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Way back in 1999 or so I marked every book I had that I'd read with an X and from then on I've marked every book I read thusly. But now I've been noticing I apparently didn't do it for a while for a lot of paperbacks and it's really loving with me since several times now in the past year I've read a book half-way through or more and realized "oh poo poo I know how this is going to end"  I guess I should've done the old "tear out every page after reading" thing instead 
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my bony fealty posted:and that's why you should keep an exhaustive spreadsheet of everything you've ever read and consult it each time you want to start a new book I'm using a spreadsheet in the cloud now, didn't have one back in 1999 (I did keep a plain-text list but that went when the HDD imploded). Also the read books are in a specific part of a specific bookshelf... Except the crime paperback series because they're in the living room arranged by series and number. And the over-sized ones because they don't fit. e: Reminds me of an old school-mate who heard I both X books I read and also initial them on the front leaf. He got really angry at me and after some heated back-and-forth it was revealed that he'd thought a) that I did it to library books and b) did it in ink. I have no idea why he thought those things. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Sep 26, 2019 |
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Sep 26, 2019 16:26
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I know what I want to read next but I hate breaking in the backs on new books so I just keep reading more-than-first-hand ones.
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Sep 26, 2019 16:55
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fauna posted:i have a memory I have far more books than I have memory. I've also read more books in the past 37 years than I can remember.
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Sep 27, 2019 02:12
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ulvir posted:if you by "reboot", mean "purge all the horrible 1000 page harry potter-, sci-fi and fantasy-threads for good and never let them respawn", then yes, be my guest I'm not against it but won't that leave something like three threads open?
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Oct 9, 2019 20:41
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fauna posted:i think all novels should be written in script format like fanfictions were back in the day Fauninninnia. (It's a bad book by the by. Probably the only book I've ever regretted paying for.)
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Oct 17, 2019 13:30
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My am I pathologically unable to read that one author's name as anything except China Melville? e: Maybe this is a question for the goon doctor though.
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Oct 18, 2019 10:54
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I just BISed "China Melville" and it's a dude 
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Oct 18, 2019 13:58
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fauna posted:miéville you idiot. you troglodyte Yeah but I just searched for "china melville" because I wanted to see if Bing would correct it. It did. Very good search engine, one of the very best. They should advertise it as "Bing - the reading man's search engine"
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Oct 18, 2019 14:04
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fauna posted:it's ok, i had to google it because i couldn't remember how to do the accent mark thing I don't remember outright but I'm guessing it's with the key marked ´, lemme try: Miéville. Yeah that's it. StrixNebulosa posted:Picked up a fantasy novel and it was dedicated to Salman Rushdie and I don't know how to feel about that Is Salman Rushdie bad now? I've only read The Jaguar Smile and it was OK.
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Oct 18, 2019 14:15
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Oct 28, 2019 20:17
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Quad posted:6th grade reading level What the gently caress is this poo poo anyway.
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Nov 20, 2019 18:38
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fauna posted:the only book that belongs in any workplace is the king james bible. i will pray for you Actually the applicable work condition agreement has to be present and freely available at every workplace 
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Nov 21, 2019 13:06
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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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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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Krankenstyle posted:Marking it as overstock maybe? Franchescanado posted:It's probably a Remainder Mark Ohhh that makes sense. Thanks 
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Dec 3, 2019 15:43
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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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Fell asleep on the bus yesterday while reading Borges. It was the translator's foreword that got me but mostly just being tired.
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Dec 13, 2019 07:03
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Krankenstyle posted:How many winding roads did the bus take? None, but all the forking paths.
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Dec 14, 2019 09:59
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I tried reading some of Stevenson's poems in bed last night (Underwoods) and struggled quite a bit. Now I know I'm dumb as hell but just to check I read some other Anglophone poetry from the same time period (thanks, Albatross Book of Living Verse I bought from the book fair twenty years ago) and most of it parsed fine to me without getting stuck. What the heck is up with that?
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Dec 16, 2019 05:34
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Also if something is not pertinent to the matter at hand, it "has no sexual signifigance". (Nowhere near as common in use as "comma-fucker" but always nice to hear in a serious work-meeting.)
