No, it’s an extreme affinity. By wanting to talk about it and having an extra copy for that, it’s different than you having shrine to it as to show you are a bigger fan of it than others.
What book is it though?
'The Etched City' by K.J. Bishop, published in 2003.
Other way round for me. At least you can wear shoes.
I agree, but the "Plantfluencers" are invariably talking about ornamental houseplants rather than anything that can be harvested, and more often than not it's just variegated aroids over and over again. Pink princess philodendrons, Albo monsteras.
It's almost the opposite. You love the words in the book more than the fact of having the physical object. You have a backup for when your first one falls apart, and you have others to give away so that other people can enjoy the book.
I can confirm this, as someone from "Up Nort" my accent sounds totally foreign to someone from the south or west of me, even someone who's only one state away. I have to make a concerted effort to "speak normally" even to my fellow countrymen. Non-Americans will never understand this.
I don't need them to keep me alive, I just like their little oxygen farts. I like how my desk plants make different smells throughout the day depending on what they're doing and what time it is.
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I am a big sucker for artbooks and comic/manga omnibuses. I thinks is the only thing i could fall into a coomlector rabbit hole if i'd let myself go. So i do somewhat get it. There's a physical satisfaction to it, comics and artbooks specially are nice to just hold and look at in a way that digital reading can't come close to.
I love manga artbooks. I don't have a huge number of them, but I do have a couple from artists that I don't follow anymore, or never followed to begin with, I just like their style. I also have manga and western comic omnibuses. I do my absolute best to keep all of them as pristine as possible, as opposed to my usual treatment of books (i.e beat the shit out of them). The nice condition of the artbooks and omnibuses adds to the pleasant experience I have when I read them.
I didn't even realize at first that he/she/it has multiple copies of each book stashed in there, not even different editions with, like, alternative covers. Wat. Peak consoomerism.
I have kept myself from indulging much precisely because i love it so much that making it a habit it would snowball into a ton of money quick. I do try to treat myself when i can but it can get pretty expensive.
i read all my books on tablet nowadays and i love it. With comics i prefer the printed version but even if i decide to buy a physical version i most certainly would have read it already on my tablet or computer for free
I do buy digital books on occasion, but there's two problems: one, stealth censorship, and two, a lot of what I want to read just hasn't gone digital yet (and may never do so).
Plus the lack of turning the pages makes the book seem endlessly long since you can't see or feel the book becoming slimmer on one side, and if the book is on any device with internet access you're always one mindless motion away from endless distraction and never actually finishing or absorbing the thing. There's also people like me who start to get eyestrain reading dense text on a screen who aren't bothered by a physical page.
I can't tell if it's more or less stupid to have a "fake" pair of some usually expensive pair of shoes.
The fakes usually go for roughly the same amount of money. But we're also entering The Nigger Zone, a place where logic reason hygiene and good taste immediately go out the window.
Yeah, that's the edition that was put out when it was picked up by a larger publisher. I have the original small press edition.
It's a property owned by George Lucas where he does all of his pre-production and post-production work on all of his films.