The first thing I do analyzing someones character is look at the bookshelf in their house. If there wasn't a bookshelf or primarily sloppa I know I'm dealing with uncultured swine
>>526201733>having a bookshelf
>>526201733Okay
>>526201733the first think i do is check the medicine cabinet for drugs to steal
>>526201733What if someone prefers pdfs?
>>526201733Roast me
>>526201733Just my college textbooks fill a more shelves than that.
>>526201733>muh opticsI know a lot of morons with bookshelves, a lot are like you, keeping them for optics as well.Plus, get in times, boomer, e-readers are a thing, not to mention reading most books is npc because you can't analyze your own shit and need to be told how to think, like most women and cucks
>>526201880>Pihkalyou pass
>>526201880Good
>>526201733What if the girl I’m seeing has bookshelves upon bookshelves of YA slop, Marxist shit, feminist shit, based history books (wtf), way too many biographies, alt lit, classics, every major world religion, and books on learning languages and music. Should I check to see if she’s a troon? I’m pretty sure she’s not. She cooks too well to be a tranny. But it’s scaring me a LOT.
>>526201733it's a fair assessment
>>526201733The first thing i do is molest their pets, if I have time i poop in the upper part of their toilet so it stinks to high heaven for weeks while they wonder where that rancid is coming from. We call this an 'upper decker'
>>526201733If I bought everything I read I'd be broke; my library is on my hard drive.
>>526201733I'll play4 off my shelf behind me. The ILLIADTHE 4 texts on socrates Constitution and Letters from founding fathersThe Sirens of titan
>>526202155Yeah, what else is on your hard drive?
>>526201733Last time I had a bookshelf was in 2010 when I sold about 10 cubic metres of paper to a friend's secondhand bookshop and replaced the lot with epubs.If you can fit all your shit on a shelf past the age of 30 you don't fucking read.
>>526201733>1PBTIDEverything is online now you fucking boomer.
>>526202222nothing...
>>526201880lacks organization and too many books
https://icescape.org/Library.html
>>526201733Books are just more shit to carry around
>>526202368not enough books*
>>526202222Memes, but it's like 80% books
I like physical books and bookstores. Love curling up with a good book and I love having good books available to everyone, especially public records, science, math, and useful stuff. It's depressing that people are telling me kids these days don't read or write and that they want to use AI to write for them. Sad times.
>>526201733who gives a shit what you think eglin faggot
>>526201880A lot of titles hard to read but a cursory glance leads me to believe you are a faggot
>>526201733The musician and producer Brian Eno has more books in his music studio than most people have in their house. He says when he's at home all he does is read and sleep, so god knows what his house looks like.1:26 for the bookviewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR4JAonAR4g
>>526201733Performative shit shelf.I have more books than almost anyone ever, private collector turned seller as an excuse to get even more books.Probably 20,000 books currently.If you actually read, shelves don't look like that.These are selected for aesthetic and never read.99% chance.
>>526201880> PIHKALnice
>>526201880This is the shelf of someone that actually reads.
>>526202660This is just false and you are exactly the performative faggot you accuse others of being. A real reader knows the trick is to probe your host about their book shelf - ask them specific questions about the books they have, what their opinions are, shit test them with fake passages like “what did the author mean by this?” and see if they take the bait, etc.
>>526202875Nope.Books are laying everywhere and in every position and NEVER all the same height, width, and color scheme like this.The top shelves are literally out together in the same drab bindings for an appearance the person likes to LOOK at.English major best friend reads nonstop.Probably 2000 books.They are stacked everywhere in all positions.The reason is because if you read, actually read, you are constantly shuffling and laying one down and licking it up and really don't have time or interest in stacking them all neatly.But the biggest giveaway is the uniformity of size and color scheme.I have shoppers that come in SPECIFICALLY for this purpose and I'll help them find an olive, soft yellow, maroon, navy grouping or some such.They literally don't even care what the book is.Cope.
>>526202875I'm reading this now and it will go randomly on the floor here or on whatever shelf is nearest when I go to bed, probably sitting flat because I can't squeeze it given my stuffed shelves.Pic related is signed with a full page note written by the author in 1871.
