>go to barnes and noble>every employee is a fat nonbinary latinx wearing kpop pinsWhen did it get like this? Why do books appeal so much to this demographic?
normal people buy on amazon.
They're insufferable and so have no friends except online
>>25075789>giving more money to Jeff BezosWhy?
Let's be honest. Most books written nowadays should be burned.
>>25075785trans shit has infected everything i love. i'd turn to sports to escape it, but i'm female so i'd just lose to some dude.
>>25075796It's the only place where I can get books in English in my country. Due retard tariffs, and the fact that my countryman are notorious scammers, the transport cost for a used book is about 20x it's price (i don't collect books, i just read them and then give them away, so buying used is not a big deal for me).
>>25075785that's just retail employees in general everywhere
people who buy physical book are gay, weird, trans, commodity fetishizers.people who enjoy reading use ereaders,
>>25075785Everything is fake and gay
>>25075824Just like your sex life
>>25075785>be leaf>only have two bookstores in my town: Chapters and a local bookstore>chapters is full of self help stuff and romantasy>current manager is a guy, other employees are fat (real) women>last time i bought something there was a couple years ago, they tried to get me to sign up for/pay for some new loyalty card that i'll never use>local bookstore is run by a millenial woman>she's open four hours a week and it's inconvenient for me to go to>she's always posting shit she's doing in her spare time (or family stuff)i'm stuck using a Kindle
>>25075823
>>25075785reading is cringe lil blud you should be jestergooning while munting and mogging foids fr
>>25075879try again in English
>>25075785>4 Barnes & Nobles in my area>shockingly all staffed by normal (appearing) people>local bookstores consist of pop leftism and shit-tok "books">one that opened within walking distance of me is ran by 2 women that just raid local thrift stores for books and mark them up 200%>they are also only open 2 days a week and have the nerve to post online about how hard running a local business is
>>25075800>but i'm female
same reason half the baristas are fat dykes and troons.Their humanities degrees were worthless so they have to work in retail and customer services
>>25075936come near me and I'll mace you
>>25075980Can you dress up as Mace Windu?
>>25075785Retail is the easiest job on the planet.You can disappear for hours no problem, you can work at your own pace/there is zero urgency, you don’t have to use your brain, you don’t have to actually learn anything or train, it requires no schooling, no one screams at you 24/7 like in food service, there’s no heavy lifting like in construction, you’re indoors, you don’t have to talk to people if you don’t want to.Where else would you expect these types to work? Starbucks requires actual speed/effort, and the economy can only support so many NGOs.
>>25075807Indian or Nigerian?
>>25076037Basic office jobs? But I guess that does require some kind of education or training
>>25075916Wow, you did your research!
>>25075797Just like they always do
>>25075785I think its just your area. They are normal and boring at my local store.
>>25075807Why not get an e-reader? It would suit your situation perfectly well since you don't want to collect books either.
>>25075785They're never seen reading stuff that's actually worth reading, either. It's always the shit like you see the woman in OP's pic holding. Lowbrow, genreless sloppa that doesn't require you to think too much, adorned with garish cartoon covers. And I don't understand how one can "Read with pride" either.
>>25076243>And I don't understand how one can "Read with pride" either.It's just the usual virtue signaling
>>25075879How does one jestergooning?
>>25076362Act like a clown for clout
>>25075785I like quietly removing the transwomen from the "female authors" displays and replacing them with Philip Roth and John Updike.
>>25076204Those 2 speak English.I am actually Brazilian (yes, my people are a bunch of scammers, ask any e-bay seller).>>25076219I do have a kindle gen 3 (got it new, i am that old) but I gave it to my sister because if I have too many books, I finish none. Having a single book in my desk forces me to read it to the end.
>>25075987She's probably black>maced by dindu
>>25076592What's Updike?
>>25075916>>local bookstores consist of pop leftism and shit-tok "books">>one that opened within walking distance of me is ran by 2 women that just raid local thrift stores for books and mark them up 200%>>they are also only open 2 days a week and have the nerve to post online about how hard running a local business isAh, the classic case of the liberal woman burning her conservative husband's money on a cutesy pipe dream. It must be nice living in a nice mansion and never having to worry about anything and taking a 2 week vacation with your "on the board of directors" husband every two to three months.
>>25075785>go to barnes and nobleThat was your first mistake.
>>25077064If you're not in NYC or London, isn't it kind of your only choice for brick&mortar? The indie bookstores around me are far worse in terms of they/them badges and tea leaf reading workshops.
>>25075785>go to book store>it's run by antiwhites>any White positive books are banned>antiwhite propaganda is front-and-centerAntiwhites are like Indians, once they get into power, they only hire more of their own kind.
>>25075916There's a bookstore within walking distance from me too run by a nonbinary married couple (not joking), but it's closed on Sundays and after 5pm (I work a 9-5).On a Saturday, during their 5 hour window of business, I thought I'd check it out so I walked over and they had a big sign up "closed for winter break. back in 2 weeks. " They've routinely had go-fund-mes to keep the store afloat.Meanwhile there's a Mexican run convenience store near me and those guys open before 8am, close around 11pm, open on holidays and weekends, and it's always the same 3 guys working every time I go in. ICE has the wrong idea. Keep hard working Mexicans, deport they/them booksellers.
