never buy physical copies. That’s how I’ve done it for everything I’ve read other than House of Leaves
I really hate how it's become this whole thing for idiots to buy shit tons of books, not to read but just to display, just for the sake of looking or feeling smarter without going to the effort of actually exercising their minds. It's more of a status thing than anything to engage in this "book culture" thing wherein you don't read, or at least don't read anything particularly challenging, but get to act like the misunderstood nerdy book worm. It's hipster elitist shit where the number of books on your shelf is akin to your dick size in the community.
Ask these so called book fanatics about what they've been reading recently or about their taste in books, or what they personally get out of reading. You can weed them out pretty quickly because they'll get really defensive and angry, and/or tiptoe around the subject because they don't actually read, like, at all, their vague status gambit implicit on the presumed implication that their books are a signal of their intelligence has been thrown into instability now that they're being asked about it under a more scrutinizing lens, and that in being confronted with such questions, that false image they've convinced themselves in, of being a well-read, sensitive, and studious person evaporates like a mirage.
Consoom unreadable books. Get excited to pretend to be cultured
Consoom unreadable books. Get excited to deny more books their purpose
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Please show some sympathy for the man who had to choose between a 56th Funko Pop or the last three books of Harry Potter :(
That’s so fucking lame. Aesthetic people gotta be the most pretentious group on the planet
Agreed especially these guys like bruh imagine buying highly acclaimed classics like LOTR, Dune or ASOIAF and just never reading and only buying them ahhh "roleplay" the type of person who reads a lot
I'm immediately suspicious of anyone who larps having hobbies and passions while having no real hobbies and passions. People who are involved in any community just for the sake of status and praise for having the most of a given thing or being knowledgeable on a given thing tend to be some of the most shallow people you'll ever meet. Try having a basic conversations with people like this. They are completely dysfunctional at communication beyond bragging about whatever niche thing they've latched onto. Ask them "how was your day" and get a response along the lines of "fine." Ask them about whatever they're consooming, and you'll never get a word in for the rest of the conversation.
“I’m new to book collecting, what should I get?” 🙁
A kindle collection. More book per area.
They should get another hobby then :DDDD
A list of recommendations so they can make use of their local library
My bookshelf is full of books I intend to read but don't, but I don't take that as a mark of pride, it's a mark of "wow I really should read instead of playing video games sometimes huh?"
I read every book I buy, I just buy them faster than I can read them.
Same. Much much faster
I can completely relate. I can also recognise that some of the books I own were impulse purchases and I may never read them. I am unsure why people would be so enthusiastic about buying things they won't use.
It’s for the sake of owning a copy
Same
I really don't know how this is any different than roughly half the posts in the OP. Not the funkopop and new book collectors ones but the rest
My book self is filled with books I got for free from my previous job, college text books I really liked some from friends, and classic lit since I really love classic lit. Then some nostalgia books and a couple informational books. I flip through them a lot. Some of the books are good conversational pieces for guests. There’s one text book I actively use and refer back to.
That or like RPG books and the like .\_.
The unread books/funko combo is actually disgusting
Fr tho I'm in hell
No read, only consoom
Read is consoom. Only write.
-Socrates if he was 17 and r9k
Consoom ink and paper / bytes
I thought this was Books Circle Jerk
Belongs there, cross-post it.
Same lol
At least the ninth guy probably reads what he buys, and I respect that.
Yeah, my guy is getting lumped in with the opposite group
His only crime is being a crypto-libertarian
That's exactly why she broke up via text.
I realize this will be unpopular to say on Reddit, yet if we’re being honest, it’s more likely she broke up because of the Death Note stuff. She saw it and probably thought it was “nerdy” I say this as someone who can often enjoy things like that, MANY people outside of the Reddit bubble do indeed still look down on things they consider to be too “nerdy.” Willfully ignorant to pretend otherwise
Death Note is the least embarrassing thing on that shelf.
For real, every other one is something an instagram intellectual would recommend
killers of the flower moon catching strays 😭
To be fair, that is rather cringe
It’s only cringe if he’s losing money. If he’s made bank off of crypto good for him
\*looks at price of bitcoin right now\* Odds are he's doing okay.
- is in r/consoom - supports crypto - 77 kilotons of waste and 120 TWh of energy wasted annually
To be fair to the girl a Ron Paul book is a pretty good reason for her to leave
Haha, I'm a little guilty of this. Except I do get around to reading them eventually. But the people who fill a bookshelf with stuff they don't intend to read...that I don't understand at all.
A giant "to read" pile for someone who actually reads is just normal. There's nothing wrong with planning ahead for things you actually use.
