/lit/ - Literature

>he left his cogs exposed.
you will regret that in 3 years time when they are chocked with things.

Dumb

Why is there a midget in his bookwheel?

>>15797625
the fuck are you doing in your bookwheel room that there are things getting choked in your cogs?

>>15797650
dust and grime will build up in the cogs chocking them so they don't move and you have to take it all to bits for to clean it/

>>15797618
Glad to see ADD isn't a recent phenomenon

>>15797665
>his bookwheel isn't in a cleanroom

>>15797618
They really just needed a computer.

>>15797688
>cleanroom

You mean a room with a negative pressure vent that siphons the dust and grime into another container?

>>15797668
>>15797696
Kek, all great scholars and thinkers have ADD.

>>15797709
yes. I put on a biosuite and go through a pressure lock to read from my bookwheel

>>15797665
well then stop eating in your cogroom, ive never had chocked cogs in all my years. what kinds of cogs do you own that get stopped by dust?

>>15797618
me with 8 tabs open on different threads

>>15797665
personally I've never had any issues with my book wheel, but I clean my room regularly or at least dust it off every once in a while

>They see me rollin'...

>>15797735
Peasant. I merely will my spirit to detach from my body and observe my bookwheel as a ghost, so as not to destroy the cogs with my physical presence

>>15797638
midget were a lot more affordable back then

>>15798171

Speaking of midgets, do you think Conopas had a good life?

>>15797665
Can confirm, I opted for the open cog wheel that I thought looked cool because you could see the cogs but a year later it starting rubbing a bit and now sometimes I have to really push it.

Just get a normal book wheel.

>>15798016
Only peasant ghosts have to phase through wood, it's far better to do it irl so you can spin it without moving.

Post pictures of your bookwheels, anons.

>>15798256
Why, so you can copy the design, glownigger? Fuck you

>>15798256
>t. atf

>>15798241
>he didn't buy an automatic bookwheel
Poorfag detected

Looks pretty cute. If you still use paper books, it can be of help to you.

>tfw servant stopped shoveling coal into the reading wheel engine

>>15798664
I don't buy paperboks. I'm a emacs ebook reader patrician. My book wheel is limited solely by my computer ram.

But what about a booksphere? Sometimes you need to have a grid of books.

just shit talking as aways.

>>15798704
>>15798706
>plebs who can't afford even a simple open-face mechanical book wheel pretending they don't need one
Cope

>>15798706
Are your arms broken, tiny man? Afraid to turn the bookwheel?

>>15798706
>he doesn't have a tablet wheel

>>15798737
I don't want paper books, anon. Ebooks are the superior medium for people who are able to handle the excellence of GNU emacs. You would unironically have to pay me to use things like that. Because emacs is better and it is free, and free as in freedom.

>>15798745
Books are aesthetically superior, price only matters if you're a poorfag

>>15798745
Yeah, you can't really afford a handcrafted artisanal bookwheel on a jannie's salary. Cope however you need to.

>>15798767
I meant it isn't worth it, anon. I don't want them even for free would unironicallly prefer buying an ebook most of the times. Maybe if I end up moving to a place without electricity, but that probably isn't going to happen. You are probably thinking that emacs is just a regular pdf reader. I end up not reading paper books, anon. I usually download them and read on my laptop or kindle.

Is this what intellectual comedy sounds like?

Great, now we can build a car powered by bookworms. Just get four of these wheels, shut the bookworms up in a compartment, and get rolling.

>>15798794
Can you carve an emacs out of hickory, stain it to a fine deep ochre, and feel it glide effortlessly at the slightest touch with the silent grace of a monarch's wing?
Oh, you can't, it's just some autistic /g/ thing? Nevermind.

>finish one page
>turn the wheel
>finish one page
>turn the wheel
>x8
your grandchildren shall be studying my work

>>15798826
Made of wood. Anons are such old fashioned plebs trying to pass as patricians.

>>15798817
This sounds like a better idea than it is in practice, overall I don't recommend it. One of the galley readers sold to me by the Biblary Coast raiders ended up being mildly dyslexic, so my car always veered off to the left.

>>15798849
Computers are for fags.

>>15798877
Yes, keep larping.

>>15798883
You're a fag.

>>15798844
More like one word, pleb. One page is too much time per book

>>15798894
>Reading more than a single stroke of the monk's brush before moving on to the next tome
Your wheel is not spinning fast enough.

>>15797618
me with my steam library

>>15798689
unterschätzt

>>15797618

>>15798794
Whats the difference between emac and pdf or kindle?

>>15798970
Emacs is basically a kind of My Little Pony-themed pdf reader.

