What's the most you've ever spent on a book?>t. trying to justify a really stupid purchase
What was the book?
>>25276072I haven't pulled the trigger yet, still in my basketI'm hesitant to say because it's currently the only copy I can find for sale, but it's the out-of-print Folio Society edition of one of my favourite books
>>25276075Name the book, pussy
>>25276068Book prices have gotten stupid lately
>>25276075No one is going to spend 200 bucks to troll you by buying your favourite book
>>25276068A single book? Like $40
>>25276078Yeah, here €15 is the absolute cheapest and that's usually garbage too.
>>25276068Over $200 on an ideal org commemorative edition of Dianetics. It wasn't this exact one but something like it for a different city
>>25276080Okay fine, it's A Confederacy of DuncesI know it's hideous, but I still want it>>25276085Deeply cursed
>>2527606843 dollars for a pre-Imperium Press collection of Joseph De Maistre's writings
>What's the most you've ever spent on a Funkopop?
>>25276068The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire. It was $375 at the time. An ebook too. A GLITCHED ebook that never worked properly. Amazon tech jeets refused my refund so I just ate the cost and came away with nothing in the end.
>>25276107Holy fuck, that's brutal
>>25276112Life is often shit and cruel.
>>25276068$120+tax for the new Complete Aristotle, but that was also two volumes.
>>25276068Also a Folio,Not an individual books but spent $300AUD on this edition of Gibbon only to realise that they for some ungodly reason decided to exclude many of his footnotes..
>>25276089
>>25276121It might’ve been $200 actually, it was a few years ago
>>25276085>>25276089>>25276121>commemorative reprintslol, just lol. you get what you deservei regularly spend ~hundreds on first editions. with books, you'll find prices peak around 1000 then jump up to the tens of thousands past the 19th century.
>>25276132First editions are an utter scan unless you are buying something from the earlier days of printing, past that it’s simply grandfathered in hype
>>25276089Purchasing now suck eggs queer hahaha
>>25276145NOOOOOOOOOOOO>>25276132Speaking as someone who also collects records, first editions are overrated unless they're in pristine condition
I collect Bibliothèque de la Pléiade so quite a lotOne day I'd like to own a book printed in the Belle Époque but I don't really like reading old books so it's hard to justify right now
>>25276141>unless you are buying something from the earlier days of printing>>25276155>unless they're in pristine condition
>>25276121>spent $300AUD on this edition of Gibbon only to realise that they for some ungodly reason decided to exclude many of his footnotes..I bought it for £5 at a car boot sale
>>25276107couldn't you complain to your credit card?
>>25276068$100-$200 CAD on a folio society book. only buy their stuff if it's something I really like and want to display on a shelf, no other reason unless it's a gift.
>>2527606875 bucks on The Ring of the niblung
Sun and Steel by Mishima or my 17th century Iliad >Not counting textbooks
>>25276089Dude. What the fuck?
>>25276278>not pre-ordering what was clearly a limited print runKWAB
It’s so fucking over
>>25276068imagine paying more than $10 for a cover and a bunch of paper lol. It's your money, i guess. i'd download the pdf and print it somewhere
>>25276309I bet you download music too, you filthy animal
400ish USD for the most comprehensive book set on bread ever produced. Extremely well done, great pictures, and worth pouring over for hours. I don't own the Modernist Cuisine or Modernist Pizza sets, but I have flipped through them and they are fantastic too.
~$200 for Decline of the West Vol I/II. If you can afford it and you really want it, why fret?
>>25276330It's "poring" (intense study, close examination), not "pouring" (flow of liquid). Just a tip for next time.
OP here, I just went through with the purchaseI joined a Facebook group for buying/selling Folio Society books and learned $200 is about the going rate for Confederacy of Dunces because it was only released a limited edition>>25276354>If you can afford it and you really want it, why fret?I suppose, it feels a bit irresponsible but it doesn't completely break my bank
>>25276330Very sexy, I would be interested to look at the history section in particular
>>25276330>Weighs over 50 poundsHoly shit
>>25276068I spent $80 dollars on Prestel's artbook on Kuniyoshi.It's kino. KINO I say.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqq-gVA4Fgw
Around $2k total on signed copies of Suttree, Blood Meridian, and the Orchard Keeper. I’d like to add an Outer Dark at some point.
>>25276068100 bucks on pic related, I look at it often
>>25276472>The Jewish Annotated New TestamentSo would that consist of rabbinic scholars shit-talking Jesus in the footers?
I belong to 2 book of the month clubs at gryphon editions (ancient classics, and history and archeology) and the classics of science fiction from easton press. So thats $350 a month on fancy leather bound editions. But I've also bought the easton press sets of plutarch's lives and Gibbon's decline and fall which were both nearly $1k each.>>25276482The specifically Jewish angle on it mostly is connecting the new testament to the larger trends of 2nd temple jewish literature.
