How do you find rare/obscure literature?
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How do you find rare/obscure literature?
here
>>8242783
library archive
Pretend like you've read Milkbottle H when you're around other people.
Also, >>8242790 is accurate. /lit/ works best when it's a bunch of masturabatory one-upmanship in terms of who has read or knows about the most obscure/patrician works. Follow the wanking long enough and you'll find something interesting and worth looking into.
Same way you find rare works in any artform nowadays, just find some online community and see what they circlejerk about. Usually what you find is decent but not great, with a few exceptions.
enter a number on project gutenburg.
>>8242869
or rather, just refresh the random directory
>>8243270
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?sort_order=random
>>8242783
Trawl wikisource or archive.org for scans that haven't been further digitized
>>8242783
Learn a foreign language. A ton of non english works are legit good but rare/obscure in the west. Especially if they have no translations available.
>>8243338
Learn Lojban; it has a couple original works and I doubt hardly anyone has read them. Or even better, write your own book and never share it with anyone.
>>8242783
Quite a lot of authors were popular during the nineteenth + early twentieth centuries and are now out of print, and obscure. William Ainsworth was as popular as Dickens, and sometimes better. Lord Dunsany's plays were performed on broadway. So one route would be to look at what used to be popular.
Another way to obscure literature would be to look at genre literature from 20th century magazine publishers. There's that whole well of weird lit and science fiction by the likes of Clarke Ashton Smith.
