I have my moms collection of Eastern Press leather bound books on display. It's all the "classics" - over 300 books.
But I put them on display because they look fancy, not because of their content. Leather bound books look nice, so sue me. All my "actual" books are shitty paperbacks stored in a pile in the spare room. No one gives a shit that I read Catch-22 or Tolkein's lost tales.
That's a little different than getting books to impress people and pretending to have read them.
I get books to read and then I’ll probably read them once the internet disappears.
I wasn't suggesting that you shouldn't have read the impressive books. There's nothing impressive about owning a book you haven't read.
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