Let's fucking goooooooooo!!!!!!!!!
Shelf thread
Jonathan Roberts
John Anderson
I just expanded the classics with Folio meditations and Cicero (not pictured here, on the bed with me)
Brayden Ramirez
Recent Folio haul
Adrian Richardson
A few on the side too, abov e I have a first English of Mommsen and Greek myths
Levi Flores
lol me too
Benjamin Bell
What in God's name is this shelf? And why is one of the books the wrong way around?
Samuel Barnes
Imagine buying all this shit. You belong on Booktube with the women because it's obvious you're only interested in how your books look on your shelf.
Gabriel Carter
>spending $2000 on ugly editions
Owen Johnson
New folios look mostly like Barnes and noble sweetwater press flame press shit
Elijah Sullivan
Who wrote "Homer Iliad"?
Aiden Gonzalez
Owen Clark
This whole shelf was like 150 max, and cost me about the same to build it
Andrew Wilson
They look cheap and obnoxious, like something a nigger would find luxurious
Adam Sanders
Many were a dollar or so
Logan Cruz
Obnoxious.
Lucas Thomas
I'm a newfag i only have like 10 books
Thomas Sanders
When will mods range ban this spammer?
Jason Rodriguez
I bet you've read 0% percent of those and only buy them because they're old and cheap despite not actually being worth even a dollar in the information contained therein. You absolute queer.
Henry Sanders
Oh, would this be more to your taste? Tradnies
Gavin Miller
>imitation leather
cringe
Andrew Lewis
Yeah actually.
Hunter Reyes
Lincoln Parker
I just think the FEL Great Gatsby was a better investment than a Folio copy that looks like an eyesore.
Mason Flores
Despite the transperson on the cover of yours, I do like that one, it's definitely a classic by now. I respect Folio Society for commissioning new artwork, and trying to do something fresh. I think it looks nice
Michael Hill
Poorfag philistine cope. You will never know the feeling of a pristine, sewn, illustrated hardback in your hands.
>I WILL spend hundreds of dollars on books I could read for free
>I WILL spend time appreciating the look, feel, smell, and illustrations
>I WILL buy books much faster than I can possibly read them
>I WILL NEVER buy a paperback
>I WILL NEVER buy a glued book
>I WILL NEVER use an ereader
Seethe. Cope. Wipe your tears with your $3 secondhand paperback's pages. I am NEVER giving in.
Grayson Rodriguez
Sounds like you're missing out buddy.
Grayson Powell
More than half. I just live close to a massive used bookstore and I'm excited that I can own books now that we have a house. You shouldn't feel so angry. I just really enjoy books.
Asher Morgan
holy fucking based. keep reading user, and dabbing on the trannies and larpers
Justin Gray
This one is used and I like it.
Aiden Diaz
>I WILL spend hundreds of dollars on books I could read for free
>I WILL spend time appreciating the look, feel, smell, and illustrations
>I WILL buy books much faster than I can possibly read them
>I WILL NEVER buy a paperback
>I WILL NEVER buy a glued book
>I WILL NEVER use an ereader
I agree with all of this unironically and I will still never buy a Folio edition. I just either focus on quality sewn hardbacks, aesthetically pleasing collections, goatskin Bibles, and otherwise go searching eBay's "antiquarian books" section while omitting everything after 1950; bonus points if the edition was printed before 1900.
Benjamin Young
Go check out goodwill distribution centers. I go there on occasion and get lots of 19th century books for .59 a lb, but the place is swarming with resellers and criminal types. I bought lots of first editions for nothing
Dylan Morales
That sounds so gay it hurts. You nerds need to listen to yourselves.
James Long
You will never know the joy of receiving a two-thousand-dollar Folio Haul.
Gavin Thomas
Ok I’m taking the foliopill
John Carter
Just so it can take up room? You realize that's absurd right?
Angel Gutierrez
Fellas, folios are nice, and do have better editions than Easton, but they're a bit overpriced and gawdy now. Older folios are great.
Grayson Bailey
The best part of buying from Folio is that 5% of every purchase goes to charities supporting Trans Rights.
