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Getting in on the library craze with the Reading Rainbow guy

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨eah@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ugh but books are just about the main thing I’m consumerist about. I WANT to have them in my home indefinitely. I want to be reminded a specific title exists by seeing it on the shelf, and then reread it. And I want to underline or comment on my favourite passages in pencil. They’re the one non-necessity I’ll keep splurging on; pretty much everything else is handed down, borrowed, or necessary to some extent.

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    • eah@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Borrow the book of it’s available and then pirate a digital copy. The physical book is available for someone else to use when you’re done with it, but you can still refer back to the book whenever you want or just sit around staring at it in adoration.

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      • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The only thing in the way is my astounding lack of object permanence

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    • ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My local thrift shops are packed with books for stupid cheap. A wide variety, too.

      Maybe try that and have a happy medium? Not buying something new, but saving something from a landfill.

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      • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh yeah I do that already!

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    • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do digital books scratch the itch for you?

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      • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I wish, I struggle to keep focus if I don’t physically turn the page

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  • Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Going to the charity shops the week after Christmas to get all the stuff people didn’t want real cheap 👌

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    • crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Assuming they’re donating the stuff and not taking the gift receipt for a refund

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    • JaymesRS@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Depends on the charity/thrift store some states they have to/choose to hold it longer before they can put it out to make sure people aren’t trying to dump goods that were illicitly attained or don’t have the staff to process.

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wait, is this actually a thing???

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      • db2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah but don’t go to Goodwill (corporate, not a charity) or Salvation Army (hateful, gives to conversion therapy, etc).

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  • silver@das-eck.haus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I WISH I WAS LEVAR BURTON

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    • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We all do, I think.

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      • db2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        youtu.be/w5urkfdMUXo

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  • Wren@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    search.worldcat.org to search library inventory and have books brought to your city/area.

    lithub.com/category/fictionandpoetry/ for reviews on good, new reads.

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  • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can do both?

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  • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Rich countries are drowning under useless shit they bought through an app to get it delivered at their doorsteps.

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    • Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t get it… I’m getting to the point that i dislike receiving most presents because i don’t have a use for them. Like: “ thanks for thinking about me and getting me this… plastic cheap Christmas decoration/little toy/picture book that I will never use”

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  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m half and half. So what I do is go hunting through those used bookstores for ancient tomes.

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  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Reading is metal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxBBjUakSeA

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  • abfarid@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m starting to suspect that some people can actually read and finish books.

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    • silver@das-eck.haus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      impossible. I’ve never seen it done

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah but LEGO Enterprise D

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  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Anyway I was a child in the early 1980s and when LeVar Burton suddenly appeared on a new Star Trek series with a hair clip over his eyes, I was a bit confused & disillusioned.

    Yes in the mid 1980s that was a new hair bauble that all us girls were wearing to clip our long hair up into a mohawk-like ponytail. And yes it has been confirmed that the wardrobe people on Star Trek TNG indeed saw one of these hair clips and decided it would make a good sci-fi eye covering for a blind character in the future. As if the audience wouldn’t notice that’s a fucking hair clip over Reading Rainbow guy’s eyes.

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