Hey /lit/, I want to buy an ereader. I have a kobo glo but it broke, so I was wondering if any of you guys could recommend an ereader to me. I was thinking about going kobo again, but I don't know what model, but I also good go nook or kindle, but I want to be able to use my old kobo library.
>inb4 read paper books
I live in a small texas town, my library sucks, and I don't have enough money to buy books every week, and I hate reading on the computer. I like the e-ink, it feels like I am looking at paper, and with ereaders I can either get books for cheap or just find the epub/pdf and put it on my e-reader.
>>8744457
I own a paperwhite
Does the job
>>8744457
The Kindle paperwhite is the best of them. It's $99, but the amount of money you'll save by downloading cheap e-books or pirating entire libraries worth makes it a smart buy.
Which books is /lit/ planning on buying this Black Friday?
>>8744452
>buying books
>>8744452
>buying books
This makes no fucking sense to me
How are you so insular that you come to /lit/, but you have no idea how to download books?
>>8744476
I write in the margins, and don't like the electronic bullshit.
What books will convince me there's a God?
The book of love. Its long and boring though.
>>8744356
Gospel of Judas
>>8744356
infinite jest
Thoughts on this guy /lit/?
>>8744337
Highschool girl: The philosopher.
>>8744337
He didn't really write, he merely typed
For years and years now, I've only been interested in reading nonfiction.
Is there something wrong with me?
Maybe you have that condition where you struggle to visualise. I watched something once about people with it. They still read books but only non fiction.
Do you have difficulty imagining scenes in your head?
>>8744266
Kind of, actually, yeah. Do you remember what it's called?
My background is in music and film, so I mostly get narrative experiences from those spheres rather than literature. That's not to say that I'm disinterested in books - I want to enjoy literature because I know it has so much to offer - but I really struggle to get into fiction. I become totally bored after the first couple of pages, which is odd, because if I'm interested in a subject I could easily read two or three nonfiction books on it.
>>8744363
I found the article
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34039054
Aphantasia.
Who decides what's rational and what isn't in the abstract world
When is a generalization fair, when is it fair to dismiss a generalization
How do I get as many people (non idiots) as possible to agree with me rationally on something and see things the way I do without resorting to sophistry/trumpisms
And what's the best book I can read on this type of meta stuff?
namedropping welcome
>>8744240
Zizek and Aristotle
>>8744240
>How do I get as many people (non idiots) as possible to agree with me rationally on something and see things the way I do without resorting to sophistry/trumpisms
Be attractive and charismatic
>>8744240
I think if a generalisation is, for the most part, true, then it's fair, but I don't think a generalisation can be COMPLETELY true so in most cases can be dismissed. I'm from /k/, so I find it easiest to explain things by using firearms.
>"The AK is very reliable."
This is a fair and accurate generalisation.
>"The AK never jams."
While malfunctions in an AK are practically so rare that you might feel like posing with it for a photo just to prove you've experienced one, AKs can, have, and WILL malfunction in time. Murphy's Law: Anything that CAN go wrong, WILL. The same goes for Glocks. Very reliable, but they are not incapable of malfunctions.
>"SJWs are pansy assed little pricks who need to tone down their political correctness, racism (yes, racism against whites is still racism), and should look up their facts before protesting against COPS for blacks getting killed."
Hah, well, while I believe it's a fair and accurate generalisation, but there ARE some SJWs out there who, while they have been brainwashed with the typical SJW/PC/BLM rhetoric, they ARE open to hearing out people who are level headed and knowledgeable. They are willing to step away from the dark side if they can be convinced of the facts, which isn't too difficult. However, with a little twist...
>"Most SJWs are pansy assed little pricks who... etc."
I would say this is a completely fair and factual statement, because while not ALL SJWs are fucked, MOST of them are, and sadly Colleges who bend over backwards for safe spaces and trigger warnings and what not are only making it worse.
Anyways, that's my take on the matter...
"I saw the Emperor – this world-spirit – riding out of the city on reconnaissance. It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, astride a horse, reaches out over the world and masters it ... this extraordinary man, whom it is impossible not to admire"
Hegel wrote this about Napoleon after he watched him enter Jena follwing his victory over Prussia.
So /lit/, which individual embodies the zeitgeist of today? Trump? Farage? Kim Kardashian? Kanye West? Someone else?
