I ran out of space
>>25169587this is not the shelf of someone who reads seriously, this is the shelf of a weeb chud who thinks books will make him come across as more intelligent than he actually is
>>25169587You have awful taste I’m afraid.
>>25169587>H I T L E R
>>25169587Wii games aren’t books, move them.
I need a better shelf 1/3
>>251697772/3 (bottom right is my kpop merch, ignore)
>>251697793/3
>>25169777Someone loves Demons…
>>25169777>>25169779>>25169780not a cracked spine to be found. classic /lit/
>>25169792Except with Dostoevsky. Hmm.
>>25169587>>25169777>>25169779>>25169780Do any of you read for enjoyment?
>>25169587
>>25169802>Do any of you read…?No, they don’t. Take a closer look
>>25169792>>25169815It just looks like that because of my shitty camera. I've read around 60% of them and I'm currently going through the stoics and rereading Herodotus, with some light letter reading (Dickinson) on the side>>25169784Yeah, it's great. Kirillov is my second favorite character in fiction.>>25169802As opposed to what?
>>25169587I would post mine but I guess im not vain enough to waste time taking a picture so tasteless retards can nickpick my collection Also my shelf isnt complete yet, and I'll definitely post a picture once its filled up. I read too many ebooks so filling it up is a slow process :/
>>25169780Des Nietzsche Set sieht so kitschig aus
>>25169921I don't like it either. It's also incomplete. I currently have my eye on a proper clothbound set from Hanser Verlag
>>25169811>heh, I'm gonna post a picture of a bookshelf beside a giant portrait of Hitler>then 4chin will see I'm heckin based and sheit Why do /lit/ faggots do this shuck and jive routine?>inb4 oh yeah well no u buzzword screeching
>>25169914I will mock your shelf relentlessly, even if I actually like it. Just remember that.
>>25169692>reads seriously,?
>>25169811based>>25170069cringe
>>25170373He means you read frivolously. Like, for a laugh, for fun, I guess. I suppose I’m not a serious reader then eh?
>>25170069Too many damn liberals on my 4channel.org these days.
>>25170409/lit/ has always been a leftist board
>>25170413It’s always been more centrist than anything, anon.
>>25170404does he mean serious like being studious when reading a book??
>>25170427Who cares what he thinks? He’s a retard on /lit/.
>>25170373your bookshelf screams "I'm a shut-in weeb faggot who got memed into some political faggotry and spends most of his time playing vidya and "reading" manga but I still want to be taken seriously as an intellectual." the books you have that aren't manga are fantasyslop, spaceslop, or whatever you picked up at secondhand stores that you vaguely recognized from a /lit/ chart
>>25170514what a serious reading bookshelf looks like?
>>25170514God forbid someone enjoys things that you don’t. I don’t like any of the shit he likes either, but you’re a moody little prick.
1/3
I would post a pic but my bookshelf only takes up half of one shelf. Most of the books I have read/ am reading are borrowed from my university library.
>>251705582/3
>>25170562Are you interested in WWI and WWII by any chance?
>>25170558>>25170562
>>25170563I plan to read at least one book on every major conflict of the 20th century
>>25170549>triggered because I said mangaslop, fantasyslop, spaceslopgo back to brandon redditorson >>25170541sell your manga, buy books you actually want to read, right now your bookshelf's so widely spread out among "classics" that it's clear you haven't actually developed taste or discernment yet and you're just gobbling up whatever other people tell you is good, but not because you think the books are good, because you want to appear smart. to be fair the classics you do have are very good, but again you're not buying them because they're good. spend more time at the library, develop taste, lurk more, read off the beaten path, post shelf again in 3 years
>>25170599>brandon redditorsonlol, you gave me a chuckle.
>>25169587As usual. Still waiting on that bookshelf.
>>25170932what are you currently reading and what’s your favorite book and why?
>>25169692Post yours.>>25169587I'm jealous of your David Irving and that Waffen-SS book. You should get more Hume. Maybe read Ovid if you liked the Iliad.
>>25169780>>25169779>>25169777Try reading the books you have before buying new ones. Try buying used copies instead of fresh ones
>>25169587I've been building and organizing my new shelves since yesterday afternoon. I finished, but now I have to buy some rods to prevent them from falling on me in case of earthquake.I mostly put classics, theater, children's books and science fiction in them. I'll add books on gothic on top of the shelves.
>>25171154Show me ur Gothic or horror or occult books pls
>>25171154>color coordinationYuck. Big Yucks. Icky Puckers.
my books on the French Revolution. trying to get my hands on some translated Aulard, though might just print it if im desperate.
>>25171212
>>25171154how long have you been building that library anon
>>25171238Since December of 2018, when I moved to Japan. I already had some books in my wife's apartment, but I started little by little in 2018.>>25171167Sadly I couldn't fit them all.1/3
>>251712892/3
>>251712913/3
>>25170599do you mind posting your bookshelf? I'd like to see it
>>25169777>>25169779>>25169780Half-ass Deutsch-Bro, explain yourself
>>25170413Explains the sheer number of faggots on it by a country mile.
