/lit/ - Literature

>>20848150
Agreed. Booktubers sicken me because all the books they waste money on they could get from the library for free. I always take a book from the library and if I really like it I may buy it

Shitposting on /lit/>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>everything else

>>20848150
I pirate ebooks from my library :)

>>20848150
what about stolen books

>>20848150
Once I finish reading my new book it becomes used, Chud.

Libraries don't have what I want so it's pirated ebooks all day.

>>20849794
What about books you stole from people you murdered?

aw sweet! anime pornographic material fuck yyeah

>>20850160
Anime website

>>20850173
oho you betcha. that's why im here, for the sweet anime toes

>>20848150
Shimmers are so hot bros

>>20848150
I once payed for a ebook copy of Doug Stanhope's "Digging Up Mother" by accident on itunes, because I had a gift card and thought it was an audiobook.

Turns out it was an ebook.

No biggie, I tell myself. I'll just read the ebook - it'll be a little less fun without Stanhope's intonations and mannerisms, but still worth it.

Then I find out - it refuses to let me read it on my computer. I am only permitted to open the itunes ebook on Apple products.

I just spent money on a book I'm not permitted to read, until I buy their expensive electronics.

Never again. Deleted my account the very next day out of rage - went back to pirating everything I use.

>>20848150
>paying for ebook

I find it hard to find free ebooks in languages that aren’t English

>>20848150
>reverse search the op pic
>mfw
As an avid anti-weeb, I can't believe this website convinced me to unironically read a manga

>>20848150
Nobody cares

>>20848150
I get all the classics from a public library and rare obscure books as pirated PDFs from z-lib.

>>20851421
I LOVE YOU for this tip, I didn't know about that, 30$ book was on my reading list, and now I have it free thanks a lot <333

>>20852650
if you're trying to sound like a redditor, congratulations anon

>>20848150
I buy physical books online because they aren't available in most libraries and I want to start a collection to pass down to my children. However, I only buy books that I believe to be very important and sometimes even life-changing. Other than that I pirate ebooks off Libgen.

>>20852793
>pic related
ignore the meme books

>>20852769
not being a dick makes me sound like a Redditor? ay, that's crazy

>>20849867
+1
my only physical books are used spy & sci-fi pulp with a few coffee table books I try to keep pristine

>>20850144
What about books you made from people who stole your books?

>>20850176
kinky

>>20851248
based half-based anon

>>20852805
Tell me more about the Vril book. I remember seeing that blonde angel and thinking I want to be a nazi

>>20848150
It's depressing, for one who can't draw, how much more potent images are than words. (And music mogs pictures as hard as pictures mog language.)

Yomu is just some random pop-culture nobody and he can create a better girl than almost any author alive.

Truly literature is the homeless bum of art forms :(

>>20848150
>new book from physical store > new book from online store
This part is stupid, it's the same commodity book in both cases

>>20850856
This is sadly true, I can't find any free ebooks in my native language besides one public domain project

>>20853072
What language?

>>20852805
What is the premise of the New Nobility of Blood and Soil?

>>20853138
Hebrew

>>20853002
seconding this
let's make this thread go somewhere

>>20853322
The fun fact is that I don't buy into any metaphysical shit, occult, etc at all, let alone the nazi one.

BUT I have thing for witchy/elf/fairy/neopagan women, especially if blonde

I remember reading that the Vril girls had long hair because it supposedly worked as "antennae for cosmic energy" (don't ask me why one has short hair though)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsgO5OTUsRU

Its true, Its true, there lay no lies (sway*, sway)
In the old native language (sway, sway)3
During summer solstice night the girls become
Witches and werewolves

Summer solstice, Summer solstice is tonight
Who does summer solstice belong to?
Witches and werewolves
summer solstice belongs to them

The witch ran through the air ...
Not in my backyard
My yard is forged with iron
Needles on my roof

Needles on my roof
Caught up in the rafters
Needles stabbed
Rafters cut

The river flowed like buttermilk
In my cows' pasture
There the hunter broke its neck
and stood nine witches,
Drowning was the woodlands fae**
Without the sun in the evening.

>>20848150
I do all of them except paying for ebooks

>>20849867
Check to see if your library has interlibrary loan. The only time I couldn't get something was when there wasn't a copy in my country.

>>20853547
Wow, interlibrary loan work within countries where you are? I think mine works between nearby towns, more or less.

>>20853171
It pretty much justifies ethno-nationalism on the basis that the blood shed from war along with the history of agriculture on a particular land determines who it belongs to (it's been a while I might be wrong).
>pic related
>>20853002
>>20853322
All I can say is watch Robert Sepher on YouTube. The book is pretty much a compilation of all he has said regarding Vril (like chi but racist).

>>20848150
>The most important thing to discuss about art is the means to procure it

For a board that ritually performs hatred of postmodernism, this place sure is postmodern

>>20850173
literature board

>>20853021
each medium has its strengths and weaknesses. As long as you dont restrict yourself to one or ignore another you can hope to simulate a part of the human experience that was thus far escaping you.

>>20850856
well with my native languages being greek and albanian ofc i cant find any book in those but now that im learning french i can find in z-lib any book i desire in translation or original french.From what i've seen i expect the same for italian german , spanish, portueguese.Just for fun i searched and found infinite jest in both german and brazilian portueguese easily

>>20854128
Don't you understand some Italian? I thought it was common to watch italian tv back then

>>20853623
Mine has two levels, one is provincewide but if they can't find it, they'll look further afield. Usually whatever I'm looking for is held by some university or other.

