What is the oldest book you own? Do you collect rare books?
>collecting old paperI download ebooks, read them, and then delete the file
>>23980867Nice hand you have
>>23980867A soviet lit textbook from 1946.My grandpa studied on it once the war was over.
>>23980867A medical book from 1869. I do collect rare books.
>>23980871i like books. i like old paper. parchment is really interesting. book binding used to be such an art form
>>23980871Fucking barbarians
>>23980867I live in Yuurop and regulary visit second hand book shops selling old books for cheap. Oldest i got are a copy of Ossians/Macpherson's poems from 1821, the complete works of Moliere from 1885, and the plays of Aeschylus from 1886
>>23980867I destroy books while I read them. I couldn't trust myself with them unless I bought them as bookshelf fodder. Oldest book I have is a record book from the lunatic hospital museum in Weston WV and that remains sealed in it's paper tomb.
>>23980867I envy how old literateur have illustration
>>23980867I have a 1943 english translated copy of Mein Kampf that my grandad had for some reason
>>23980867cool hand
>>23981460illustrated books are dying out for sure, besides YA and childrens books
>>23980867I’ve amassed a respectable collection of books, mostly from used book stores, a couple thousand probably over the decades. Couldn’t give two shits about rarity. Your treasure, my cheap destructible commodity, but I actually read most of what I buy
>>23980867Cesare Cantú's "Universal History". I have the 1880s edition. It is almost a relic. Pretty fun to read too, although obviously outdated.
>>23981913Then also a lot of early XX century (1900-1940s). Less rare perhaps, but I tend to focus on the content of the books. Some of them are great, while for others I couldn't care less even though they're kind of old.
My friends and I are building a small library of old and rare books by pooling our resources. The oldest one in our collection is from 1600 (pic related)—later Counter-Reformation-era texts are much cheaper than you'd think since they printed them en masse to respond to Protestant apologists.