>>25276489Okay, I'll forgive itThis time
>>25276068$200 for a signed copy of It's Me, Eddie with a crisp DJ
>>25276361>Ignatius' eyes are described as "blue and yellow">The "yellow" OBVIOUSLY refers to his sclera being bloodshot>Hack artist gives him heterochromia instead
>>25276361I hope you enjoy, OPI rationalise spending money on nice books as being a far better vice than most have
>>25276489Very nice
>>25276068Zamn! Is it bound in elephant hide or something?
>$100+ dollarydoos if you want this omnibus instead of the soulless modern reprints I have no regrets
>>25276361What the fuck.. kekI kinda want this. I think maybe the hefty price tage is tricking me into thinking it's an actual goldmine of indispensable information.
>>25276791Whoops, meant for >>25276330.
>>25276132Agreed, almost always midwit trash. t. Secondhand/antiquarian bookseller
>>25276791Would be beautiful to torrent such an overpriced piece of shit
>>25276789>He doesn't have the japanese covers
>>25276827
>>25276828>he doesn't have the AMANO coversthat's not very based an redpilled of you, anon
>>25276089Folio art is always highschool tier.
The most I've ever spent on a single book was for a new copy of Expedition by Wayne Barlowe. Cost me exactly $98.64 CAD but I had a $75 Amazon gift card I put towards it. Second most expensive, and it was just my money I put towards this, was a Gustave Dore collection, which was like $90 CAD.
>>25276107What is wrong with you? Couldn't you have just downloaded it off Annas Archive or libgen?????
>>25276967>TheftEnjoy eternal torment after death I guess??? You immoral piece of fucking brownoid filth!?!
>>25276967>PDFFuck off.
>>25277010>You immoral piece of fucking brownoid filth!?!I love it when they add the punctuation. It's the chef's kiss of internet rage.
>You used punctuation!? You're mad!Weird cope but okay.
>>25277064Fuck off??!!??!
>>2527606899€ on a German edition of the Iliad. Basically Folio Society quality, for an international analogue. I also own the Everyman's Gibbon Decline and Fall, which is 120 bucks I think, but I got it as a gift
This thread is exposing the complete lack of taste on this board. When I see the modern reproductions I just want to cry. ArtScroll tier.
>>25277189Let’s see your taste, lil’ guy
>>25277191I don’t need to prove anything to you, the tackiness of these commemorative reprints speaks for itself. I believe one poster ITT made quite an adequate display of his “book of the month club” hackjobs. But I am the proud owner among other things of a number of phenomenological volumes printed by Martinus Nijhoff in The Hague, which is frankly where the printers of the kind of garbage you see ITT belong (referring now to the international court of justice)
>I don’t need to prove anything to youAlready fully coping in the first sentence. Sad!
>>25277199I know, I know. I’ve already tried the attention span of the so-called readers on the literature board.And so to be sure, you believe I’m coping because I wouldn’t spend a dime on this repro shit:>>25276264>>25276489Please understand this is the equivalent of overpaying for a Louis Vuitton handbag off the back of a truck on Canal Street.
>>25277206>this is the equivalent of overpaying for a Louis Vuitton handbag off the back of a truck on Canal Street.Ok, why?
>>25277215They’re repros. Dupes. Cheap copies of a lost art. In a word fakes. If you’re comfortable wearing fake designer sunglasses, more power to you, but don’t expect anything but scorn when you try to brag about them.
>>25277295how is it fake? the text isn't modified and it's an original concept for each book with unique illustrations. also I would not brag about buying something, just consumerism for the sake of it at that point.
>>25277334See here: >>25276121Sure, it's not a universal, but these mass market repros tend to cut corners as a swindle on the ignorant. The money is much better spent at a used shop. If you want to complain about consumerism, then vote with your dollar and support your local bookseller, not these publisher's whores.
92 poundsworth it
>>25276789I can also make this decision in Europe, and it's extremely tempting, but I shall abstain...
>>25277189Folio Society books are complete ass, a dead giveaway of poor taste. I buy them at estate sales whenever I see them to flip on ebay, the quality isn't even particularly good. Give me first editions with dust jackets any day over that ostentatious shit
>>25277356>IshiguroMiddlebrow slop
>>25277342I get what you're saying but why did this guy spend so much on those books without checking they cut footnotes he wanted. very confident it stated what it has before he bought it but probably just purchased without doing any research. not defending the omission of the footnotes, things shouldn't be tampered with but he's making it seem like he was blindsided when it probably was clear the footnotes he wanted were not present from the get-go.
