How many of you refuse to get an E-reader despite the convenience because you want people to see your stacks

How many of you refuse to get an E-reader despite the convenience because you want people to see your stacks

But you also watch booktube and make fun of them for caring about their stacks

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i use minimalism as a status symbol instead see how little I care about material posessions art hoes hop on this stick

You've gotta admit that between the popular booktubers they've nearly wasted half the amazon on an inordinate amount of 8-15 book series, graphic novels, high school-setting YA books designed to pander to shitty preteen emotions

i don't know, mostly read dead authors that i pirate.

only books i've paid for recently were houellebecq because i feel good contributing to his cigarette fund.

Good man

I usually buy used books and gift them away once done.

They are parts of my personal history. When I stan in my library I glance through the cases and can remember where I read each one, what I did during the read etc. It's perfect nostalgia and my RL mind palace. Going strong at around 700 atm.

nice, been thinking of gifting most of my library to my high school

I watched a video or two to get an idea of it.
How is it possible that there are people that are so obsessed about reading cliche ridden shit literally who entire series about a very narrow type of story?

How old are you?

How are people going to see my stacks if I'm socially reclusive?
Checkmate, technocrat

I like books. I enjoy them and they're the only hobby I have that involves collecting shit. I like going to places that sell books and looking around at them and taking some of the shelf to thumb through. I like having a whole large past and future of them every time I look at my room. All of this brings me great enjoyment and none of it is possible with an ereader.

Yeah, that's about where I'm at too. I leave the bookmarks in them, sometimes it's a lift ticket, or a movie stub, or a picture of some other asshole and me. Pretty sure I've put 4, 5, and 6 leaf clovers that my kids have picked and brought to me in a few of them along with generations of doggo furs.

Funny enough, because of something like in your pic related, she reads way more than i do (aprox. 150-200 annual), has an e reader as well. Doesn't bug me at all.

You can't read annotated stuff on a Kindle (especially Spearedude)

why not have a small library of books you /really/ care about in physical form, and buy the rest on an e-reader?

That way you can have both. Stuff to appreciate and show off, and lesser stuff to read on device.

Nah I just fill my room with anime figures and model kits. No reason to bring books in when they can be digital while anime figures and gunpla cannot.

I just can't concentrate on a screen for some reason.

Too expensive if you read a lot and are poor like me. Plus having to wait for books instead of downloading and reading instantly. Convinience and price really can't be beaten with an ereader.

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big brain is being minimalist about everything but books and just stacking them on the floor like pic related

25

Also a low bed is the Patrician's Choice as implied by your image.

>lower books will get fucked up while cleaning the floor
>back and knees will get fucked up while standing up from such a shitty height bed
You're either a stupid woman or a teenager still living at home.

A massive wooden bookcase and a just the same with bed is the real patrician choice, for a helathy mind and body instead of those plebish conditions bordering homelessness. We all know you're onyl doing minimalism because you're a poorfuck.

>back and knees will get fucked up while standing up from such a shitty height bed
Just exercise more, grandpa

I'm not getting one because I'm a bit of a luddite and don't want to try out new shit when the old shit works fine. I get most of my books from libraries anyway. My "stacks" are unimpressive and nobody's seeing them. I don't watch or care about booktubers. Where is my prize?

ereaders, expensive technology produced by thousands of years of human development, on which you can hoard thousands of books, is NOT minimalism

You are still feeding into the excess of consumption, just on a different plane.

Minimalism is more along the lines of keeping a few, selected works and reading them over and over. A few classics will last you a lifetime

if you're doing college coursework or whatever, actual physical books are still very much unbeatable.

ereader is for funsies.

That's the problem my man. When that lucky someone comes over and they see a small stack they will think you want to talk about 1984 or Stephen King.
My goal is to have so many stacks that all of my furniture is made from them. That way when that someone comes they can take my Hegel chair, or my Nietzsche stool. EAsy talking points

Incidentally, this is the problem with YA stacks too. If you made them into furniture, when someone went to sit on them they would turn to dust. 0 content = 0 lumbar support

e readers are fucking dumb, and there's no excuse not to read proper physical books, go to a fucking library

Library has an appalling selection where I live though

library

Comfy, user.

