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Ebook or Physical? (lemmygrad.ml)

I literally cannot focus when I'm reading online for some reason + I love looking at my books on my bookshelf, it makes me feel smart

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[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

I had a bad falling out with a flatmate years ago and I basically had to say "fuck it" to maybe hundreds of books collected over a decade. It was my liberal phase, so I don't know how much of it I'd like to have now. The break made me the communist I am today, so I can't say I'm that sad.

I feel like we all have the dream of having a massive library room of our own, but who the fuck can afford that nowadays.

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Before I packed up to go travelling China I resolved to give away all my books to charity (barring a very select few that went to friends for safe keeping).

Asides from it being absolute murder to move them, they acted as a really good history of how I've changed as a person. A lot of liberal bullshit books amongst what a gave away that I was genuinely upset to be giving to anyone. I should have burned them

[-] miz@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

this is the process I went through recently when I found Bernie's 2018 book Where We Go From Here: Two Years in The Resistance on my bookshelf. I have a deep-seated block against burning books but I think I might work through it for this one

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