>>526202786>actually reads.>It's mostly references manuals and textbooksK, you are so obviously wrong, you must be stupid.
>>526201733I don't et shitskins like you into my house.
>>526203288Sorry but reading is reading.He's using the books.Some people like that stuff. I have a section of old manuals and references in my shop.I enjoy them myself.I read a book from the 1970s on making and producing fabrics not that long ago.Very interesting.
>>526201733
>>526203187Some people read a book once, and stack it neatly with the rest. Some people are so Type A (me) that everything they’ve read has a specific order, either by size, title, category, or even color. Some people are actually not disgusting slobs. The truth is, I’ve been surprised by people with bookshelves like this, who can quote long passages of any selected book and get very defensive about them. You are just a nigger with dirty nigger habits.
>>526201847Same
no you don't. when was the last time you were even IN someones house that wasn't your parent's house?also how about posting your own bookshelf
>>526203187Have to agree with this. If you look at Op's picture, you'll see the shelves are "bolt on" types with no supporting bracket underneath. They are notoriously weak and no self respecting book lover would use them because the weight of some books would cause them to collapse. Like the books, the shelves were chosen for the look.My shelves are heaving. Some books are just stuffed on top of the books on the shelf because that's the only place to put them.. Next to the shelf there is a stack of books on the floor. I have a mini-stack of four books on the table next to me as I speak. It's a mess, and I don't have room for another shelf.Op's picture house is the sort of person who has one of those rotating spice racks in their kitchen, most of which they've never even opened, let alone cooked with.
>>526203567Cope and seethe
>>526203694Agreed.
>>526203694>I don’t respect my belongings like a nigger and if you aren’t a nigger like me you don’t read
>>526203766Look.If they are stacked like that. They're not being used.The fact that you disagree proves you are a booklet and read at Art of the Deal level.
>>526203723This is too niggerlicious for our purposes, boomer-sama
Niggers every one of you
>>526203887Behold the superior Aryan shelf. Truly one of his top guys
>>526203873
>>526203723This screams pseudo intellectual
>>526203965No pseud has ever had a disorganized book case! Truly we must judge purely by aesthetics with no further interrogation about the materials in their possession. If I make it look like I don’t care it seems my bookshelf is “well used ” instead of “niggerlicious”
>>526201733>AI generated image of booksOkay Ranjeep
>>526203458When I was in college I'd have a bunch of crap like that for "Mandatory Reference", you are forced to reference 10 or so for every paper. That's what that shelf is. Bro is out of college, I get having it as an archivist or just looking at and admiring what you've been through. But I would not describe it as "Actually Reads" vibes.
>>526204002Please elaborate.To me it's a collection of books I peruse and read daily.This is just my office.You can't really make someone like me butthurt.If you have a suggestion to read I'll take it though. Very broad subject matter.Here's a good string.
>>526202166You misspelled "Iliad". How do you explain this? Without looking it up, in which book is the Catalogue of Ships? Shit, who is Patroclos?
>>526204177I actually didn't look at the books. Only the indications of usage.The first vs this one.I'd bet my life the second guy reads more.
>>526204238Man’s body? You like to study men’s bodies? Faggot
>>526203694You wrote all that and didn't notice it was AI
>>526204238>You can't really make someone like me butthurt.>*posts most pictures of his book shelves to prove he’s not butthurt*Just admit you are projecting. You are waiving aesthetics around, while bemoaning the aesthetics of someone else, when the reality is you can’t know if someone’s shelf is performative without having a full blown conversation with them about their book shelf. You remain an aesthetics obsessed nigger at every level. Extremely effeminate behavior.
>>526204357That's actually one from childhood I kept because it has naked people in it and I have fond memories of my friends and I giggling at boobies and penises in it at the sex part.Kek.I'd have thrown it into my bookstore for stock but I get a kick out of the memories.
>>526204238You need picrel
>>526204474Yea.Keep telling yourself that.POST SHELF.
>>526204419Why would I assume it's AI?I don't analyse every picture like some retarded Sherlock Holmes clone before commenting.But tell me...what makes you think it's AI, cos it looks real to me.
