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I love having a wall of books and the time spent on reading books. Unluckily I do not have either of those. The never ending competition between society memebe

I love having a wall of books and the time spent on reading books. Unluckily I do not have either of those. The never ending competition between society memebers for better position and more stuff to show sucked me in too, making me move for better places to compete others and do things much quicker and doing more things - in unit of time and overall too. All those moves made the collection of my books go way down to be a sad excuse of personal library. It is a short shelf. The same cruel race took time away from reading too. I should have enjoyed life more than participating this stupid and on the end futile race called career. Let others trying to disrupt the f world along pretentious figments. It did not worth it, not at all. What worths to live for is elsewhere. Partly in reading books and having a good personal library.

safety1st 2y ago
Well, you have the right to decorate your home however you please, and I am of the view that it should be decorated with objects that are meaningful to you. That can certainly include a shelf or a case of books. Some years ago I moved to a different continent and the distances being what they were I had to sell off my book collection. This year I resolved to rejuvenate my reading habit, which had decayed since phones and social media were introduced into my life (along with my attention span). I decided that for the remainder of my life I would buy one quality hardcover book per year as a birthday gift to myself. I read ebooks, they have their merits, but there are books which are truly exceptional works and which have had a profound impact on my life, which I will undoubtedly benefit from re-reading over the years. It feels entirely appropriate for these books to be displayed prominently in my home as reminders of who I am, how I got here, and to always be at my fingertips in case I want to reference them. There will be some sort of meaningful memory, achievement or milestone associated with each one of those books. For all the rest, there's Kindle.
- Kon-Peki 2y ago
  > I would buy one quality hardcover book per year as a birthday gift to myself Care to give an example? I assume that by quality you mean both quality construction of the book itself as well as quality content printed on the page?
  - LegitShady 2y ago
    it doesn't really matter, does it? its whatever they consider quality. You would use your own definition if you wanted to do the same. I collect certain kinds of art books, and fantasy novels. If you liked something else, like computer science academic books, you could collect those. It's up to your own definition and style.
    - Kon-Peki 2y ago
      Does it matter? No, it really doesn't. I'm just curious, as someone who has a few hundred books sitting around the house, plus another 20-50 checked out from the library at any one time. I don't know that I'd consider much of any books I own to be "quality". But the house I have does have a fairly nice built-in bookshelf that could probably hold 500 books all by itself. Someday I'll fill it, maybe? With mass-market paperbacks and hardbacks? "Quality" books? Who knows!
      - LegitShady 2y ago
        It's a personal judgement. What you find quality and what I find quality is likely very different, so asking them to justify that their books are quality seems to be some sort of pedantic attack.

safety1st 2y ago

Well, you have the right to decorate your home however you please, and I am of the view that it should be decorated with objects that are meaningful to you. That can certainly include a shelf or a case of books. Some years ago I moved to a different continent and the distances being what they were I had to sell off my book collection. This year I resolved to rejuvenate my reading habit, which had decayed since phones and social media were introduced into my life (along with my attention span). I decided that for the remainder of my life I would buy one quality hardcover book per year as a birthday gift to myself. I read ebooks, they have their merits, but there are books which are truly exceptional works and which have had a profound impact on my life, which I will undoubtedly benefit from re-reading over the years. It feels entirely appropriate for these books to be displayed prominently in my home as reminders of who I am, how I got here, and to always be at my fingertips in case I want to reference them. There will be some sort of meaningful memory, achievement or milestone associated with each one of those books. For all the rest, there's Kindle.

Kon-Peki 2y ago
> I would buy one quality hardcover book per year as a birthday gift to myself Care to give an example? I assume that by quality you mean both quality construction of the book itself as well as quality content printed on the page?
- LegitShady 2y ago
  it doesn't really matter, does it? its whatever they consider quality. You would use your own definition if you wanted to do the same. I collect certain kinds of art books, and fantasy novels. If you liked something else, like computer science academic books, you could collect those. It's up to your own definition and style.
  - Kon-Peki 2y ago
    Does it matter? No, it really doesn't. I'm just curious, as someone who has a few hundred books sitting around the house, plus another 20-50 checked out from the library at any one time. I don't know that I'd consider much of any books I own to be "quality". But the house I have does have a fairly nice built-in bookshelf that could probably hold 500 books all by itself. Someday I'll fill it, maybe? With mass-market paperbacks and hardbacks? "Quality" books? Who knows!
    - LegitShady 2y ago
      It's a personal judgement. What you find quality and what I find quality is likely very different, so asking them to justify that their books are quality seems to be some sort of pedantic attack.