What's the most money you've spent on a book?
>>24935319$400 for a goatskin Bible I've only opened once.
£40 for a full colour copy of House of Leaves in a local bookshop. Got it on a whim.
>>24935319Close to a hundred books for Remembrance of Things Past (Everyman's)
>>24935319About $120 for an ebook of an obscure phonetics textbook that was recently released and entirely unyarrable. Google Play flagged it and I had to call my bank and tell them that I wasn't a saar trying to scam my accountI can't even think of how much for a real book, I can't remember ever spending more than $40 on one. I live in New England which has a lot of inexpensive used book stores. Only thing coming to mind is this book that was like $30
>>24935319IDK, like $50AUD on the complete works of Aristophanes?
Probably some niggerbook for niggercollege. But I am about to spend $50 on Apocalypse Culture 2 when I know my copy is sitting in my moms attic halfway across the country
£50 on the hermetica
Any Einaudi Millenni or Meridiani will cost your eye here in Italy. This year, probably 150 euris for the Anatomy of Melancholy
>>24935472I spent about $150 on an old copy of my favorite book, Paradise Lost.
La Pléiades
>>24935319i usually spend 100 dollars on a nice antique version of each book i buy, or just a paperback, i love antique books lol
>>24935604Bait or you're unironically the richest person on this board
>>24935624Those arent mine, thats probaby fifteen thousand dollars worth of books, in america the average salary is 60,000 a year
>>24936085>the average salary is double my salary
$50 for a complete second edition set of Lord of the Rings, book jackets and all. It's beat to hell but I love em
forty bucks for each of these>tranströmerbought at a gift shop in montana. don't normally buy books new but was impressed by their selection & thought a swedish-english diglot would be handy>the four booksbought at my favorite used bookstore. thought it was four dollars like modt of their stuff, turned out to be forty. oh well. still not displeased with the purchase. i have the great learning & the doctrine of the mean plus selections of the other two books in another translation, but it's nice to have an additional (well annotated, with original chinese) translation. plus it's a cute volume
>>24935319$40 on Montaigne's Complete Essays, Penguin edition.
I spent $200 on a signed copy of It's Me, Eddie by Limonov
Nearly $100 Canuckbux for what basically amounts to a comic book/graphic novel.
>>2493531940 bucks in a septuaginta
A few hundred on some old Gallimard books by a poet I translated. They hadn’t been reprinted
Prob $275 for a math textbook?$150 for Sun & Steel by Mishima if you mean non scamademic books.
>>24935319200-250 for a rare one once, other than that no more than like 125. Most books are best gotten free.
>>24935319War and Peace from Everyman's (Maude translation), which was 60 bucks
I spent $100+ on a book of Sacher-Masoch's letters (in German) to a young woman because I wanted to see how a 19th century woman would react to the sheer possibility of femdom existing. Before that, I had read the memoirs of Wanda Sacher-Masoch for the same reason. Spoiler: It's boring. There is exactly one part where Wanda is like "wtf men can kiss my feet? kinda based" and the rest of the book is her being poor, them being poor together, and him relentlessly cheating on her and trying to force cuckolding dynamics on the relationship. Similar disappointment with the letters in the book I bought. He keeps signing letters with "Your faithful slave" and such, but she never reciprocates. All she does is mail him once a year when she needs a publishing connection. She doesn't so much as throw him a bone and say "haha yeah you're my slave, anyway ..." She is just like "Would you be so kind as to forward my novella to Sneed Verlag?" My brain and heart are happy because Sacher-Masoch seems to have been an awful person and by all accounts he deserved to be put in horny jail, so to speak. But my penis is sad because I just wanted to see the reaction of one woman, pre-male gaze, pre-pornsickness, pre-symbolic hypertrophy of femdom, reacting naively and authentically to "wtf men can kiss my feet?" Nowadays when you get a femdom gf she's already been traumatized by fifty shitty sub guys and each of their 20+ year pornsickness journeys before you got there. It was troubling to me to learn that the OG sub, Sacher-Masoch himself, was the living stereotype of the relentlessly topping from the bottom shitty sub too.
$90 for an out of print book on the history of intelligence agencies
>>24935319now we're into performative spending money on booksPlease just destroy social media
>>24940779I can hardly think of something more personally indulgent than paying retard prices for rare books, in what way is it performative? Performative would suggest that the action is calculated to influence others
>>24940863>in what way is it performative? When you make youtube shorts to show off how expensive your books are, which is why we're even in this thread. Everyone is influenced by that one retard on the algos atm
my parents had to pay over 8k for a manuscript related to the marbury madison case i took out of my law school library and lost they withheld my diploma
>>24935319I have a beautiful illustrated Don Quixote for like $250. Most of the ones so got were hella cheap. In general I appreciate marginalia, so my favorite books are often extremely cost effective.
>>24940968>everyone who talks about book collecting on a literature forum must have been influenced by a tiktok I recently sawNo one knows what you're talking about. Many people who like literature have a pre-existing interest in physical books. Readers like the posters on /lit/ might be expected to have an interest in older antiquarian books or more recent out-of-print books
>>24941007Yeah okay, there's already been similar threads posting the same dude.
>>24940977Ouch.That'll larn ya!
>>24935319$100 USD on a 2-volume set of coffee-table picture books about custom knives.Mjltiple hundreds on textbooks, but not gonna count ghosd.(My $400+ 2-volume set on radiology was stolen out of my locker at school...dirty mothah-fuckas!)
>>24941449Whew! Good whisky!*Multiple*those
Pic rel for $120AUDI don’t regret it but I only discovered after the fact that Folio for some reason decided to abridge Gibbon’s notes, which is quite disappointing :(
€80 on a kobo; the only book I bought myself. The most expensive physical book I asked my parents to buy must been worth between €20 and €30. I can't remember what it was. Most likely some trashy fantasy door stopper.
>>24935370Was it a study bible?
pic rel for about 141 euro
>>24936167Is that eggman? He looks better.
186 for Welcome to the NHK350 if you count textbooks which I don't.