>>526201733What do you need books for after you read them? Checkmate retard
>>526204533>no no no that’s a fake reader’s bookshelf>a REAL reader’s book shelf looks like my grandfather’s study!Aesthetics obsessed niggerfaggot. My bookshelf is a literal pile of wrinkled abused dogshit I stole from the library. Get on my level.
>>526204647I get all the libraries books after their yearly sale for a "donation" and keep the ones that interest me and stock the shelves at the store with the rest.Good for you. This means you might actually read.As opposed to OP who's books are never touched.
I am very smart
>>526201733Threw out all my books. Just posing ang posing is for fags.
>>526204647It's not the aesthetics though brainlet.It's what the aesthetics and obviously intended aesthetic portrays about the owner.
>>526204647Fuck you. My bookshelf is so horrifically disarrayed from all the constant reading I’m doing that it doesn’t even exist. It’s collapsed into ruin and was stowed away in a hermetically basement in the Balkans that was originally a bombed out WW2 crater, so disgusting and overrun with human waste from the adjacent sewer line that was destroyed by Wehrmacht artillery almost a century ago that it can’t possibly be organized by color scheme like some pseud inner city faggot’s book case. But I’ve read every single one at least 100 times. Anyone with a bookshelf is just LARPing as a reader.
>>526201793Chad detected.
Off to bed to finish Time Storm.Great book. I love scifi and fantasy for comfy go to bed read.
>>526202014>Cat furnitureYour cat never uses that scratch post. I have the same one and neither does mine.>FeynmanCanonical.>WhiteboardWhat is this, a whiteboard for ants?
>>526204864I didn’t say it’s about aesthetics, faggot. I’m the only consistent anti-aesthetic poster. You proclaim to read books but can’t even read the thread. FAKE READER DETECTED
my bookshelf mogs>pic related
>>526204533Post shelf.Shelf post.Books ranged as ideograms, spines a processionof ideograms against the wall's white void,dust motes dancing like ideogrammic particlesin the light of the screen's false sun.Librum est monumentum aere perennius?No—post it, mortal, lest it perishin the unindexed dark.Send the shelf forth upon the electric river,where Usura hath not yet wholly corruptedthe image, though the algorithm feedson attention's usury.Let the spines speak: Homer, then Cavalcanti,then the brown economists, then the black-boundConfucius, then the bright paperbacksof yesterday's ephemera.No order is final.Post shelf.Let the gaze wander as in Pisa's cage,where light struck the pageand memory struck the mind.What thou lovest well remains,even pixelated, even hashtagged #bookshelfeven if the server farm in some cold elsewheredecides tomorrow to purge the unprofitable ghosts.Post shelf.Make it new.(Or at least make it visible.)The rest is silence, save for the scroll.
>>526204619This. People who collect books as cultural symbols like funko pops tend to be as poorly read as "I've read Handmaid's Tale, Harry Potter, and Animal Farm and high school" types
>>526205042You said that I'm aesthetic obsessed.I responded that the aesthetic was not the obsession.Okay to bed for real.PHONES OFF AT NIGHT KIDS.
>>526205046You are LARPing. A real reader would NEVER put their books like that. You know not what you are doing and should become more like me and less like you, OK?
>>526201880>look at my symbols of intellectual heights, ye mighty and despair!
>>526201880>Only 12 shelves>Wrinkled pillow Must be from england
>>526201880Is that a premium edition of the comfiest Ikea chair? Didn't look at the books but I'm sure they are gay
>>526201733I have a bookshelf stacked with Halo novels and art books, all first edition releases.
>>526204864Man I couldn't hang with DFW. That book made me so angry that I stopped halfway though. Having to keep checking the appendix and footnotes, flipping around every page. Worse than having to keep referencing the Exegesis in PKD's Valis
>>526201733>1pbtid>canadagood morning saarBookfags are insufferable. You could count on one hand in a hundred, those who actually read meaningful books by respected authors, which changed their perspective and gave a life lesson or a takeaway, and said bookfag can recite something from their favourite book. Otherwise it's all a larp and a way to feel superior to "plebs" while being no better.
>>526201733My bookshelf is in my room where nobody can see it. They're not decorations.