>>15798970
> inline latex script
> annotations that allow me to either sync from pdf page to annotations or annotations to page pdf
> annotations on text format that is also easily made into another pdf (which I can read on my kindle later)
> being able to put selections or page screen shots into the annotations
> support for multiple languages scripts. You can interchangeably write in Japanese, Greek, Russian or whatever. Without using any external program.
> notes are also easily made into a web page. So I have a decent format that I can share with my friends, instead of some proprietary bs. You can easily send them by email or something. So who is reading doesn't necessarily needs to use emacs.
> being open source, emacs is easily modifiable so if one knows a bit of programming, you can change functionalities that allow you to make it suit better your needs instead of being stuck with whatever.
> you can also turn your annotations into flashcards if you want to study something.

pic related.

>mom goes into your room and finds your bookwheel

>>15798970
emacs is a /g/ meme. its a text editor but for fat people that also dont own a mouse so the point is that you can do everything within it. they claim it makes you more productive or something but its just shit and every video trying to showcase this says otherwise

>>15799129
More things that you can do. Those diagrams require a bit of work, but they look kinda cool and you can also turn them into latex.

>>15799158
Really? Why I haven't settled with any of the alternatives then? I unironically understand that it isn't for everyone, most want the "just works". But it is a tool for people who don't settle for anything else than the best for themselves.

>>15799129
>>15799041
>>15799158
So in other words its inferior to a real book, got it

>>15799172
I cohld draw a diagram like that with a pen with 0 work involved

>>15799188
>But it is a tool for people who don't settle for anything else than the best for themselves.
My poor deluded friend, what you are actually describing is a Bookwheel™.

>>15799195
Yes, it is not for plebs. Emacs is by its essence a patrician tool. A pleb would never be able to extract the best of it.

>>15799188
Never seen someone seethe quite this hard about emacs.

>>15799172
I don't get it. How does it spin? Where are the other seven? Does this one not include a midget?

>>15799210
I dont think you know what plebs mean. Books are superior to emacs, therefore patricitians use books. Plebs use the inferior form.

>>15799198
Yes, I don't use it for diagrams unless I want to share it online or with other people. The point is sharing and searching, anon. For making any type of bs pen and paper will always do. It is not like I don't have a pen and a block of paper right next to me atm either.

>>15799200
For ebooks, anon. Are your annotations searchable? Do you have your own personal recollection of thoughts with a search function? I guess the bookwheel is just shit. Paper books and annotations aren't that great.

>>15799215
Because I wish people told me that was easy to do with it sooner. So I wouldn't waste my time with the alternatives for normies.

>>15799247
Ah apologies, I meant to reply to the retard shitting his pants about emacs being a meme.

You are in fact a patrician gentleman and I salute you.

>>15799188
listen ill never not be impressed at those that can use emacs well just like ill never not be impressed at autistic savants that can split the atom in a backyard shed. more power to you really, but its efficiency is entirely spiritual

>>15799235
>Are your annotations searchable? Do you have your own personal recollection of thoughts with a search function?
Yes you retard, you spin it until you find what you're looking for. How are people this dumb even allowed on /lit/?

>>15799256
>Ah apologies, I meant to reply to the retard shitting his pants about emacs being a meme.
ah yes criticizing a 35 year old bloated notepad is "shitting my pants". no projection here my friend

>>15799270
>>15799271
Not for wheel plebs. Definitely.

>>15799235
>For ebooks, anon. Are your annotations searchable? Do you have your own personal recollection of thoughts with a search function? I guess the bookwheel is just shit. Paper books and annotations aren't that great.
Nigger if you actually read the book meaningfully you'll know where everything is in it and you can just flip open that page and see what you annotated there. You put 8 of those on a v8 diesel bookwheel and your in fucking business. Not my fault you're too retarded to absorb information. What the fuck is even the point of reading if you can't remember what you read?

They should have a niggerwheel, so you whip eight niggers at once

>install regularly spaced figurines on side of bookwheel
>when need to take a break from reading, turn head 90 degrees
>spin bookwheel until figurines animate into a zoetrope
who needs youtube?

>>15799354
Yes, I don't need this bullshit. Nor any fucking latrine.

>>15799346
>install my new b8 diesel bookwheel
>have to buy a drum of diesel and haul it into my house to fuel the bookwheel
>put 8 of my favorite books on the wheel
>read a page of Lolita and flip on the bookwheel
>wheel immediately begins rotating at a couple hundred rpm
>books fling off in ever direction breaking windows and hommel figurines
>tty to reach for switch but clothes get caught in the wheel and ripped off
>finally flip the off switch
>naked and room is destroyed
>great purchase 9/10

>>15799129
mind posting your configuration?

>>15799437
I've got an old fashioned manual sextuple wooden bookwheel. Been in the family for generations

>>15798241
>>15797665
>>15797618
>>15797625
I just go for a non-cog design. All magnets.

