/lit/ - Literature

>>23174926

There is nothing more masculine than having a physical book collection on a classy wooden bookshelf in your home. Go fuck yourself with your soulless technology, zoomer

>>23174926
As long as they read, let people enjoy what they fucking want, be it physical or kobo
Go take the dick off your ass then come back

/lit/ is a female board

>not renting a book from library and then memorising it all
female brain detected

>>23174926
I annotate and underline in my books. There’s simply no decent digital alternative. ebook readers are good for fiction though.

How else do I decorate my living room and signal that I'm an intellectual and educated? Let me guess, you also buy the smartphone with the most balance between price and specs? Tell me you don't get laid without telling me.

>>23174926
i have disposable income and i like the pagefeel, also if i had any friends my bookshelf would be a conversation starter

Some books have never been digitized, you gay honkey. Picture related, if you don't have a physical copy of this book you can't read it at all.

I want to keep my books for as long as I live. At any point I have an easy access to them. E-readers are cool for vacation or commuting, but they break, the files become obsolete, they're not made to last for decades.

>>23174926
Why do you care what the fuck I read on, faggot? Mind your own damn business.

>>23174956
Shut the fuck up, tranny. YWNBAW.

>>23175912
Calm down, Arabella

>>23174939
>this here is my library, quite masculine as you can see

I go to public libraries to rent books and if I can't find the book I want then I try to find pdfs of it online or download. I'd only buy if I was really desperate and couldn't find a specific book. Also because I'm a poorfag.

>>23175813
I’ve become so fucking soft. I find books WAY to heavy. Plus one sides always too dark.

>>23176079
>Plus one sides always too dark.

>>23175712

>>23176079
I found that with ereaders as well

probably 60% of the books i read were never scanned let alone released as an ebook.

y'all on some generic shit if you can pirate a epub of everything you read

a noncomprehensive list of the benefits of an ebooks, sorted from most to least important:
>store thousands in the space of a microSD card
>copy any number of them, any number of times, in seconds for backup and/or dissemination
>get almost any book in the world for free
>search text
>built in dictionary
>built in back light for night reading
>format books to your liking
common complaints about ebooks addressed:
>we may not always have electricity
a small solar panel addresses this. even if you don't have one, the books wouldn't be lost forever, only for as long as it takes for electricity to be restored.
>it may break
it is childishly simple to back up your files to your computer or a flashdrive.
>a solar flare
either get a faraday cage or just wrap the flashdrive in tinfoil when you aren't using it.
>the smell
if that's really so important just find one really smelly book and have it near you when you read.
>they aren't real books
the content of a book is what is important and the content is identical.
>eye strain
almost all users will tell you that reading off of an e-ink screen is not any more straining than reading off paper.
>large corporations or the government will censor digital libraries
there has never been an "ebook burning" and there never will be. a digital library is harder to confiscate than a printed one. if digital media were so easy to control piracy would not exist. in fact, the above mentioned ease of storing, copying, and disseminating of ebooks makes them a far better weapon against censorship than printed books ever could be.

>>23176619
queer

I got a few hundred quid sterling for a Lothrop Stoddard at auction, and a few thousand for a second-edition Communist Manifesto in English. I've found it worth it, for the latter alone.
My little red copy of Mao Zedong on people's war fits very neatly in my pocket, is an endless source of wisdom, and will never inshallah need plugged into a wall.

>>23176612
name ten books

>>23176620
no u

>>23174926
>>muh paper feel/smell//whateverthefuck
>Stop acting like a woman
Based.

>>23176628
>printed books are good because they are expensive
smart post. good job.

>check ali express for cheap ereaders
>detects my region is USA
>sets language to spanish

>>23174926
Tbh I usually just read books on my phone and if I like it I buy a physical copy afterwards. I like having a physical object tied to the memory of the book

>>23176628

>>23176673
i only use real live bait, my friend

>>23175806
so show us your library of books that have never been digitized

>>23174926
I share the appreciation for the sensual appeal of books but I love the device. People are weird and faggots.

>>23174926
they cut our ear shaped holes for his ears... this is too comfy, im going to die

>>23175806
lmao

https://archive.org/details/woodstocknation0000unse/page/n7/mode/2up

>>23177026
I’m fairly sure that’s an AI generated image bro. Look closer At the eyes and left side of the face and whiskers. Also the background a

>>23177056
The background has that new AI look.

>>23177056
I need to look at the paws just to be extra sure

>>23174926
a nigga with a wolfs head and male body would get so much pussy

>>23177105
thanks for sharing, furry.

>>23177028
>lmao
>reddit space
>link
You are effeminate

>>23174939
/thread

>>23174926
I don't want to read words on a screen when I read literature, I want to detach myself from technology as much as possible during my reading sessions. I will never buy a gay tablet when I can simply read real books.

