Is nonfiction illegal?

[Anonymous No.19575009]

Why the fuck is it so hard to find decent credible nonfiction that isn't either made for seniors or toddlers? Is it illegal? Seriously am I breaking some law by learning without paying for college NFT information coins or whatever the fuck it is now??
i feel like all the reference books in my local libraries are same ones from the 90s, but we have every memoir from heroin addicted celebrities!!1 :o
help me someone please

[Anonymous No.19575015]

why don't he want me man??

[Anonymous No.19575018]

>>19575009
Well has much changed since 1990 that would require a book?

[Anonymous No.19575039]

>>19575015
It's HOW COME he don't want me, man.

I see the multidimensional leftist microchips have already begun to erase our memories of timeless early '90s sitcoms.

[Anonymous No.19575048]

>>19575018
i would assume the discovery of at least 1000 new plant and aninal species, yes. Military history too. Lots more has been happening other than boomers writing their fucking fantasy essays for a living.

[Anonymous No.19575056]

>>19575009
libraries near me are just creches for toddlers and computers for the unemployed, no one uses public libraries for books anymore. I worked in a couple on a rota fora few years years as local gov customer service and hardly ever saw anyone take any out. What they do have is just romance novels, YA fiction and like 4 books on any nonfiction topic except history that has 50 books all based on WW2

[Anonymous No.19575057]

>>19575048
The first two change way too frequently to warrant being recorded in book form. We have online references that way more useful. I agree on history though, I feel simply keeping track of the years would make a good book in a few decades, but the issue is events seem to merge and fade out at such a rate that recording them becomes interesting

[Anonymous No.19575063]

>>19575056
My state library is: aboriginals fighting on the bottom floor, a daycare and cafe on the second, Africans talking on their phone on the third floor and the archives on the fourth. My city library is a single floor with kids events always going on and a garbage library of books (mainly ya and cooking books)

[Anonymous No.19575077]

>>19575009
>public library
>not pirating academic books and articles which cost literal hundreds otherwise
NGMI. nigga you have the chance to live in an age where 99% of human knowledge is available at your fingertips for FREE. get yourself an ereader if you haven't already.

[Anonymous No.19575081]

>>19575063
>>19575056
K well I dont live in harlem thanks.
>>19575057
bullshit we deserve nonfiction at least every 5 or 10 years

you people are all neglectingnOP pic related too go look at any ebook store you cant get handbooks, nothing on any scientific expectation, best you can get is some boomers detailed vacation to some country youve never heard of

[Anonymous No.19575083]

>>19575077
>stealing school supplies
nigger who? nigger YOU. im talking about reading for fun and im not some communist faggot i pay for things I like thanks.

[Anonymous No.19575084]

>>19575056
>>19575063
Tfw want to become librarian

[Anonymous No.19575087]

>>19575081
fucking phone keyboard *scientific experimentation

[Anonymous No.19575093]

look at this shit
all of these look like something some boomer shat out in there second year of retirement

[Anonymous No.19575096]

>>19575093
>dean jobb
some harvard art teachers pet project

[Anonymous No.19575101]

>>19575093
>scott anderson
thats the fucking author of lawrence in arabia

[Anonymous No.19575106]

>>19575093
>carol anderson
lets see is she also some sort of credible researcher or travele- NOPE! Retired spinster!
Wow so fucking all three of the top nonfiction books on amazon are arguably fiction.
please ill post my address just come to my house and shoot me in the face i dont want to live in a world where facts and truth is held back as a paid commodity. im sick of fucking fairy fantasy tales i have work to do god damn it

[Anonymous No.19575111]

>>19575106
forgot pic

[Anonymous No.19575119]

>>19575084
Become a specialist librarian. Apparently the pay is good and you get to work with cool materials and not just books in a public library.

[Anonymous No.19575127]

>>19575119
Yeah I'm leaning more toward archival work and all that, guess I'll have to do a master's

[Anonymous No.19575146]

what are you complaining about? that contemporary pop-nonfiction isn't very good? or that no good non-fiction has been produce in the past 30 years? or that your local library does have good contemporary non-fiction?

