I literally cannot focus when I’m reading online for some reason + I love looking at my books on my bookshelf, it makes me feel smart

  • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Before I packed up to go travelling China I resolved to give away all my books to charity (barring a very select few that went to friends for safe keeping).

    Asides from it being absolute murder to move them, they acted as a really good history of how I’ve changed as a person. A lot of liberal bullshit books amongst what a gave away that I was genuinely upset to be giving to anyone. I should have burned them

    • miz [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 months ago

      this is the process I went through recently when I found Bernie’s 2018 book Where We Go From Here: Two Years in The Resistance on my bookshelf. I have a deep-seated block against burning books but I think I might work through it for this one