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Ras Het posted:Hardbacks are gross vanity items I feel the same way about sheets and refrigeration.
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End Of Worlds posted:actually ebooks, due to their existence independent of physical substance as pure idea, are closer to the Platonic Form of the book and therefore innately superior to atom-bound material texts You're probably being sarcastic, but this was legit my experience when I first bought a kindle. It removed all the distracting and non-reading aspects of a book, all the collecting and organizing and preserving dust covers and showing off and looking for fonts in the colophon.
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TheCool69 posted:Hi. Can somebody help me. Im looking for books similar to James B Stewarts DisneyWar or Lawrence Wrights Going Clear. Exposes basically. Crash Course by Paul Ingrassia is an easy read. It's about the rise and fall of Detroit's big three.
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Hedrigall posted:How do you guys decide what books to cull when you need to? I did (and am still doing) this. Keep anything that was hard to find, or makes you happy when you pick it up. If you still have too many books, up your happiness requirement.
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Hedrigall posted:I was with you with all the book-culling, but this bit hurt me. Books are precious, if not to you then to somebody, somewhere. If you live in America, Goodwill is a good choice. But if there's any mold on a book, just toss it now.
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RentACop posted:I don't know if this is the place but I've been plowing through a lot of short fiction collections and wanted to vent: it seems like there's a lot of magical mystery women who lurk in the wilderness waiting to bang dudes until eventually he returns to the real world because reasons and is forever haunted by her half-forgotten memory? I feel like I should take up urbex or something so I can meet some fey broad who may or may not be a ghost A nymph trope, maybe?
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mcustic posted:Is getting Infinite Jest on Kindle a bad idea? Would it be unreadable, with all the annotations or whatever? If you like keeping track of your progress, the last page of the book is ~85%.
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quantumfoam posted:hard pass then, thanks. Holy poo poo http://gutenberg.ca/index.html looks like a geocities rant.
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About Canada being a new colony of America?
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SimonChris posted:https://twitter.com/alex_shephard/status/1422208370237493250 Alex Shephard: Spoilsport
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If your wanna get weird with it, Old and Cold, by Jim Nisbet. First person POV of a schizophrenic who kills people for just enough money to buy just enough martinis.
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I borrow a lot of books off overdrive for my kindle. It’s a two step process that sends you to Amazon. 
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Solarpunk was coined just for people who think cyberpunk fiction should have a moral purpose. I’m not a fan, but it’s a growing genre.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Looked this up and wasn't disappointed. Holy poo poo I used to play this guy’s games all the time. Honeycomb Hotel is a great logic game. He never really adapted to a post 2002 internet. Or mobile. Or Steam. Or any app stores.
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Perry Mason Jar posted:I remember some time ago there was a popular thread here for reading the Bible. Basically was a guide to cut out the fluff and get the meat. Anyone got a link? Not finding it now https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3916138
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Online bookclubs are hard. I tried running a short story reading club on the trekbbs (way back when it was big and growing) and even that little bit was a struggle.
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I’m reading a paperback from 1963 and everything I open it another piece of the cover cracks and falls off.
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Gripweed posted:Can someone point me towards good resources for college textbooks? I'm taking a summer course and the textbook is 98 goddamn dollars, so a more affordable option would be preferable. eBay. Look for international editions, they’ll have the same content.
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When I’ve removed books from kindle it retained all my notes and bookmarks.
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Didn’t Amazon just integrate Comixology into their main site after a decade of ownership? I’m glad I canceled my Comixology Unlimited subscription, I really have a hard time browsing Amazon.
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Plus kindle will be recognizing the epub format soon.
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I read them in a near random order when I was younger. Pratchett does a good job of reintroducing the characters in each book. So just grab whatever’s closest.
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Gertrude Perkins posted:I have encountered a cow orker who to date has recommended I read Paolo Coelho about forty times. I have osmosed mostly bad-to-bland things about his work from people whose tastes align with mine - should I just bite the bullet and read the Alchemist or something? It’s about as well written as an MBA fable style book but with less useful lessons.
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A few classic sci-fi recommendations. Blood Music by Greg Bear is about intelligent nanotech. It’s a better short story than novel, where the ending is a bit too kind and happy, but it’s the kind of flaw that could make for good discussion. City by Clifford Simak is a series of short stories that slowly fit your theme. Mankind gives intelligence to a couple species, almost accidentally. And then leaves. Startide Rising by David Brin is about a universe that is filled with aliens uplifting species to intelligence in exchange for a millions years of slavery.
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Just buy smaller boxes. The last time I moved I had like a hundred of the small box size from Home Depot, and only a few larger ones.
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I’m mad at how much they destroyed comixology. It’s not that the original site was great, but it was so much better than amazon.com.
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Pale Fire.
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Everyone has already mentioned Borges, so… I haven’t read it yet, but S by JJ Abrams is a puzzle book. Illuminatus Trilogy, if you want to read what not-really-edgy teenagers read. Sheep Look Up had a lot of elements hidden in the newspaper clippings, that added up explains why things are happening to the world. But someone else here called it out for old fashion gender roles.
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Goodreads has traditionally loved reviews for unpublished books, to give them a boost right out of the gate. They even have giveaways. I’ve gotten a couple through it. Review bombing is gonna happen no matter when you allow reviews in.
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I liked listening to this lecture series; https://www.wondrium.com/william-shakespeare-comedies-histories-and-tragedies It’s covers fifteen plays, two or three lecture per play, half hour lectures. I like it because he uses each lecture to do a little bit of talking about the plot, and a deep dive into a theme or technique across his plays that’s exemplified here.
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MockingQuantum posted:On the subject of history books, what are some books that would be recommended if I wanted to just generally improve my knowledge of history, assuming most of what I know is based on vague recollections of poorly taught high school history classes? I'd be happy with books on specific subjects, I'm just looking for what would be the "everybody should read this/know these things" kind of history books. Cartoon History of the Universe, parts 1-3, for the broadest and most entertaining overview.
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anilEhilated posted:To be fair she wasn't the only Nobelist involved, if I remember correctly Günter Grass also played a part? Also happened in America with Jack Henry Abbott, who was also supported by a group of well meaning literary types.
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It’s a great example of a certain type of sci-fi where a whole book is written to explore a cool, physical, sci-fi thing, and then later some plot and characters are added. I do remember one character very well, because she was bred for luck, which is so stupid I love it.
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I say don’t read any sequels to any BDO book. The sequels always chose to answer the question of who built the Rama or the Ringworld, and that answer doesn’t really matter.
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ovenboy posted:For Christmas me and my buddy usually give each other a book that we've read during the year and think that the other might like. I happened to reread both Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea and McCarthy's Blood Meridian and couldn't decide which one to give him until I figured: why not both. They kinda work together in a way, both coming of age stories, but one being sparse and optimistic and the other cumbersome and pessimistic. I am thinking of leaning into it further and adding some non-book thematic thing to the package but can't really think of anything at the moment. A small piece of butterfly art?
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Tree Goat posted:like famous austrian author adolf hitler is still sitting at 3.18, tied with can xue’s love in the new millennium, that’s sort of a number to keep in mind * - Better known for other work.
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I don’t know, I can sympathize a little. In a healthy book culture you’d have access to that information, maybe not directly, but through book reviews, blurbs from authors you trust that aren’t generic as gently caress, an evocative plot description on the inside jacket, friends. I remember one time I was just in the mood for some university novels, so I found a review I trusted and read a couple. That feels like it’s in the same ballpark as looking for tropes to fill a need.
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