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

    • ButtBidet [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      6 days 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 [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        14·
        6 days 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 [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          6 days 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