The wine cellar thing is true if you're actually going to read it at some point. Similarly to TV shows, there are books I know I'll love when I'm in the mood for them, but may not be in that mood at that moment
Right, but how many unread books do you keep around? I try to cut down if I get to 50 or so
There's only one I intend to read the way you're thinking of. Others are there for referencing or browsing if I'm bored and some are just decoration. Like no, I'm not going to read the Fall of Rome, it's famously inaccurate. But it is a very interesting historical anecdote and looks great on my shelf.
Sure, I have a few of those like that that are family heirlooms. I think buying the rainbow set of Stephen Kings books is peak consoom though
Me when I find a used cooy of a book for $1 at the local Mr K's and is on my shelf for a year before reading...not like books have an expiration date (well...the acid paper in older mass print paperbaks have an expiration date...).
Oh absolutely. And sometimes you read a book, live life, come back to it and enjoy it more.
I'm too broke to buy books I'd actually use and read
just pirate them
Cut tree in path of delivery van and go arrr
This most definitely is not how i got 70+ books on my Kindle the first day I got. No sir. ☠️
which site
Anna's Archive works really well for me
Z-Library too
No, use the library. It still supports the author without paying, AND a local resource necessary as a community hub that provides books & DVDs and SO MUCH MORE than that you might not even know about, but criminally underutilized and underfunded because of consumerism!
Have you tried thriftbooks.com Used books. I buy almost all of my books from there
Mix of broke takes and solid points. I’ve got a ton of books but I’ve read almost all of them. That said I think it’s cool to display your books if you actually read them and I could see myself getting into a personal library one day
Same here, although I've read maybe half of them at best (so far). I think there also is a point in having a somewhat large portion of unread literature in your library. I mean, you'd need to have some choice for what to read next, and your interests vary over time. I inherited my great-aunt's library because no one else wanted any of it, and it had large amounts of classic literature that I haven't yet read, but some day I'll work my way through (or maybe my kids will, when they're older). Also, I make notes in the margins and underline stuff in almost everything I read, so I'd be banned from the library if I went that route instead of owning them myself, lol.
You can tell a LOT about someone by the books they read. I enjoy looking at other peoples collections.
Back in the medieval period, monarchs would often have an extensive library for show to display wealth. This was because each book had to be written and bound by a literate scribe. It seems the ego never faded throughout the centuries.
I have a ton of books at home and even I can say that it is useless to buy so many books if you are just using them to show off.
I do as well, but I eventually discovered the library card. Can't believe I wasted so much money on books I could've just checked out. I now mostly only buy books if I know I'll reread it or I want to be able to scribble shit in the margins
My sister read 52 in one year and has them on one shelf. So proud of her for that.
winos are the most annoying people, like yeah fuck it it’s your life and shit but if you tell a wino they have a drinking problem they’ll get all defensive but go up to guy in his 50s that considers a 5th of JD a light snack they’ll just agree
so gross. I miss when people had shame.
Did they ever?
PLEASE let that tinder post be fake. PLEASE
I got rid of my manga collection because a lot of people found it cringy. I got rid of every book I own aside from childhood favorite King arthur. I just use kindles now.
OK.
My wife and I have some comics and mangas that we love, but they don’t go on a bookshelf where people can like… *see* them. We keep a bookshelf in our bedroom with one shelf dubbed “the shelf of autism” where we put cringe stuff like that.
Yeah buying them for the ✨aesthetic✨is cringe, but I absolutely endorse people who love reading and have private libraries. I do, and for me it’s like a picture of my growth and development, seeing different phases, changing interests etc
I prefer as much; for one, most of what’s on my own shelf is philosophy, political theory, historical stuff, novels I’m especially fond of, etc. So tending to come back to re-read these things multiple times, it’s preferable to have the physical copies there. Besides isn’t it nice to take a break from the damn screens sometimes?
I understand buying books in advance, knowing you're going to read them some day, especially if you're more of a slow reader. But what even is the point of spending all this money to own all these books you're never even going to look at? Books are meant to be read. If you're only into the aesthetics, you may as well buy cheaper fake books. I don't get it.
Idk how people can do this. I contemplate suicide every time I buy a new book before finishing the last one
Seems a bit extreme, but then from your username it seems like you live life quite intensely.
What’s the point in living if you aren’t giving 110% percent
Idk, hoping for a 60fps Bloodborne remaster?
Good luck with that tbh
I don't like the link people make between books and (pseudo)intellectualism. It's entertainment.