>>15797618
>reading
>gaining muscle with every turn of the wheel
If this isn't /fitlit/, I don't know what is

>>15799677
Be careful, my buddy crushed his hand in one of those

>>15798743
>he doesn't have a bookwheel-wheel

>>15799431
Holy based..

>>15798745
Don't you have parrots to pet, rms?

>>15797618
How the fuck would you explain this to someone? So absurd

>>15799830
He probably activated the book defense mechanism by accident.

>>15799349
fucking based

>>15799935
Nah he overloaded one of the bookholders. Put Infinite Jest on one and it overloaded the ballast causing a critical demagnetization of the stabilizer motors forcing the counterweight a foot too far past the carburetor crushing his hand between it and the nitrogen difusor.

>>15797618
actually the photo on the right was taken just before impact.

>>15797618
bich!

>>15797618
>>15799655
Just use a bigger table.

>>15797711
I have ADD and I'm fucking stupid
Should I off myself? How do I fix this?

>>15799431
>reading Lolita
>not already being naked

>>15797618
imagine being one of the seething roomlets in this thread who pretend this isn't based

where to buy the model that comes with qt asian book wench?

>have weighted pedal-powered bookwheel
>keep my whey on one of the shelves
Feels good being /fitlit/

>>15797638

>bookwheel got jammed again

>>15797618
That's amazing.

>doesn't have bookwheel 64

>>15797638
>It is well-known that an automaton once existed, which was so constructed that it could counter any move of a chess-player with a counter-move, and thereby assure itself of victory in the match. A puppet in Turkish attire, water-pipe in mouth, sat before the chessboard, which rested on a broad table. Through a system of mirrors, the illusion was created that this table was transparent from all sides. In truth, a hunchbacked dwarf who was a master chess-player sat inside, controlling the hands of the puppet with strings.

>>15801476
I do, but it's far from perfect. You have to blow on the cogs every once in a while, and if you don't keep your books perfectly level, everything starts spazing out.

>inviting your oneitis over and forgetting to put away your bookwheel

>>15801489
Sounds like you aren't checking your equalizing weights.

>>15801491
>IMG-20200707-WA0010
Where did you save that from, tourist?

>>15799235
>Are your annotations searchable? Do you have your own personal recollection of thoughts with a search function?
Yes I do. It's called a zettelkasten.

>>15801536
I'm not a faggot who renames my epic basedjak maymays

>>15798851

>>15797618
Where do I buy a bookwheel? Or will I have to build one?

>>15799220
The bookwheel is hidden safely inside the computer tower, hooked up to a scanner that displays the books on the computer screen

>>15801647
Making deals with wheels needs zeal and a real will of steel, while building feels more ideal and for further appeal can be a real steal.

>>15797650
>only has a bookwheel in one dedicated room
Poverty reader.

>>15801700
What if the little man who spins the wheel tries to escape?

>>15797618
is that the one by Libeskind?

>>15801308
Study hard and improve your memory, then go on to be chad.

>>15801485
Based dwarf, I guess they just start training them young for things like chess.

>>15799129
interesting but really ugly to look at

>>15801719
Too cool for school.

>>15801719
this gave me feels

>>15797665
I just spray some WD-40 in my cogs every few weeks, /o/ has some good maintenance tips.

>>15799431
based

>>15798799
Yes. This is a window into the days of what /lit/ used to be like

>>15797629
looks based to me

>he can only speedread one book
>he doesn't have a servant to spin the bookwheel so he can quickly absorb 8 texts at once with but a glance

>>15798706
cucked organization dependent reader

>>15798728
then you need to move it on more then one axis, and takes up more space. the wheel is the ultimate design.

>>15803596
>servant
Confirmed larper. Everyone who owns a bookwheel knows that it comes with a wheel dwarf included to spin the wheel for you.

>>15797665
>>15798241
>>15797625

you guys are just dumb slobs. its really not that hard to clean your cogs once in a while with some cog fluid and a duster. how do you dummies think clocks work for decades and centuries on ends?

>>15797625
nigga theyre big as fuck, shouldnt be that hard to clean right?

>>15798706
honestly I wouldn't be surprised if emacs came with a tabbed ereader at this point

>>15798745
I should have gone with an emacs book reader. I chose a vim one and I don't know the sequence for closing a book.

>>15805539
>I chose a vim one and I don't know the sequence for closing a book.

I know that feel.

>>15797618
the wheel escaped
my daughter is dead and it is rolling towards the duke's palace

>>15805586
Haha, the Duke's going to see all your bookwheel porn haha!

>>15805586
If you'd read the fucking instructions you would've known about the anti-femoid-literacy measures, retard

>>15806103
the instructions just keep spinning I can't read them!