/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18495993]

>Search for book
>Amazon wants me to buy the book for $20
>Search for "[book] pdf"
>download for free

[Anonymous No.18495996]

>>18495993
Fuck you you evil piece of shit. I hope you get into a car crash on your way to work and your brains get splattered all over your windshield. I would fucking kill you irl you little bitch

[Anonymous No.18495998]

>>18495993
You ever buy books? Only the good shit.

[Anonymous No.18496000]

>>18495993
Use libgen.is

[Anonymous No.18496012]

>>18496000
>>18495998
>>18495996
>>18495993
Just go to the library you autists

[Anonymous No.18496013]

>>18495993
Enjoy hell. People like you are literarilly murderers. By pirating you are saying you are okay with authors starving.

[Anonymous No.18496020]

>>18496012
There's no library in Australia (the world?) as comprehensive as that website.

[Anonymous No.18496029]

>>18495993
>search up [book] audiobook on YouTube
>listen to it while I play eu4
Reading is for nerds anyway.

[Anonymous No.18496033]

>>18496013
if they wanted to eat theyd get a real job instead of writing make believe stories.

[Anonymous No.18496040]

>>18496033
fuck you cuntcrab, you're just jealous authors can make more money than your wage slave job

[Anonymous No.18496045]

>>18495993
Reading on the computer is too distracting for me. I have to buy physical books and turn off my computer when I'm reading them.

[Anonymous No.18496049]

>>18496013
And if the author is long dead?

[Anonymous No.18496053]

>>18496013
>By pirating you are saying you are okay with authors starving.
This does not follow.

[Anonymous No.18496058]

>>18496020
Yes but on the way to library you can walk and get in some exercise, fresh air, meet people, and generally just get out of the house. Usually if you talk to the librarian they'll give you information about whether they have the book, might order them, or nearby libraries that have it. If you are too awkward to talk to the person, then some county library systems has a combined search system here in the UK. I wouldn't use libgen just because reading is the best way I find to get away from a screen for long periods of time where you have nothing else to. A physical book is essential for that, and also I think the general feel of it is more pleasing. I recognise the argument about comprehensiveness, but the library is also a pleasing way to find books you never would have read otherwise.

[Anonymous No.18496059]

>>18496040
If they make so much money why should I give up my wageslave bucks? No matter your answer I’ll still use the library and whatever they don’t have I’ll pirate

[Anonymous No.18496061]

>>18495993
>consooom copious amount of pirated pdfs, epubs, audiobooks
>only the favorites of the favorites get the honor of being purchased and added to "The Shelf"

[Anonymous No.18496118]

>>18496020
I'm pretty sure you can request a book from the library and they'll buy it. At least where I am.

[Anonymous No.18496120]

>>18495996
>>18496013
I personally go out of my way to buy ebooks so that I can easily upload them to libgen
There's no reason a digital book should cost as much as a physical one, so the publishing houses can suffer for their greed

[Anonymous No.18496163]

>>18496120
>There's no reason a digital book should cost as much as a physical one
name one publisher that does this

[Anonymous No.18496182]

>>18496163
You can't find an ebook that costs as much as a physical book? There's plenty of $20+ ebooks on Amazon, anon

[Anonymous No.18496267]

>>18496182
>There's plenty of $20+ ebooks on Amazon, anon
Yeah, and the corresponding physical book invariably costs more than that.

[Anonymous No.18496370]

>>18496045
this, reading on the phone is also a distraction, reading on a device doesn't match reading a physical book.