>>526205029>I love scifi and fantasy for comfy go to bed readCheck out "The Chrysalids" by John Wyndham.
>>526205331The thing with DFW is, the footnotes constitute an entire book unto themselves. You don’t read the food notes on the first pass thru. You read them as a separate book entirely.
bros any advice of building diy shelving that's semi permanent in case moving is required? ran out of shelf space and stack now.
>>526205505Milk crates.
>>526205505Shelves is not actually required. Just stack like a hoarder. Only faggots and niggers ultimately care about aesthetics. Life sorts itself out
>>526201880I read Pihkal and Tihkal 20 years ago, Shulgin was fearless
I know it sounds hardcore to say that physical books are so much better and that you like the look and the feel so much that you can't live without it but the fact is that they're not. Reading physical books in 2026 is like listening to vinyl records and cassette tapes. A Kindle is lighter than all but the thinnest books, more comfortable to hold in your hand, doesn't need external lighting, can hold thousands of books and as many dictionaries as you wish to install in it. Books which in some cases can't be obtained in physical form. For larger formats such as textbooks the same could be said about an iPad.
>>526205801Did you ever do any of the drugs?
>>526201733Here's my stack bro.
>>526205570that seems to be the route. waiting to find the extra wide ones>>526205576i genuinely do reference then fairly frequently and it's annoying to re-stack
>>526205801There's a third one in the series, but it doesn't have the narratives of the first two. Used to own it but my bitch ex-wife sold it along with my Mircea Eliade reference trove for drugs. The irony
>>526205029War is a Racket, intro by Jesse Venturarequired reading
>>526205851I once injected 10 marijuanas
>>526205904A lot of dairy driver are lazy now and do not load the crates if they are not whichever side up they decided them to be this week. Next time you eat out cruise behind the restaurant. Not many places use to old school rectangles anymore though. t. Sir Master Sergent Peasant First Class Dr. Chef Esq.
>>526205152this is the most books anybody should have, the reality is no one is ever going to read more than this in their remaining life once they are out of school
>>526205822You're straight out of a Gary Shteyngart novel:>“You're my sacred ones,” I told the books. “No one but me still cares about you. But I'm going to keep you with me forever. And one day I'll make you important again.” I thought about that terrible calumny of the new generation: that books smell.
>>526201733>If there wasn't a bookshelf or primarily sloppa I know I'm dealing with uncultured swineNPC take, there are less than a dozen books worth reading ever created, filling your head up with stupid bullshit
>>526205046>5 guitars>they're all for shreddingWho does this? I have 6 guitars...1X Strat, 1X 6 string acoustic, 1X 12 string acoustic, 1X classical, 1X bass, 1X electric rythm 6 string.When I want to pretend I'm a rock god, I just use my Strat.I use the rest when it's called for.You're collection is the sort of shit posers buy.None of it even looks used.
>>526201880Electrical engineering, chemistry, physics?This guy buys books he thinks make him look smart. What it's the purpose of reading all that crap from different fields when you aren't going to use it at allIQ range 125-135Smart but lacking direction
>>526201733SHOUT TO THRIFTBOOKS BIG SHOWING, NIGGERS HERE KNOW HOW TO SAVE.
>>526205046You should buy two nice guitars instead of five shitty ones.
>>526205505Look up tree bookshelf. Simple enough to make
>>526205851>Did you ever do any of the drugs?nope, back then you could buy 5MEO-DMT mailorder, still have a vial of it
>>526206454Can I have it?
>>526205152>He has a dartboardI have found a friend. And no I don't play darts, IYKYK
>>526206330Oh the textbooks are from my PhD. Maybe you can figure out what I do using your big brain and excess IQ points.
>>526201733no bookends?this shelf is fake news
>>526201733What's the point of owning books? Do you read them more than once?
>>526206454I remember buying AMT from some random research chemical website. I wound up having an argument with my laundry hamper for an hour and a half during the 14 hour trip.One thing I miss greatly was the availability of GBL.
>>526206566the books I read are to be studied and pondered. You fucking retard.