...

What if you read actual books because that's the only decent way, you never show anyone your bookshelf, and looking at all your books makes you sad not smug?

I'm already looking forward when I'm old, telling my child that someday everyone of them touched by the sun will belong to them and with it the responsibility and honour of expanding the families knowledge.

Of course that's right. But also all of us care at least a little about have a Veeky Forums stack to flex with instead of our muscles

I like what you did with this. Really captured the essence of what I was trying to get across

Stacks and libraries reflect your own personal taste and development, over the years you can see how your taste has changed but with e-readers it's more along the lines of "Look everyone! I don't have my own personality so I just copied everyone else!", essentially e-readers are threatened by people who buy actual books if it doesn't have a Netflix adaptation supporting it so they can brag to their friends for hipster credit.

The only time I use an e-reader is when I pirate a digital version of a book I own a physical copy of in order to save room in a suitcase.

then they will sell them for cocaine

Why do bitches in tinder write 'bookworm lel' if they only read fucking ya trash and harry potter?

Nah, proper education and value transfer prevents niBBa behaviour. Those were given onto me and I will give them to my children. It's actually hard work to raise children that way but it's more than worth it.

Nice try Jeff.

I know a guy who's obsessed with Jo Nesbo.

Woah, really? When did you find the time to read that many?

I have an E-reader and use it from time to time but I simply prefer to read physical books. I try to loan books from friends or the local library whenever possible, I don't want to drown in books.

Nobody sees my "stacks."

>implying I've had guests in the last three years

Stacks get bitches. Just listen to popular music. Deflationary reading of 2chainz is that in fact he means book stacks

I’ll end up buying a physical edition of every book I’ve read because I like having a direct reminder of my menial achievements. Having an ereader is really convenient.

Dunno, I only started with the ones I would actually now count with maybe 18-20, meaning non-fiction, mostly political or historical.
Average of 400 pages a book, which I can read easily in two days. So like 2 a week on average, around 100 pro anno.

You just have to find a topic which really interests you istead of falling for Veeky Forums means. Most of those people here are just larping the eternally same meme books which nobody really read or likes.

...but I guess mentioning that I'm a NEET due to medical stuff is a big bonus in having the time of the day to read.

IS THAT THE SOCIALIST SING ?!?!?!?
ARE YOU PART OF THE ALT-LEFT (NAZI)?

I-I’m not. I s-swear.

I've been wondering this myself. A friend of mine, a grown woman about to graduate university, still obsesses over the new flavor of the month YA series. It's all that she'll read recreationally. Unfortunately, I am not of the opinion that "at least they're reading something." Quality of content really matters to me and today's YA novels only belong in a garbage can. Absolute waste of paper.

She probably have to deal with a lot of high brow shit at university so when she come home she want something mind numbing and easy to digest. Kinda like how everyone and their mother spend all their free time watching shitty TV shows on Netflix.

Not yet

>back and knees will get fucked up while standing up from such a shitty height bed
How old are you?

30. From 25 onwards your body will go to shit. You don't want to start making it worse by stupid shit like that.

I just like pages. I donate my books when I'm finished, except the rare few I decide I'll reread.

Asians stand up from the floor well into their 80s.

Your body is going to shit because you don't use it properly.

I'm working out daily a 90 minutes bodyweight. I am fit. Still your body will hurt on some mornings. The chinks back hurts as well, they are just good robots which still get up.

Your minimalistic furniture is still shit.

Disgusting. Nothing more pathetic than people who don't even bother to maintain some minimum level of physical fitness.

If you have problems getting up from the floor at 30 you're not fit.

it's not normal to fall apart at that age.

I'm not talking about my age. But I guesss if you buy minimalistic shit from IKEA you don't plan to lie in that bed for the next 50 years like you do when investing in something handmade.

I feel getting book on Ereaders allows me no chance of discovery.
Going to a book store and picking up a random book and reading about it offers to the opportunity to read something I may not have originally ever read. With an Ereader I feel like I'd only pick specific books

The average asian is dead before they hit their 80s. Japan and South Korea are the only Asian countries with a life expectancy above 80 and even then I doubt everyone keep sleeping on the floor until the day they die.

