/lit/ - Literature

>>18427552
>getting libgen and b-ok books on the Kindle is a bitch and a half.
Are you a technologically illiterate boomer?
On b-ok there is a "send to kindle" button right underneath every book. And even if you don't use that, you just download a book and then share the book straight to your ereader through calibre, by mail, don't even to plug in your device or anything. How is any of the above options complicated?

>>18317059
The kind of books I read, most them are out of print (old books) and would cost me a disproportionate amount of money to order them from "Forgotten Books" or something like that. Or many "books" were never in print in the first place, like pic related, or the ISIS propaganda manifesto, or maybe a web serial, but I would like to keep track of them anyway. So I need such a service.
>>18317104
They are owned by Amazon too. Why should I trust them instead of GoodReads?
>>18317080
I will look into it

>>16619543
>hates reading fiction
based
>loves the bible
>dafuq

Why aren't the rich people doing philosophy? Why is it always unemployed NEETs and poor people, and they just provide excuses as to how being rich doesn't matter that much and give excuses for not working hard. Seem like sore losers to me.

>>16098564
I can't say about black people since I am not one and don't know anyone, but I feel like reading is increasingly being relegated as something normal people don't do, like I have come across people when I mentioned in a conversation that a certain book was better than the movie, they said "You read the book? Even though there was a movie? Why did you do that?". And most young people these days would rather have video games and Youtube as past times rather than reading for obvious reasons. The condition can be so bad that sometimes if you only refer that you read a good book about some topic in the conversation, people will automatically assume you're bragging or trying to appear intelligent. Books are a no-go for any conversation I have with people IRL. I might refer to an idea I found in a book and pass it off as something I saw on YouTube, instead of saying I read it.

And boy reading fiction is so much more frowned upon. Back when I sometimes used to bring books in class to read during idle time, people would legit call it a waste of time, saying that I should instead read some course book if I am going to be reading anyway, while browsing reddit or twitter on their phone. And I think it is only going to get worse with each passing day.

I am no reading supremacist, I don't believe that people who don't read are dumb, since the same information can easily be found in video formats online for anybody who is interested, but stilll I would have liked to be able to discuss books with my friends instead of politics and movies sometimes, and also not being judged for fucking reading a book lmao.

>>15974274
I came here a week ago from Reddit, and I found it the best literature sub I have ever seen anywhere, and if these are bad days of this sub I can only imagine how blessed the good days would have been.