/lit/ - Literature

Physical obviously, but I read digital 99% of the time

>>4310994
>HOW DO YOU TURN PAGES?
>try their damndest to break the fucking buttons off
>WOULD YOU BE MAD IS I LOST YOUR SPOT!? WHAT HAPPENS IF I DO... THIS!?
>hits page button fifty times
Everybody does this, after I have to explain that it isn't a touchscreen, which I have to physically demonstrate, because apparently my word alone isn't enough to convince them. So then this "EBOOKS ARE FOR PORN ADDICTS AND LOSERS" starts jamming the page button IN instead of DOWN so I finally panicked and bit the fucker in the hand. Which he didn't comment on and I only realized about 5 minutes later.

>>4311037

Same here.

>>4311056

Yup. I have one that is touch, but the damn fuckers always try sliding the pages instead of tapping to change page, press the screen really fucking hard and all sorts of retarded shit. Lesson learned after letting other people touch my electronics too many times: demonstrate by using the device yourself, never let their filthy hands of violation near it.

>>4311059
>>4311056


What kind of fucking weirdos do you guys hang out with? Christ.

I never got anything more than a "Cool,"or a "Why don't you just buy real books" from people I know, sometimes hardly know.

>bit the fucker in the hand. Which he didn't comment on and I only realized about 5 minutes later.

Jesus christ, try using words you fucking queer.

>>4311056
...what

>>4310994
Physical for scripture, digital for the rest.

Scripture meaning books I consider so important that I will probably keep rereading them throughout my life.

>>4311056

Are you and your friends twelve?

>>4311037
pretty much this since it's all free

>>4311240
>Jesus christ, try using words you fucking queer.
I get very excited. Articulating is actually a big problem I have, I have a hard time remembering words. Also he wouldn't give it back the first 4 times I asked.

>mfw we have people who post from the asylum

I like this.

physical but if it's really long or not available in my library, ebook

>>4311249
This completely. For me it's a KJV, a NIV and a pocket-sized new testament kjv bible to carry around absolutely everywhere, all Inherited, and I'm lucky enough to a dozen other translations at my pickings whenever as well.
All other physical books are just loans from friends to spice up using screens all the time.

>>4310994
Physical, maybe. I honestly just try to read a book I want to read in the quickest or most convenient way possible. Most of the time that's through the library, sometimes it's getting ebooks online.

>>4311280

I remember some guy who said he was in a mental hospital and he'd read Plato in Ancient Greek out loud, which made them think he was crazy. /lit/ for ya

>>4311301
It's easy as fuck to get people to think you're crazy. There's a surprisingly low threshold for it. I once heard that a guy was admitted into the psychoward because while getting a checkup, he chatted with a nurse about the french involvement in the american revolution or something.

>>4311319
>murrica

>>4311373
Right? It's liked the fucking 1800s over there, from what you here. I knew a lady who flew out of country just to be institutionalized there instead of in america.

>>4311274
I...is this autisim?

Have we finally found it?

>>4311379
Some people think so, my mother included, but whatever. It hasn't been diagnosed and I'm not asking.

>>4311391
>bux
what.

>>4311388
>not getting the bux

>>4311393
Autism bucks. Government money.

>>4311403
seriously? But I'm not in the sates, so, whatever.

>>4311411
Where are you at then?

>>4311417
Germany. And I already have a disabled card, so unless I suddenly lose a leg or two, I'm not going to get much more.

>>4311425
So you're already on delicious German welfare? That's a lot better than yankbux.

>>4310994
Why is that even a question? Who the fuck likes owning digital books better than physical ones?

>>4311429
Yes it is. UGH. I'm happy almost everyday anew that I got the fuck out of the states as soon as I could. Higher education? Free. Hospital treatments? Free. Beer? Not free, but delicious. But no pizza. And no burgers. sad face

>>4311429

Yeah, I wish I could be a damn European NEET. Consider yourself lucky.

>>4311445
People who don't feel like stashing 60.000 bundles of paper in their apartment.

>>4311450

They don't have pizza in germany? I mean, I'd imagine the kind they have isn't like the american kind but that's probably even better.

>>4311453
>tfw at the end of my first year of doing truly nothing at all
>tfw ataraxia

Feels amazing.

>>4311459
They do, but it's thin. It's good, but sometimes I just really, really miss a fat, gooey american pizza. Pizza Hut hardly cuts it.

I was about to buy a cheap e-book reader, like 30 euro or so, a few weeks ago. I didn't do it becouse I realized

- I've actually read full lenght books on my netbook without experiencing headaches
- Public libraries where you can find all the books you need exist
- Used book stores where you can find hidden gems for 1 euro exist

>>4311459
European pizza is mostly Italian style pizza. Not really junkfood.

>>4311469
Free health care and American diets don't mix m8

>>4311476
Wanting a decent slice of pizza once every six months isn't a diet, m8

>>4311485
Calling American food decent isn't a good thing, m8.