Honestly, true. I am not against e-readers, but I have room in the new house I just bought with my beautiful wife and darling children.
Joseph Perez
>I agree with all of this unironically and I will still never buy a Folio edition.
Why? I agree a lot of them are ugly (I don't know how they can sell those abominable Tolkien books), but they definitely have some nice ones. I've never seen a more gorgeous edition of Alice in Wonderland than theirs, and their Dracula is also very nice. Just stay far far away from their extortionately priced limited edition garbage.
Daniel Cox
>take up room
I don't live in a closet.
Jack Richardson
Bask in the warmth, comfort, and cozyness of my shelf. Let the anger leave your body and relax amongst the books.
Jonathan Williams
The murder weapon
Austin Campbell
Why not fill up that space with books you actually like? I realize you probably live in a big house of your own, but the fact that you *don't* know of enough ACTUALLY GOOD titles is telling of your midwittery.
James Miller
Incredibly tacky in both aesthetic quality and title selection
Jaxson Myers
>Why?
Never worth the price. I've seen two Folios out in the wild, Art of War and Aesop's Fables, and both were stiff, too tall, and seemed disappointing. The copyright page/preface to Art of War seemed to indicate that the text came from an edition that originally had parallel Chinese text and they removed it without reason, which automatically makes it a lesser edition versus what it was derived from. For as cheap and shitty Easton Press can be by just copy-pasting an existing text layout into a bonded-leather cover (I'm thinking specifically about how the copies of the Iliad and Odyssey I have from them are literally just the original Viking Press layout on thinner and taller paper--nevertheless, these editions were cheaper than Folio's editions of the same books and look nicer), at least I know Easton isn't removing any content.
Michael Flores
I read books that inspire me to do great engineering work, and make the world a better place. Why do you read?
Gavin Martin
To read about our Lord.
Aaron Perry
I grew up a bit poor, my dad was a typical boomer who maxed out credit by made 6 figures because he worked 70hr weeks. He would go out and buy "nice" things, but had no sense of subtle taste. Like Russian oligarchs or real estate agents.
Anyway, I moved away, got overeducated, moved amongst a more rarified crowd as an adult. I've been in nouveau riche homes and the homes of the idle wealthy. Both throw money away on cars, jewelry, And booze. The people with taste have aldus mantuas and old printings of rare books, the nouveau riche have Easton press, law, medical books, and such
Dylan Reed
Unironically, thanks for sharing user. I bought this stuff because I like collecting things that have given me joy at various points in my life. These are hard-wearing editions, and I think I will enjoy handling them and reading them both myself and with my two daughters.
Isaiah Murphy
I pay .75 to $15.00 for folios. Easton's are a flat 25.00 at my bookstore. There is an antiquarian who sells Easton's in categories and on special. He said they all go to stagers!
James Cooper
Never buy entirely from one publisher. A wall of Folios looks terrible, as do walls of nothing but Easton or Loeb or Library of America, etc. Have taste, buy selectively, and utilize bookends to divide sections.
Austin Clark
Seething without any actual reason for it. The only criticism they can muster is pathetically petty. Go dye your hair and do the commie cope, fags.
Elijah Rogers
>Seething without any actual reason for it.
Shelf threads are for people to post one picture and leave. You, on the other hand, will spam 50 pictures of your disorganized shelf instead of having the decency of posting one and letting discussion happen.
Jace Miller
I'm a different person, user. You're getting confused — lay off the tranny hypno. While your comment now and the prior one calling the for the jannies on that guy are excessively womanish, you will never BE a women.
Sebastian Sanders
I like Plotinus
Cooper Morris
>I WILL NEVER use an ereader
You can be redeemed.
Jayden Anderson
Don't you mean "re-educated"?
Xavier Miller
Deweychads, WW@?
Alexander Torres
based collection
Isaac Bell
I have seen this self more time I wish I would
Dylan Diaz
Luke Russell
Parker Foster
>Black’s Law dictionary
Infinitely based beyond belief
>Anime enciclopedia
Negated and infinitely cringe.
William Cox