Many people are looking for a better world; some more than others.
>>25076037Not true, any store with decent management keeps the grunts busyI know "with decent management" eliminates a lot of stores, but still
>>25075785>start reading lolita>turn your packer up
>>25076299you mean like the post you replied to?
>>25075785barnes and noble is a book-themed gift shop, not a bookstore.go to used bookstores. you'll still find queers but they'll be smarter queers.
The B&N I go to is staffed by normal looking women and the used book store is run by an old white man who looks like a veteran. Like >>25076216 said try living somewhere that isn’t total aids in general
>>25078104I suppose, but the book quality is also important to consider, so one virtue signaling is more valid than the other
>>25075800You will never be a woman.
the current day form of literary cattle that have been roasted by the greats for 300 years
>>25075807Library?
>>25075785>Every employee is MexicanI don't even know where you could live that would make this possible. In Southern California they're staffed almost entirely by old white women and Asians and sometimes there's blacks working in the cafe.
>>25079512Sigh… I wish this gif said fat nigger instead of girl
>>25079616fatniggas are the same race tho
>>25075785Like it or not, that's the closest we have to young intellectuals these days. Someone on /co/ recently used the word "dinergoth" to describe them. It's the current counter culture, even if it's lame.
>>25075796Because it has free shipping. I would have bought something from Abe Books today but shipping would have been $14.
>>25080292>dinergothHoly cringe. Why are young normies like that? Even when I was a teen, I would never resort to any of those subcultures.
>>25080336Correction: I did resort to self-help, PUA and anime groups, but I didn't really identify myself as part of them, I didn't want to fit in because I think I couldn't fit in anyway
>>25080292What's a dinergoth?
>>25080344There's a definition on urbandictionary.https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dinergothI don't think it's quite accurate, in that it's absolutely not the dominant youth archetype right now, but I do know the kind of person it describes. Although they've been around when I was a teen in the late 00's/early 10's too. They're not the dominant youth culture, but they're the dominant alternative to it.
>>25077404All of the easiest “jobs” I’ve ever had were in retail.And it’s not even remotely, not even by a mile close. You simply cannot compare moseying around a store with an AirPod in listening to your second audiobook of the shift looking for a stray pair of pants to fold (if the mood strikes you) with a cunt waitress that smells like Pall Mall’s screaming your ear off to hurry it up table 12 wants a rosé.The only adverse occurrence you ever deal with is a Karen, and they’re all globohimo chains so if you just claim you have anxiety or ptsd from your abusive girlfriends dog or some other nonsense you can get out of talking to people too.
>>25076973>and never having to worry about anything The irony is these types of women who have nothing to worry about are constantly worrying about everything. Their fake business, their imaginary illnesses, Trump's most recent tweet...
>>25075800I've always enjoyed basketball and after decades of having an awful home team we finally get things going only for the new owners and front office to do every obnoxious gayass thing they possibly can. >Fire the cheerleaders because it's sexist and stuff (yet for some reason often have prepubescent girls from school doing it instead).>Hire annoying woman announcer, so they can brag having the first woman announcer.>Start "pride night" where they literally have a drag show at halftime with men dancing around in revealing women's clothes in front of a bunch of children and stuff.Plus tons of other pandering events and stuff but really 90% even the players seem embarrassed, so they have to get sound bites and stuff from anyone they can
>>25075796You left out the other half. You aren't just giving him money. You are exchanging money for a service. And he provides the best service, at the best price. You do it because it is in your interest.
>>25080363>anxiety or ptsd from your abusive girlfriends dogJej
>>25080445The mind creates problems
>>25080684>yet for some reason often have prepubescent girls from school doing it insteadSo they still have cheerleaders?
>>25075785That's not a bookshop specific thing, it's a retail thing.
>>25075916There was a bookshop like that in my city too. I'd go in, see if any books got my attention and order them off Amazon kek. Their shop went under in about 2 years. Meanwhile there are some other niche bookshops around that survive and it's usually some anti-social guy in his 50s that runs it or some old but kind of fuckable older woman that runs in. Maybe I'm just really lucky in my city that I don't see the stuff that OP sees.
>>25080292> the closest we have to young intellectuals these daysReading the novelisation of some shitty movie doesn't make someone an intellectual. The most advanced book to these kinds of people is HP Lovecraft.
>>25082429Not quite, where they used to have a professional women's dance and cheerleading team on staff, now they have some elderly dancers on staff (in case you wanted to see Grandma shaking her tits), and they often have schools and dance classes come in and do amateurs cheerleading or dancing or whatever they can to fill the time.Basically you used to get hot professional women dancers/cheerleaders nightly, and now you get elderly dancers and children on occasion
>>25075800>I'm female
>>25082485Wtf lmao
>>25080360Reading that was grim. What is the dominant youth culture then?
