Books are too fucking expensive now. Even ebooks are $30+ now. >Just stea-Die, shitskin.
>>25007512I dunno I'm white and I steal shit all the time. Books should be free or I'm gonna rape someone.
I buy used books on ebay and at the bookstore and they're around $5-8, maybe $20 if it's a particularly rare or interesting book.
and the rent is too damn high
>>25007559Used books are usually in really shit condition.
>>25007525I'm white but I'll take the compliment
>>25007512>post blue eyes>be racistI'm tired of you rabbi Singer.
>>25007566They're fine. I have some ones that were in rough shape but a little bit of packing tape and they hold together and are perfectly readable.
got to have sticky hands when your ass is broke
>>25007512Hey buddy this is an antiracist board and we call it reparations over here. I'm "reparationsing" books from the local barns and noble because no way am I going to let those kikes charge me $20 for a public domain slopfest that's not even bound on real elephant hide.
>>25007608>claims to be "antiracist">uses the term "kike"
>>25007616didn’t say anything about antisemitism.
It's occasionally depressing to realize that as a starving artist I will never have access to luxuries that I grew up believing I would.My father had a house and a car and was able to travel and dress up and whatnot working a low wage factory job.Doing similar work I can hardly afford to keep myself alive let alone have a bookshelf. Hurts more as my ex got with a software guy who now works from home like 20 hours a week and makes 100k and spends the rest of his time on his hobbies. Maybe I should have done that.
>>25007512Go to the library you destitute poorfag.
>>25007512NYRB is one of the more bougie American publishers and the median price for a book from them (when you buy directly from the publisher) is $16.65, with prices exceeding $20 only when the page count is above 450.
>>25007656To give an example: Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman is over 1,000 pages and its listed price is $29.95; now, of course, this is just the subtotal shipping and sales tax would bring it over $30, but this is the exception, not the rule.
>>25007512Copyright infringement isn't stealing.It's not much different than reading a book from the library. It's not like the library pays royalties everytime someone reads it. Or you can just go to a 2nd hand bookstore. Or read copyright expired epubs.
I don't think books are expensive but then again I have a job and collect Pléiades
>>25007726I have no job and have stolen well over 100k in rare books from different libraries.
>>25007640If its any consolation, Ai will make 90% of software engineers obsolete. The downside is welall be slaves by then>>25007585Im tired of the racism meme, literally everybody is racist. Just go to Nigeria as a white guy, or to Japan, or Israel. Every race prefers the company of their own race and that is human nature. Racism is pushed by globalist elite to shame the low iq into division and rage and open borders for cheap labor.
>>25007512>frogposter>it's some retarded bullshitEvery timeMost books aren't over $30 retard, and you can get used books in perfectly fine condition.
I would never be racist. That you share some far flung genetic ancestry with me does not endear you to me in the slightest. Neither do I like it when you express your positive feelings for me as a member of your “race”, or for others of our “race”. It disgusts and displeases me, that I might be associated with a group in such a manner. Keep your self-denying autism away from me.
>>25007512https://libgen.li
>Erm... LE LIBRARY The library has absolutely zero of the books I actually want to read. You retards are insane.
>>25007874Get a job you lazy frogfag
>>25007875I do you stupid TWAT. I literally just spent $86 on THREE fucking ebooks. Dumb KIKE.
>>25007859No problem Mr Rakesh
>>25007876>buying ebooksGood goy. I think I’ll spend those shekels on fucking your mom a few times.
>>25007874There are inter-library loans dumb cunt.
>>25007634Not technically a separate category despite jews insisting as such.
>>25007566You don’t read books. Used books are generally in as new condition, many are literally never read. Used hardcovers are cheaper than new paperbacks.
>>25007874Do you live in bumfuckistan? Have you ever set foot in a library? What a tragic larp.
>>25007512You should order your books from the US, if you are living in Canada.
Classics cost 6 bucks here in italy.
>>25007512library, my boy
>>25007512Go to the library and stop consoooming.
>>25007954Before job: liberamenteAfter job: MeridianiBLISS
>>25007512Pdfs are pretty easily accessible if you know where to look
>>25007954well those books are cheap everywhere. he’s probably talking about less well-known ones.
>downloading a copy is stealingby the same logic reading that book in a bookstore would be stealing
>>25007512I only borrow from the library, I haven't bought a book in ages.
>>25008257>by the same logic reading that book in a bookstore would be stealingReminds of that common idea that if libraries didn't exist nowadays we wouldn't be able to invent them.
>>25007512I don't spend any more than a couple of bucks at the thrift store. My favorite second hand shops have paper back books for 25 cents
>>25007512There’s rarely any book on Kindle that costs more than $20. What are you reading?
>>25007522I'm black and I'm willing to be your rapist for hire in exchange for stolen shit
>>25007859Based. Racecels are inherently retarded and subhumans.
>>25008349I want to be raped sometimes, by a non-black woman though.
>>25008267Downloading books is /lit/ approved and patrician, libraries need not enter in the picture. The libshits crying and seething can only add to the aesthetic, the wise are not moved by this.
