>he still buys physical books
I do, yes
>>24718574>he doesn't freeze his booksngmi
>>24718574Yeah, he is so cool.
>>24718574>What_reading_Plotinus_works_feels_like.webm
>>24718574>WebMThose books are so old that they have decayed to the point of disintegrating at the touch, and nine of them being stuck together, cover to cover.
>>24718642Thanks ChatGPT.
If you work at a used bookstore you'll regularly have idiots dragging in stuff like what's in OP's image thinking that they're going to get rich
>trying to unravel carbonized scrolls at Pompeii, circa 1800
I have at a guess about 300 books. Real pain in the ass when moving, but I prefer them to digital texts.
>>24718574Imagine a girl coming over to your place and flirtatiously scanning your shelves and when she reaches for a book it instantly crumbles into a cloud of dust. 'Oh sorry. Haha. I haven't read those in a while. Are you into Asterix?'
>>24718574This isn't any different from Amazon deleting the ebooks you bought from your kindle
>>24718574Umberto Eco has an essay talking about the preservation of media. We know how long a scroll or a book will last. We have no idea how long digital will last against the ravages of time.
>>247185741. this is gore2. why did this happen? is it just like 200 years of being in a zero ventilation room?
>>24719165My guess is that it's in an abandoned, exposed building switching between very high and very low humidity conditions over many decades
>>24718574What’s this guy doing in my room?
Properly bound books, kept in cool, dry areas, will last hundreds of years, far longer than any man made object unless it's been carved out of stone. My copy of Paradise Lost from 1870 will outlast all your cell phones, all your kindles, all your laptops, and any other plastic thing you may own. If you leave your books outdoors or someplace where they get moldy, this will happen. Your car will also disintegrate like this if you let it rot outdoors.
>>24719235>Your car will also disintegrate like this if you let it rot outdoors.Why is nature so cruel?
>>24718574>if you don't take care of stuff they le decay?!Wow!
>>24718574>books feel solid, smell good, and will someday either go up in flames or rot and turn to dustthey're just like me, why would I hate them
>>24719248She’s just reclaiming what belongs to her.
>>24718574i doubt those books are very old, but even the DDIQ would know now to store books in a basement, uncovered, for decades
>>24719165I would guess flood damage. Those books look waterlogged.
>he doesnt have an army of scribes that recopy the text every generation ngmi
>>24718642>>24718664Ergo, they're so old that the person who had originally read and enjoyed them is long dead.
>>24718574Neither your paper books or your ereader are going to survive the heat death of the universe anyways, so why even care. ::skull emoji:: ::skull emoji::
>>24719074>paying for ebooks
>>24719248This is actually a good thing. If every single thing humans made braved the elements and lasted forever the world would be one vast waste heap after another while. All the more extraordinary the things then that have survived to his day
>>24718574>when you visit the year 802,701Every times
>>24720840Based fellow Time Machine fan.
>>24718574>brown hand destroys history because it's entertaining on social media
>>24720840
>>24719083No single digital storage device* lasts more than 10-20 years without significant corruption. Digital is basically ephemeral. >>24719235This*excluding some very expensive experimental write once/read only media that normal people can't get.
>>24718990kek
>>24720807We've also lost a lot of extraordinary things. The Golden Ass, a pornographic text, is the only ancient Roman text we have today in its complete form. This is only because there were so many copies of it that one of them managed to survive to the modern age. Whereas works of Aristotle such as his second book of poetics, is lost forever, simply because it wasn't as ubiquitous as The Golden Ass. Think about that. Think of all the literary voices today, which may one day be lost forever, not because it wasn't beautiful, not because it wasn't profound, not because it wasn't great, but because it wasn't the #1 best seller on Nero's Amazon. Imagine the year is 3000 and nobody knows about Paradise Lost or Don Quixote, but the self help book How to Stop Giving a F*** is still around.
>>24718990>Uhhhh No? >But Obelix was a total hunk.
>>24719083If you have a hard drive backing up old files it will be dead in 10 years, maybe sooner. I have a flip phone from 2005. It still turns on, but the plastic the case is made from is sticky like it's fucking melting or something, because the plastic is decomposing. This is simply because the manufacturers never imagined someone would still own this phone after 20 years. A plastic binder I had from 2016 fucking disintegrated. The plastic broke apart like a croissant. We live in the age of planned obsolescence. Even the big glass and steel buildings in your city will disintegrate if they aren't constantly maintained month after month. Metal rusts. Glass can break from a fucking bird smacking into it. Concrete foundations decay slowly over time. Mesa Verde has a better chance of surviving into the year 3000 than any building in New York state.
>>24722582iirc the golden ass survived intact because a copy of it was used to plug a barrel. Aristotle actually was ubiquitous and everybody assumed there'd always be a copy somewhere which is why the second book is now lost. Sappho is only known through citations from grammars
>>24719503Profound.
>>24722582>saying the golden ass is the only complete roman text we haveWrong.>a brief sexual passage makes an entire work mere pornographyWrong.>comparing the golden ass to modern sloplitWrong again.
>>24718574I hope someone read those.
