Oh man… but if we let all the people who don’t have books just fuck each other instead of us… isn’t that how we get Idiocracy / this timeline?

I live in baltimore and see john waters all the time, he’d f*** any handsome thing with a penis book or not. He’s winked sexually at me several times.

No homo, but i like attention so flirting is ok bro.

But I can’t afford to keep books! They take up a lot of space that requires large rooms with shelves and shit. I can’t even afford a decent apartment!

What if I show you my Chinese e-reader with my digital collection of pirated books instead? You like Terry Pratchett?

If no books, a well worn library card is a sexy substitute.

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.

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.

I love old books.

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

“No. Your kindle doesn’t count! You don’t own any of that shit.”

We need to make dvds and CDs cool again…

In suburbia, books are ornaments and rarely read. They are just there to get laid.

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.

I love books. They just have so many words. Just nonstop words.

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.

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.

I agree with this.