/lit/ - Literature

I have hands

>>10800943
HAHAHAHAHAHA THIS NIGGA IS USING A BOOK STAND.

SOY BOY ASS NIGGA

kindle

>>10800943
I don’t read books

>>10800943
I'm not a stenographer.

I don't know where to buy one.

I'm poor.

>>10800943
don't have one, I would love a book stand

I'm not gay

>>10800943
I'm a heterosexual male.

It blocks a portion of the page.
Flipping pages looks uncomfortable. It could leave fold marks if you let go of those things.

Hold up, OP.

This the Story of Civilization: Life of Greece?

I'm gay not a faggot

>>10800943
>not owning a reading wheel

I recline when I read, or lie down.
Sitting up, or worse: forward, with a "straight" back, is bad for your back.

>>10801071
>sitting straight is bad for your back

>>10800948
fpbp

>>10800943
I have one

>>10801064
It's the first philosophers: the presocratics and sophists

Once you finish with the Greeks, you'll understand.

>>10800943
I just made one out of cardboard and nails yesterday.
But it's just for me to copy stuff.

>>10801070
>a reading wheel

But I do own one. I also own a document holder for typing. You can get both for like $10 each on Aliexpress.

It genuinely seems like more work than just holding it unless the book weigh a fucking ton, in which case it probably wont fit in most bookstands anyway.

im poor and torrent all my literature and read it on my shitty laptop screen. thank god for f.lux

>>10800943
Why would you need both your hands free while reading?

>>10800943
I have one too, but I use it rarely.

>>10801932
Uh yeah.. who needs to keep one hand free while reading a book.. what a stupid concept.. not me that's for sure.. glad we could clear the air

>>10802007
I asked about two hands.

>>10802038
not him, but I read while I'm cooking sometimes.
still don't need a stand, though.

>>10800943
I can't be assed to order one.

>willingly weakening and carelessly creasing your books

>>10800943
I wanted to get one to hold programming books, but I couldn't drive at the time so I just bent a coathanger
Turns out that it's a really shitty solution, so I bent it further and put some paper on it to soften the light from my lamp
I then compensated for no longer being able to effectively learn programming from books by going to college

I don't read
Checkmate OP

>>10801070
>reading wheel

THIS is why I browse /lit/

>>10801443
Underrated post.

>>10800943
I use a Kindle.

I dont read.

>>10801070
this made me laugh my ass of anon, thanks

>>10801156
"Straight" is meant in the sense of forcing your posture to be unnaturally rigid and straight.

>>10801070
>reading wheel

>>10801070
what the hell it's real

>>10802736
>chopping away at a wheelieskellie
>another comes behind you with a 20 hit combo and hollows your ass

>>10800943
Only reason I can see this being useful is like deskwork where you are taking notes or writing along with the work.

Other than that:
>not comfy
>holders get in the way of the text
>pain in the ass to swith between pages
>I have hands

>>10801070
Better than my Mendeley, desu.

>>10801042
Me neither. Halp

>>10801848
but those are pedestrian

>>10801070
>reading wheel
You guys are silly sometimes.

>>10803341
*spins my reading wheel*

One.

>>10800943
>not a lectern
wuw ur so smart

>>10801070

>>10801070
damm it guys, now I need one of these

>>10803202
I hate those fuckers

This is how I roll.

>>10801156
He's actually right though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7tgopXlXxQ

>>10801156
Anon is right though you faggot

>>10800943
i have a taschen one - pic related
i use it to support muh big arty books

>>10803643
>taschen
>not foldable
that's just bad form

>>10801070
Ah a true patrician

>>10803688
>>not foldable
??????
it's foldable, dum dum

>>10803804
>it's foldable, dum dum
? it's bent plexiglass tho? I'm not seeing any hinges,

>>10803688
are you saying the book's not foldable? LOL

>>10803859
the stand you monkey

>>10803863
calm down bro

>>10800943
I do actually have one, but I don't use it for fiction, that would be silly. It's perfect for textbooks when you wanna take extensive notes.

>>10801070
posting in historical thread

>>10803820
yes, it's two pieces of interlocking perspex
when it's dismantled it's flat-ish
truthfully it's not a great bookstand. when i put a heavy book on it, it bends a bit worryingly.

>>10804319
it looks like crap, honestly.
There should be wooden or metal stands that fold completely flat without having to be dismantled, kind of like the way lawn chairs fold up.
you deserve better, bro.

>not using prism glasses that reflect your vision downward, so that you can read a book flat on your desk without bending over it, or lie flat on your back to read the book you're holding up on your sternum.

>>10800943
Breaks the spine.

>>10803359
I appreciate the KOTOR meme

>>10801070
It's beautiful.

>>10801932
>>10802007
>he doesn't masturbate with both hands

I have a couple of these crappy things. They're not very nice, but they are cheap and portable.

>>10803445
>the virgin spinning top
>>10803131
>the chad wheel

>>10804395
actually i just remembered that i also have pic related, which is wooden and does fold flat.
it's pretty sturdy but i don't like it very much because the central bit where the book's spine rests isn't quite flat, which makes me reluctant to put my nice big arty books on it

recently i visited a museum and noticed they were displaying historical books on rests which were basically two triangular wedges cut from dense foam and covered in velvety material. i might have a go at making some from an old sofa cushion or something

>>10800943
I used to, not this gay tho
now i use a monitor lmao

>>10804792
lmao

>>10804415
Related graphick.

>>10805203
what the bich reading in her babylons?

>>10800943
im not a faggot

>>10800943

i read in bed

>>10801070
in the skreencap plox

>>10804766
>the book's spine rests isn't quite flat,
>dense foam
There's your answer. Cut a strip of dense foam and put it in the center.

>>10800943
>web browsers before tabs were introduced

>>10801070
>web browsers after tabs were introduced

>>10800943
>having to move both arms to change the page every time
that's probably why desu. i'd actually use one if it was simplified