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Don't these 'posers' who buy books just to have them on their shelves, and who never actually read them, run the risk of coming a mighty cropper if they're asked - perhaps over coffee, or in some other precursor to coitus - by the art school girls they want to be done by, about said books? Surely it's easier and less nerve-racking to take some time out from Grand Theft Auto to plough through a few choice titles, some Auster probably, Murakami why not, before installing them on the shelf next to the condom pot and the bottle of amyl nitrate? My suspicion is that most people who buy books to look cool will at least try to read them, so whilst their intentions may be suspect, the consequences of the purchase, insofar as they might include flicking on a few fairy lights of inspiration in the reader, will be no worse than, and may probably be better than, the consequences of purchasing a Harry Potter for all the 'right' reasons.