[HN Gopher] The Pleasures of Tsundoku: How I Learned to Stop Wor... ___________________________________________________________________ The Pleasures of Tsundoku: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Book Piles Author : pepys Score : 23 points Date : 2021-07-30 22:41 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (lithub.com) (TXT) w3m dump (lithub.com) | shannifin wrote: | I've got a lot of book piles right now as I don't have enough | shelves. I'd much rather have shelves. | BooneJS wrote: | I recently just used LibraryThing to catalog all of my books. The | UPC camera/scanner was nice although I had to laugh when I saw a | picture of a cue cat on the site! I've got all of my ebooks and | audiobooks catalogued as well. Turns out I loved some books so | much I bought them in 2 forms. Oops. | lkramer wrote: | I buy around 3 times as many books as I finish (although I do | finish many books). There is a special pleasure in browsing | second hand book shops and pick up stuff you like the idea of | reading. | | It also used to give me tremendous pleasure giving a friend, a | colleague or even a random encounter a book I myself had enjoyed | at some point, although after the emergence of kindles, that | became less and less appreciated (although some will still accept | recommendations). | | I pile up books on my desk, on shelves, next to my bed, and it | gives me pleasure just looking at them. I hate accumulating | physical possesions except books. | | I look at my shelf (and my desk, and next to my bed) and it's a | monument to things I have had fleeting interests in and things | that are life long passions, stories that sits so deep inside me | that they have come to define part of who I am, but of course | also stories that were mere dreams and left no mark (although I | have another pile in a corner for those books that I intend to | get rid of... One day). | | I love books, it has been the one constant in my life since I was | very young child. | sonofhans wrote: | We lived in New Delhi for a year in the late 70s. One of my | favorite memories was a weekly trip to Faqir Chand and Sons, a | bookstore. I have strong memories of walking through the stacks | of books, seemingly random, and with no shelves. | | It's a very different feeling from something as organized as a | library, or Powell's here in Portland. You never knew what you'd | find next, on what topic, or in what condition. It was endless | exploration, pure delight. | | Faqir Chand is still in business. They don't have a website, but | the photos on their Twitter look just as I remember: | https://twitter.com/faqirchandbooks ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-07-31 23:00 UTC)