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Carthag Tuek posted:sweet, gonna skip the caveats & download even more then! but if you skipped them you wouldn't have the whole thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveat
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eightysixed posted:I understand all of your points, and it makes total sense. Agreed, that’s one of the best things about e-readers yeah, I forgot. Probably the best, reading in absolute dark. Shine on, 3am reader 
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Shine on, 3am reader
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I almost exclusively read on a kindle, and my library lends out books directly to it, which is pretty awesome. ebook prices still being screwy is really the biggest problem, especially as kindle just uses epub format now.
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I loooooove buying books at a sexond-hand book shop.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I loooooove buying books at a sexond-hand book shop. 
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Lockback posted:I almost exclusively read on a kindle, and my library lends out books directly to it, which is pretty awesome. How in the world does this work? How do you “return” it or whatever? Once it’s on the Kindle, don’t you sort of own it? 
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eightysixed posted:How in the world does this work? It's a digital file that you get locked out of/auto deleted when you return it.
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It has a built in timer I think.
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Actually if it's on an e-ink Kindle you can put it in airplane mode and it won't return until you turn off airplane mode and sync. I do it all the time to keep books longer. It's returned in Libby (the app that's the middleman for lending) but the file itself doesn't know.
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Yeah it has a timer, but you get it by default for 21 days so that's plenty of time. There is an artificial limit on how many books they can "lend out" (I assume licensing) so sometimes you gotta wait list. Still, it's generally a great way to find stuff.
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Is there any interest in a historical fiction thread?
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Couple questions about Glas, by Derrida 1. Is there a good English translation? I know the typography and layout and all that are supposed to be important 2. Anything in particular I should read first or just jump in?
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Can anyone explain to me what is meant by "a writer's writer"? I have seen this phrase often in book reviews but what does it mean?
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A writer whose work is more easily appreciated by people who also write. Someone with a better understanding of the craft than a layman who can see the tricks and technical details that other people might miss or fail to appreciate the difficulty of
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They write stuff like "Derriere disturbance" instead of "fart"
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Gleisdreieck posted:Can anyone explain to me what is meant by "a writer's writer"? I have seen this phrase often in book reviews but what does it mean? If used as a compliment it means a subtle and complex writer who writes with real skill and craft such that his work is appreciated by other professionals. If used as a slur it refers to writers who while technically competent lack storytelling skills such that their works remain generally unpopular. Can't plot their way out of a paper bag, flat characters, dull pacing, no tension, weak narrative. Books you would never, ever stay up past midnight reading. So, you know, Gene Wolfe.
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It says a lot about this forum that someone tries to define a writers writer and can still only name a genre writer.
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Gaius Marius posted:It says a lot about this forum that someone tries to define a writers writer and can still only name a genre writer.  Not exactly a jokester's joker I take it (The joke is making fun of Gene Wolfe and calling him bad) Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Feb 13, 2024 |
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:They write stuff like "Derriere disturbance" instead of "fart" Basically this.
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like movies about hollywood imo
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Gleisdreieck posted:Can anyone explain to me what is meant by "a writer's writer"? I have seen this phrase often in book reviews but what does it mean? It's like what demo scene guys are to actual programmers and artists.
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a writers’ writer is an auteur
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Anyone got any recs for light books that you can read during work downtimes ? Like those "books about books" or facts books, or maybe even joke stuff. Something you can drop in a second if something comes up. Kind of like reading the forums, but in book form.
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Anyone got any recs for light books that you can read during work downtimes ? Like those "books about books" or facts books, or maybe even joke stuff. Something you can drop in a second if something comes up. Kind of like reading the forums, but in book form. Any Dave Barry book is good for this -- funny and entertaining but not essential reading. Dave Barry Does Japan is probably my favorite.
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Anyone got any recs for light books that you can read during work downtimes ? Like those "books about books" or facts books, or maybe even joke stuff. Something you can drop in a second if something comes up. Kind of like reading the forums, but in book form. Book of Imaginary Beings by Borges Any short story collection with very short stories like Maupassant
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Oh! The Book of Obscure Sorrows is perfect for this
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Anyone got any recs for light books that you can read during work downtimes ? Like those "books about books" or facts books, or maybe even joke stuff. Something you can drop in a second if something comes up. Kind of like reading the forums, but in book form. Stephen Pile's "The Book of Failures" or something similar that's not so aged.
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Gaius Marius posted:Book of Imaginary Beings by Borges regulargonzalez posted:Oh! The Book of Obscure Sorrows is perfect for this 3D Megadoodoo posted:Stephen Pile's "The Book of Failures" or something similar that's not so aged.
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I forgot the obvious: István Örkény.
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Story time - There's a guy in my office that has been reading Lord of the Rings. He's never read Tolkien before and, even more baffling, he has never seen the LotR films. It is wild to chat with someone who has zero clue about even the most general LotR plot points from just cultural osmosis. He's currently on The Two Towers and today he came up to me with wide eyes and just said "Gandalf is alive!!!"
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Mordiceius posted:Story time - There's a guy in my office that has been reading Lord of the Rings. He's never read Tolkien before and, even more baffling, he has never seen the LotR films. @_@ Guard this precious flower
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Seriously, I'm legit envious of that guy. I think I've given the trilogy a re-read about once every four-five years since I was in middle school.
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Mordiceius posted:Story time - There's a guy in my office that has been reading Lord of the Rings. He's never read Tolkien before and, even more baffling, he has never seen the LotR films. did he read the hobbit first?
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