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So I want to replace my old Kobo Touch and I was thinking of getting either the Paperwhite or the Kobo Glo HD.
I think Kobo is the better device in and of itself (reads more formats, no ads, no invasive Amazon shit) BUT Amazon has the better infrastructure (larger shop, far better customer service etc)
I'm kind of torn honestly. There's also the fact that if I break it Amazon will send me a new one but Kobo will just go LEL YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN PAL.
What would /lit/ do?
>>8061704
I'm more partial to the Kindle Paperwhite, but Amazon's custom service alone is well worth it in my opinion.
sony all tha way fgt
>>8061704
Either way, both are good.
Had kindle it was fine but broke after like 4 years. Bought a Kobo its great, seems sturdy and quality enough.
>paying for ebooks
topwew
his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
Do you agree?
all errors are portals of discovery
Anyone whose a genius has probably made a lot more mistakes than me to get where he is now.
>>8061690
oh yeah and hes probably a dude
Hi there /lit/.
My girlfriend is a bit basic and not really interested in reading, but I've convinced her to start reading books with me.
What are your thoughts on some relatively easy (but good) books to suggest we read?
Elements of romance would probably help, but are not required.
>>8061603
How do you read books with another person?
there's no point trying to change your SO into someone you would want to date. disaster in the making
1984
i only read like 3 books but shit thats a good one
whats the large ceramic jar of today
a shipping container
make sure you breathe a lot when the doors are closed
>>8061597
this ceramic jar on your pic seems to be made of wooden boards
4chan
is a delillo an undercover weeb?
this book has some eerie similarities to evangelion.
for starters
ross = gendo
jeff = shinji
the convergence = nerv
zero k = human instrumentality
ross' decision to pursue it is to be with his wife, similar to gendo's.
instead of giant robot fights throughout we get film strips of the world being plunged into chaos through awe-inspiring natural disasters and sorts. both growing in horrific spectacle.
i'm sure this is all mere coincidence, but a pretty 'neat' one
I don't know, but Thomas Pynchon is, as seen in /his/ most recent novel.
>Evangelion
I thought this book was about the world's easiest marathon
>>8061463
Pretty much for as long as the west has been aware of Japan, the greatest artists and thinkers have been weeaboos. Prove me wrong, /lit/.
What are some good esoteric books?
Here's a really obscure collection of essays on the similarities between Rangaku based and nativist thought.
>>8061465
i don't read moon and the pic is just advertisement for the thread
The titles roughly translates toEverybody Poops.
>he made a mental note of it and then filed it away for later
why would anyone think thats how people think
>>8061386
I'll make a mental note if this to review at my leisure
>>8061386
What are you talking about OP? I do this all the time.
Like if I'm on a date, and the girl says something weird, I can't just sit there and think about it because I would relegate myself to contemplative silence. Obviously I'm just going to make a mental note ("I'll think about that later") and preceed with normal date conversation.
>>8061407
I just think its a cheap way to make the protagonist know about something until they need it
are there any interesting sentences anymore?
Oh shit I guess sentences get boring and thats why people write books
"you can stroke my hair / you can drink my piss / your first memory / must have looked something like this / bower"
- bower of bliss, by the Clouds
totally a song about vaginas
>>8061357
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H7tKmbmTWM
Alright guys,give me your most fucked up books to read. Books that made you feel uncomfortable to read, made you squeamish. Can also be horror core.
<Inb4 Story of the eye.
<Inb4 American Psycho
>>8061307
confessions of a mask
>>8061311
This.
>>8061307
Twilight.
Oh, my good lord in heaven. Cut your line, land your boat and go to McDonald's! Just as in the case of The Great Gatsby, I understand the book. Yes, I know it changed the way American writers write. I also understand that it celebrates the ridiculous American idea that you're only a REAL man if you've done something entirely purposeless, but really dangerous, in pursuit of making yourself look like the bull with the biggest sexual equipment. Get over it, already! Go home and clean out the refrigerator, or wash the curtains, or vacuum under the furniture. Pick your kids up from school or take your daughter bra shopping. THAT would impress me. Being too dumb to cut your fishing line? Not the mate I would pick...
The only bright spot about the book is if you think of it on a metaphorical level: there is a point at which ALL of us must grit our teeth and hold on in the face of despair. That is the definition of life. However, if that's the point, then the plot situation needs to be one of necessity (like the shipwreck in Life of Pi), instead of stubbornness.
I don't even like the book but that's not what it's about. It's essentially a much shorter, lazier, more boring, and faggy version of moby dick.
The fish represents Hemingway's career and the sharks represent his critics. Or something like that, it's been a while since I've read Timequake.
>>8061303
>>>/goodreads/
> “...in real life I always seem to have a hard time winding up a conversation or asking somebody to leave, and sometimes the moment becomes so delicate and fraught with social complexity that I'll get overwhelmed trying to sort out all the different possible ways of saying it and all the different implications of each option and will just sort of blank out and do it totally straight -- 'I want to terminate the conversation and not have you be in my apartment anymore' -- which evidently makes me look either as if I'm very rude and abrupt or as if I'm semi-autistic and have no sense of how to wind up a conversation gracefully...I've actually lost friends this way.”
Was it autism?
You know just as well as I do that this is a James Joyce quote.
>>8061279
it's a david foster wallace quote
you got double rused
>>8061314
>>8061279
>>8061272
WOOOOOOW
YOU MEAN TO SAY
THAT THIS ALPHA PUSSY SLAYER
WAS ACTUALLY A BETA KEK?!?!?
WHO
WOULD
HAVE
GUESSED!
Hello brothers, I'm going to be delivering pizzas for a few weeks to climb out of this pit of poverty I carelessly let myself fall into and I have come to you now for recommendations for audio books. It is the only part time work I keep since it is the only one where I feel I am not selling myself entirely for no more than a paycheck. I have listened to marvelous things--last time I delivered I went through Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame--and would like recommendations for things that are nicer to listen to than read. I prefer classics and philosophy. I just downloaded 50 Psychology Classics, but I am hesitant to listen to it because it seems like an offense approach to really absorb some significant ideas. It's what I'll listen to if I don't find anything else, but again, I am hesitant. Thanks in advance.
>>8061238
I think My Struggle would be great in audiobook form, the way it is written really seems to lend itself to it.
>Hello brothers, I'm going to be delivering pizzas
The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. He's got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out his third mission of the night. His uniform is black as activated charcoal, filtering the very light out of the air. A bullet will bounce off its arachnofiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a breeze through a freshly napalmed forest. Where his body has bony extremities, the suit has sintered armorgel: feels like gritty jello, protects like a stack of telephone books.
When they gave him the job, they gave him a gun.
...
The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt.
...
Why is the Deliverator so equipped? Because people rely on him. He is a role model. This is America.
...
There's only four things we do better than anyone else
music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery
>>8061347
I genuinely wish brother, I genuinely wish I had people like you in my life.
so like why haven't you read this yet mates?
>>8061181
Why should I?
>>8061187
uhh
Woman
Have you guys ever read a book with fiber in it? This feels awful, like the pages are waterproof or made out of plastic or something.
Beware before buying, hope this isn't a trend.
Luckily this is just a library book
>>8061155
Someone else can unrotate that
>Calls parchment "fiber"
>Calls it a trend
wew lad
>>8061190
Parchment doesn't feel like a sheet of plastic matey
Where on the Internet does /lit/ go to read about culture?
jezebel
>>8061129
r/sorceryofthespectacle
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