/lit/ - Literature

>>16789962
>Il pendolo di Foucault
>pendolo
Is that a dick joke? I thought Eco was supposed to this high-brow intellectual...

>>16518529
Start with the secondary sources.

>>16362586
Of course. If /lit/ actually read books, then you'd realize Rei is the superior waifu. And if you actually read the Greeks, you'd be into Kaworu, too.

>>16353802
>>16353809
Of course. Consider it your first draft, then come back to it when you're better at English, and polish it up into a more idiomatic and natural version.
You're probably overthinking it, though. If you can already "think" in English, then it won't sound like a clunky translation made by a newbie learner.

>>16346357
Depends. If you can select text in the PDF, try pdftotext from pdftools. Otherwise, you will need to OCR it. Extract the images with pdftopng or pdftoimages, then use Tesseract.

Note, Tesseract takes ONE image in output, and writes to ONE output file. So you need to use something like

for %f in (*.png) do tesseract %f %f.txt

Then you need to join all those text files together. If you specify a single file name, it'll get overwritten over and over. Also, for whatever reason, Tesseract appends the byte 0xFF at the end of a file, so you may need to get rid of that too.

Either way -- and this is the easy part -- once you have extracted the text, format it according to Markdown rules (they're pretty easy). https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics

Of course, check for typos, etc. Finally, use Pandoc to convert the Markdown file to EPUB.

pandoc (file).md - o (file).epub

Too complicated? You know what Uncle Ted said about the industrial revolution...

>>15714427
>he doesn't know

>>14215576
>not having a dedicated set of journals for taking notes on books

>>14191074
do it pussy

>>5351149
>lol denominations and differing theological positions don't exist lol
>except this denomination I don't like which is going to hell for sure for heresy

>>5273013
>I don't like my life and am too autistic to conceive that anybody else could possibly enjoy their own therefore nobody should be allowed to live ever again

If you were truly compassionate you'd be able to comprehend experiences and emotions outside your own sphere of existence. Not everyone is a suicidal permavirgin who hates life.

Most people enjoy life for the most part. Stop projecting your shitty existence onto everyone else.

>>5247570

>>5227196
What is this guy even doing on /lit/?