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Dec 18, 2019 07:02
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I shoulda read Borges when I were still a lad and remembered my Russell  (Or! I should re-read Russell!)
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Dec 22, 2019 16:31
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ulvir posted:one of my goals for 2020 is to read the man without quality You may think I'm an open book But you don't know which page to turn to
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Dec 30, 2019 20:25
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"Damon Suede". No way.
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Jan 5, 2020 01:58
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I'm at my mum's place and ran out of book so I had to pick something from her library that I also have at home so I don't have to borrow one. I thought I might as well go for Waltari's "The Adventurer" as hey it's only 800 or so pages and I've had a copy since the early nineties. Then when I pulled it out of the bookcase I LOLed out loud because it has loving Donald Trump on the cover: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/MikaelKarvajalka.jpg
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Jan 5, 2020 02:59
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Selachian posted:Apparently this rear end in a top hat also managed to piss off Chuck Tingle, which is quite an achievement. One of these days in going to read me a Chuck Tingle. Or are they digital only?
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Jan 5, 2020 05:54
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excellent bird guy posted:I want to read books but I get so sleepy at night, and I keep buying more and make it just out of chapter 1. Reading in bed is bad sleep hygiene anyway. Reading on the bog is just bad. When's a guy to read? (I read on the bus and during breaks which works for me.)
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Jan 12, 2020 07:00
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Philthy posted:I do most of my reading on my lunch breaks. It's the best stress relief ever, and it's something I always look forward to. Badly handled updates and migrations that take hours on end are the best thing at work because I just sit there reading and sipping free coffee and if someone asks me to do something I'm just "yeah nah sorry computy no worky come back tomorrow" while getting paid. This was how I finished Waltari's "The Adventurer" in less than a week last week.
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Jan 12, 2020 07:44
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I can read any book one-handed because I'm strong. But also because I open the spine properly before reading so that keeping the book open isn't much of a strain.
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Jan 13, 2020 17:38
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Lex Neville posted:wait isn't skipping forwards and back for annotations way simpler on an ereader? No.
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Jan 13, 2020 18:51
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Those are lovely editions anyway. If they weren't looking to save money they'd be two-parters to begin with.
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Jan 22, 2020 14:51
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Franchescanado posted:I say this knowing it's very silly: I tape it  (I really should get library tape.)
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Jan 22, 2020 15:02
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Franchescanado posted:That's even worse. Nuh-uh - I'd rather throw my expired milks away!
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Jan 22, 2020 15:08
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Thanks for making me snortlaugh on the Hell Bus.
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Jan 22, 2020 17:55
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excellent bird guy posted:tmi i know.. One time I read The Plague by Albert Camus and it scared me so i hope this virus thing doesn't take off. Just found a copy of this behind a shelf the other day. And a lot of dead spiders. Maybe the book carries the plague?!?
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Jan 23, 2020 18:15
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Jerry Cotton posted:Just found a copy of this behind a shelf the other day. And a lot of dead spiders. Maybe the book carries the plague?!? Aptly enough just started reading this on the way to work, and also coughing a lot. 
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Jan 27, 2020 18:19
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I had forgotten how many of the illustrations in Van Gulik's judge Dee novels portray topless or nude young women. Also how many of the plots involve incest or hints thereof.
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Feb 13, 2020 18:27
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anilEhilated posted:I suppose illustrations depend on the publisher, but I really only remember only one plot that involved incest, the one set in Canton. The Necklace and the Calebash. Maybe it was just the two, they kind of blend togerher when you read four in a row 
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Feb 14, 2020 05:18
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excellent bird guy posted:I've never heard of Judge Dee. So it's classic detective books set in like Ancient China? Yea I like that concept. I'd really like to read Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The Dee books are all very matter-of-fact but that makes them fast reads so if you feel like it give one a go. I read Red Dawn as a kid and frankly don't remember anything about it apart from one character wearing a scarf? I guess I should re-read it but ars longa vita brevis. Re: children's books, I just found my mum's copy of Watership Down and realized I've never read it. I guess the title "Ruohometsän kansa" (People/nation of Grass Forest) didn't make it tempting to child me. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 15:03 on Feb 15, 2020 |
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