>>25277452Because he is the target customer. It’s a tautology but only because I can’t further speculate than that on why someone would buy these flimsy imitations of bygone prestige: the market for these things exists because the marketplace is full of rubes.>>25277404Preaching to the choir. Of course, we can’t all be privileged to afford a proper library, which is what makes these sorts of repros so reprehensible: they prey on the imagination of ignorant men aspiring to something greater, but leave them in the lurch with an unwanted dust collector.
>>25277463I've had probably 20 Folio Society books in and out of my house, and not one has any sign of having been read. A lot of their titles are obscure university press books retitled to look better on a self. It'll say something evocative on the spine like "The Rosetta Stone" or "The Dead Sea Scrolls", but if you look inside it's an academic text no one would ever read unless they were already a scholar in the field
>>25276068I payed 170 euros for some full set of Durant‘s History of Civilisation but I was not home when it arrived and they were taken back. I never got the money back.
>>25276068>imagine spending more than a fiver on a booklmao
>>25276075okay? so what's the book?
>>25277010Pirating is not theft.
>>25277356you really overpaid lol
>>25277498Look up the definition of what a pirate is, dipshit.
>>25277497Keep reading anon
>>25277503Downloading files off the Internet is not theft, dipshit.
>>25277517Taking a product without paying for it. That's theft.
>>25276068>>25276089just buy it if you have the money and want it. Worst case scenario and you regret it you know not to waste money next time
>>25277521And it could probably be resold for almost as much
>>25277519Not my problem if the file is downloadable for everyone.
>>25276068Bet someone is trying to sell that thing on ebay and Facebook for 30 dollars rn. Once you unlock the gate of buying pre-owned books you will never get broke. I managed to collect 50 books in a month while only spending a total of 60. I suggest everyone to find thrift stores or someone who wants to pawn his library books on online market.
>>25277528It is. It is your fault that you lack the moral fiber enough to download it in the first place.
>>25277532I had been checking eBay for weeks, the only copy I saw was bidding-only and the starting price was nearly that muchI mentioned I joined a Facebook group for Folio books and it seemed to normally sell for around 200 there
>>25277519Making a copy of something isn't theft because it doesn't deprive the owner of the original. Walking into an art gallery and taking a photo of a painting with my phone is different from using a boxcutter to cut the canvas out of the frame, rolling it up, and dashing out
>>25277533downloading a file on the internet is not theft. i'll keep doing it forever because imagine paying for media lmao.
>>25277543Mental gymnastics. You're a fucking thief and you know it.
>>thread correctly exposes the profiteering chicanery of mass market schlock>>derailed by pointless piracy argumentEvery time.
>>25277549Is checking out a book from the library likewise theft because there was no opportunity for the publisher to profit from my reading the book?
>>25277549No one is buying your sanctimonious schtick, faggot.
>>25276068I routinely buy books at around $100 and over because I go to university.
Most I’ve ever spent was iirc 34 dollars because I’m a poorfag.
Do you usually delete the books you've pirated after you read them?If not, you're a thief. Simple as.
>>25277788>it's simple, I just have to completely reformulate my argument every time someone points out something obvious I failed to consider
>>2527606885.000 ARS Aristotle's Organon. Haven't read it yet, though.
>>25276330this nigga readin bread
I spent $700 on Rising Up And Rising Down about 9 years ago and could easily sell it for twice that if I ever wanted to get rid of it but that's my only lit nerd flex
>>25277610A library copy was still purchased and people borrowing it doesnt inflate the supply. Torrenters always completely overlook the supply side argument to illegal online distribution that makes it different from both library-borrowing and second-hand selling.
>caring more about the outside rather than the textUh I thought this board was for literature enthusiasts?
>>25276068The extra-special edition of NOTICING by Steve Sailer, which in all likelihood will more than make back its cost as it was a limited run.A copy of Lovecraft Remembered which is essentially all the surviving friends of HPL talking about what he was like. Also a limited run.A complete in one volume Estonian course with audiocassettes, same one supoosedly used by the State Department.
>>25276068$i got this for 120 + plus tax,..>kek price is now at 165Absolute kino Textbook
>>25278250Collecting appealing things is fun
>>25277206>this is the equivalent of overpaying for a Louis Vuitton handbag off the back of a truck on Canal Street.I think that's not a reasonable comparison. It's building a collection, not just a fashion statement, and it's not a cheap knockoff either. If you had said its like collecting funko pops you'd at least be a bit more on target. A more meaningful comparison is I see collecting fancy leather bound books as more akin to something like collecting retro video games. Like with that hobby there's no actual reason to do it since for the most part all of these books can easily be obtained cheaply or for free online, like with retro video games, but I like having them on hand and I like having them in fancy editions. They beautify my space and they aren't just useless baubles like other collecting hobbies, because I can pull one off the shelf and enjoy it whenever I want. Again like collecting retro games, where you can take one out and play with it whenever you want.Yeah its a waste of money, but I have a very well paying job and I can more than afford to waste my money on things like this.
