/lit/ - Literature

I'm not a wordlet.

reading on screen is not real reading

>>11330565
what's pulchritudinous mean? don't look it up.

>>11330572
neither is reading printed paper
if the book wasn't handwritten by a monk it's not really a book

>>11330547
That's probably the best feature ereaders have to offer. I usually keep my phone handy but I do tend to distract myself.

>not knowing words
Lol what a brainlet

>>11330599
Something of beauty.
I am not a latinlet like you

>>11330599
Beautiful?
Something like that. Maybe Forgetting my Latin

>>11330599
It means very beautiful.

>>11330654
why would I ask you to define a word I don't know the definition of?

>>11330656
From adj. Pulcher pulchra pulchrum

Word, man. I love the vocab list it gives you as well, so you can review things later. It's great for classical literature and gives me a better appreciation for what I'm reading. Anyone who implies you need to turn physical pages on a mass-produced paperback to actually be reading is a fag. The medium is the written word, it's not like a painting that you need to see the canvas and brush strokes to appreciate, or music that is higher fidelity on a record.

I will say, however, that audio books are a lazy and incomplete way to enjoy a book.

>>11330599
It means someone who is extremely beautiful. To describe architecture, for example, as pulchritudinous would be incorrect. It only applies to people.

I didn't look that up, I just have a friend who is smarter than me always telling me random shit like that.

>>11330714
Oh my god, yes. I love looking up words. It's amazing. When I'm online, I google everything I don't immediately recognize, too. Food, clothes, flowers, songs, paintings. I just love looking shit up so fucking much.

>I will say, however, that audio books are a lazy and incomplete way to enjoy a book.
I dislike audiobooks if the narration feels off, and they usually do.
There are a few that are fantastic, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hz45Ezfnwk&t=0s&index=9&list=PLNJpYEM5PAFwIOjm5aFXJ4KSTqph9W6Qt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsmdHxsHl14

>>11330547
>Kindle
LOL you fucked up, should have got a Kobo

>>11330714
>To describe architecture, for example, as pulchritudinous would be incorrect. It only applies to people.

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>>11330730
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>>11330547
You already spend tens-of-thousands of hours watching screens, now you're reading books on them.

When does your life become something more than just a screen, don't you find that unnatural?

>>11330786
no, not really,

I have a 3rd gen. Kindle, and the integrated dictionary is completely fucking useless because it only includes common words, which I already know. I look up words in Wiktionary instead.

>>11330792
I'm sorry, that's a bummer.
I have that problem only when I'm dealing with like adapted words.
You can add new dictionaries.

>>11330547
>doesn't know all the words

I'm lmaoing at your 22 y/o wordlet boomer self all the way to an opera with my fair, bespectacled girlfriend

ah, summer time and the living is easy never rang more true than this very moment

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>>11330880
If you weren't a wordlet you would know that your girlfriend out to be carrying a lorgnette.

>>11330786
you spend that time taking in entertainment. why is that all you do?