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i wonder what books were part of booktok
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Nov 5, 2022 21:01
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Das Kapital volumes (all)
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Nov 5, 2022 21:02
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roomtone posted:i wonder what books were part of booktok Fine literature I'm sure lol
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Nov 5, 2022 21:06
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Nov 5, 2022 21:08
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:the poo poo kids read? we could use less of those authors, actually. Nothing but hardcore gay porn if Fox news is to be believed
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Nov 5, 2022 21:10
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Libgen is still groovy for almost all journals and novels. I got a pretty simple calculus for this poo poo. Author dead or insanely rich? I'm not paying. They are doing fine/their estate doesn't need the royalties. Author is coming up and could use the income? Pay for book. Almost everyone who writes an academic paper would prefer that knowledge to be free and shared and not locked behind journal paywalls, so if you want some learnin' stuff, fair game to grab.
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Nov 5, 2022 21:14
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The Butcher posted:Libgen is still groovy for almost all journals and novels. I always like how only people not effected by this think this way. You know that shits gonna turn on a dime the moment they ever produce something.
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Nov 5, 2022 21:18
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run on sentience posted:The article says that authors are happy about this site being shut down. i author posts all day long and i'm not happy about the shutdown, so the article is wrong. i'd even say it's dead wrong, if you'll permit me a bit of poetic license, to which i believe as an author i'm entitled.
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Nov 5, 2022 21:20
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Just so we’re clear, if anyone would like to pay for my six volume series of “her”otica from the pov of Shrek’s enormously distended foreskin, I will grudgingly accept your money
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Nov 5, 2022 21:22
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Bad Purchase posted:i author posts all day long and i'm not happy about the shutdown, so the article is wrong. i'd even say it's dead wrong, if you'll permit me a bit of poetic license, to which i believe as an author i'm entitled. Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, David Suzuki and Steven King just off the top of my head have all stated that they would rather their work just be appreciated and shared rather than bought on multiple occasions and have openly praised libraries and sites like archive.org etc. And while obviously, one can argue that they are all in a position to say this, but I'll counter with every mid-tier to downright failure comedian who has ever written a book will also state this and most offer their books for free or on a pay-as-you want model.
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Nov 5, 2022 21:29
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roomtone posted:i wonder what books were part of booktok Booktook.
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Nov 5, 2022 21:35
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Extra row of tits posted:I always like how only people not effected by this think this way. If I'm a huge author and I'm dead, I really wouldn't give a gently caress. Because, dead. The dead only need brains, money is not useful. Estate doesn't need to coast on my poo poo until the copyright wears out. And if I do a cool science, why would I not want everyone to be able to learn from it and build on it? Again, you pay the ones who need it and are trying to build a life off it. You really don't need to buy a physical copy of Harry Potter or whatever to send royalty money into J. K. Rowling's yacht's gas tank.
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Nov 5, 2022 21:45
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The Butcher posted:If I'm a huge author and I'm dead, I really wouldn't give a gently caress. Because, dead. The dead only need brains, money is not useful. Like maybe give 5-10 years for any projects already in the works to finish up. But yeah, it ridiculous that there are still worthless scumbags living off of owning the rights to Sherlock Holmes or how many fail children that poo poo up their parent's works with awful "official" sequels. Also google was going to have an amazing book service that would have let people access 25 million books for free, but Amazon killed it in court. (Captcha was basically invented to do OCR for this). IShallRiseAgain fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Nov 5, 2022 |
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Nov 5, 2022 21:57
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Anyone mad about their books being circulated on the internet probably isn't getting their books pirated often, if at all. That guy who was mad at archive.org only had his books downloaded a few times off there and those probably wouldn't have been lost sales anyway. Also, gently caress tiktok. Sites like that only survive because they don't draw attention.
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Nov 5, 2022 22:00
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It's still up on TOR, though you have to use the email function most of the time since the download bit is iffy for now. If you have brave browser you can access it without downloading anything extra. e: oh i should probably link it http://bookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqarulgczawnbmsb6s6qead.onion/ Quotey fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Nov 5, 2022 |
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Nov 5, 2022 22:07
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You wouldn't download a book
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a smile creeps over Chuck Wendig's face from within his evil lair
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Nov 5, 2022 22:37
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Can someone explain to me why there isn't some kind of subscription service for books like there is with Spotify for music, or Netflix etc. for movies? I live in a non-English speaking country, so I used z-library a lot, particularly for academic stuff, because I simply don't have access to libraries. I happily pay for books normally, but can't pay $100+ for the kind of things I'd like to read from a lot of university publishers (though I did pay about $1000 for the four volume Cambridge History of the Bible  ). I read about 2 books a week and would happily pay for the privilege, so why won't these fuckers let me?