>>25277543>Making a copy of something isn't theft because it doesn't deprive the owner of the original.this is only true if you believe that intellectual property has no value, which as someone browsing a literature board surely you do not think that to be true
>>25277668You think that's bad, in law school the textbooks are over $300. I've got a shelf of like 25 of them from my time.
>>25276068About 100$, was an anatomy textbook with real nice pictures of the bones, in leather and all. Unless you're paying extra for shipping, I don't think there's grounds for any book to cost more, unless it's maybe a truly giant comic book.
>>25276068Ninety three (93) dollars for a hardcover of Hyperion Cantos. I'm a thirdie so that's a lot of money to me
The 4 volume pinochet autobiography is going for 400, worth it?
>>25278919Objectively no, but if you want it then get it.
>>25278925Just wanting to make sure im not missing out on anything too interesting
>>25278449>which as someone browsing a literature board surely you do not think that to be true90% of the books worth reading are in the public domain
>>25276107>paying for an ebook>paying amazon for an ebook>paying amazon $375 for an ebook >paying amazon $375 for a glithced ebook that never worked properly
>>25277010Jesus pirated bread and fish
>>25279251Cope
>>25279259Post nose
>>25279247Yeah, the thing is, you can't find out that it doesn't work until AFTER you've bought it. You stupid fucking twat.
>>25279260No. My nose is in fact large so you'll just call me a kike anyway.
>>25279263If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
>>25279262The thing is you are retarded goycattle.
>>25279247#1: The physical copy wasn't listed for purchase #2: I had no means of knowing that the ebook would be glitched ahead of time #3: It's a comprehensive exhaustive history put out by Cambridge Press, its a college text book, of COURSE its prohibitively expensive #4: I had the money, I'm not a poorfag like (You)#5: I love the Mongol Empire. The Mongol Empire was based and I wanted to read possibly the most comprehensive, complete work ever written about it.#6: I actually read books, unlike (You)#7: I'm not a shitskinned thieving RAT like (You)#8: You are a little babby bitch#9: Suck my cock, loser.
>>25279267Economy is in the gutter and collapsing because of scum like (You)
>>25279275You spent $375 on a fucking ebook bro lol Physical book, sure. But a fucking ebook?! Lmao you deserved to be ripped off lolAlso: https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9781009301985_A49234927/preview-9781009301985_A49234927.pdfCry about it
>PDFDisgusting.
>>25279282>noooooo my shekels nooooooo
>>25279343Enjoy eating your loved ones to stave off hunger in a few years, dipshit.
>>25279344>sharing immaterial information is definitely going to cause famine, now give me your money goyim, you don't want to eat your loved ones, do you
>>25279348I'm trans, btw. Dunno if that matters.
This kid is REALLY fucking mad about being called a thief, lmao.
>>25279298>Preview Disingenuous rat
>>25277013nigger do you not know how to convert pdf to epub what the fuck
I purchased a first edition Jung Red Book for 165€, could sell it for much more now if I wanted to
>>25277543i bet you're a fucking sovereign citizen or flat earther or something too
>>25276080That absolutely isn't true lol>>25276068Nowhere near this but I spent over $500 on a mechanical keyboard so I can't exactly judge. If you can afford it easily then why not?
>>25279447Found the pedophile
>>25276068i've spent a fair amount on big arty books from publishers like taschen and so oni'm currently considering pic related. limited to 1000 copies. signed by the artist. baselitz died a couple of weeks ago so it's not like there will ever be any more and i suspect this one might hold its value quite well.
I have spent $6000 on books about $80-150 each
>>25276107Kek, AnnaArCHADs stay winning.
>>25279450What if I can't afford it and get it on credit? Is it less righteous if it fills my soul with joy all the same?
>>25276361Im curious, what's so special about the Folio Society?
>>25279465That just makes me think you have issues with financial literacy in general, no offense. $200 shouldn't force you to go into debt. Unless this is a >10 year obsessive passion that doesn't sound like a smart choice.
>>25279469Aesthetic books. That's it.
>>25279362Shut up Bezos. Im not paying for shitty e-books on Amazon.
>>25279474Huh. Some look nice, some not so.
>>25278955And you can download almost all of them, and thousands of others, in one little 10gb package here:https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/feeds/(Make sure to download a catalog file as well, it's unusable without it)
>>25276068Around $150 on 3 Georgian books1 a trilingual book about wine (Ge, ru, en) published in 19842. Knight in Panthers skin, in Georgian published in 66 3 the same as 2 but in Russian published in 1941
