/lit/ - Literature

>>3205701

More than half.

>>3205691
Yes, but I have a more interesting question:

How many of the people who highlighted the Jane Austen quote do you think believe it sincerely (as opposed to ironically)?

>>3205691
>mfw 19/25 of Amazon's most popular books are from the Hunger Games trilogy.
>from the Hunger Games trilogy.
>trilogy

"Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them."

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects."
This one isn't half bad. Hah!

No because it's anonymous, you fucking retard.

By your logic the results that come up on Google are an invasion of privacy.

Fuck off back to reddit.

‘Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.’” - Steve Jobs
My sides!!!!

so Hunger Games is only book people are reading?

>>3205691
At least #19 has something of worth to say:
>I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

>>3205712

You're very out of touch if that shocks you

>>3205718
And #31:
>life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent

"People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need."

I can imagine all the housewives furiously highlighting that passage.

>>3205725
And #38:
>Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct. I need to be loved by someone who chooses to love me, who sees in me something worth loving.

>>3205729
And #47:
>Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

That's it. Four quotes out of all 50 are of any worth. Kindle users!

Does amazon know if you have pirated books on the kindle?

>>3205740
Yes, in fact accepting the End User License grants Amazon LLC permission to perform daily searches of your rectal cavity in search of stolen books.

>>3205729
>to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct. I need to be loved by someone who chooses to love me, who sees in me something worth loving.

but that's wrong, because love like that is inherently selfish. they only love you because you have proven to them that it is advantageous for them to love you. what people truly want is UNCONDITIONAL love.

>>3205847
I disagree with that. People get bored with unconditional love. What people want is someone who approves of THEM, THEIR choices, THEIR actions. If someone loves me as much as they love an obese, 35-year-old who lives with their mother and has never had sex... I'd have a problem with that. You have to make me feel special.

I like to stick it to the man by not filling out census.

I'm shocked kindles and ebooks in general actually make money

>>3205915
>allegory

well do u want to read a book off the computer or a laptop? kindle provide convenience yea?

>>3205868

you're one of like 3 other people I've ever 'met' that has figured this out. Congrats!

I didn't realize the Hunger Games were so very popular. You have to get to 16 before to anything that isn't them or P&P. Rather alarming.

You know what's an invasion of privacy? I made a one-time fake FB account few years ago with throwaway mail and fake personal data. I even took an effort to enable all the privacy settings. To this day, when I stumble upon that mailbox I see FB messages showing me invites from people I know.

Thats creepy as motherfucker

not to mention NSA saving Internet communications wholesale

>>3205743
So Amazon may know about pirated e-texts on users' Kindles, but they don't do anything?

>buy DRM
>complain about privacy

>>3205976
>tfw kindle without 3G and wifi always off with 500 GB encrypted external drive

>>3205725
Wow, how original and profound.

>>3205979

I have 3000 retail books on my kindle. I've never bought one.

>>3205709
You are correct, but the fact that you told him to go to Reddit makes your entire point look like a joke.

>>3205983

>not owning an encrypted seedbox
>bragging about an external drive

>>3205993
>having anything in the cloud
>not knowing the power of the NSA
>taking Internet access for granted
>not knowing the feel of carrying 120K books in your palm

>>3205998

>thinking having encrypted shit on your person in a physical box is actually more sensible
>thinking I don't have an e-reader
>ignoring the fact that physical books are still superior anyway
>implying implications

>>3206003
>pirated physical books

don't want to start new thread so,
is it worth buying kindle fire over kindle paperwhite? the difference is 25$

>>3206005
10/10

>>3206005

>>3206003
>thinking encryption is not sensible
>not knowing about hidden partitions

>>3206006
>>3206007
oh come on, i'm serious here

>>3206011

Kindle Fire isn't e-ink. You try reading on it you'll get burny eyes and a headache within two hours.

E-ink technology is literally like reading a laminated newspaper. Much nicer, and as a bonus it's cheaper. If you want a tablet PC get a damn iPad or whatever.

1/10 made me reply.

>>3206010

>thinking encryption is not sensible

reading comprehension, you fail at it

>>3206013
thanks for the reply, i did not know fire isn't e-ink
paperwhite it is then

>>3206024

Sure. I always reply just in case the person is merely ignorant instead of blatantly trolling.

i never understood the "highlighting" thing on kindle at all

whats it for

>>3206031

Your highlights and notes get backed up to a text file which you can access from your PC.

Ease of later access, basically.

>>3206013
I have a tablet that I read on for hours with no problem just saying

>>3206042

Congratulations. You're part of a small number of people whose eyes are capable of staring into bright light for hours on end with no ill side effects.

>>3205934
See, and now I like you just a little more, anon, because you managed to make me feel special.

>>3205711
At least he knew what he was doing. This is kind of like that Hitler quote about people not thinking and it being a blessing for people in power.

>>3205998
>not knowing the power of the NSA

>>3205691
Kindle users have shit taste.

>>3205934
Being unconditionally loved, though, entitles one to freedom of choice past the belonging point of 'needs-hierarchy'. Without, one is only free in loneliness, which in effect is actually true all the time, but people never want to feel as if it's true.

it's funny that the first line of a Jane Austen novel is the second most highlighted thing.

>>3205707
Oscar Wilde is pop culture now.

>>3206250
>implying NSA can access my external encrypted drive with hidden partition when I live in Europe

>>3206038
all these people have backup text files of Hunger Game quotes

oh my god

>>3206278
>not understanding what irony is

>>3206307
>2013
>Still think it's 2012

>>3206307
>failing at pointing out any irony at all
>claming Internet victory points
>not knowing how sage works

Awful lot of Hunger Games on that list.

Honestly, between the DRM, EULA assrape and amazon's general cuntishness when it comes to ebooks, I would rather just read them on my phone using any one of the hundreds of apps available.

Hell I buy the paperbacks of authors I like from an actual bookstore and pirate the ebook to read it so the book wont get damaged being carried around. Why would I carry around yet another device to fill my bad and/or get damaged.

Only ~30/100 are Hunger Games.
Not bad. Could be worse.

>>3206004
You could make gross misuse of a libraries photocopier?

>Those hunger game quotes
That's it. I'm done.

>>3205691
>invasion of privacy

whatisthisidonteven.jpg

"Most popular" should be read as "Most shared", so I hardly see how sharing something publicly (on your social networks) is an invasion of privacy... I mean, it's not as if Amazon was hacking your device to check what passages you've been highlighting.

>>3207071

>very month, Kindle customers highlight millions of book passages that are meaningful to them.

We combine the highlights of all Kindle customers and identify the passages with the most highlights. The resulting Popular Highlights help readers to focus on passages that are meaningful to the greatest number of people.

If you sync, it uses it.

The Hunger Games wasn't even good. The last book crossed the line from below-average to completely absurd. In any case, I'm almost positive that can't be really accurate. If they included all versions of the Bible, I imagine the first hundred pages would all be passages from it.

>>3207080
oh, that sucks.

>>3207080
That's great! I'm going to highlight unsettling things.
I don't know why, but I get this weird kick from the idea that someone has to sit there and sift through all my weird google searches, all these nasty things... Sure, I bet it's all automated now, but let me pretend.