You can do both?
Reading is metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxBBjUakSeA
Ugh but books are just about the main thing I’m consumerist about. I WANT to have them in my home indefinitely. I want to be reminded a specific title exists by seeing it on the shelf, and then reread it. And I want to underline or comment on my favourite passages in pencil. They’re the one non-necessity I’ll keep splurging on; pretty much everything else is handed down, borrowed, or necessary to some extent.
Borrow the book of it’s available and then pirate a digital copy. The physical book is available for someone else to use when you’re done with it, but you can still refer back to the book whenever you want or just sit around staring at it in adoration.
The only thing in the way is my astounding lack of object permanence
My local thrift shops are packed with books for stupid cheap. A wide variety, too.
Maybe try that and have a happy medium? Not buying something new, but saving something from a landfill.
Do digital books scratch the itch for you?
I wish, I struggle to keep focus if I don’t physically turn the page
I understand. I’ve digitized almost everything I can, primarily for convenience and to reduce clutter. But the book (as a physical object) can be part of the appeal.
My partner has mostly digitized her book collection but does retain physical copies of her favorites.
I’m starting to suspect that some people can actually read and finish books.
impossible. I’ve never seen it done
Going to the charity shops the week after Christmas to get all the stuff people didn’t want real cheap 👌
Depends on the charity/thrift store some states they have to/choose to hold it longer before they can put it out to make sure people aren’t trying to dump goods that were illicitly attained or don’t have the staff to process.
Wait, is this actually a thing???
Yeah but don’t go to Goodwill (corporate, not a charity) or Salvation Army (hateful, gives to conversion therapy, etc).
Fuck yeah, I’ve got plans after new years!
Rich countries are drowning under useless shit they bought through an app to get it delivered at their doorsteps.
Yeah but LEGO Enterprise D
I WISH I WAS LEVAR BURTON
We all do, I think.
https://search.worldcat.org/ to search library inventory and have books brought to your city/area.
https://lithub.com/category/fictionandpoetry/ for reviews on good, new reads.
