WTF
My wife has a PhD in literature. We used to have multiple bookshelves full and many boxes. Got rid of most of them. Still have way too many. Give them away before they get full of silverfish or something.
Dunno about the post-apocalypse world, but up to this point libraries have been awesome. The LA County library system holds onto about 10 million books for me.
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I only keep books that I refer back to. That’s still quite a few. I like to look at a shelf of things I love that impacted the way I think. Seeing them laid out in chronological order helps see relationships between ideas. Also paper books are still better than ebooks for now, or so says social science.
Random novels? Meh, dump 'em.
Damn it, I though that was just a random microbet-ism.
I carefully boxed up every single book I had ever owned from early childhood through my late teens and put them in my mother’s attic. They haven’t moved in over 30 years and she still yells at me about them.
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Also if anyone reads alot I recommend goodreads.com, i use it for a few things, read reviews of books i might want to read, make an ez wishlist of books i want to read, track what i have read and put in the dates for when i read it, in when which goes to Cassette mentioning being able to see them in chronological order. For instance i can look back at my list and see when i started to get interested in various topics and wanting to learn, i’ll see a stretch of several books about racism/slavery, or several about rape/womens rights, sexuality etc.
Also you can setup a yearly reading challenge for how many books you want to read that year, which i can say i have failed 2 years so far and im about 12 books behind on year 3 lol
I wish. I’m too much of a normie.
yeah goodreads is great.
Goodreads is awful lol. Wife is like “you should make a better goodreads!” all the time. 
whats wrong with it?
My Mom keeps mailing me random old crap of mine from her basement. Always under the passive-aggressive guise of “Look what I found! I know you’ll want this.”
Subway reads is cool, let’s you read the first few chapters of lots of books for free.
This is what I did with my CDs in ~2008. No plans to touch them, always make a slight face when they discuss moving them.
They’re in alphabetical order and everything.
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Wife has a graduate degree and had sooo many books still. Since the shutdown she has been on a tear, cleaning everything and has given away literal boxes full of books. I’ve been impressed.
In the LOL law school text book arena, I still have too many that are worthless. I tried real hard in school not to buy whatever I could to save $. In Property our professor asked me to read footnote 5 of some case from 1850 on page 300 aloud. I had edition 5 when the newest edition was edition 6 so I was flipping to find the page in my book.
He condescendingly asked why I couldn’t find it right away to read. I said I have edition 5. He again condescendingly asked why I didn’t buy the newest edition. I said “I didn’t realize the case law or commentary on a case from 1850 could have changed drastically enough to warrant me buying the brand new edition”. Guess who had a royalty on the new edition. Guess who crushed the Property final but didn’t get an A
Fuck the textbook machine.
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I’ve got mixed feelings about this one. I get why he is doing it, but he was a great Cleveland.
Ritalin behaves more like cocaine. Similar chemistry but slower to cross blood/brain barrier.
Yeah on a second watch Jim is a pretty major asshole who cant handle losing.
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Yeah Ritalin is not an amphetamine. It and cocaine both inhibit the reuptake of dopamine/noradrenaline from synapses while amphetamines increase the rate at which they are transported into the synapse in the first place. So while the effect is similar - more neurotransmitters in synapses - the method is different. Seems to me like it’s a different effect, I find both Ritalin and cocaine fairly pleasant and amphetamines unpleasant.
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