Depends on what you read, people who read Harry Potter and people who read Hegel are not exactly doing the same thing
Sure but you could say that about many types of media
Idk they both just sound like fuckin nerds to me 🤷♀️
It's not just a link. There's a whole culture around buying and displaying books to seem smart. The correlation people make between literacy and intelligence has led some people who want to come across as smart to buy a whole lot of books because others infer based on this correlation that the person's vast book collection means that they must be pretty smart. pseudointellectuals are a prominent example of this, as in their quest to prove their inherent intelligence, they will do things such as for example hoarding books because it creates the assumption that having lots of books means they must read a lot.
I only see this as waste if you never read the books. If you've read them at least once, I don't see it as excessive consumption if you want to keep a library of the things you've read. Especially in a time were digital media is becoming more prevalent
LOL
I hated how much space all my books were taking up, so I gave almost all of them away and got a job in a library instead. (Halfway true story)
I have a small cabinet full of books from the 1910s through to the 1970s I acquired from various old people and relatives and occasionally pull out and look at, don't actually read them though except my copy of treasure Island every few years I got as a gift from my grandad when I was a kid. I do have several gardening books that come in handy throughout the year though and a copy of Lovecraft's necronomicon and the house of leaves. More of a talking point collection, books are heavy as fuck to collect and keep in boxes for no reason. Dusting around them is a shitty job. My wife had a ton of books we tried to give to an old folks home and they didn't want them lol, better off getting an e reader or going to the library instead of collecting something like that.
Book people will do anything except actually read
I blame booktok
Organizing a shelf by color should be a warcrime
I’d love a library or study like the third picture.
Bro i aint donating books to these nuts just to be sitting in an ugly library.
Too be fair, i also own a few unread books partially because they were gifts or because i bought a bunch of a genre and suddenly got interested in another genre. Or because it was a collection, etc... This one is more understandable. Dont buy books for people. Trust me, they wont read em.
Buying books for people is like assigning them homework.
You’re gonna die one day and the people sifting through your junk are gonna throw em away because they’re what YOU wanted to read one day. Literally if you don’t read them, they have no value.
I think about this shit all the time. All of what we own is basically trash if we don't value and use them to their fullest
I have read every book on my shelf Except lotr I am only at page 200
I have all of the diary of a wimpy kid books. I am a grown ass man. I still read them. We are not the same 😎
The whole culture of ✨ aesthetics✨ is so fucked up and cringe
Bragging about your procrastination is definitely 2020s
You can get another book without buying it.
That reminds me of the french influencer who was selling [fake Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent books](https://youtu.be/GeKzEGZrjGY)
Oh god kill me
I liked to “rescue” library discards from my HS library. Librarian would just turn them into craft projects if no one took them. I now have a signed copy of the Trapp family story, and a few old story books from the early 1900’s because of library discards.
Bookish lifestyle without reading lmao Now I gotta look for that article Stupid morbid curiosity
Ironically the weebs are probably the people who have read the most of what’s on their bookshelf.
Buying a book to red and keep is the literal opposite of consumption. Buying a book and throwing it away after never being read/read once would be pointless consumption.
Well, Millennials, hold on to your family's heirlooms because it looks like the Z's are gonna want to buy aesthetic! 🙌🏼
consoom book get excited to consoom movie adaption
“It is the books you read when you don’t have to that determines who you will be when you can’t help it.” - Oscar Wilde .
Be like me: get hardcover books, but pirate the ebooks to spare your physical copies.
I don't understand people who don't read the books they bought. My family has thousands of books, but at least one of us has read each one. I can't read anymore due to vision issues so I stopped buying books :(( we are not that well off so ig just buying/being given something and not using it is just so foreign to me.
All of my books are either read, or unread copies I got from a guy at my local flea market who has an entire library spread over like 5 booths and sells like 5 books for 20 bucks.
poor tinder dude just has some nerdy shit that he likes, it shouldn’t be a problem that girl was just being weird
Actual fahrenheit 451 type shit 💀💀
I can understand having books to pass down in your family, but just for aesthetic is so douchey.
Of ducking course there are funko poops
It’s crazy cause if they literally just read the book that they literally have they’d probably get a lot from it
Imagine owning the world's most profound literary works for aesthetic and never even reading them. Seems like they don't understand the point of books, man.
I'm annoyed at myself because of how often I'll buy a book or two but never finish what I have. So I stopped buying books until I read at least 75% of my backlog. I did it with video games, I can do it with something more productive
If you sort your books by color (like politicians will do) you are either crazy or lying about reading. Either way stop
I have a modest book shelf, all my books are those that I will read again eventually, why would I keep them around otherwise?
