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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (19 children)

There's having 30 books, and 10.000 books. There's probably a sweet spot somewhere in the middle. No one needs 10.000 books.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No one need 10.000 books

Not with that attitude.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

+1

Less junk, fewer things. Less anxiety, fewer panic attacks.

... And I already reached semantic satiation with "fewer."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Less shit, fewer sewers.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This shit seems weirdly disposal/consumerism focused.

Fuck all of this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not sure why you're conflating "don't hoard things you don't need" with consumerism.

There's certainly ways to do that irresponsibly, but it's not part of the philosophy.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No but that sounds fucked up. A book collection should be a carefully curated catalog full of things that you personally love or find great use for, not some sad eclectic mix that looks like a hoarder's pile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Unless you have a giant library to fill

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Thats so cruel. When I mention I like to read my family drops off endless amounts of books at my doorstep.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That he remembers writing between all the coke he did

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I’ve seen interviews with him where he mentioned: ‘I was reading a synopsis of a story that sounded really interesting’ only to discover that it was about a book that he had written. And apparently he has no memory of writing Cujo.

There’s ‘doing coke’ and ‘doing coke so much I forgot I wrote a fucking best selling novel’.

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