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| Tecktight Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States Joined 4976 days ago 227 posts - 327 votes  Speaks: English*, Serbian Studies: German, Russian, Estonian | Message 1 of 39 09 April 2012 at 5:08am | IP Logged |
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Few things give me more nerdy satisfaction than seeing my stack of language-books get taller and taller, even if I
rarely to never touch a good majority of them. It's the visual appeal of it that makes me all giddy. Each time I collect another book, I am reminded of the fact that, however large my collection is in my mind, it's probably a sliver of the size of most HTAL users. This thought constantly makes me curious, just how does everyone's language bookshelf look? I'll post a picture of mine once I organize it a bit, but in the meanwhile, does anyone want to contribute with a photo of their own bookshelf? :) EDIT: Here's what's at home. It's normally spread over a few shelves, but to fit all of it one photo I just squished it into one shelf. The stuff I actually use on a regular basis, though, is at school. I'll have to photograph it later.  Edited by Tecktight on 10 April 2012 at 5:06pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| s0fist Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5046 days ago 260 posts - 445 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Sign Language, German, Spanish, French | Message 2 of 39 09 April 2012 at 7:44am | IP Logged |
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Ever since I've been little I've always gotten my nerdy satisfaction out of seeing my
knowledge stack grow. Something about feeling of knowing that all that you are is all up there... Even if it's not all that wide or deep, compared to other smarter or more erudite people. :) Lately, though I've been fascinated by Piotr Wozniak (the Supermemo guy) and his effort to SRS all his knowledge. Kind of an ordinary guy with a cape... But I still do get a bit giddy at the visual of my little book collection too:) though lately it's been mostly ebooks for me. Same as I felt for my little book collection, back in Russia, or in libraries, or browsing friends' book. So I'll augment Tecktight's request to post your book collection (language related or not) by asking for a profile link to librarything, goodreads or some other such book sharing/cataloging site. And of course a juicy picture would be cool too. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 3 of 39 09 April 2012 at 2:58pm | IP Logged |
I only have this old pic from 2006 :)
Will try to take a new one:) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| squonk Groupie United States Joined 4746 days ago 44 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Irish | Message 4 of 39 09 April 2012 at 3:18pm | IP Logged |
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Wow...I'm glad I clicked on the Wozniak link, s0fist. Thanks for that. It was
fascinating, and a little bit bizarre. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Asiafeverr Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 6342 days ago 346 posts - 431 votes 1 sounds Speaks: French*, English Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, German | Message 5 of 39 09 April 2012 at 5:06pm | IP Logged |
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I cannot post a picture because my book shelf is in China and I am currently doing an internship in Germany
but I have around 15-20 books for Mandarin and Chinese characters (most are junk unfortunately), 5 for Cantonese, 5-10 for Shanghainese, 5 for Korean, a few for Japanese and a 1TB hard drive full of language materials. I'm a real junky when it comes to language learning resources. Wish I spent more time using some of these resources than I did buying them :( 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5334 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 6 of 39 09 April 2012 at 7:03pm | IP Logged |
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My language books are so many, and they are all mixed with my other books, so I am afraid that such a
picture would be a small movie. Perhaps I could take one if my Russian books! That is more feasible. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 7 of 39 09 April 2012 at 8:29pm | IP Logged |
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I'm in a similar situation as Solfrid Cristin with my collection exceeding shelf-space, and many books sitting in large discarded cardboard boxes from Safeway. I also have binders full of .pdfs in hard copy which also sit in those boxes.
If I get around to it, I'll probably take a picture of just my Estonian books since I know that you know what they're about, Tecktight. Those books are just as impressive / meaningless to my friends as my more familiar stuff for French and German :-). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6659 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 8 of 39 09 April 2012 at 9:53pm | IP Logged |
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Bah, just take several photos then! I'll upload a picture of my books as soon as I get home!
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