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Let’s Talk Bookish: Collecting Books
Jan. 27th, 2023 11:09 amI love books. I love collecting books. However, I'm very bad at actually getting to read or re-read my purchased books. It's also very hard for me to let them go even though they have eaten up my physical space. I have to stop visiting book fairs to avoid temptation, especially now that my nephews are overseas, I no longer have the good excuse of gifting books to them.
While E-books make my book hoarding more manageable, they also enable it. I'm filling up two cloud accounts with so many books that I don't know when I will read all of them. Part of them is also healthy paranoia. As a Chinese web novel reader, it's sadly common that if you don't save a copy when it's being published/just finished, it will be deleted/locked away because of censorship. Save everything or regret later.
The biggest book in my collection (in term of mb) is Thousand years Old Vampire, a solo journaling RPG that you chronicle the many centuries of a vampire’s existence, beginning with the loss of mortality and ending with inevitable destruction with prompt-driven play and simple resource management. The game is as much about what is forgotten and lost as what the player records. In my play through my character starts out as a youthful wandering martial artist with his mentor and fellow disciple as his most important people. During the thousand years of his unlife, he no longer remembered that he murdered his mentor on that fateful night of transformation. A family was trying to kill him for generations, but he no longer knew as the record was lost along his diary. He turned his male lover by accident, and I ended it when they still remembered each other. It is a sad and poignant game.
While E-books make my book hoarding more manageable, they also enable it. I'm filling up two cloud accounts with so many books that I don't know when I will read all of them. Part of them is also healthy paranoia. As a Chinese web novel reader, it's sadly common that if you don't save a copy when it's being published/just finished, it will be deleted/locked away because of censorship. Save everything or regret later.
The biggest book in my collection (in term of mb) is Thousand years Old Vampire, a solo journaling RPG that you chronicle the many centuries of a vampire’s existence, beginning with the loss of mortality and ending with inevitable destruction with prompt-driven play and simple resource management. The game is as much about what is forgotten and lost as what the player records. In my play through my character starts out as a youthful wandering martial artist with his mentor and fellow disciple as his most important people. During the thousand years of his unlife, he no longer remembered that he murdered his mentor on that fateful night of transformation. A family was trying to kill him for generations, but he no longer knew as the record was lost along his diary. He turned his male lover by accident, and I ended it when they still remembered each other. It is a sad and poignant game.