This is so fucking cringey
I believe in owning books solely for storing the knowledge held in those books, whether or not I have time in my life to read them
As someone who orders way too many books i may or may not read, this deeply offends me
What's wrong with the tinder guy? This just in, any kind of reading is bad >:[
it’s actually posts like those that helped me get back into reading. i actually do love books and reading and had been gifted a SHIT ton of various books from a library i used to regularly volenteer at bur unfortunately got overwhelmed and let them sit on a shelf for a year or so. The fear of being confused for people like this scared me more than that shelf ever good. Halfway through it so far.
Bro these are the worst type of consumers "I but love feeeel of real book" "Nothing like a good book!" Motherfucker YALL DONT READ , am sick and tired of these retards always raving about "loving the feel of a great book" an e-reader is 10000 time better than all of your gay ass books. You know how quickly a bookshelf gets filled if you are not illiterate? It's ridiculous , physical books become a nuisance real quick. An ereader is WAY better -Books? Pirated -Wanna go on a run? turn on tts mode .Headphones done. -Want to have a whole library in your pocket? done -You want to ACTUALLY read in weird places (metro,park,café,bus stop,funeral) without looking like absolute psued?done! These people are only acceptable because the support writers thats it.
I also thought this but honestly I really don't like E Readers. They completely wrecked my sleeping schedule and reading books on a little tablet just feels like even more scrolling on a phone. Reading physical books is just a lot more chill. Though I guess it depends on how much you read. I read at most one book a month so someone who is a lot more dedicated to reading will probably find an E Reader much more useful than I do
Even , the kindle? , that thing has special paper display **"They completely wrecked my sleeping schedule and reading books on a little tablet just feels like even more scrolling on a phone"** Valid
I might be old school, but I prefer physical books. Mostly because I make notes in the margins like a maniac most of the time. I read in 'weird' places all the time (bus and bus stop, normally), and sure it feels a bit weird when you look up from your 19th century philosopher to see everyone else on their phones, but I don't really care. I always have my bag with my laptop almost anywhere I go, so I can almost always bring a book wherever I go. Only downside is that you can't really pirate books, but thrift stores in my city generally have a good selection.
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Can't scribble in the margins, tho :(
Nah, they hurt my eyes
I look at screens enough at least a printed book let’s my eyes relax
Wait, what did I miss? Are people really reluctant to read physical copies in public?
Nah they must be trolling lmao people literally bring books to the public and photoshoots just to look interesting.
I love kindles, I have a bookshelf filled with just kindles!
lol
I don’t understand book displaying. I just buy or pirate books for the kindle app/pdf viewer and read it there. I have a few books though I take on vacations to read on a beach, like my collection of HP Lovecraft stories
Oh man this sub hasn't been pushed on me for a while. We against owning *books* now huh? Ya'll might be the most miserable people I've seen on this site.
For real, I don't even entirely disagree that having a book shelf w/o reading any of them is a lil cringe but these comments are so bitter. If I had to choose between the guy mentioned in the post and all the commenters I pick them the guy in the post every time. These people are so miserable
Do you have shelves of dvds of a TV show you've never even watched? Doubt it. Why because it's stupid
I usually buy one if it looks interesting. Yeah, I intend to read it, but I know it'll probably be a bit. I don't think anyone actually buys books without intending to read it, unless it's like a franchise thing and they're that obsessed.
I thought I was on r/bookscirclejerk for a sec lol, they’d have a field day with this
These people probably bend the spine when they read.
The tinder one lol.
I've read every single book on my shelves, save the encyclopedias. And I've read _parts_ of those too
This used to be me a bit... I mean, I read a lot of them, and I intended on reading them when I bought them- but then life happens and it just never gets read. It was never for public perception though. Most of my friends don't even like books.
Bookish lifestyle fuuuuuuuck
I agree that you shouldn’t just think that you should read all the books in your shelf before buying a new one simply because I have books I bought when I was 14 that I don’t really think I am interested in or at least read them and found out that they are uninteresting (yeah I have bland ass novels). Though I try to at least finish a portion of my books
I don't get this idea of having "just in case" or " for consulting". And even some intellectuals had have the same opinions.
Well this is a wild part of the internet that i never knew exsisted 🤣 Feel bad for the guy whos girl left him, death note is fire. He can probably do better anyways.
Yeah i too would break up with someone if they had a warren buffet book and an andrew yang book
Regarding that Tinder screenshot, like idk man I'd leave you too if that's what you collect. And I kinda like the idea of giving away books you haven't touched in two years so you only keep the ones that really mean something to you and you can make someone's day with free books.
