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Which should I read first?

>> No.12478909
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12478909

>physical books

>> No.12478912

>>12478909
Up to 30% more retention. Screens are a meme.

>> No.12478918

>>12478906
Pale Fire is pretty based.

>> No.12478921

>paper books

Why is rampant consumerism and hoarding okay.

>> No.12478925

>>12478906
my vote is lolita

>> No.12478936

Pale fire honestly sucks.

>> No.12478938

Read them all simultaneously.

>> No.12478956

>>12478906
I approve of the physical copies but
>penguin classics
Come on anon, you can do better.
Lolita has my vote, though

>> No.12478957

Lolita

>> No.12478976

>>12478912
Study?

>> No.12478999

>>12478936
Fucking pleb.

>> No.12479004

>>12478906
pale fire

>> No.12479023

>>12478925
My vole is Tolita

>> No.12479033

>>12478906
Roadside Picnic because if you read it after the others the prose will be all kinds of disappointment

>> No.12479059

>>12479033
This is wise desu

>> No.12479074

>>12479033
Noted. I was disappointed with the "tell, don't show" style of Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", so maybe I'll save the Nobokovs for last.

>> No.12479083

>>12478906
whats /lit/s general opinion on roadside picnic?

>> No.12479137

>>12479083
I had the feeling the translation was letting it down, although I'm in no position to judge the original. Had a sort of forced hard-boiled style.

Great ending, though. Worth struggling a bit through earlier parts to get there.

>> No.12479146

>>12478912
>muh paper
try e-ink you dimwit

>> No.12479148

>>12479083
You should watch the movie "stalker"

>> No.12479225

>>12478921
You know that you're still consuming if you steal digital works, right? Still hoarding too (just smaller bits). And how are you going to use digital books if you didn't pay the toll to use the internet from a home PC? Do you imagine then that the anon in question has less space and money than is needed to purchase and store books? If so, you should mind your own business; it's more stoic that way.

>> No.12480180
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12480180

>Buying an e-reader
>Supporting the e-reader industry
>Libraries limited to certain number of check-outs
>Library licenses expire after a certain number of check-outs
>Can't just let library customers borrow unlimited digital copies at a time

>> No.12480215

>>12478906
skip Nabokov, he's just a meme.

>> No.12480348

>>12478936
b8

>> No.12480615

>>12478956
I just got the cheapest I could find. What's wrong with that publisher?

>> No.12480637

>>12478909
>>12478921
kys

>> No.12480645

>>12479148
And also play the game and also watch Made in Abyss ^_^

>> No.12481435

>>12480615
Nothing, it's just morons who can't handle books with care that think they're flimsy for some reason.

>> No.12481728

>>12478906
Lolita is fun, I like it almost as much as I like Laughter in the Dark.