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>>7721615
The one you can unbrick.

>>7721615
Get a cheap tablet.

>>7721621
Battery doesn't last, and they cause eye strain because of the light.

That's just it, though, there's no need to trim the fat when storage capacity is practically infinite.
At this point, it's not worth calling it 'fat.'

>>7721387
But have you seen some of the shit we publish? Its beyond trite. Archival still requires some effort on the part of the archivist to maintain and order properly.

How do you seperate the wheat from the chaff?

We are already seeing this happen with the internet. The internet used to be filled with useful scientific information, but the trend towards social media and aggregate data is drowning out some of the more academic and intellectual archives and utilities.

Search engines have been co-opted by social media to the point where they are almost useless for doing any real work.

think about how much we rely on wikipedia. Do you remember how unreliable it used to be? Even with a full staff of thousands of educated volunteers, its accuracy is still of dubious quality.

Garbage in, garbage out. You're data is only as good as your source.

there is this place in every town where you can go and take any book you want without paying for it as long as you promise to bring it back when you have finished reading it

it's called a "library"

>>7720362
Thats where I drop my books off when i finish reading them I don't keep them
and I do use the library when thy have said book I want.
I feel its ok in some kinda low level Robin Hood way.
But I'm not sure if the big bookstores are as financially stable as they seem

Can't you buy from AbeBooks? If you can't even afford ~£2-5 then I feel seriously sorry for you

>>7721246
The Stranger
Infinite Jest
Dubliners

Plus other things for class.

>>7721266
Are you re-reading The Stranger? Most people I know read it in high school during their existential phase. It's a good book, I just figured most people read it in high school.

Songs Of A Dead Dreamer at the moment.
I might start Infinite Jest today.

Don't really enjoy it so not unless I have to.

>>7723488
Okay I'll take your word for it then and just pass out

>>7723484
Yes, when I don't want to remember what I read

she has a mental disability. Probably bipolar

>>7723463

It's all her revenge for not getting to go to Paris when she was younger

>>7723463
She was raised that way.

>>7723428
I've read just over half the books on my bookshelf.

I just pirate my epubs and delete them from my kcommon allusions or historical contexts, without them being worth reading in full:incommon allusions or historical contexts, without them being worth reading indle as soon as I realize I'm not going to read them in a rush of autism and shame.
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There's also Quixote that bores me to tears and I want to at the very least read the first part and drop it for a ye

Most physicals, I end up reading them anyways. And I actually only read short ones digitally for some autistic reason.

>>7723428
Robin Hobb, eh? I've had sex with her daughter and eaten a meal at her table. Husband is a judo master. They're a little conservative.

not literature

>>7723107
Lit hates them. I thought they were ok. First was much better than the second

>>7723115
Oh...I expected as much. Apparently only novels that you personally derive no enjoyment from are fit for discussion on /lit/; as evidenced by the response above. Very insightful it was.

the only one i've found is audiobookbay, which has an adequate selection.

>>7722754
I saw Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare in the partk in new york around 5 or 6 years ago. A racoon wondered on stage and didn't really realize that he was surrounded by humans until he was practically in the middle of the stage. He then looked up and looked really confused. Looking at the audience and then at the actors and then back at the audience over and over until he just wandered off.

It's a good play though

It it really not held in high regard? I mean just a quick look at wikipedia shows a wall of text it has over his other comedies. I'd say it's by far his most respected comedy, and has a place among his best work.

Better in text, though. I just can't laugh at actors trying too hard to be funny.

>>7722816
>Better in text, though
Like most other plays.

No he was a fat pedo jew gay hack who never produced anything of quality beyond shocking people

Kind of like gg allin but less entertaining

Ginsberg saved American poetry from being uniformly shite.

Now it's just mostly shite.

>>7722751
I hate his politics, I think he was a really creepy faggot and an all around disgusting person. But his was a really great poet.

https://youtu.be/eKBAJYceQ54

>I kinda like that
Can't cuck the Buck

You embrace it.
Suffering is just a part of life.

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>>7722740
I don't believe in the idea of karma that people and animals 'deserve' it. I feel their pain and can't find peace because of it.
>>7722743
ay

>>7721704
Julien Coupat is son of a high executive at Sanofi-Aventis (big pharm) and an MD.
Doesn't mean he's a bad person.
But he went on, after high school, to study business at ESSEC business school in Paris (a highly competitive equivalent of, say, Harvard MBA)
Then he has babby's 1st existential crisis, and acts like a hardcore anarchist.
Please...

I don't mind him, if we don't take him more seriously than Beigbeder.

I read The Coming Insurrection, interesting, but nothing exceptional.

The Sabotage of high speed train lines was nice though. Coupat spent more than 6 months in prison for this, under terrorism charges. The government feared it would trigger a resurgence of far left terrorism.

Do you have the original title for "Theory of Bloom" ? I don't see what you're talking about. Apparently it was published in the 1st edition of Tiqqun.

>>7721818
Theory of Bloom is the english translation for Tiqqun

>>7721704
Self-proclaimed "communists" who name their text after a Joyce character? Come on... How snob can be a communist?

>>7721839
Apparently in French it's "Théorie du Bloom" (theory of the bloom)

A book cover is literally completely irrelevant. It's just used for marketing.

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Frequently, the same book has multiple covers.

>>7721525
Marketing tells you a lot about the targeted audience, which itself tells you a lot about the book.

>>7719340
damn rip in peace

>>7719340
All in one day the death of an amazing author and Harper Lee.

>>7719340

Bowie, Alan Rickman, Scalia, Abe Vigoda, these two.

Death is having a banner fucking year so far, some of these people have been eluding him for decades. The twentieth century is dying before our very eyes.