[Anonymous No.19575150]

>>19575127
It astonishes me that 5 years of education are required to be a librarian. I suppose I've never looked into what's required but I'm guessing database management is probably one of the units, maybe one on different materials, their breakdown reactions and different archival materials (IE PPE Vs PET and why not to use pvc)

[Anonymous No.19575161]

>>19575146
all.

[Anonymous No.19575169]

>>19575111
Checked
*looks at author* holy jewish…

[Anonymous No.19575179]

>>19575169
>anon you dont want to learn about construction or chemistry or medicine noo give me shekels so i can tell you about the big evil nazis like you

[Anonymous No.19575188]

>>19575161
Yuval's stuff isn't terrible and that is contemporary. Graeber's books as well. I've read some decent pop-history too. All of them are/were pretty popular. Kissinger's "world order" and "on china" both recent. If the want more substantive non-fiction, there are still modern-classics being being published in various fields by academic presses. As for your local library, i can't comment. But i don't think non-fiction is dying or even in a poor state.

[Anonymous No.19575199]

>>19575188
Ok.. thanks I think. I think ironically it has something to do with the low cost of college now and all the students that just never pay tuition. I cant even get into my own fucking colleges library because i havent been there long enough. Can you even imagine something so ridiculous? its only accessible to students with a certain amount of credits and class hours. Thanks fucking /t/

[Anonymous No.19575209]

>>19575199
Just use libgen and scihub

[Anonymous No.19575215]

>>19575083
>he supports communist writers with money
Anon I merely apply their own system of ethics to them! Money is the root cause of all evil so that logically means that I should not pay them, to prevent the spread of evil. Besides, I have a great need and little ability to give, so they should be happy I'm downloading their book, they are giving from their own ability after all!

[Anonymous No.19575257]

>>19575063
Salisbury?

[Anonymous No.19575275]

>>19575257
Do Americans use the term aboriginal? I thought it was Australia, Canada and Japan only

[Anonymous No.19575279]

>>19575215
thats not how money works, neeto.

[Anonymous No.19576217]

>>19575209
libgen also applies to ops complaints , its mostly fiction. researchgate would be better for op but ive heard its changed a lot since i used it years ago

[Anonymous No.19576329]

The answer is libel laws desu. Nobody wants to write about someone living if it means they can be economically ruined.

[Anonymous No.19576502]

You're looking for local libraries and amazon lists instead of academic writers, ffs what is this thread even. Humanities academics literally have to publish books to get jobs, other academics are dropping off the tenure chasing rat race and writing semi-popular books, expert non-academics experts are writing, more people travel now presumably than ever, etc.
If anything there's more than you could possibly read.

[Anonymous No.19576806]

>>19575009
Just read academic books, go on, get on fucking libgen and download them, it's not that difficult, no one is telling you to read those shitty non fiction books, why do you even care, just read good books, who gives a fuck what the goodreads bestseller list says, just FUCKING think before you post, it is so painfully obvious that you haven't gone to university, come on, academic books aren't scary, yeah you thought working a "trade" would be more "based", but you can't muster up the courage to download .epubs from libgen, nice, really acquired that skill there. im going to eat some cream cheese now

[Anonymous No.19576938]

>>19576806
can you even read the projection garble you just spat out? faggot

[Anonymous No.19576945]

>>19576329
no im pretty sure its
>>19575169

[Anonymous No.19577103]

just look up curated series e.g. penguin modern-, routledge-, and oxford world classics and go from there

get a kobo and pirate a bunch of shit and see what piques your interest. pretty sure the publishers i listed format their catalogs in epub too

just don't fall for the kindle meme

[Anonymous No.19577724]

>>19576938
this shitty thread killed my one about alain de benoist

[Anonymous No.19577738]

>>19575150
It's 90% grant writing, that's half the degree work.

[Anonymous No.19577991]

>>19577103
What's wrong the Kindle?

[Anonymous No.19578008]

>>19575009
Just read a textbook. Find a syllabus for a respectable university course on the thing you want to read about, download the textbook, and give it a shot. books is free now, just learn you some science or something