I combat this by buying books after I've read them instead of before.

It's fine as long as you don't arrange them by color to post on arbooks

I think everyone is

No shame. I have lots and lots of books which are useful references but I would dread to read cover to cover. This includes most math books (duh), but also most books I own on linguistics, biology, and so on. I used to collect fiction faster than I would read it as well, but I've come to peace with that and do this less now.

whenever you feel pathetic for doing this remember that I bought some photobooks from Dashwood for $80+ and haven't even taken off the shrink wrap lmfao

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