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Ras Het posted:one has älykäs, "intelligent", which sucks poo poo, another has neuvokas, "clever" lit who has means or advice, which I like, and there's at least two more translations that I couldn't find on phone Google now ty 
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Not sure where to post this, but it seems like fairly important booknerd news https://twitter.com/CoNZealand/status/1242705422546419713
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Buying some books online and I'm seeing some versions of books noted as "Mass Market" vs Paperback, Hardcover etc. What does that term mean?
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Mar 31, 2020 03:03
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C-Euro posted:Buying some books online and I'm seeing some versions of books noted as "Mass Market" vs Paperback, Hardcover etc. What does that term mean? Mass market paperbacks tend to be smaller, use cheaper paper, and have smaller print in order to cut down on paper costs. This is to differentiate them from "trade" paperbacks, which are larger and have better-quality covers and bindings.
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Mar 31, 2020 03:17
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Selachian posted:Mass market paperbacks tend to be smaller, use cheaper paper, and have smaller print in order to cut down on paper costs. This is to differentiate them from "trade" paperbacks, which are larger and have better-quality covers and bindings. Thanks, guess I'll spring for the nicer versions then.
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https://twitter.com/AliWatkins/status/1245754925524619265
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Apr 2, 2020 23:16
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Countdown to amazon buyout starts now
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Apr 3, 2020 07:32
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What's gonna happen for most people in that "followed a link from a website" scenario they talked about is they're gonna click the link and go to a new website where they need to make a new login with a new password and enter their credit card information all over again, and then they're gonna say "meh" and they'll go to Amazon, especially when they realize that a lot of books cost about twice as much when you buy them through Bookshop. That aside, I've got no real interest in them until they sell ebooks, preferably with an option for a Kindle-compatible format that doesn't require me to convert via Calibre.
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Apr 3, 2020 09:56
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Khizan posted:What's gonna happen for most people in that "followed a link from a website" scenario they talked about is they're gonna click the link and go to a new website where they need to make a new login with a new password and enter their credit card information all over again, and then they're gonna say "meh" and they'll go to Amazon, especially when they realize that a lot of books cost about twice as much when you buy them through Bookshop. We get it, you loving love Amazon
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Apr 3, 2020 10:23
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I was going to stop supporting this awful company but i just really want to pay for ebooks for some reason, even though it's incredibly easy to get them without doing that.
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Apr 3, 2020 10:52
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How bad is it to read Infinite Jest while skipping the footnotes? I'm asking because the audio version just tells you the number of the footnote, and then you can (in theory) hit pause and read it yourself. Kinda meh. Otoh I understand coming up with an audio-friendly solution is probably impossible.
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Apr 3, 2020 12:15
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I don't know, and to clarify I don't have anything against audiobooks, but it's simply linguistically insane to say you're "reading" a book you're listening to. I'm not "reading" Chopin's Nocturnes right now
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Apr 3, 2020 12:23
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I'm pretty sure you can read Infinite Jest, the book, as in written, and skip the footnotes.
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Apr 3, 2020 12:28
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mike12345 posted:How bad is it to read Infinite Jest It’s bad
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Apr 3, 2020 13:01
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Skipping the footnotes is the only way to read that book imho
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really interested to know how they play 'wardin be cry' in the audiobook
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Khizan posted:That aside, I've got no real interest in them until they sell ebooks, preferably with an option for a Kindle-compatible format that doesn't require me to convert via Calibre. Buying a piece of walled in hardware that nobody else is allowed to deliver to and then complaining when other stores don’t support it really is next level bootlicking.
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Apr 3, 2020 18:23
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I'm surprised by the negative feedback to Infinite Jest, I tought the book and Wallace were well regarded in US culture. Anyway I'm two hours in and it's ok background noise while playing video games. One (ignored) footnote so far.
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Apr 3, 2020 20:18
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I'm staring to doubt your word choice re "reading"
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Apr 3, 2020 20:26
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lol you people
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Apr 4, 2020 01:09
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mike12345 posted:I'm surprised by the negative feedback to Infinite Jest, I tought the book and Wallace were well regarded in US culture That's usually a good hint that a book is actually bad
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Apr 4, 2020 02:16
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i know im a little elitist but im also very open to new experiences. however. i have to draw a line: having an audiobook in the background while you video games is definitely not reading anyway, its "cultured" if you retain at least some of it so who cares
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Apr 4, 2020 02:20
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If you’re listening to the book from speakers, you will never in a trillion years experience the novel. You’ll think you have experienced it, but you’ll be cheated. It’s such a sadness, that you think you’ve read a book, on your loving audio system
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Apr 4, 2020 02:37
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I refuse to read the epics and instead pay an aoidos to recite them to me, AS THE GODS INTENDED
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Apr 4, 2020 02:45
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Y'know, instead of listening to podcasts when I'm playing video games audiobooks might be a better idea.
