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As many different editions of Art of War and The Prince as you can find.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Actually the applicable work condition agreement has to be present and freely available at every workplace
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Nov 21, 2019 14:25
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kjv, the very b
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Nov 21, 2019 14:26
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b stands for best
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Nov 21, 2019 14:26
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fauna posted:maybe in far west russia where you are, but in australia we are civilised englishpeople Nice oxy moron.
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Nov 21, 2019 15:12
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Have Finnegans Wake on your desk and pushily read it to him.
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Nov 21, 2019 17:43
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Selachian posted:A complete set of Remembrance of Things Past. This is probably the answer, but only if the copy is in French and you do not speak or read French.
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Nov 21, 2019 19:06
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e: never mind
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Nov 21, 2019 20:35
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Have Finnegans Wake on your desk and pushily read it to him. Someone who calls Kurt Vonnegut pretentious is going to have no clue what all these books are.
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Nov 22, 2019 02:23
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Is there a generally accepted term for the equivalent of a "page" on an e-reader or book app? I struggle to describe how long a book or a chapter is when there is no consistent measure across devices. Except word count, I guess, but that can be cumbersome to estimate. (It's not like physical pages are 100% consistent either, given different text sizes and binding methods, but that feels easier to handle. Maybe that's just lifelong familiarity.)
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wizzardstaff posted:Is there a generally accepted term for the equivalent of a "page" on an e-reader or book app? I struggle to describe how long a book or a chapter is when there is no consistent measure across devices. Except word count, I guess, but that can be cumbersome to estimate. Whenever my friends do audiobooks or ebooks and measure their progress for goodreads, it's in percentage. Page count means nothing.
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Nov 23, 2019 12:29
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n% of 50k words is a lot different from n% of 250k words tho
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Nov 23, 2019 14:55
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Annual United Way book sale is on. I browsed the shelves for potential gems among the Ian Rankin cast offs and obligatory copies of Future Shock and walked off with A hardcover of Lincoln in the Bardo (I already have it but got it to give to a friend), hardcover of Barney's Version and softcovers of Foucault's Pendulum (have not read this in forever) and Solomon Gursky Was Here so it was kind of a Mordecai Richler sort of afternoon. $6 total
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Nov 25, 2019 22:31
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Thomas Pynchon is definitely pretentious. And he's written a bunch of real big books for added visual effect!
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Have Finnegans Wake on your desk and pushily read it to him. Ask the person to pick any part in Finnegans Wake for you to start reading because it's circular.
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Dec 1, 2019 07:58
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ppl need to be forced to define what “pretentious” means before they’re even allowed to post books, which only turns out to be just actually good books and reveal what a big dumb,rear end they really are
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ulvir posted:ppl need to be forced to define what “pretentious” means before they’re even allowed to post books, which only turns out to be just actually good books and reveal what a big dumb,rear end they really are
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Dec 1, 2019 18:19
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I'm reading Wuthering Heights and it sucks!! All the characters are annoying and bad and they can gently caress right off
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Syncopated posted:I'm reading Wuthering Heights and it sucks!! All the characters are annoying and bad and they can gently caress right off fauna fucked around with this message at 12:54 on Dec 3, 2019 |
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Dec 3, 2019 12:51
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This is a question about books but not about literature, so sue me: some books - pocket books are the only one's where I've personally come across this but I don't know if it's exclusive - have a band of red ink on the bottom and top edges of the pages. Since it can hardly be for decorative purposes, I'm wondering why this would be done? e: Also I can't believe how long I wasted recreating the phenomenon in Paint when I could've just snapped a picture with my phone 
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Dec 3, 2019 13:14
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Marking it as overstock maybe?
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Jerry Cotton posted:This is a question about books but not about literature, so sue me: some books - pocket books are the only one's where I've personally come across this but I don't know if it's exclusive - have a band of red ink on the bottom and top edges of the pages. Since it can hardly be for decorative purposes, I'm wondering why this would be done? It's probably a Remainder Mark
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Krankenstyle posted:Marking it as overstock maybe? Franchescanado posted:It's probably a Remainder Mark Ohhh that makes sense. Thanks 
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https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1201868492414304257?s=20
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Where can I find a copy of Butt Smell for my Book Barn Secret Santee?
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Antivehicular posted:Where can I find a copy of Butt Smell for my Book Barn Secret Santee? Call Bookstop and ask for it 
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Dec 4, 2019 14:00
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Is Moby Dick officially the BotM? I'm dying to hear bookgoon's thoughts on sperms
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MockingQuantum posted:Is Moby Dick officially the BotM? I'm dying to hear bookgoon's thoughts on sperms It is. Thanks for the reminder, I'll get the thread up.
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Dec 6, 2019 02:50
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I've heard people talking about Moby Dick a lot lately. It's like literally a hundred years old but suddenly everybody's talking about how great it is. Was it on Oprah or something?
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Gripweed posted:I've heard people talking about Moby Dick a lot lately. It's like literally a hundred years old but suddenly everybody's talking about how great it is. Was it on Oprah or something? because it's fuckin' good yo https://twitter.com/alloy_dr/status/1202779526721396736?s=20 It's one of those books that's just so good that people who read it want to talk about it.
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Dec 6, 2019 03:44
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Think I'll pick it up tomorrow!
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Just finished Blackwater and will be proselytizing its greatness to everyone I know now ty tbb
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MelancholyMark posted:Just finished Blackwater and will be proselytizing its greatness to everyone I know now The one by Jeremy Scahill? I will join you on your quest.
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Uncle Lloyd posted:The one by Jeremy Scahill? I will join you on your quest. Nah Michael McDowell, way less depressing
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That article doesn't actually seem to make the argument that fiction is trivialised (??) which would seem to be a necessary starting point. And I think it's sort of curious that the writers feel the need to defend the idea of approaching an emotional truth in their works, because it seems to me that that has always been the prime aim and virtue of all fiction, and the idea that men are unable to accept that seems to spring from a very superficial 20th century lukewarm machoism
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For lack of a better place to put this - has anyone here ever had issues reading manga in the Nook app? I keep getting an Unsupported Document Error trying to read a manga I bought on their own store, and the app's suggestion of uninstalling/reinstalling both the book and the app itself proved useless. I think it has something to do with this specific manga being listed as a "book" instead of as a "comic" like the other manga I've bought - think the app's expecting it to be in a different format than it is and breaking. Anybody run into this before? Know of a fix?
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Spiritus Nox posted:For lack of a better place to put this - has anyone here ever had issues reading manga in the Nook app? I keep getting an Unsupported Document Error trying to read a manga I bought on their own store, and the app's suggestion of uninstalling/reinstalling both the book and the app itself proved useless. I think it has something to do with this specific manga being listed as a "book" instead of as a "comic" like the other manga I've bought - think the app's expecting it to be in a different format than it is and breaking. Anybody run into this before? Know of a fix? there is an entire forum dedicated to animes and mangers you'd probably get better help there
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Bilirubin posted:there is an entire forum dedicated to animes and mangers you'd probably get better help there My question is less about mangers and more about e-readers tho
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The forum for people who read manga probably has better advice for this technical issue with reading manga than the forum for people who read books and would not encounter this technical issue.
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