Tell me about the pseuds you've met user

Date I read them.

The photos on facebook and instagram of a YA or genre fiction page on a beach or with a coffee next to them. Nothing more, people don't even respect reading in my country.

>order book online
>open and close it while I watch Netflix
>once it's creased I put it on my shelf
Work smarter not harder ;)

First book on my shelf is a book on the parallels between Gilgamesh and the OT, next book is the Duoay Rheims Bible, after the Bible it's actually the early Fathers, but then after that I have Homer, so it's not exactly chronological but it's chronological as a subcategory to a certain theme I suppose, like I have the Greeks, Romans, Christianity, Islam, Middle Ages, etc, which aren't strictly chronological as a bookshelf but are within their theme.

She doesn't really sound like a pseud.

If I read my books by opening them at a small enough angle that doesn't crease the spine will people actually think I didn't read any of the books I own? Not that anyone will ever see my bookshelf, but I'd at least like to know.

kek

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OP's male friend showed OP the bookshelf belonging to the male friend's girlfriend.

I actually used to pile up my books but my parents got sick of it and got me a bookshelf.

She isn't a pseud she is a woman, know the difference pseud.

No one knows you so you're not a meme haha lel

Can't relate because I'm a 3rd world poorfag who has all books on her smartphone.

>arranging them without any intent at all

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>not arranging them by publisher

>she thought that the brothers Karamasov were a famous family of authors

where do you live?

She said 3rd world, not 4th world.

>tfw thinking of you hurtin

>Tell me about the pseuds you've met user..
You are one of them.

>puts onto his bookself, and never opens it again

how do you do this? how would one achieve "bookself", family

pls respond

Rude desu

>a book collection
Libraries are a thing you know? Having a book collection is pure stupidity, they just accumulate dust and take space.

Mfw I have developed the habit of reading books in such a way that they appear brand new because I hate how creases look

Mfw the two times I've lent a friend one of my book they've returned it in shit (slightly worn) condition so I feel obligated to gift the book to a different friend and buy a brand new copy

Mfw I enjoy having a physical copy of each book I read because I think bookshelves are aesthetically pleasing and it's another way to enjoy books besides just reading them

I think you're the pseud here

>caring about publisher
>caring about creases in spine (she might not crack her books)
>caring about whether it's brand new (she might take good care of her books)
Seems like you're the pseud and just jelly of your mate's hot gf who also reads

>Being such a fucking ape you can't understand how people can read books without damaging them.

Ok

sounds like the club dumas

>it's 90% Penguin classics
There's literally nothing wrong with this. Penguin's translations are almost never bad, even if not the best, and for English works it doesn't matter. If you're worried about notes you should be getting actual secondary texts anyway.

>everything is brand new
>no creases in spines
Just because people don't purposefully crease the spines of their books doesn't mean they're unread. Even the shitty bindings on Penguins don't crease unless you're actively trying to crease them.

Seems to me like you might be the pseud here user. Needing to signal that you've read things instead of actually reading them.

Also the correct way to arrange is by date of first publishing, or the closest approximation to that for the classics.

There's definitely something wrong with 90% Penguin Classics.

Besides looking like shit, it means someone basically looked at Penguin's catalogue and clicked a bunch of books online.

Part of being a pseud is having your book selection spoon-fed to you by the jews at some publishing firm. That's how you end up with "eclectic" selections like Pu Songling and shit like that.

You can tell the bookshelf of an actual patrician because it will look like a library. None of the books will match. They will all be different sizes, hardback, paperback, from different decades, all lined up. Because those people actually know what they want to buy beforehand and then research all the available editions to make an informed decision about which is best.

Or you know. They just bought whatever.

>not taking aesthetics into account for a bookshelf because you're afraid of looking like a pseud

Peak meme

Literally anyone who actually likes books will tell you that a bookshelf with all kinds of various books is way more aesthetic than a bookshelf that looks like it was put together for a publisher's holiday sale catalogue.

If you think 6 rows of black Penguins are aesthetic then you're literally fucking retarded.

>hurr durr they all match it's sestethstic

>>Besides looking like shit,
Completely irrelevant. If the design of a book's cover plays any role in your decision of which edition to buy, you are in no place to call anyone else a pseud.

> it means someone basically looked at Penguin's catalogue and clicked a bunch of books online.
Not really? If you're reading the classics there are generally 2 or 3 choices for which volume to get if you want something reasonably priced, and penguins are stocked everywhere.

>Part of being a pseud is having your book selection spoon-fed to you by the jews at some publishing firm. That's how you end up with "eclectic" selections like Pu Songling and shit like that.
This honestly has nothing to do with having a large collection of penguin volumes (or OWC volumes, or any other publisher of cheap paperback classics).

>Because those people actually know what they want to buy beforehand and then research all the available editions to make an informed decision about which is best.
95% of the time the edition you buy barely matters. If it's a translated text, then most published translations are at a good enough level that it doesn't really matter which one you choose for most works. If you're worried about notes and secondary materials, again, you should be purchasing actual volumes of secondary materials.

>Completely irrelevant

Stopped reading there.
Anyone who thinks aesthetics are irrelevant isn't worth taking seriously. Let me know when you decide to become a real boy and then we can talk.

>not arranged by read/unread and then by in which order you bought them

>I buy books to display them proudly on my shelf instead of to read them.
Thanks for letting us know.

>anything other than size

why not both, dumbass
having a bookshelf that is a pleasure for guests to explore is a good thing

But...you're the one working harder...

You guys do know that 90% of the stories posted here are completely made up or exaggerated, right?

>90%
You're giving this place too much credit.

my god this guy has no face

You don't know shit about me or my diary.

>That's how you end up with "eclectic" selections like Pu Songling and shit like that.
Hey fuck you buddy.

I'm really concerned about the state of the translation though.

>>Mfw the two times I've lent a friend one of my book they've returned it in shit (slightly worn) condition so I feel obligated to gift the book to a different friend and buy a brand new copy
One time someone on Veeky Forums convinced me to try annotating a book I was reading. I stopped annotating like a third of the way through because it was just as stupid as I expected it to be, and now every time I look at my shelf I get the urge to replace it with a new copy.

You're implying Veeky Forums could write a story.

I have that book too and it will be the last book I ever buy written by fucking asians. They simply don't understand the medium.

How does it feel to be such a pleb you disagree with not one, but TWO great western 20th century authors?

agreed, let's go back to using the word hipster to describe people who we have some kind of problem with

Hipster is not such a ridiculous word though it definitely refers to an identifiable group.
Pseud doesn't really refer to any specific "people" it's just a meme way to call someone dumb.

You are clearly wrong. Perhaps you are a pseud?

>First week of uni, about 2 years ago.
>dude in my class seems very well read, talks lots of poststructuralism, Lacan, Derrida, etc.
>one evening have interesting conversation about current state of affairs
>next night go on youtube dérive by myself in my underwear
>click on memezek video
>that whole conversation last night was dude basically repeating Zizek verbatim
>check out wiki pages of some of the people he references
>dude is literally paraphrasing wiki articles and parroting zizek
>two years later, he still does the same thing