/lit/ - Literature

>>10414781
>That sentence

Just, why?

I started the habit of reading about 2 months ago, and things are going fairly well, except that after timing myself and comparing my wpm to the average (240) I find myself to reading much slower (120 wpm) on books that shouldn't be hard to read. I have a tendency to slow down and try and consume each sentence before moving on, but it occurs to me that this isn't naturally done when you consume other media, like movies; you just take in what you can and move on, perhaps marking it down to look at later.

An example of a sentence that stops me is: "Sometimes the anonymous poems were properly anonymous, sometimes they were my own anonymous efforts and sometimes those of my father, who had - by a long stretch - a greater talent for vulgarity than he had for metaphor." Or, if it isn't something that pertains to grammatical structure, I might try to retain whatever environmental details I can (plumes of smoke), and reread until I feel it's adequate enough.

I can't help but feel like this is a very limiting way to read. I feel like I will improve if I mark the passages and simply move on, later see how the author wrote it and understand why it works, memorize vocab, and thus improve as a reader, but I want to know if /lit/ has ever had issues with obsessive/compulsive reading/backtracking

>>9200000

Hey /lit/, I recently visited a relative and brought a few books with me. After returning, I noticed that they have a very odd smell to them, like vinegar. His apartment was pretty humid, and had perhaps evidence of mold on the wall, making me think it might be moldy, but I'm not sure. The worst part is, the smell has spread to another one of my books, and I can't see evidence of any mold were in not for the overpowering smell.

How do I recover my books, /lit/? I don't want to throw them out because of this, has anything like this happened to anons before? Is this mold or something else? It's difficult to describe the smell outside of being vinegar-y, I haven't smelled something like this before

pic unrelated, thanks in advance

Hello /lit/, apologies if this subject doesn't quite fit into the board smoothly, I wasn't sure where to ask. Are there any books showing the significance of Computer Science, from a more philosophical light? Or any books on why Computer Science is interesting from a purely intellectual perspective, without the pragmatic benefits it may or may not bring to the economy?

Thanks in advance, pic unrelated