>>20850173
There are several boards for anime, including hentai. This is a literature board. Anime unironically was a mistake.

>>20854239
I'm quite sure most universities around me
1)Will not lend books to non-student (unless a professor guarantees for you
2)They won't lend you just anything you might want, there's stuff they just don't give around. If you want to read it, you go there, and probably sign some papers or something.

Good for you though

>>20848150
I was only able to get this online

Where does paying a subscription to access the Kindle Prime library fit into this?

>>20854364
You'd be surprised, a lot of universities have arrangements with public libraries.

In my little rural village, at one of the bus stop, we have a little book shack where people can deposit books they don't want anymore, and anyone can take them, or put new books, exchange them etc.
Surprisingly, it's pretty intact, hasn't been vandalized and is filled with books.
So I casually put a Mein Kampf or two in there.

>>20855155
It's called "The Little Free Library" in the States and you can find boxes of books in neighborhoods that aren't completely fucked over by diversity.

>>20848150
Sounds logical.

>>20855201
The concept is unironic peak national socialist soul.

>>20852805
Harassment Architecture; what is it about?

>>20848150
Public libraries are rarely going to be helpful for books, it's better to just go straight to the next step. First off, you're basically giving up your choice of selection to bureaucrats, who have farmed out the task to women majoring in liberal arts. That's a big red flag as-is, and selection will tend to lean to woke garbage. Your favorite authors will be poorly represented in the system, if at all. If there is something in the system that you desire, no matter the size of the library, your local branch will rarely have the titles that you're looking for. Finally, the library is unreliable on keeping stock, especially if it's an older copy, either it gets lost or defaced, or its simply shoved out of the way for newer books.

>>20854364
At least at my university alumni can check out books, though they can't request interlibrary loans.

>>20848150
>public library
But then I have to go someplace with "people" and the thought of that leaves me panic stricken. I'll stick to pirating ebooks and scanned books.

>>20848150
What about hand-made copies you make yourself?

>>20855658
Does someone remember little books anon?

>>20856016
Little books? What are those and what do they have to do with that?

Personal library > private library > * (what OP said)

>>20850748
It's a problem when you want to read some small-time books that aren't uploaded anywhere.

>>20854168
Yeah it might still be the case that albanians know some italian but i grew up solely in greece so i dont know,And that would be the case for older people,zoomers only learn english. would still love to learn the language later on though

>>20855232
Schizophrenic ramblings blended with 4chan humor

All the books worth reading are already public domain anyways, just download them.

>>20848150
>new book from physical store > new book from online store
I fell for the "hurr durr I won't be giving money to Bezos" meme for a short time. I tried buying exclusively from "physical stores" but regardless of the size of the store, it will be almost all crime and romance crap, some children books and somewhere, hidden in the back, one obscure shelf with classics and another one next to it with modern non-fiction. Yes, regardless of the size of the store, meaning that if the store is larger, it only means more crime and romance. In the non-fiction shelf there is aboslutely never anything that's not extremely left-wing activist shit. One time there was a display in front of the non-fiction shelf proudly displaying gems like "I hate all men" and "Why I don't talk with white people", at which point I said fuck it, went home, and renewed my amazon subscription. I'd rather pay bezos then the trannies with useless degrees working at those bookstores.
>but.. le hecking based independent bookstores!
It only gets worse, add "anti-capitalist" to the ideological list.

>>20853925
On an anime website

>>20857112
>In the non-fiction shelf there is aboslutely never anything that's not extremely left-wing activist shit.
Yeah I can imagine, kek. Greta Thunberg, I guess?

>>20856910
What if I'm LGBT and want to read books with positive depictions of people like me?

>>20857112
Try used bookstores. It's amazing what you'll find there.

>>20858222
Read Shinsekai Yori. Main heroine is bi, but the author doesn't cram degeneracy down your throat.

>>20848150
It sounds like you're prioritizing on not spending money, why is that?

>>20858926
What's the plot about?
>>20858933
Maybe they're poor.

>>20853406
>The fun fact is that I don't buy into any metaphysical shit, occult, etc at all, let alone the nazi one.

>BUT I have thing for witchy/elf/fairy/neopagan women, especially if blonde

>>20858222
>books with positive depictions of people like me
Really, what's the point?
What is "positive depiction" anyway?

>>20859067
As in not depicted as a monster or a freak or inherently immoral or doomed?

>>20848150
don't care. i will continue to buy physical books and they will continue to occupy large amounts of space.

>>20858971
This is my granda's Wehrpass with his pipe rest
What about yours?
Fucking meme posters...

>>20859080
>inherently immoral
many thinkers will tell you that every human is a sinner in the first place
>doomed
we're all doomed anyway
>monster or a freak
Have you watched GoT? Many people treat Tyrion like a monster, he's shown fucking bitches, getting drunk, being the haughty asshole from a rich family. He is smart, can be generous and good hearted.
So, again, what is a "positive depiction"? Nobody really deserves a "positive" (as in "flawless") depiction, at best you deserve an honest one. But that could also mean "Protagonist rescues little puppies, likes urine, he's mentally retarded and easily forgives wrongs done to him. He also broke one homeless girl arm, once, because someone had laced his drink and he had just broke up with his bf"

>>20859132
Basically, a realistic depiction, but one that doesn't treat homosexuality (or transsexuality as the case may be) as, itself, a flaw.

>>20852990
>>20852996
>>20852999
frog website

>>20848191
Sounds really dumb.