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Apr 4, 2020 03:04
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Real hardcore readers listen to audiobooks while reading physical books to increase their page count
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Apr 4, 2020 06:24
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When you listen to an audiobook you cheat not only the book but yourself. You don't grow, you don't improve. You take a shortcut and gain nothing.
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Apr 4, 2020 07:03
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if i lick a book, is that reading what if i'm a supertaster
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Apr 4, 2020 07:35
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mike12345 posted:How bad is it to read Infinite Jest while skipping the footnotes? I'm asking because the audio version just tells you the number of the footnote, and then you can (in theory) hit pause and read it yourself. Kinda meh. Otoh I understand coming up with an audio-friendly solution is probably impossible. oh man i loved infinite jest. one of the funniest books i've read. half the comedy was jumping back and forth every couple of pages. to be fair... i loathed the book for the first 200-300 pages. but i was bored and in uni so i just kept reading. eventually something in me clicked and i couldn't get enough of it! or maybe something in me broke? i guess what i'm trying to say is reading Infinite Jest is like experiencing Stockholm Syndrome... but for a book. i'm not trying to be ironic or sarcastic. i love the book--10/10, would read again. but i have to remind myself but i hated it at first. it just sorta, you know, grew on me. like a rash. but the footnotes are part of the experience. there was one that stuck for me where one of the side characters at the academy mentions an essay they wrote and the footnote for it was the essay replicated in full. i had to have been through 500-pages at that point and it was just so loving absurd. it was mad. like being forced to push a boulder up a hill again and again every day. the audiobook is doing you a favour by getting you to participate in the mechanical absurdity of flipping back and forth through that monstrous tome. (again, big fan of Infinite Jest here) Sally fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Apr 4, 2020 |
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DFW is in the same sort of box as a writer that Jack Kerouac is for me where he is genuinely a very talented and unique writer whose talents are ultimately overshadowed by the obnoxious impact on culture he up having
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Apr 4, 2020 17:28
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thats some weak poo poo my dude
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Dash Rendar posted:oh man i loved infinite jest. one of the funniest books i've read. half the comedy was jumping back and forth every couple of pages. I'm four hours in and not hating it so far. It's like a loosely tied together collection of essays and observations, sometimes a bit too self-indulgent and rambling. But every now and then there's something I like, like that bit where the failed suicide talks to her doctor. That feels intensely personal and also lacks the pretention some of the other bits in the book have. The fact it's audio facilitates dipping in and out, not a bad option to have for this kind of writing.
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No other way to reach him but I just want to say sorry to Eugene V Dubstep that you ate a probe from objectively the worst mod for being objectively right about criticism and critical theory
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I am shocked that a subforum dedicated to podcasts and youtubers (the dregs of society) are full of idiots. completely surprising
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There's a convention I've seen in a lot of 19th / early 20th century adventures where it's claimed this is a real account the author has verified and is relaying the true story to the reader (Tarzan, Frankenstein, countless others that I can't recall at the moment). Was this taken at face value by the public or was it a lampshaded trope?
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regulargonzalez posted:There's a convention I've seen in a lot of 19th / early 20th century adventures where it's claimed this is a real account the author has verified and is relaying the true story to the reader (Tarzan, Frankenstein, countless others that I can't recall at the moment). this is old as gently caress isn't it? I wanna say it's a hundred years+ older even, did gulliver's travels use this frame? Don Quixote? It feels like something that would have originally come out of classical era histories or something like that but I don't even know where to look to figure it out. Like in the first part authors finally realized "holy poo poo people could be putting fuckin lies into books!? Who would just write a book and lie in it?? Better let everyone know this is legit." Maybe literature had a certain naiveite like I sort of remember the early internet having. e: Quixote using it obviously would be for ironical satire reasons, similar to how A True Story starts off explicitly saying it's a lie
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It was a convention mostly owning to the relative youth of the novel as a genre but, no, no one believed it to be true
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Mel Mudkiper posted:It was a convention mostly owning to the relative youth of the novel as a genre but, no, no one believed it to be true
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Did Lovecraft incorporate any real history into his early works? In particular, The Tomb references the Hyde family. I'm interested in this because I'm descended from the actual Hyde family among the early New England settlers and wonder if he referenced real historical families in his writing.
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