• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 天前

    I like books but its media in a different form. It could be great or it could be trash. The book format says nothing. I’d consider someone who watches the YouTube channel Angela Collier as more educated than someone who has a bookshelf full of Danielle Steel novels.

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      6 天前

      sure, but the point is if they don’t have any books at all

      the former person would and should have books

      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 天前

        Someone with no books but watches Angela Collier is more educated than a person with a bookshelf of Danielle Steele.

        • petrol_sniff_king
          4·
          6 天前

          You know, I’m not so sure I agree, actually.

          It is really, really, really easy to engage with content on Youtube passively. That is, without really paying attention.

          If a person watches Angela Collier on a side screen while playing a video game or something, and can’t really recall anything she’s talked about, I don’t know if that really counts.

          You could say that people who watch Angela corrolate with people who do pay attention, but then I’d say that people who watch Angela corrolate with people who own books.

  • Rose@slrpnk.net
    5·
    7 天前

    Sure, the guy has a ton of books in the shelves. But how many mysterious badly sorted storage boxes of books he has? Now that’s the real test of character.

    Also ask probing questions about how many obsolete programming books he has. It may get awkward but it has to be done.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      6 天前

      My friends have an Estonian book that teaches fortran 77 and BASIC if I remember correctly. It’s a truly wondrous tome.

  • therewolftherecastle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    6 天前

    I use the presence books or an e-reader in a home as a barometer for how much have in common with the people in it. I’m not a snob about it, either. I don’t care if its Harry Potter or obscure volumes of post-structural literary criticism. Just read, please.

  • loomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 天前

    Says the man that hasn’t moved homes a lot.

    Fuck them book boxes. All hail the public library where you most importantly give the book back!

  • toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    7 天前

    I have lots of books and prefer physical media. I’ve organized them various ways, mostly by author, then by series name and book number (if applicable), then by book title.

    I generally prefer mass market format because it’s easier to hold, but sometimes a collectible version is too tempting or, in other cases, the mass market option simply isn’t available. As a result, my library consists of a wide variety of shapes and sizes of books.

    Unfortunately, for assorted reasons, most of my library is in boxes right now. Less unfortunately, I haven’t been dating for a long time. However, back when I was dating and my literature was on shelves around my bedroom, sometimes I would bring a partner home and they would complain about my books not being arranged by size or, alternatively, by color.

    Of course they could setup their library however they wanted, but I did feel a bit of despair every time I heard this desire for form over function.

  • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    7 天前

    Due to a few job losses, moves, and storage losses a while back, I lost and stopped replenishing my physical books, so most of my library is digital. Also helps since I need glasses now.

    There are worrying drawbacks to digital also, like whether i might suddenly not own stuff I purchased, but so far it’s been better for me.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
      2·
      6 天前

      There are plugins available for Callibre to remove DRM from ebooks if you want to hedge against Amazon or whomever pulling the rug on you

    • lobut@lemmy.ca
      2·
      7 天前

      I noticed that my attention span is obliterated.

      Only certain types of books can grab me now and it’s lower on my list. I don’t doom scroll tiktok but I just watch a lot of random YT content.

      It’s sad because at the end of the year I used to be able to say I’ve read X. Now it’s just following up on random garbage.

      I definitely should be reading more and taking the time to read more!

  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    6 天前

    I love old books.

    I wish there were more spaces where I could have a comfy chair, a beer and an old tome.

  • diggerbanks@thelemmy.club
    1·
    6 天前

    My last three books read have been on a Kindle. I am considering dumping all my books because I can fit a whole library on the Kindle and saves so much space in the (very small) house. Have I become unfuckable?