>>23174926
I just ordered 5 new paperbacks and I will continue doing so

>>23174926
I read enough stuff for work on screen, I want to relax my eyes when reading literature and humanities

>>23175712
Keep a notebook and pen on the side?

>>23174926
I get a lot of value out of having a physical bookshelf. It's like the contours of my mind have been projected out into the physical world.

>>23179384
that's not a great solution. the notes and the book being two seperate things would be a drag. e-readers DO let you annotate your books, though, so it isn't a real problem.

>>23179477
the contours of your mind are pseud shaped.

I know this isn't /g/, but is Kobo the ones that were being recommended on here a couple years ago? There was some company that was new making really nice ones with a huge list of readable file types and microSD card slots, basically made for pirates.

>>23179559
it was probably the kobo clara, i think it's the /lit/ favorite. lots of e-readers fit your description, though.

>>23176629
Interracial sex by Desmund Greer

I love black power by Dr. Guenter Klow

The confessions of a black Don Juan by Donald D. Mosby

Spanking '70 by Dr. Guenter Klow

Which lesbians prefer males? by Jack Vast

Rape by Ric Arana

Swapper's rights by Greg Orr

Imposed rebellion by James Williams

Forbid me not by Blair Fuller

Shadows of shame by John Taylor

None of these have been digitized.

>>23180230
>luddites who cling to print books read only cuckold smut
huh.

>>23174939
Only counts if you made the shelves yourself.

>>23179924
That's the one, except now there's 2 newer versions of it.

/// The National Park is surrounded by moist deciduous forest and teak plantations /// You can see it, like skid marks of a car at an accident scene /// Similarly, the ministry teaches the premillennial view of eschatology /// I'd like to travel around Europe this summer but Jacob is dead set on touring the U.S. /// Tuck your chair in (= put it so that the seat of it is under the table) so that no one trips over it /// Marauding gangs of armed men have been looting food relief supplies /// Shapiro received $6.25 million in TKO Class A common stock vesting in one year, while Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel (who is also CEO of TKO) received stock grants worth $40 million vesting over a four-year period /// It was his first vacation after 18 months of straight up hustling /// Hayes had a blank slate to fill, a team to construct from scratch /// This cream contains a mild analgesic to soothe stings and bites /// The epistemological deadlocks of quantum physics /// Exculpatory evidence was ignored /// He chastised the degraded nonsense which country preachers are ramming and hammering into yokel skulls ///

ONE ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE, AND YOUR «LIBRARY» IS GONE IN THE ÆTHER.

IN REGARD TO READING LITERATURE, NOTHING WILL EVER BE BETTER THAN HOLDING A BOOK IN YOUR HANDS.

WELL MADE TANGIBLE ARTIFACTS CONSTITUTE ONE OF THE FEW GOOD THINGS IN LIFE.

>>23174939
BASED

Good luck with your electronics when the EMP or solar flare goes off.

>>23183627
>>23183636

>>23183658


INTANGIBLE «BOOKS» ARE MORE PRECARIOUS THAN TANGIBLE BOOKS.

>>23183666
see >>23176619, pseud.

>>23183667


MANY COUNTERMEASURES TO CONSERVE AN INFERIOR FORMAT.

YOU SAY «eBOOK»; I SAY «BOOK».

YOU SAY «VAPE»; I SAY «SMOKE».

YOU SAY «YOU WILL OWN NOTHING, AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY»; I SAY «CHRIST IS KING».

>>23183677
>many countermeasures
>many
juat a flashdrive and a few square inches of foil. my library mogs your in every way that matters. you will always be a pseud.

>>23183686

>juat a flashdrive and a few square inches of foil.


EXACTLY.

>>23183689
i wonder if there were obnlxious retards like you who insisted that handwrotten books were the only "real" books when the printing lress was invented.

>>23183694


FALLACIOUS ANALOGY.

>>23183697
two things, both of which are dirt cheap, can not be called "many". you are a retard who struggles with numbers larger than one. you are a luddite who refuses to acknowlege obviously superior technology out of sentimentality and an attachnent to commodities. the analogy fits quite well.

>>23174926
being a woman would be depending on your devices battery. when you have a paper book all you need is the book, and the sun

>>23183627
Fuck off back to /x/ please

>>23174926
As long as books are still being made, purchased and placed on shelves, there is a reflection that there are people who don't necessarily submit to technological futurism.
Reading a book allows me to escape from the silicon and plastic that dominates my every day life. There are few similar activities that you can do within the comfort of your own home. That's why a physical book is better for me.

>>23176666
This guy fucks

>>23174972
LMAO this guys memory palace isn't an empty room with a kindle on the floor. Couldn't be me.

>>23174939
This post is both dangerously based and effeminately homosexual.

>>23174939
presentation is for caring what other people think and caring what other people think is feminine