>>25171099Stripping Of The Altars by Eamon Duffy but its on my kindle. Its way too long imo, interesting in parts but not enough to justify its 1,000 page length. I'm determined to finish come hell or high water, though. Then I'm thinking of picking up On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis.
>>25171137I don't live in the US or UK so it's a challenge for me to find used books. I once drove half an hour to a "good" (according to Google reviews) used bookstore and all I found were crappy WW2 guilt nonsense, self-help trash, and cookbooks. Maybe a German translation of Shakespeare or something. I do hunt for used books online, but shipping costs usually make it so I pay the same as I would for a new book (even more most of the time!), so I might aswell order them new.And I do read them, thanks for your concern!>>25171444Well, the works by English speaking writers notwithstanding since I'm fluent in English and therefore see no reason not to read them in their original language, I just find that there's often more scholarship and information (as it pertains to accuracy and the author's voice, that kind of thing) to be found for English translations. I also find that a lot of German translations are extremely mediocre. For example I bought and tried to read Svetlana Geier's translation of "Die Brüder Karamasow" (probably the most acclaimed German version) and it was pure nonsense. She invents and changes so much it would make Constance Garnett blush. German books are usually more expensive most of the time too. The aforementioned German translation of Dostoevsky cost me 22€ for a paperback just as shabby as the 8-10€ Oxford or Penguin ones. I'm also more used to reading in English so I've settled on just reading German works in German and reading everything else in English.
I'm getting tired of moving books around.
>>25171545Ich sehe wie es sich verhält, Deutschbro.Wo kommst du her?
>>25171705Flitzen schitzen gesamnstulungen
>>25169811Based and sheit
>>25171705Deep in the south near Heilbronn
The advertisers / psychological mafia have sent me a picture of a shelf based on their highly accurate profile of my taste in literature using only books I have started but never finished. I never even read the Wheel of Time once, nor do I plan to invest $999.99 on it when I could simply invest about $420 on the much better Edgar Rice Burroughs Library Tarzan series instread. But they know I'm liable to drop a few thousand dollars on a book set and then destroy it by soaking in liquids or tearing it up to make bedding for the cats. The books on my shelf are The Wheel of Time decapentology, Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Leo Tolstoi's Anna Karenina, Thomas Hardy's Far From The Madding Crown, the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay, the poetry of John Donne, Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Herman Melville's Moby Dick, as well as my indoor climbing vine, and my vintage typewriter. The number of books/objects on the shelf are 24, which correspond to every hour of the day. There are also 48 keys on the typewriter, and 24 leaves on the plant.
>>25170599>buy books you actually want to readthats what I do
>>25171289where are your japanese books?
Unfortunately I don't have many books appropriate for performing
>My hoarding isn't a disorder or attention seeking, it's intelligence!
>>25169587I've got space on my shelf, send me some of your extras
>>25171215de toqueville is the only sociologist I like
>>25172634How fascinating and unique
>>25172636ok
>>25169811LMAOWhat a faggot
>>25172664based
>>25169692still waiting your bookshelf
I went from having 10 books to 8000 euro spending! Fuck yeah! Thanks for the inheritance grandpa. No more fucking epubs
>>25172626Where do you think you are?
>>25172505I can't read kanji.
>>25173237do you speak well enough to have relationships with people? i'm learning japanese but i can only read somewhat decently
>>25173275No, my japanese is a disaster. Well enough to go to restaurants, supermarkets and understand a bit of what's going on around me, but not enough to be able to hold a normal conversation.I'm very antisocial, and the average Japanese has the social skills of an autistic westerner, so the lack of interest in socializing is mutual. The closest thing to a Japanese friend I have is my wife... and an old man running a second hand bookstore.
>>25173297so your wife is fluent in english? how did you two meet, overseas?
>>25173315Yes, English is our lingua franca.Back in 2015 I was planning my first trip to Tokyo to see several bands live, and my wife got in touch with me after I posted about my plans on Craigslist Tokyo. She did it because I said I was from Buenos Aires, and she liked an argentinian band called Sentencia Previa.I didn't even know she was a woman until I added her on Facebook and saw a picture of her. I'm still hardwired to think that women on the internet aren't real (I was sure she was a man even after reading her female name.)I ended up meeting her face to face in December of 2015.
>>25169780>That Das Kapital box set is only available in Germanfuck my life it looks so good too
>>25173587Don’t go reading Marx anon. If only for me, please refrain
>>25173587>paying for marxCan't you see the irony?
>>25173601Literally the argument a 14yo would makeEmbarrassing
>>25173587Only vol. 1 is worth it, anyway
all boring *yawn*
>>25174086where's yours?