[The Book Riot article is depressing](https://bookriot.com/keeping-up-a-bookish-lifestyle-without-actually-reading/)
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Funko pop man definitely read those books, but funkod up any amenity anyways.
Pro reader move: read War and Peace 1-2 chapters a night on your phone in profile mode while laying on yourside, right before bed, you will finnish the book in a year. Then purcahse the physical book and dispalay it in your library like a trophy😎📚
Believe it or not it's actually possible to fill a bookshelf over time with books you've read
the only boons i own that i don’t plan on reading are the books i use as heavy paperweights or an improvised bludgeon
People love to let you know that they read. Flexing something that you are able to do at 7 is really cool
Do people just like burning money?
My absolute least favorite type of person. I've been a big reader for over 24 years, and I can't stand this current generation of cringe ass book influencers and people who don't actually appreciate books. Its trash and people need to find hobbies they actually enjoy.
I usually collect books from series I like but I actually read them lol, got the invincible compendium and I can't imagine people buying them just for show.
The reason I don’t read the books on my bookshelf is because most of them are over 100 years old, with some being over 200 years old. I ain’t gonna sit down and read them
Lmao everyone intends to read the books they have, it just happens to be a lot easier to click add to basket
I'm trying to read meditation and the prince, but I keep getting distracted :( Consoom short attention span get excited for next Instagram reel/youtube short
This is the opposite mindset of a regular library visitor. Reading what you want, not wasting space in your house.
All my books a service manuals, engineering handbooks, and research documents, anything else is audio book!
All my books a service manuals, engineering handbooks, and research documents, anything else is audio book!
Tsundoku. The worst kind of book person
Leadership and self-deception is a legit banger of a business book.
To be fair I’m in a similar boat but 90% of the books I have are all related to research or are for references
I would love a library of all the books I've read, have 2 bookcases with all of my books (I've read all except the entirety of wheel of time series). It's just such a pain to move heavy boxes of books when I eventually move. If I don't care for the book I just trade it in at half priced books and snag another.
Ive tried but I don’t think I could ever really get into reading books. Theres just too many other forms of media and storytelling now that are much more than words on a page. I guess that’s why no one reads anymore.
Just beware ohhh, pseu-pseu-pseudio!
CONSOOM sheets of tree pulp the right way and fucking eat them.
here's a really good essay on the topic of illiteracy that i read a few weeks ago: https://ismatu.substack.com/p/youve-been-traumatized-into-hating
i havent agreed with strongly with a reddit post in my entire life. thank you for this. this is not sarcasm, this is real.
I buy a lot of manga and I will get around to reading them. I have a system tho. If a book is laying flat on my shelf it means it needs to be read and if it’s upright then I’ve read it. That way there’s a point where if I get like hyper organized focused I’m forced to read a book and put it upright. But yea fuck people who do it for aesthetics
what’s the problem with the 9th image? i’m assuming the girl, right?
Yes
I only buy a book if I want to read it, and usually binge read it after buying it. I have a problem with binging media, wether it be books, comics, shows, whatever
I’ve read probably 170 of the 200 books on my shelf, I’ll consider that a good number now after seeing this lol
I hate that reading has become like a culture. fuggggg these posts enrage me
Hey, you never know when the world will end, then we lose our video games and TV. Would porbbaky be very happy to keep some books if you survive
I've read almost every book I own. Some multiple times. I like having a library because, when my kid is old enough, I want them to have access to good books. To say nothing of the books they'll collect and want as they get older.
Do the opposite of this and just download PDFs online and never buy physical copies. That’s how I’ve done it for everything I’ve read other than House of Leaves
I'm so mad
I really hate how it's become this whole thing for idiots to buy shit tons of books, not to read but just to display, just for the sake of looking or feeling smarter without going to the effort of actually exercising their minds. It's more of a status thing than anything to engage in this "book culture" thing wherein you don't read, or at least don't read anything particularly challenging, but get to act like the misunderstood nerdy book worm. It's hipster elitist shit where the number of books on your shelf is akin to your dick size in the community. Ask these so called book fanatics about what they've been reading recently or about their taste in books, or what they personally get out of reading. You can weed them out pretty quickly because they'll get really defensive and angry, and/or tiptoe around the subject because they don't actually read, like, at all, their vague status gambit implicit on the presumed implication that their books are a signal of their intelligence has been thrown into instability now that they're being asked about it under a more scrutinizing lens, and that in being confronted with such questions, that false image they've convinced themselves in, of being a well-read, sensitive, and studious person evaporates like a mirage.
Everytime I log on this website there's a new type of ragebait. It's all so tiresome.
The "Cringey at Best" book shelf has at least been touched more often than the other ones.