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.

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

I WISH I WAS LEVAR BURTON

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

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

You can do both?

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

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

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

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

Yeah but LEGO Enterprise D

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.