Pull out book in public place to get some reading done

No I'm just irrational. I do the same when I have a physical copy OP, but I mostly read books on my phone when I'm out and about for convenience. Though now I get glares from old people on the bus for looking at my phone even though I'm reading a book.

I do the exact same.

Is the joke that the narrator is a pseud because he doesn’t know the difference between an f and a long s?

I taped over the cover of IJ while reading it, but I feel like it attracted more stares that way.

>reading pic related on the train
>extremely articulate and sharply dressed black man walks over to me and asks what I'm reading
>I show him the cover and read the title
>"thanks" as he smiles at me and walks away
I have no idea what to make of this bros

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If you hide what you are reading you look like a psued who cares too much about what others think of him. Also, it is a good thing for people to know what others are reading.

What if I'm reading pornographic magazines?

My first point still applies.

If someone sees you reading a book in public in my country they will immediately think you are mentally ill and they will gossip you and the whole town will know. I've never seen anyone with a book in his hands in my country.
This happens in small countries only it seems, last month I visited Berlin and every second bench had a person sitting on it and reading a book.

>pull out books in public place to get some reading done
>try to make sure both covers can be seen by someone since I want to look like the intellectual that I am, flaunting my literary range between such classics as Infinite Jest and Milk & Honey

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>go home
>post on Somoan Fly Fishing imageboard and upload the incorrect image to go along with my post

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I read in public a good deal. busy cafeteria at work, at the bar, and in restaurants (I'm alone and go after lunch crowd has left). It's never a big deal. But I never broadcast what I am reading. Hardbacks are read w/o dust jackets and a paperback only comes with me if it's one I'm fine being associated with.

>read in public
>simply dont care about showing/not showing the cover
>JUST READS

>PROHIBITED ABOARD THIS TRAIN:
>Carrying Flammable Material
Get him outta there!

iktf exactly

I'll never understand this mindset. I could be considered a social autist, someone who continually makes errors in social judgements and puts his foot in his mouth on a regular basis.

However, I used to work as a chef. Every day, I was allowed an hour's break. I would head upstairs to the bar area of the restaurant, pull out a book during the busy post-lunchtime period (it was an inner-city bar) and read whatever book I had. Either people ignored me, or inquistively asked what I was reading. Whenever I told them a little about it, they would be nice about it. Some likely feigned interest, but never in a rude manner.
I'm sure at least some probably thought I was a fucking weirdo, or perhaps even went back to their tables to laugh at me.

But who gives a fuck? Reading is a pretty commonplace fucking thing to do. People are usually interested if they see a strange title, or a book they didn't expect you to be reading. I had zero problems with this. In other words, give yourself more normie credit, OP.

user, just read your fucking book, enjoy it, no one is judging you, and if they are, they be cunts.

WHO CARES WHAT PEOPLE THINK YOU WIMPY BETA FAGGOT

Well, but you have to admit he looks cool.

>just bee yourself :•)

>pull out book in public place to get some reading done
>flaunt the cover as much as possible

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this nigga fucks

i dont want to admit that i do this but i kinda do

One time a waitress said she liked In Cold Blood as I was reading it during lunch

how old are you?

Based and willpilled

gonna do this from now on

One of my biggest pet peeves is when I can't read the cover or spine of ppl reading books in public. I want to know if it's something I've read or at least ask them if they'd recommend it.airports are the worst...so many y people reading and waiting for their plane but I can never tell what book it is!

Haha nice one

kek

>That's why you ARE an intellectual.

thsi

>goes online and tells people anyway

you are a pseud

Saw some danger hair low test male reading pic related on the subway here in Toronto. He was holding it up to make sure everyone could see, and he had a slight smile on his face. I observed his reading habit and he took about 5 minutes per page. Every now and then he would look around I assume either to make sure people were looking at him, or was weirded out I was looking at him.

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>dont want to look like a pseud who flaunts himself reading
In my city's subway there always are a lot of people reading, either ebooks or paper ones. What exactly is pseud about that?

It would be pseud to carry around a book you're not actually reading just to create the impression that you're reading something for smart people, OP is afraid of looking like he's doing that.

It's 2019, no one cares anyway.

Now this is autism

S's in the middle of words used to look like ſ

underrated, made me me genuinely chuckle

Yikes

>pull out book in public place to get some reading done
>open to first page
>strangers of all ages gather round and sit criss-cross applesauce on the carpet in front of me
>I ask them what time it is
>a couple dozen excited voices respond "Reading time"
>"Ahem... Page 1. Chapter 1. Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named Baby Tuckoo."

I had a rather Sapphic presenting young woman see me reading American Psycho before a class.
She said, I don’t know how you could read that.
I said to her I thought it was funny in parts.
She just shook her head in disgust.
I decided not to tell her that other parts gave me boners.

>caring about literally anything
Pseud

Dumb frogposter

I always leave my books face down on the table when I read at a coffee shop. I dont want people to know what I'm reading.

This
Its so much easier if you actually want to get some reading done especially in public. I only read paper at home, libraries or in parks if the sun is out

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Where are you from, user?

what country ?

goddamn i'm never reading on the ttc again. my biggest fear is people judging my pace.

Kek, modern industrial society is already alienated as fuck, and oversocialized people like you care how they will look like reading X. Man, you have far more important problems to think about than trying to live up to some imaginary society standards.

Macedonia

>get confronted
>ask for recommendations
Can't lose

>not taking your single volume copy of Prousts’s In Search of Lost Time on the train to make plebs feel inadequate

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crazy stuff man i've been to prilep, bitola and skopje and i must tell from what i heard my macedonian bros say and from what ive seen its like your whole country is like a small village full of ignorant people. Did you know the youth in your country is gtfo'ing as fast as they can? I know like 6 guys from macedonia working in low wage jobs in my rural area in germany

just keep reading bro and dont let the dumbass пичкas hold you down lad.

good post

fuck off asshole I'm the OP and I'm greek

You fuck off, I'm the real op and I'm your dad