>>25007512>Just *solution*>"No!"Faggot.
>>25007512What destitute, hyperinflation-riddled shithole are you living in where ebooks cost $30?
>>25007522please rape me(im cute and trans)
>>25010365But that would just be consensual sex.
Why the FUCK do not USE anal archive, you NUMB NUTi didn't read the thread btw; dunno if you've already tackled this. Cant be bothered reading it, either
>>25010373don't rape me then;) ;)
>>25010393(excuse the namefagging)
I buy 99% of my stuff on Thrift Books and their deals are generally quite good. If you have flexible tastes you can live off of sub-$10 books easily. I don't since sometimes I'll pay $25 for a book on suicidal Nigerian church, but that's life.
>>25007512>>25007522i will be giving you queers this book for free. you're welcome
>>25010505I don't want to read whatever that is.
>>25010406Every single book I've gotten off of thriftbooks has been the single most physically fucked up book I've ever seen in my life.Never again.
>>25010365Based???
>>25010736you will have no choice. it will be delivered to your inbox and will explode your dispositivo if not read 30pp minimum per day
>>25010406are you nigerian, fren?
>>25011910No, I just love reading about niggers in Africa.>>25010738I've bought 100+ books and only had a probably with 2 (one had a ripped cover and the other was in fucking Finnish.)
>>25007512buy used books. I follow few insta and Facebook buisness accounts that sell old used books at cheapest price. I even found antique gems that were printed during the period before world war 1.
>>25007512Where the fuck are you finding ebooks for over $30? Show me one ebook that costs more than $30
>>25012087The SADF In The Border War is $35.99 on ebook on Barnes and Noble right this very fucking second.
>>25007512Good luck with that, I'm reading all my favorite books on pdf while you whine like a bitch
>he doesnt read/print from wikisource >he reads recently published 'books'
>>25012110So it's obscure books by publishers hoping to fleece a few stupid goys.
>>25012020oh
>>25012020richard pryor said there’s no niggers in africa.
>>25007874I'm way to picky about editions to rely on the library. I want a certain publisher for the footnotes, or a certain translator, or a certain edition that has the original spelling rather than modernized version, etc etc. Idk how anons just grab whatever edition the library has on the shelf without thinking.
>>25010738It lets you select what condition you want idk how you could fuck it up so badly anon
>>>NOOOOO, HOW COULD I HAVE KNOWN THAT JUST COPYING FILES TYAT I NEVER PAID FOR WAS ACTUALLY IN REALITY THEEEEEFT!?! I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN GOD DOESN'T SPLIT HAIRS!!! HE LITERALLY SAID BEING ANGRY WITH SOMEONE WAS MURDER AIIIIIEEEE!!!!
>>25007512Ebay, thrift books, second sale, abebooks.Project Gutenberg, etc IRL: thrift stores, libraries, library sales, used book stores.All of these are either outright free or can find almost any book for under $20. >With just $10/month, I bought 78 books this year
>noooo I have to give money to the jews that hate and want to replace me >because I just do okay!Whatever you say, goyim.
you gotta be on crack to buy an e-book unless you want to specifically support an author
>>25007512>shitskinFuck off back to /pol/, kike
Filthy fucking nigger-souled thieves got REALLY buttmad ITT
>>25007512Just read public domain lit
>>25007947The inverse, actually! Buy from Indigo you fucking goy.
>>25008359Good I will be a retarded low Inhib West African thug while worshipping my race and hating yt people and arabs
>>25007947You have no excuse to not be buying Canadian even with the tariffs. Our dollar is worth like $0.60 of yours.
>>25013779>get raped with shipping fees and customs fees that existed well before 2025>trust your package in the hands of Canada Post which make USPS look like DHL>publisher mafia fixes prices so no Kirtsaeng-style exploits can be done
>>25007566I told you guys to go for the hardcovers but no one wanted to listen
>>25007512Either steal or pay up. Frogposting won't remove this dilemma.
>>25007874Sucks to be you. I just got a new library card and they have a boatload of 20th century lit I want to read.
>>25007512Get a library card, nerd
>>25014846My local library has none of the books I am interested in reading. I just buy from Amazon, simple as.
Just pirate lmao. ps. I could model for a SS recruitment poster
>>25014850what books
Reminder that book piracy is ruled fair use and legal in most nations including the EU and US.If you somehow have a stricter moral code than the legal system just use your library system, which are extensive in the west.
>>25014850it's good to buy if you can. but for those who can't you can always put in a request with the library and they will probably buy it for the collection (at least mine would) and if not, they can get it for you through interlibrary loan (assuming you are in the US).
>>25007512>>Just stea->Die, shitskin.U popped me. For that u get a bump.
>>25008229Goddamn it I didn't know the Italians had their own PléiadeIf only Italian were worth learning
>>25007512just steal>inb4 die shitskin
>>25007512>what are little free libraries>what are thrift stores
>>25007512My city has a massive book sale twice a year where they sell them 3 books for $5. It's where I buy 90% of my books.