My foreign books shelf. I also have 2 more shelves of books on my mother's tongue. Still new to collecting books and im looking forward to completely filling all the shelves
I'm so fucking happy
>>25169587My shelf in the living room, mostly books I've read but want to keep, though not all. The Homeric learning books are just there while I'm cleaning up my writing desk. I will reply with my bedside stack which is my currently readings, my to reads, books I go to a lot like poetry, or things I need to dip in and out of for my studies.
>>25169802That's all I read for. I just don't have the interests of a commoner.
>>25174396
here's my stack
>>25169914>yet i will virtue signal about how much i totally dont care by spending time telling anons on an anonymous imageboard about it!
>>25173587the German translation is pretty shit, too
My shelf is too empty. I don't like buying a new book until I've read all the ones that I own.
>>25174204i'll post mine when some anon will post their's like him >>25169692
>>25169587Once again mines the best in the thread *sighs* will I ever meet my match?
>>25169914>nickpick
>>25174726>will I ever meet my match?I doubt it, this is more patrician than anything I’ve seen here.
would it be utterly mad to leather bookbind a whole bookshelf worth of books purely for aesthetics?
>>25174917It would be very expensive, but you'd learn a lot. Start with a few of your favorites.
>>25174726>color coded bookshelves>funko pops
>>25174220>your momma so fat she can fit a shelf of books on her tongue
>>25172995my god. at least TRY learning another language. it's so piss easy nowadays
>>25174391oh my god just read him in english you fool
>>25175118It's bilingual, for when my ESL has me like "???"
Middle's been read, bottom hasn't, top's mixed. Please critique.
>>25169587Get rid of a lot of that. You shouldn't own more than 10 books at one time.
>>25175266read the Marquez book next. also why do people even purchase leatherbound editions, they're such a meme
>>25174463>German translationWasn't it written in German?
>>25175110English is the best language. Spanish and Hindi suck so I gave up on them. Trash people too.Maybe try Latin next because at least they're all dead.
>>25174396Wodehouse section
>>25175033yeah i don't know if that's correct idiom on english i just translated directly word for word from my mother's tongue( there i did it again)
>>25175864Did you intend to (you) me?
>>25175126I guess that§s OK. the best is to perform them with a friend
>>25170932it's waiting FOR, not waiting on. you wait ON the thing you are physically situated upon.
>>25169780keep books away from walls or they'll get moldy>>25170932same for keeping them away from windows>>25171289>when I moved to Japan日本語の小説はどこ?>>25173237あ、そか。色々優しい漫画を読んでください、例えばよつばと!日本語の練習に頑張ってくださいt.俺もアホ外人
>>25176781Yotsuba? Is that how you learnt?
>>25176792no, but it's an easy introductory manga and has furigana for 99% of words. If you know basic japanese then a lot of it will make sense from context.
>>25176680both are valid, second has less of a formal connotation. dont poison the mind of someone trying to learn
the "shelf", as it were
>>25169792Cracked spines show you're a pseud who doesn't know how to handle a book propertyalso>buying paperbackslmfao
>>25176022Yes, its a nice collection youve got.
>>25177567Indeed
>>25172283Ha!
>>25177737Thank you. You have a beautiful collection. Are you the Elephant hide anon?
hello hello is this the queermaxxing performative thread?
>>25178533now that you're here it is
>>25177567lol people trying to show off with cracked spines is wild. I mostly read paperback and it's not hard at all to read even a thicker book without bending and creasing and basically destroying it. I don't even know how you'd crack them so bad without folding the book in half like a fag while you're reading
>>25177567To be fair I do crack my spines because, well, they're cheap paperbacks so I fold them, lay them down spine up with the pages open, etc. But I don't understand the argument either because some spines simply don't crack in the first place because of how floppy they are, and some only crack once or twice. Here in my (>>25169777) shelf Don Quixote looks completely spotless and I've read that edition twice. Same with Decameron, which is a huge paperback, but doesn't show any cracks, it just "sinks in" a bit. It is indeed a weird argument!
>>25178520Nah, im the one with a perenially valuable collection of classics.
>>25178831this might be one of the funniest images on /lit/
>>25178831some good stuff surrounded by dozens of twitter and podcast memes
>>25173601You're right, we should just take his works for free given that it's collective property. Oh wait, nvm, I've been arrested by capitalist goons and now I have a criminal record.
>>25173372Shelfkino
It's always interesting seeing these threads. Without fail it's split between anons with shelves full of utterly random stuff as people who've regularly read their whole lives and have preferences, and "English major starter pack" with the same goddamn editions of the same books.
>>25178831Blessed /lit/ image. My uncle always wanted to have a guest room in his house with a bookshelf set up like this to fuck with people.
>>25179275>translationslmao
>>25179683Allow me to apologize to the huge faggot here, for only reading five different languages and not knowing Russian.
>>25169587>Here's our son's bedroom... He's 32
>>25179911holy pleiades
>>25169780Those look pristine.