>>526205822agree, but the problem now with reading is fighting digital distraction, and Kindle and Ipad are too tempting to just end up browsing without reading, whereas the physical book has no built in distraction. I still collect Epubs off PirateBay, its a ridiculous habit, 100s of thousands of ebooks I will never ever read
>>526205822>A Kindle is lighter than all but the thinnest books, more comfortable to hold in your hand, doesn't need external lighting, can hold thousands of books and as many dictionaries as you wish to install in itAnd is completely useless when the battery runs out. Besides, I like the smell of a book. I like to stick my nose into the page and breath in that booky aroma.
>>526206523"Turkish, Arabic, German"Yea dude, sure you're reading thatSo many of your books are either school books or shit you don't read
>>526206566They cool
>>526206566>Do you read them more than once?Hell yes, you ever have one of those books that just lights you up. It's like having a movie, you can't stream it. You have to own it. If you ever went hermit mode (I can't because I have to defeat the jews on 4chan), look into analog doom scrollinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e41DYhnA2_A
>>526202126wew lad
>>526206187i'm a city fag so they're on the street all the time. varying levels of cleanliness though. often see the wide ones too>>526206428based. thanks anon>>526206566i'll even buy another translation/edition to compare it to
>>526205505I have a closet filled with nyrb and oxford paperbacks, good out of the house reading editions, not bad if you dont have loebs.
>>526201733Your pawpaw taught you this but people can learn from a screen now, leaf nigger
>>526201733I have a kindle and pirate all of my books
>>526206669Pull it off the shelf and read your favorite passage before bed, faggot? The fact is books are read and then placed on a shelf for what reason? No one goes back and rereads them. Cue the faggots saying durr I do. Hoarder shit
>>526206736You missed the Klingon Dictionary
>>526201733Most normalfags don't read. And when they do, it's utter pleb slop. Nonetheless I invariably inspect their bookshelves. Pic related is mine.
>>526201863Digital Alexandria
>>526207120>ProustI spent the last summer in Cabourg. Had more madeleines than I could count. 40% of the books being read on the beach were Proust, lol
>not making your own paper from hemp and cotton rags>not making your own ink from oak galls>not making your own goose quills>not learning calligraphy>not spending hundreds of hours ruining your eyes copying out Herodotus>not learning bookbinding, leather curing and gold leaf letteringPlebs in this thread, I tell ya!
>>526207120>When you see that red bar at the top and you know you are dealing with a real niggaI'm banned from posting images because I'm a domestic terrorist threat.
>>526206279I use all of them and they are all in different tunings. I only like high gain riffs and shredding>>526206394All guitars can be nice when serviced by a professional luthier
>>526206523All yours? Chemical engineering or something. I was guessing you might have a wife, but you’re here so … Only red flag is the lack of fiction, but lots of millennials don’t read fiction. Were you Econ undergrad by any chance? Anyway nice shelf. Sirens of titan, newtons principia, well rounded
>>526206981nice. loeb is price prohibitive especially at used bookstores. oxford is easy to come by far but i've found university press editions to be the best value second hand. >>526207120susan sontag?
>>526207120Look at all the books with a fucked up spine. This is a real bookshelf boys
>>526207470None of them look used. My guitars get picked up and played every day. They are dinked, scratched, worn and covered in fingerprints. The fretboard on my strat is practically worn through.Yours look showroom clean. There is zero wear, even on the fretboard. It's a display, not a toolbox.
>>526206927>often see the wide ones tooLucky man. I want one for nostalgic purposes. I was 9 the first time I ollied one and thought I just cleared the grand canyon. Since this is a book thread- I have this written in Panaltine German from 1866. I really want to read it myself oneday and base don the fact that is it contriversal i think it has good shit about the truth of the war. https://archive.org/details/lostcauseanewso00pollgoog
>>526207796When I went to take the pic for this I found a medical journal from 1880. That should be a fun read.
>>526207631Yep, you can tell which paperbacks I actually read and even by author. I've carried some of these ACROSS STATE LINES. And it shows.
>>526206981Aristocratic. Very nice
>>526208040>LARPshelf.
>>526208040How many spokes does the wheel have?
I need to build new, taller shelving; all of my sheet music books are stacked and it’s very annoying.
>>526208270>23 books about wood workingSupported by a rock.That's a nice shelf though.