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Nov 6, 2022 00:55
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Blurred posted:Can someone explain to me why there isn't some kind of subscription service for books like there is with Spotify for music, or Netflix etc. for movies? Amazon has Kindle unlimited which is kinda what you’re asking for. Do you have a local library? I don’t know about where you are, but in the US, most of them can get you access to digital book leasing services. You also may want to contact local public universities and colleges. I know in my area they’ll give the public a library card and access to digital books as well.
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Nov 6, 2022 01:01
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amazon has a kindle subscription like netflix for books but i don't know if the library is any good e: beaten 
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Nov 6, 2022 01:02
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Extra row of tits posted:I always like how only people not effected by this think this way. You should be happy someone wants to pirate your Shrek erotica lol
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Nov 6, 2022 01:03
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Jose Oquendo posted:Amazon has Kindle unlimited which is kinda what you’re asking for. I had a look at what's available on Kindle Unlimited and it seems to be mostly novels and self-published stuff, which is not really what I'm looking for unfortunately. I know that my university in Australia allowed non-students to access the library resources for a yearly fee, so it might be possible here in Prague as well, but I'm not sure what their selection of English language books is likely to be. It's been 15 years since I've been at university, so I'm also not sure how much is available digitally these days or under what conditions, but I guess I could give it a shot.
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Nov 6, 2022 01:36
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Colonel Cancer posted:You wouldn't download a car see that's where you got me hosed up i certainly would, and then i would drive it not downloading a car, this idiot
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Nov 6, 2022 01:47
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Some of my professors in college would publish their own textbooks that were nothing more than rehashed bullshit from other textbooks just so they could get in on the grift. gently caress em.
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Nov 6, 2022 01:51
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Money is the source of all evil, you gotta keep authors, musicians and especially artists poor or else
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Nov 6, 2022 02:08
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The master debaters are all on your mother's Facebook feed.
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Nov 6, 2022 02:12
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More like dead-library
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Nov 6, 2022 02:20
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I rent books and audio books from my local library... Or I download a series.
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Nov 6, 2022 05:57
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Extra row of tits posted:I always like how only people not effected by this think this way. this attitude shift is not uncommon no
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Nov 6, 2022 05:59
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Blurred posted:I had a look at what's available on Kindle Unlimited and it seems to be mostly novels and self-published stuff, which is not really what I'm looking for unfortunately. Apparently there's one library in Prague that works with overdrive, which gives digital catalog access for libraries via their app and is how amazon hooks in to us libraries for kindle: https://www.overdrive.com/libraries/ Looks like Amazon doesn't let you checkout kindle format via overdrive outside the USA, but if you don't care and just want an ebook.
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Nov 6, 2022 06:30
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:Some of my professors in college would publish their own textbooks that were nothing more than rehashed bullshit from other textbooks just so they could get in on the grift. gently caress em. i had a prof who wrote her own book and kept a list of people who didn't send her money on paypal. the final exam was written so that it would be impossible to pass if you didn't have the book. it was her first and last year teaching. also i didn't buy the book
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Nov 6, 2022 06:31
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Lmao I love losing access to the text I was using for school. Hee heeeee! Whenever something goes wrong it can always be linked back to loving TikTok.
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Nov 7, 2022 23:34
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Man i used that site to get Brill books because i will never ever pay $800+ for a book
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Nov 8, 2022 01:13
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Lol nobody goes to the liberry anymore. It’s free books you idiot. 
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Nov 8, 2022 01:17
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I should go to the library, check out a bunch of cookbooks and copy down the recipes that sound good.
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Nov 8, 2022 05:08
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Just imagine reading a book
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Nov 8, 2022 05:12
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super sweet best pal posted:I should go to the library, check out a bunch of cookbooks and copy down the recipes that sound good. Recipes aren't copyrightable, only the flavor text and photography. That's why the colonel had to lock it down
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Nov 8, 2022 05:32
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is libgen better than z library?
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I pronounce it z-libary
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