>>4311493
Americans have perfected fast food. There's no contest.

>>4311506
mid-eastern fast food can be pretty amazing.

>>4311056

Autistic?
>Check.
Gadget obsessed?
>Check.
Irrationally defensive?
>Check.
>Pedantic?
>Check.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the average ebook reader.

>>4311472

German pizza is pretty fat and American-ish when compared to the Italian ditto. I moved to Germany from Sweden, and I was surprised at how gooey and fatty the German pizzas are.

>>4311240

You'd be surprised at the kind of weirdos you run into as a travelling agent.

>>4311645
Where the hell do you get your pizza?

>>4311960

Achman's KEPAP and similar places...

>>4311599
>sweeping generalizations
>feelings of unfounded superiority
>blatant misuse of words
Helloooo /lit/.

>>4311965
Huh.

>>4311995

Basically the local pizzerias, ran by Ali and his cousins from Turkey.

>>4312001
No, I get that, I just never really experienced it as much thicker than the Italian pizza. Even "deep dish" pizzas are considerably thinner than the american pizzas. I actually think it has to do with the dough in Germany, not sure which part, but I've tried to make my father's cookies, for example, and it was fucked. My mother has told me about similar experiences while trying to bake bread.

>>4312018

Huh, how could the dough be any different? Doesn't everyone make their own dough?

I like buying newer books on ebooks because I don't want to pay $30-$40 on a paperback. This is especially important if it is really long and I might not be able to read it from the library (recently bought The Son). I mostly read digital when I'm traveling or when I only have the book in digital format. I use the kindle app on my phone which works well, but if I hold my phone for too long my hand gets cramped.

I prefer physical but I own a Kindle Paperwhite as well (inb4 mad). There are many books I can't find in my country, or require a special order; and Amazon is getting harder to use here. E-books are free and relatively easy to find. Archive.org is an incredible source of public-domain books. I'm currently reading Eliseé Reclus' work, which I downloaded from there.

In the end, I wish I could find and afford everything in paper but in my current state that is not possible.

>>4312021
Yeah, but it has to with the ingredients of the dough. the flour or the yeast or whatever else goes into dough. The standardized ingredients would be different in America and Europe.

>>4312040

Hmm, perhaps. Guess the secret fat-powder isn't being used in Europe yet...

>>4312048

salt?

>>4312048
Haha! Look, it's not the foods fault that people don't know what the fuck self control is. You can get fat off of anything.

>>4312059

Nah, we have plenty of that.

>>4312063

Are Europeans so much more self-controlled than Americans?

>>4312081

2much ordnung

>>4312081
>Are Europeans so much more self-controlled than Americans?
yeah, I mean, no, but it's a cultural and societal thing. America all about consumerism. More so than anywhere else, America has by far, more products on the market than anywhere else. A Walmart is easily 3 times the size of a big supermarket here where I live. And the number of fast food restaurants? Fuckin, I don't know. A lot. It's all about pleasure and instant gratification. It's an overabundance of everything really. People are getting fatter all over the world, but I think in America it's the only place where "too much" is something to take pride in, at least to that degree.

>>4312114
Obesity rates here are almost entirely due to subsidized gmo/ugly processed foods being the cheapest and most readily available, together with the myths about fat/cholesterol/meat ect. HFC's are in almost everything. Eurofags are lucky to have GMO's subject to labeling.

>>4312126
gmo's aren't inherently bad

so many myths

>>4312126
Humans have been genetically altering food for thousands of years. Same story with dogs.

If processed HFC foods are "fatty" consider it a penalty for being so lazy you can't make your own food.

>>4312048
corn
it's always corn

I guess Europeans are also a lot meaner to fatties. Which is good.

>>4311286
this, with the exception of it being nightime (paperwhite) and since I already have 300,000 books downloaded I will use my ebook

>>4312126
Australia has obesity rates approaching murika but HFC's aren't used in food

I tend towards physical books almost entirely. The only exceptions are public domain works that don't have any good current publications (And I get so pissed off by those shitty companies that do crap reprints on demand).

The other case is for textbooks that I feel are too expensive to be justified.

Otherwise basically have everything in physical form.

Am I the only one here who isn't NEET, crippled, and autistic? What the fuck.

>>4312348

I don't think I am. I just read books for fun and I work and live a life filled with friendship and shit.

I tried reading a book with an e-reader once and I didn't enjoy it.

>>4312308
England is fat as fuck as well. Anglo culture is poisonous.

For me, getting a physical copy of a book entices me to read it. If I download a free digital copy, I may never get around to it or just forget about it. If I see my physical copy laying around, I'll feel obligated to read it.

>>4312348
Pleb detected.

>>4312382
Mexico is up there, too.

>>4312395
So you have to force yourself to read books? In that case you might as well just try to lie efficiently about being a reader if that's what you care about.

>>4312400
The fat will trickle down, they said

>>4312348
normalfag please go