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What is the best e-book reader, /lit/? 2017-02-10 02:49:31 Post No.9086756
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Kindle Paperwhite
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>>9086756
Kobo or Kindle. Format is irrelevant because of calibre. "DRM" is irrelevant because of calibre and pirating. If you connect your device for updates, Kobo allows slightly more selling of your data, but Amazon will creep on even your pirated selections. In the end the choice is pretty irrelevant unless you like to read in the tub, in which case the H20 is the goto
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>e-books
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How useful are the For Dummies books?
I want to start learning programming languages but I only know the basics in a handful and computers/software are probably one of the only things I would be really good at. Would reading a For Dummies book for programming languages like C++ help me out or no?
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I don't know about programming languages, but yes, I think for dummies books are, in general, very good for a working knowledge of whatever you want to know about.
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>>9086522
The (real) language ones are terrible.
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>>9086522
Read SICP and TAOCP1 first, you pleb.
Has /lit/ read Trainspotting? What did you guys think?
Inb4 'fucking pop culture, shit-tier'
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DUDE WEED LMAO
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It's fun to read out loud
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>>9086520
been doing exactly that all morning and now I can't stop doing a Scottish accent
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which are the best books written in ancient rome, /lit/?
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>>9086500
Lucretius - De Rerum Natura
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>>9086500
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
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Objectively the Aeneid, if only for influence.
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>"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", it's a... classic.
>that pregnant pause
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNWE17GqibI
What did he mean by this?
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>>9086420
>randomly namedrop pieces of literature
psycho pass was pure cringe at times
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>>9086728
>cringe
You're not in a position to criticize.
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A case for classical liberalism - The ones who walk away from omelas 2017-02-10 12:11:50 Post No.9086403
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A case for classical liberalism - The ones who walk away from omelas
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opinions on this book?
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>>9086403
Isn't it short fiction rather than a book?
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I liked the comfy description of the festival more than the heavy-handed moralizing.
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I didn't get it. It doesn't seem to present an argument, so much as to present a state of affairs and implicitly invite the reader to agree that it's objectionable.
I started a thread asking questions about it a while ago, but encountered nothing but cuntery. I don't understand why people have been so quick to label it an ethical treatise or whatever. It seemed at least as easy to read as a commentary on genre fiction.
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Immanuel Kant? More like Immanuel CUNT!!!! HAHAHA
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Why can't Kant count cunts?
Inb4 universal ethics > tribal ethics
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I wanted to laugh but I just KANT
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHA
I guess I KAN
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAAHAAHAHAHAHA
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>>9086362
What has been seen KANT be unseen xDDD
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Self Improvement General /sig/ 2017-02-10 11:48:00 Post No.9086343
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Self Improvement General /sig/
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What are some /lit/ approved self improvement or economics books?
Thanks in advance.
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Try books by Paul Loup Sulitzer but its a disgrace for literature
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>>9086352
currently reading How to read a book by mortimer adler. its ok so far but its definitely not aimed at literature but at academic books however you can still take somethings out of this book literature-wise, and if you are doing college, this book can help a lot.
next i will read ABC of literature and the art of fiction to try and improve my 'reading skills'
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Do I need to read this before the Illiad? Or should I start the Greeks with the Illiad?
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>>9086334
you should only read that and forget everything else
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>>9086334
Avoid that work; it's overrated.
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Just read this
http://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/arch/iliad/IliadGuide01.html
the Iliad isn't that hard.
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So I'm saving up some money at the moment so that I can afford to have an existential crises (my second) in a few monthss time. Are there any books you would recommend I order from Amazon that I might enjoy reading during said crisis? I've already ordered some Nietzsche (obvs) and I've been looking into Schopenhauer too but I heard he hates women or something (which totally isn't cool). Which authors or philosophers really add their own flavor to my EC? I'm all ears as to any recommendations in general you might have for a beginner in this sort of thing. It's true I've already had one EC but it only lasted like three days and really as profound as I was hoping it would be. Also, last question (promise!), do you guys ask permission from your mom / dad before having an EC or do you just go for it and see what happens? It's just my mom can be a real bitch (I'm not exaggerating lol) sometimes and I know she'll be p****d if I start questioning her value system on top of all the other stunts I pull (I'm a bit of a wildcard, hehe). Also how many ECs should an intelligent person experience in their lives? I assume it's like five but idk, that seems like a lot to me! Thank you :)
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>>9086112
here's a (you) for that post my dude
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fuf'd
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>>9086112
I think three is the only correct number of EC's.
The first when you transition into adulthood. The freedoms of youth are stripped away, leaving you vunerable, and facing up to a world you don't understand.
The second when you move into old age. You cease to work. People suddenly look at you as a diminished, worthless carbuncle, clinging to the side of society's gunship.
The third is death.
More than that looks a little try hard imho.
Have you thought about another type of mental illness as a sort of 'pick me up', between substantive bouts? For example I've always considered bi-polar disorder interesting.
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Is he worth reading to get a better understanding of proto-fascist/traditionalist ideals?
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authoritarians deserve to get their shit pushed in desu
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>>9086062
Is he influential enough to justify reading though?
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Has anyone read Zama? I saw an article in The New Yorker the other week and got curious.
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>new yorker
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>>9085979
OP here, this article http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/23/a-neglected-south-american-masterpiece
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>>9085982
Sounds like my kind a' publication.
fuck, he's right
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>>9085685
>taking everything at surface level
>implying it even matters what the author meant
you on some dumb ass shit rn, dont make me pull out the draco nigga
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>>9085689
>still responding to this
t. newfaggot
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>>9085685
>implying the author even has the ability to access every meaning encoded in their work
This chart was made by someone mad at his English teacher, and is only reposted by high school level faggots with no imagination.
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Can't stand this cunt
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Why?
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CUZ THERE AIN'T NO HOULLEBECQ GIRL
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>>9085680
He looks like he reeks of sweat and cigarettes... Maybe piss too.
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To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 9 Name Ideas? 2017-02-10 05:34:34 Post No.9085631
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My teacher assigned me to name Chapter 9 of To Kill a Mockingbird but my brain is dead out of creativity right now. Anyone have ideas for a name relevant to what the chapter is about?
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>>9085631
This site is 18+ kiddo.
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Chapter 9: A Continuation of Chapter 8
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Maycomb's Usual Disease