Anyone at any age should be able to get off the ground unless they have a serious illness of some sort.

It's not normal to stop being a functioning human being when you get old if you live well. Most of the ailments we ascribe to old age are just a lifetime of bad habits catching up on us.

Your body literally begins to replicate worse copies of itself each year. This leads to natural devolution of your most simple abilities. You can be healthy as you like, you still will get fucked by bad molecular copies, lower reproduction rate as such etc. Thinking you will remain as agil and fit as you are with 25 just because you go to the gym is laughable.

Seems like you missed the most important part of my post. It's not normal to rise from the floor when you're dead.

>as agil and fit as you are with 25
>standing up

Remember my words. One beautiful morning, far too young, you will know what I am talking about while telling yourself that it can't be - you're too young and fit! Such is life, my fellow tard.

Sure, we all disintegrate eventually, but you have very low standards. It's not normal to start falling apart at 30.

Most people lose their flexibility because they do not use it and they don't use it because our society facilitates inflexibility. Use it or lose it.

If you eat well and get proper exercise a low bed shouldn't be a problem even if you're 90.

Your body will slowly but continuesly disintegrate from 25 upwards. That's jsut how things are. Chances are your body will get fucked up more if you do stupid gymnastics like squats or jogging. Either way the point is about having the same bed for decades, which means having to stand up from this height at 20 just like with 60. And don't kid yourself you WILL see your body fuck up from 35 upwards no matter how well trained you are. Just stop arguing and wait for it.

If you live well that disintegration will start to be noticeable way later. Most first worlders, especially yanks, fall apart from abusing their bodies, not the normal aging process.

Take the blue zone pill.

I like hard copies so I can highlight profound parts and annotate them for revisiting them and then never read them again

I have really nice books in my apartment and I've literally never had anyone but my parents over to my apartment. I don't know what this is about wanting to have nice books so you can show them off to people, but I'm 100% certain it's just trolling. It's fine, I sometimes say stuff to troll too, after all, I am a Veeky Forums person.

There’s still time

I have both physical books and ebooks. I don't really care how I get to read as long as I do.

I have two e-readers and also buy physical books. Both have advantages in different situations so I don't think it's a big deal. Actually, one of my e-readers uses a faux book case so it stores seamlessly in my bookshelf.

Not very attached to most of my books though, I'd lend/give them away without much thought. Unfortunately my cat is the only one who sees my stacks in any capacity so there's no one to give them to.


Hello, can we be friends? I want to read new things and be given books.

>highlighting
just stop please, its like drawing a circle with a sharpie on a piece of art

It's not. A piece of art is made of whatever's on the canvas. A circle on it will change the original work. A piece of literature is made of words, and as long as they are readable, the artist's work is not affected.

Sure, I just hate highlighting and people who do it. They almost never get read again.

I don't want to show people my stacks though. I want myself alone to see my stacks and look at the physical mass of my reading.

>, I just hate highlighting
Well, we agree in that regard.

>The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens
scientificamerican.com/article/reading-paper-screens/

>Do E-Books Make It Harder to Remember What You Just Read?
Digital books are lighter and more convenient to tote around than paper books, but there may be advantages to old technology.
healthland.time.com/2012/03/14/do-e-books-impair-memory/

>Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds
theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/19/readers-absorb-less-kindles-paper-study-plot-ereader-digitisation

>Why Reading Physical Books Is Better For You Than E-Readers
businessinsider.com/you-remember-books-better-than-ebooks-2014-6/?IR=T

>Why the Smart Reading Device of the Future May Be Paper
wired.com/2014/05/reading-on-screen-versus-paper/

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I never show people my stacks and I'm a borderline hermit. I have stacks because I like clutter along my walls.

>there were a lot of years leading up to this technology so the technology is not minimalist because many years

I use both.
hundreds of books on my kindle.
hundreds of books on my shelf.

>Bobby Fischer teaches Chess
amazing book.

Dammit I was so excited for my kindle to get here