>>526201793Your hard drive is going to fail before they do, bruh.
>>526208608>Yep it's wood tplmao
>>526208885Meant for>>526208270
>>526208373Heh, actually two pairs of granite and marble on each side, they can’t keep up with so many oversized tomes in a row. I’m going to make something out of walnut with lead weights and a rubber base instead of felt.Thanks for complimenting the shelf
>>526208885dead·wood/ˈded ˌwo͝od/nouna branch or part of a tree that is dead.* people or things that are no longer useful or productive."a lot of the company's deadwood was removed by voluntary redundancy"
>>526209210Thanks for that, I wasn't even talking to you. But of course you can't read or understand context because you are retarded. You do not see anyting like a real human does. Do not reply to me.
>>526209411Suck a million nigger dicks.
>>526201733https://youtu.be/ZRE9jRtiO3I
Work shelf.
have you ever heard two authors speak? it just devolves into have you read, have you read, have you read, before a black hole forms between to two cobson looking cunts and sucks the entire world in
>>526201733>people are actually getting baited into posting camera pictures with exgif data of their exact geolocationNice consooomer pics in the thread, normies. Now everyone knows where you live, congrats. Hopefully Mr. Boss doesn't find out you've been posting on a board called 'politically correct' which is spammed with nazi propaganda!
>>526209915Yeah don't post here. If you do you will be killed.If you don't you will be safe from what's coming.
>>526201733Is it bad that I don't have a books Shelf but just stack everything on my reading desk and the floor around it
>>526208060Thanks
Or you can simply scrape Scihub and Libgen to download tens of millions of books. Anna's Archive alone said to hold 1 petabyte worth of info.
>>526202660I believe you. It's really easy when use the bookstores, savers, Goodwill, salvation army have tons of books. Library sales. Poor people don't read, and the books are valueless to them so you can pick up amazing books for cheap.
>>526204864>Crazy tile>Shit all over the floor>He never mops, lives in squalor >Ancient device above the door>Brags about his shelf>Even the dog is looking at you like you need help
>>526201733ebooks are far superior if you ACTUALLY READ.because paper books are bulky! books for a weekend? this giant cube of paper! or this microsd card. with space for another 4 million books.
>>526203187>durrr us book readers are just so quirky and in love with reading we can't stop picking up and putting down books in random places and order durrr we're just too enlightened and enthralled by knowledge to order our bookshelves you just wouldn't understand what it's like to absorb the knowledge of 15 books at the same time durrrYou're so full of shit. Being messy has nothing to do with how much of a "reader" you are dipshit, it just means you don't care to maintain a tidy bookshelf>>526204647>As opposed to OP who's books are never touched.OP doesn't have any books retard, it's a random image he found on google. You're clearly a facebook boomer transplant to this site so the obvious fact that this is a 1pbtid bait thread is lost on you because you're the exact sort of low quality poster that these threads are baiting for.
>>526211080Many images in this thread are AI. shit is bending weirdly and not aligning in the right way. Your raucous disapproval is indicative of a non-slave. Which A.I. cannot help to be.
>>526201880Only tech book I've got is Horowitz & Hill, otherwise about a dozen of the rest.I bought H&H years ago at a Borders that closed and is now a Marshalls. Oh well
i dont display my books. any books i have out im reading right now.
rereading this classic'Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls'adventures of crazy white men
>>526201733Sorry we can’t afford a house let alone books And I guarantee you read pseud bullshit. Smart people form their own ideas they don’t read books.
For me, it's Mein Kampf
>1pbtidas if someone invites a pajeet into their house. are you looking from the front door as you deliver food? is that where you keep your books so people see them?fuck you and fuck your pajeet thread and fuck everyone who thinks it's a real discussion
Anons, have you read Moby DIck? It doesn't deserve the pop culture status as a dry tome, its actually a really good tightly paced novel with an actual emphasis on alliterative wordplay and prose meter. It reads like someone on cocaine wrote it on a bender.
>>526201733you havent even read any of those books on your shelf, redditor
>>526201880I'd take a photo of my shelf and share but I hate glowniggers so it will have to wait until another day.
rate my books
>>526201733Nice AI image.
