Read books. Buy books because it keeps writers employed. Write a book if you think you have something to tell the world.

But don’t treat books as furniture.

When I visit someone’s house and I see bookcases jammed with books, almost all of them leftovers from college reading lists, I’m never impressed.

 
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Yeah bro come thru if you need a lightly annotated copy of Great Gatsby, an Instant Pot recipe brochure, or anything ever published by Any Rand (lightly cum stained throughout)

heister: Look at all these wannabe richies hating on an expensive salad. https://arthuxtable.com/
 

Definitely a goal to build one up. Have a good stack so far but don't want to really get into it until I've actually bought a home.

"The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly" - Robert A. Wilson | "If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

I have ~100 right now, mostly biographies, history, and religious. I try to get any book I can from the library first, but then typically buy a used copy on Amazon or at a local used bookstore if the library doesn't have it. I probably keep half the books I buy - anything that wasn't great, or that I'd have no interest in reading again, or that my future kids might not want to read, I take to goodwill. However, once I top out on shelf space (my home office came with a wall of built-in bookshelves), I will stop amassing more. I've really only kept what I have so that the office isn't entirely empty.

 

This was my office a year ago. My office is now in the basement. Or rather, I put a desk in the corner of my theater room. That room in the pic now has a dining table and I moved a few more shelves full of books from upstairs down to there. My wife has her own little library for her girly books

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heister: Look at all these wannabe richies hating on an expensive salad. https://arthuxtable.com/
 

Probably around 150 right now. Mix between finance, classic fiction, sociology, math and anything else that just strikes my fancy. Total pain in the ass when I move (done two cross country road trips in the last three years... business school man, stay on the same coast haha), but I love them too much to give them up. I usually add about 10-15 a year. 

 

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Total pain in the ass when I move 

Yeah moving with a lot of books is such a pain. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I used to buy a lot of books but in the past year I’ve been going to the library a lot more. If I particularly like the book, I’ll buy it after I’ve read it (or before I got a chance to finish it before returning it). I need to declutter in general but having some books I’d like to read more than once, I have a shelf for that.

Quant (ˈkwänt) n: An expert, someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
 
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got 100's. some i've picked up read a few chapters and decided I cant be bothered reading the rest (sunk cost fallacy). most are some type of self improvement. some fiction. some finance. just ordered Dune from amazon last night.

books still are and will continue to be the best technology out there. reading on a screen is satisfactory, but there is nothing like holding something in your hands and reading it. you can download any book you want from library genesis, but I still prefer buying used books from amazon. just something better about a smelly old book.

favourite books are probably les miserables. and the fountainhead. enjoyed shoe dog too.

I shamefully found a huge bag of books outside someones house last year while I was out a walk and found it was full of titles I'd be interested in. things like zero-to-one and radical candor (which i'm reading now). it also had weird stuff like Derren browns mind tricks which has been taking up space in my book spot, not sure why I took it but im a sucker for a bargain.

 

unabridged but i'm not 100%. I did start and stop too.  but got back in to it because it had been bothering me being unread. don't get me wrong, its a complete slog and a harrowing chore at times, but it is written very nicely. feels like an achievement when you complete it. I missed out the chapter about the war, I had read online that the story was a bit of a tangent and not needed (don't believe cosette or jean Valjean are in that chapter, I have a feeling its just about the father thernardiere). the musical on Netflix is similar to how I imagined the book.

I tried dortoyevskys 'the idiot' after that, thinking I had a penchant for highbrow English, but I couldn't get through that (I meant to buy the brothers kazamarov but must have clicked the wrong book). I read Ayn rands 'atlas shrugged' last year, that was a tough one. but still worth reading too.

 

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