If you have more books than bookshelfspace, then than tells me we will be friends.

"Throw out stuff so you can buy more" -- Maria Kondo

Miss me with that braindead shit.

That means I would have to go to the library to borrow books I want to read and then really read them and turn them back in. I just want to buy books to sit on the shelf as I tell myself I will read them someday in the future.

You can pry the books I never read out my cold dead hands!

(Feel free to suggest me some public domain books I can get from Gutenberg, maybe I will read them)

Laughs in research library

Less than 30? That woman is goofy.

I can fit all of them in my pocket with ebooks and a bit of... um... you know... 🏴‍☠️ (yaRrr)

My apartment is 60% books. I don’t have enough bookshelves, I have most loaded to the point where they are bending and there are piles of books stacked on top. Stacks and stacks and stacks.

I think my library is almost an art project at this point. I thrift a lot, check out library discard sales and have a bunch of things I bought when you could get books on Amazon for a penny + shipping. I often pick up 5-10 a week, because at the thrift shop that’s maybe $10 at most. (Goodwill is getting precious, but the really ratty ones are often prime spots.)

Very little fiction. Mostly textbooks and history and language and arcane computer things and strange religious literature and philosophy and paranormal arcana. Obscure things - I mostly collect things that I wouldn’t normally be able to find in a library.

My ex hated my books and wanted to work out a deal where I’d have to give up two for every one I took in. Now I am free to live in a pile of stacks. I don’t care if it looks “messy” or “cluttered.” It represents my mind.

If your whole schtick is about decluttering, you should be able to differentiate between "less" and "fewer." Getting things down to a countable number achieves "fewer"-ness.

Also, looking at walls of books sparks joy.

Anyone else have a redneck family that started dropping off endless truckloads of random used books from various flea markets at your home the very moment they found out that you like to read?

When we moved in, the neighbors daughter was curious about the "new ones", and asked if she could help.

I told her that I would be putting the books on the shelves the next day, and she promised to come over.

I don't know what she expected (when we visited them, I never saw a book in their place), but she was shocked when she saw a large pile of boxes. I had just finished installing the first wall of shelves, and told her that we would have to sort the boxes out, only about 10k books were for the living room, the other would go up into the studio...

If you should keep one thing in life it's books.

I find this attitude chilling.

You'll have to pry my Pratchett collection from my cold, dead hands.

But... Stephen King alone has written 65 novels...

How do I actually read more? Like how do force myself to read a book. I have some cool books I'd like to read but it's hard to choose it over say a video game. I also have ADHD.