>>8744224
Me desu
>>8744229
I dislike you, current zeitgeist.
>>8744233
Yeah sorry, I didn't choose it, I just encapsulate it
When it comes to Ingsoc, nobody thoughtwise Ingsoc better than me. I have doubleplus good Ingsoc. Doubleplus bellyfeel good. But look folks, the Eurasians have been definitely plusthinkwised our party members at warfare. It's doubleplus ungood. When Eurasia sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems to us. They're bringing oldthink. They're bringing parasites. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. We need to build a wall. Don't malquote me, I don't hate Eurasia. I luvfeel Eurasia. I have doubleplus good relationships with the Eastasian people. But what they've been doing to our cities and proletarian areas is just... ungood. Doubleplus ungood. Unbellyfeel! Don't ungoodfeel, folks. Ingsoc is going to come back. And it's going to come back plusgreat and plustrong than ever before. It's gonna be doubleplusbig, believe me. We're going to make Oceania plusgreat again.
>>8744126
>We're going to make Oceania plusgreat again.
Just reported this unperson to miniluv for crimethink. Oceania is and alway has been doubleplusgreat.
>>8744126
doubleplus unironic doubletimes upboat
upvoted!
what does /lit/ think of harper lee?
She got fucked over by her lawyer. Also, TKAM was great but I understand not everyone can relate to the book.
Anyone read Go set a Watchman?
Truman Capote's a pretty good writer.
>>8744120
Thank you, mate.
END OF '16 - 2017 READING LIST
DEC: The Fall, Notes from the Underground
JAN: The Iliad, The Odyssey
FEB: The Castle, Journey to the End of the Night
MAR: Absalom, Absalom!, Invisible Man
APR: Sabbath's Theater
MAY: No Longer Human, Stoner
JUN: The Idiot
JUL: The Gulag Archipelago
AUG: Civilization and its Discontents, The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious
SEP: Suttree
OCT: Hamlet
NOV: The Aeneid
DEC: Moby-Dick
A-am I gonna make it?
>>8744107
Congratulations you have read many books this year.
>Two books per month
>Some months one book
O-o-ok.
>>8744107
>Civilization and its Discontents
>The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious
Which one was the best? Why?
Has anyone explained why life is so boring?
>>8744017
Schopenhauer i think
>>8744017
Whats less boring than life?
>>8744242
Death
What are some must read philosophy books?
Der Einzige und sein Eigentum
start with the greeks
The Ego and Its Own by Johann Kaspar Schmidt
Why are writers so obsessed with the classics? At some point, shouldn't we stop looking backwards?
I really hate it when I read some contemporary poet or novelist and they try really hard to imitate works that are hundreds of years old. Nobody can get good at writing by pasting together ideas from old as fuck literature. No writers seem to truly give a shit about the world we live in now.
>>8743975
i'll bite. the ideas we take for granted weren't always so 'obvious' to us. they had to be developed by this classical writers. isn't it interesting to you to understand how the psychic landscape of humanity has changed over time? wouldn't that lend a deeper understanding of *us*? what is intrinsic and what is cultural to humanity?
i empathize with the fact that their writings are hard, and i haven't even read the actual writings. i'm basically talking out of my ass. but i understand why they're important
>>8743975
Are you stupid? you can't even pretend to understand English literature with having read a good percentage of the "classics".
>>8743975
>At some point, shouldn't we stop looking backwards?
Only way to look forward is by looking back
What are some good genre fiction books that are set after the apocalypse has happened, and far enough into the future for civillization to recuperate? A place where humanity survives, thrives even, but is nowhere near the level that they were before the apocalypse. Things like scavenging and raiding playing a smaller role next to subsistence farming and such.
>>8743951
fuck off to /r/books self-inserting LARP nerd
>>8743951
hey generation kill, one of my fav. series of all time.
>>8743956
????
kys
Were the Laputan men in Gulliver's Travels the original cucks?
What is with the current obsession of cuckoldry in the west?
>>8743919
The deeply unsettling realization that any white man in the world could have run against Obama in 2008 and 2012, and would still have lost. Because it's 2016 and this is who we are.
The reason we didn't have Mrs. My Turn or Tokeno Cruzio this year is because middle class white men are tired of being marginalized, or to put it crudely, cucked.
>>8743919
It's not a new thing. Swift was a Tory, and the Laputans are thought to be an allegory for the Whigs.