>>25075785Jesus, imagine saving that genetic cul de sac on your pc. At least the BBC kikes post snow bunnies.>When did it get like this? Why do books appeal so much to this demographic?Never seen one of those creatures out in the wild (only a couple 50 years old TIMs studying pediatrics in my uni), but when I went to the public library of a really big city here in Italy a couple weeks ago for the first time in a really long time and I actually saw a homeless retard reeking of piss.I thought you faggots were making that shit up: whenever I was telling you that the public libraries were cozy spot where you can read and chill you anons were telling me about the bums, but I'm used to the countryside kind of public libraries so no bums here, so I didn't trust you.Now I'm scared. Will the trannies get all the 10/10 anorexic art hoes that work in retail. I'm thinking of getting a house in the big city, I don't wanna end up having to interract with those subhumans, librarians are the only people I talk to outside work.
>>25082914Good question
>>25082963Calm down, Jesus
>>25075785Because physical books are unironically an autistic hobby today. All normies, if they read at all, prefer audiobooks or ebooks to physical books. Thus physical books attract all the typical troons/autists/hobbies that other autistic hobbies attract.
>>25075823I can’t read e-shit. Feel like I remember less when I’m finished.
E-books are for readers. Physcial books are for people who want to look like readers.
>>25083049See >>25083026 and >>25083071
>>25082985
>>25083200What ?
>>25075785>wokies are well-read individuals who value artistic expression>chuds are pleboids posting AI memes on social mediaInteresting, what could the implication be?
>>25075785Barnes and Noble doesn't stock Antelope Hill Press books in their stores.
>>25083049This is such a canard.
>>25083280>extrapolation
>>25083280Little redditard, reading this kind of books is not the flex that you think it is
>>25075823No no, you have a point
>>25083497The truth is that women read so many books that they even end up memeing the trashy ones. Haunting Adelaine and Morning Glory Milking Farm are basically the equivalent for Metamorphosis by ShindoL and Interspecies Reviewers.Chuds are barely clinging onto what /lit/ was memeing before 2010 (McCarthy and GRRM), they can't even glaze some serious literature that came out in the last few years, something that wokies quite evidently do.If the Tumblr-4chan war had happened right now, the 4channer would have been the one to cry about how edgy the Tumblrinas are.
>>25082619Sometimes it really does feel like I'm living in some kind of weird parody timeline. Here's a before and after if you're interested...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWPiC05YqV0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNEqUTeLgeI(The other week the old woman did Rolling on a River with short Tina Turner skirts and doing her ass shaking dance that I was hoping to find for you but no luck lol)
>>25084062Wow. I don't even know what to say
>>25084062Huh, interesting. I guess we've gone from >letting scarcely clad women in their prime degrade themselves for the eyes of fat hot dog munchers by having them do a silly little dance only seven-year-old girls would find 'cool'to>offering the elderly an fun outlet for socializing and staying healthyDoesn't seem too bad to me.
>>25084846Yeah except nobody wants to see the latter.
>>25082914>>25082979Well, you know, your regular normie teen. Shitty broccoli haircut, white sneakers, owns an iPhone, fashion victim, wants to be an influencer, watches influencera and cares about their drama,nI'm sure you've seen the type.
>>25075785 (OP) #How can you be mad about people reading, on the literature board?
>>25075796I got scammed by jeets on AbeBooks.
>>25084893My bad, I assumed you go to watch sports.
>>25075800please please PLEASE be in Edmonton, Alberta. i could love you
>>25080684as awful as it sounds, you fans need to boycott the team.owners only cares about the money and yours will cancel that stupid shit asap.it's sad how stuff it's ruined by people in charge who for some reason want to appeal to loud obnoxious minorities but thats the reality we live in.we need to fight back
>>25075796As a bald I will only support fellow bald owned businesses.
>>25085388That's right. Watching sports is for losers.
>>25083688Edgy? Tumblrinas' best insult is "chud," or "incel," they're afraid to say nigger. They're not edgy.
>>25086098Xhe thinks being well-read means being edgy
>>25075785reading requires literacy and literate individuals are disproportionately leftwing
>>25075851>>chapters is full of self help stuff and romantasyDo you only go in the first 5ft of the store?There are aisles and aisles of bookshelves full of fiction and history and poems and epics and mystery and classics and modern and completely avoidant of all things romantasy. I don't disagree with you supporting a local bookstore over chapters/indigo, but don't make it seem like you can't pick up a copy of whatever "deep thinker" author you want to read from Chapters.
>>25086123I usually read fantasy and sci fi. All my local Chapters seems to carry is Brandon Sanderson, romantacy, and Ready Player One type stuff. And Lord of the Rings, which I already have.I'm not claiming to have a great taste in books, but there's little there that I want to buy.
>>25086189>>25086123I should mention that I live in a small city, so that explains "my" Chapters having a crappy selection
>>25086189Uh, off the top of my head when I went to waste a Barnes and Noble gift card I saw Frank Herbert and a slew of 40k books.Wouldn't be surprised if you could easily find Heinlen and Gene Wolfe books as well.
>>25085230Lol, figures. You probably deserved it.
>>25086716Excuse me?
>>25086098>He thinks saying nigger is edgyhttps://youtu.be/hbFPHLdWnOIThanks for proving my point.
>>25087652What is your video trying to prove? That it's not edgy just because even a kid can say it?
