I buy books for collection purposes and to display them on the shelf for aesthetic reasons but read ebooks on my phone because it’s way more convenient that way. I don’t think it’s really mutually exclusive.
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latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day agoIt was a joke, an old running one, making light of people (frequently resurrected among Millenials) who have books on display. The jest is that people like to display booms they’ll never read in order to look smarter. Like the old trope of wearing glasses achieving the same goal.
pycorax@lemmy.world 1 day ago
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
It’s a Boomer joke, yes =))
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
hey there’s also some of us who buy books we will definitely read eventually and they just keep stacking up, gotta put them somewhere