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I finally decided to buy an ebook for my birthday. Can any anon recommend which one should I choose?
I read a lot of positive reviews about Kindle, but it seem like you cannot use stuff from free libraries like Gutenberg Project (which would probably be my main source of ebooks). I don't know much about Kobo, but on the first glance it doesn't look as reliable as Kindle.
I'd really appreciate if someone gave me any advice.
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Im connecting my kobo to my computer now. Do continue
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You absolutely can use PG books on the kindle, you're just going to download the mobi file as opposed to the epub. Epub converts well to mobi, many of my hundreds of ebooks are converted and they're fine. Absolutely recommending a paperwhite, fantastic device.
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Yeah, I just ordered myself a Kobo Touch 2.0. Should be here sometime during the week. Stay away from Kindles, IMO.
My old one developed a weird fault where the buttons would skip some pages.
And the plastic backing got stained and greasy.
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ITT: Stupid shit you believed because you misreaded them.
>Roland Barthes ended up working in a laundry van until he died
He didn't, he was run over by one.
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I guess you might call thatdeath of the author
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I thought black people had dark blood when I was young.they do I think
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Is there a point to writing anything if no one sees it?
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I dunno, anon. Is there any point in thinking if nobody else hears it?
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>>7974997
Then get people to see it. Seems like a simple solution, anon.
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>>7974997
Is there a point in living if nobody loves you?I'm sorry.
>tfw mimic the grammatical style, sentence structure & level of vocabulary of each person I speak with online in hopes they will like me more
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Like I'd ever be caught dead using an ampersand.
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>>7974994
>tfw constantly second guess my prose
fucking hell
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>>7974994
we all do it anon, we all do it.
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how do i make fast $$$ 2016-04-28 13:10:21 Post No.7974979
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Has anyone from /lit/ actually Kindle self-published and made a good quick buck out of it? Like I'm talking 96pg books that you can write in 2 weeks time.
What's the best genre and sub-genre? Erotica? Incest themed? Where are the shekels /lit/?
I need my cocaine fix.
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Just copy 50 shades.
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I've spent a fair amount of time researching this.
http://authorearnings.com/ is a great resource maintained by the author of Wool, which is like God-tier pleb pop lit since he basically became a millionaire overnight because of it. The guy knows his shit and backs it all up with hard statistics.
Erotica is your best bet since typical erotica is somewhere between 5-20k words and the people who consume it are about as picky about production/writing quality as your average pornhub user is about their porn. Spend an afternoon researching and memorizing 100 different ways to refer to the penis and vagina and then sit down and produce gold.
Or just appeal to a niche market like underaged werewolf erotica and enjoy having no competition whatsoever.
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>>7974979
Congrats on making McDonald's employees look dignified, OP.
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Any recs for books to read in one sitting? I have a few long plane rides ahead, just picked this one up.
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slaughterhouse five
new york trilogy
the falling
the stranger
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READ THE STICKY.
anything in the novella/short story/poetry/play/essay section
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>>7974975
>mfw the back of the wolf's head is the silhouette of a man
How have I not noticed this before what the fuck
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What does /lit/ think about Sontag?
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>>7974928
I try not to
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>>7974928
Read her bio. Seems like turboleft lesbians epic heroine.
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I want to read about Benjamin Franklin, should I go for his autobiography or one of the biographies?
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Autobiography is good, although apparently not entirely truthful. He liked to play with self-mythologizing and public image and persona. A good book nonetheless. Maybe read the auto then go for the bios after.
Is it /lit/ approved?
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Idk but I watched the movie and mission impossible 3 guy's voice was fucking retarded lmao. he sounded like a brain damaged gay person
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>>7974850
I have a first edition of that!
yay me
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
W. B. Yeats
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I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping
slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket
sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
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damn that's a good po em
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>I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
>While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
>I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
that feel
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>>7974817
>I will arise and go now, for always night and day
>I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
>While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
>I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
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What are some good books that aren't structured linearly? they don't have to specifically be considered postmodern, i'm just looking for books that present their plot in a non-traditional/experimental way. for me these are some of the more captivating types of books to read because their unpredictability keeps me continuously wondering about what could happen next, which is a rare feeling when you have an attention span that's only very slightly longer than that of a small rodent. i don't even mind if the novel is sort of gimmicky (house of leaves) in going about the deconstruction of traditional literature, so long as the author is doing something that's truly unconventional.
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Try Brautigan, his novels are often chronologically linear but so acid-scattered that they come off otherwise while remaining cohesive. In Watermelon Sugar especially.
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Tristram Shandy, In the Labyrinth
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Anything by Calvino
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Have any of you guys read Dick Francis's works? I just finished one of his novels, and while his plot isn't anything new, his characters are great.
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>>7974705
To /plebbit/ with you
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>>7974705
Dick Francis (or whoever actually wrote the novels) is, at least in the earlier novels, an excellent example of a simple, direct style in popular fiction. There's nothing especially deep or memorable in the books I've read, but as light entertainment reading, you can't really go wrong.
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I have never met anyone in my entire life that has read this. Anyone?
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I've read a couple of Colin Wilson's but not that one.
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>>7974683
I did, it's fallen apart now and I've only read that first book in the series.
I really only remember parts of it where spiders are sorta using themselves as satellites to watch everything on the ground and they keep people as slaves and then some people climbed over a wall.
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Does anyone read any modern horror?
I've enjoyed a few books by pic related
Let's discuss
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Has anyone read anything by Laird Barron?
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What is a "pseud"? Is it just another way for trolls to call people gay without calling them gay?
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>>7974648
If you wish to know, look deep within yourself.
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>>7974648
OP is a pseud.
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pseud
sjuːd/Submit
nounBRITISHinformal
a pretentious person, especially one who claims to know a great deal about art, literature, etc.
"this method is the refuge of the charlatan, the pseud, and the modestly talented"
synonyms: pretentious person, poser, poseur, show-off, sham, fraud; informalphoney
"what a pseud to tell her she had a Pre-Raphaelite face!"