/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15246684]

Y’know, a cool chart someone should make is one with all practical skills like:
>learning (deep work, make it stick, how to read a book)
>art (drawing on the right side of the brain and loomis)
>camping/survival
>cooking
>nature identification
>woodworking
>music theory/instrument
>sports (starting strength/illustrated rules to football)

Growing up I always enjoyed the picture books that explained skills, the most recent one A friend got me Was The Art of Manliness. What good books have you read on practical skills?

[Anonymous No.15246788]

>>15246684
>cooking
Flour Water Salt Yeast
The Essentials of Italian cooking (Hazan)
Mastering the Art of French cooking
The Joy of Cooking
Modernist Cuisine

[Anonymous No.15246797]

>>15246684
>learning
The Intelligent Investor is a good one for stock trading

[Anonymous No.15246800]

>>15246788
And who could forget The Joye of Snacks

[Anonymous No.15246853]

>>15246684
im currently reading a book on how to build a house. i hope to build my own house one day

[Anonymous No.15246861]

>>15246684
Gaia's garden is great for permaculture. It's not traditonal gardening but it's a fun world to experiment in.

[Anonymous No.15246892]

>>15246788
I’ve heard of some of those from Internet personalities. Good to know theyre /lit/ approved. I made pizza dough the other night. Fuckin’ based.
>>15246797
Does it cover basics?
>>15246853
Are you really gonna post about something that cool and not tell us what book it is?
>>15246861
Could you be more specific? So is it for how to have a small interesting eccentric home garden or more the science behind it?

[Anonymous No.15247013]

>>15246892
>Does it cover basics?
Yes

[Anonymous No.15247085]

>>15246892

[Anonymous No.15247526]

ah cmon thread dont die

[Anonymous No.15247541]

>>15247526
No one reads books here, let alone books about being productive at something. Posters here are so good at shitposting instead they wouldn’t be able to write a guide on how to shitpost because it comes so second nature to them.

[Anonymous No.15247792]

>>15246684
>Music Theory
Arnold Schoenberg’s books on Harmony, Rudiments and Contrapoint

[Anonymous No.15247848]

>>15246684
This one is great for basic homesteading skills and they recommend more books on each skill.

[Anonymous No.15249062]

>>15247848
>homesteading skills
like what? will it teach me how to live completely off the grid?

[Anonymous No.15250237]

>>15249062
Pretty much, it goes over the basics of building and maintaining a house, gardening, preserving food, butchering meat, raising livestock, making soap.

[Anonymous No.15250325]

>>15246684
DIY you lazy bastard

[Anonymous No.15250584]

>>15246797
The Intelligent Investor is almost completely irrelevant for modern stock and bond investment. The theory is solid, but the practical advice is just obsolete and all informative value comes from the follow-up chapters that reapply Graham's model to the particulars of the modern market.

[Anonymous No.15250587]

[Anonymous No.15250592]

I'm working on assembling some key literature for the practical sciences constituent to the Virtruvian architectural theory.

[Anonymous No.15250795]

>>15250587
>ywn make something beautiful out of wood
why god

[Anonymous No.15250805]

>>15250795
Why not? Are you a paraplegic?

[Anonymous No.15250807]

not sure if its relevant but heres a good book on electromagnetism

[Anonymous No.15250816]

>>15250807
a good book on electromagnetism is always relevant anon

[Anonymous No.15250818]

>>15250805
i could never create something beautiful

[Anonymous No.15250828]

>>15250587
what order do i read these in?

[Anonymous No.15250834]

i have a pdf on vulkan if thats something that fits

[Anonymous No.15250911]

>>15250828
Idk. I'm not a carpenter.

[Anonymous No.15250953]

>>15250911
someone needs to /lit/-ify that pic

[Anonymous No.15251161]

>>15250807
Do I need to know classical mechanics?

[Anonymous No.15251211]

>>15251161
nope
it even has its first chapters covering vector algebra, vector calculus, and linear algebra
but youre probably gonna want to know at least a little calculus going in

[Anonymous No.15251228]

>>15246797
The book is about value investing, not trading.

[Anonymous No.15251426]

Finally a good thread.

[Anonymous No.15251459]

I'm going to share the two best books on painting that there are out there.

The first one is Alla Prima II, by Richard Schmid. It gives an insight on the process of painting, from the very basic theorical knowledge to how to create a palette (and why), how to mix colors, and detailed explanations on the materials.

This style of painting (wet in wet) is very popular in american realist painters like Mann and Lipking, and upon study I'm pretty sure it's the one used by impressionists, or Sargent, Goya and the like.

[Anonymous No.15251489]

>>15251459
You know what, the other book is pretty bad compared to this one. Scratch that. Pick this one up (a pdf is going around I think). Will greatly change the way you perceive drawings and art.

[Anonymous No.15251527]

libgen has most of these. Thank's guys!

[Anonymous No.15252545]

bump

[Anonymous No.15254075]

how do i make my own water supply? do i have to pump it from a lake somewhere?

[Anonymous No.15254638]

>>15254075
Have a well dug, that's what rural people have instead of city water. You can also set up rain barrels, but you'll have to filter those or just use them for non drinking water. They're expensive, but you can get well pumps that are both electric and manual, so you can get water without power but have the convenience of electric when you do.

[Anonymous No.15254820]

>>15254638
is well water clean? you dont have to filter it?

[Anonymous No.15255751]

>>15254820
Typically you don't need to filter it, because it's filtered through rock naturally, but that all depends on where you are. It needs to be tested to make sure the groundwater isn't contaminated and you might have to treat it if it's hard water, which is not dangerous but rough on the pipes. A lot of this depends on where you are in the world.

[Anonymous No.15255893]

>>15255751
>>15254820
Also that is something you'll want a professional to do. They have equipment to do it safely and quickly and will know about the water in your area. Wells and septic tanks should be done by professionals. I lived in a house with a DIY septic tank and is not something I want to have ever again.
>>15246684
To stay on the topic of books on specific skills this one is will show you everything you need to know about western leather braiding with instructional diagrams. You can make your own belts, whips, buttons and horse tack.

[Anonymous No.15257138]

>>15247848
Foxfire series

[Anonymous No.15258244]

>>15255893
why cant i do it myself? im a smart dude