/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22373935]

I haven't spent money on a book in over 10 years...

[Anonymous No.22373941]

>>22373935
You also havent actually read a book.

[Anonymous No.22373950]

>>22373935
>television but words

[Anonymous No.22373951]

>>22373935
Kindle Chads and Kobo Chads in solidarity against papercucks

[Anonymous No.22373953]

>>22373951
lame

[Anonymous No.22373957]

>>22373951
There is something truly disgusting about ebooks and e-readers, can any anons help me articulate what I'm feeling?

[Anonymous No.22373963]

>>22373957
it just reeks of soi and artificiality

[Anonymous No.22373964]

>>22373935
>>22373951
>no pagefeel
>no tangible progression
>would get fried in a nuclear war

[Anonymous No.22373965]

>>22373957
in photos they always look more digital, more lcd-like than they are. in person, in sunlight they resemble paper to a very high degree. they're very nice devices, you feel disgust probably because you're a homo i'm guessing

[Anonymous No.22373970]

>>22373951
I still buy books and use the library but it is a miraculous piece of tech.

[Anonymous No.22373971]

>>22373965
>you feel disgust probably because you're a homo
heterosexual*

[Anonymous No.22373974]

>>22373964
also i should note they're POZZED SPYWARE. there is NO reason an e-ink device should consume anything except literal milliamps for literal milliseconds when you press a button. the quiescent current should be less than the fucking battery self-discharge. you should basically never need to charge the things. what are they doing with all that compute? nothing good that's for sure.

[Anonymous No.22373978]

>>22373964
>reading book
>can instantly look up every word with a short touch
>can instantly search entire book for previous appearance of a character or word
>can instantly translate all foreign language
>can have unlimited bookmarks and references
heh no wonder you're jealous

[Anonymous No.22373979]

>>22373965
No, no it's not that, obviously I've seen them "in person" as you so curiously put it (you completely fucking retard).

No, it's something else I think...

[Anonymous No.22373981]

>>22373957
You are literally just reading words. I bet the main reason you only read paper books is because you want people to see your book collection and for people in public to see what you’re reading, god forbid they assume your scrolling tiktok if you used an ereader. You aren’t cool and interesting. You have autism

[Anonymous No.22373982]

>>22373978
i have a kindle, haven't used it in 3 years. it's only good for reading illegal books like the turner diaries.

[Anonymous No.22373984]

>>22373981
Holy projection, Larry. Might as well write that guy's (spurious) biography.

[Anonymous No.22373990]

>>22373981
Again, no... I get books from my library, mostly. I do not have a "collection", as you so curiously put it (you total fucking fag).

No, it's something else...

[Anonymous No.22373991]

>>22373984
Holy reddit. Knew this would be a reply before I even posted. You know I’m right

[Anonymous No.22373992]

> no holding the book open
> no holding it up to a light source
> one handed lounging
> backlight adjustment
> custom font
> nobody knows what you are reading so you can read politically dangerous works or smut in public
papercels just don't get it...

[Anonymous No.22373994]

>>22373992
>he doesn't read his leatherbound copy of the Occasional Discourses right outside the welfare office

[Anonymous No.22374001]

>>22373991
>call someone reddit
>defends electronic product
Does not compute. And you knew people were going to call you out because you know you're projecting.

[Anonymous No.22374002]

>>22374001
>posted from my hardcover book

[Anonymous No.22374003]

>>22373992
>he has to hide what he's reading
e-cucks are pathetic lmao

[Anonymous No.22374004]

>>22374002

[Anonymous No.22374011]

>>22373957
E-books are easier to stop reading than physical books. Not only that. It also encourages reading multiple books at the same time. Which resembles changing tv channels constantly out of fear of missing out.
In short encourages poor readers to read what's accessible to them. Besides that it establishes an interpersonal relationship between a person and an electronic device.
Is it different from reading on a computer? You are reading on a compiter after all, a portable computer.

[Anonymous No.22374012]

>>22373935
>>22373951
Cool. You still didn't read the book.

[Anonymous No.22374015]

>>22374002
>le reddit attempt at gotcha
I'm not defending a product, fag.

[Anonymous No.22374020]

>>22374001
I knew it was going to be a reply because I know how predictable you autists are

[Anonymous No.22374023]

>>22374020
And you're projecting. Very obvious from the tiktok comment. That's your own insecurity.

[Anonymous No.22374028]

>>22374001
>le technology bad
I buy 75$ ereader and torrent any book I want while you give your money to jewish publishing houses

[Anonymous No.22374030]

>>22374015
You really can't not defend a product when there is a monopoly on such market.

[Anonymous No.22374031]

>>22374028
>he doesn't get his hardcover books for free
literally just wear a hoodie and walk casually in and out of the store. do not stop if asked. teenaged girls do this shit all day.

[Anonymous No.22374042]

>>22374030
There is no monopoly of books, schizo.

[Anonymous No.22374043]

>>22374028
>I steal and I'm proud
Same level as a negro.

[Anonymous No.22374044]

>>22374023
You could have just said why you actually enjoy paper books as opposed to ereaders instead of fixating on le projection like a midwit school kid who just learned the term. What next you’re going to call me out on a logical fallacy?

[Anonymous No.22374046]

>>22374043
>Nooo you can't just steal!
Reddit moment

[Anonymous No.22374048]

>>22374043
Hero

[Anonymous No.22374056]

>>22373981
Well duh. Every time I bring a girl to my apt she looks through my shelves and says
>Wow anon, did you really read all of these?
Fucking putty in my hands after that. Maybe you would understand if youd ever gotten so much as a whiff of pussy

[Anonymous No.22374057]

>>22374044
It's okay, we don't make threads about how wonderful reading phyisical books is.That's just a given like how the sky is blue. We don't have to justify our taste or write tiktok projections.

[Anonymous No.22374061]

>>22374056
Is the girl in the room with you right now?

[Anonymous No.22374064]

>>22374061
twitter meme

[Anonymous No.22374069]

>>22374064
Virgin cope

[Anonymous No.22374072]

>>22374069
>>22374064
>>22374061
>>22374057
>>22374056
>>22374048
>>22374046
>>22374044
>>22374043
>>22374042
>>22374031
>>22374030
>>22374023
>>22374020
>>22374015
Stop

[Anonymous No.22374075]

>>22374069
reddit projection

[Anonymous No.22374080]

>>22374072
All these replies and not one legitimately response from a muh paper autist as to why they prefer books

[Anonymous No.22374082]

>>22374061
No, but Im going over to her place in a few hours ;-)

[Anonymous No.22374088]

>>22374011
I prefer reading on my e book instead of reading actual books because there you can increase the font size.
That feature is a blessing for my eyes.
I understand how artificial it feels using tech to read a book and how frivolous reading becomes once you start stacking infinite amounts of books inside that gizmo, but fuck me I dont want to ruin my sight.

[Anonymous No.22374092]

>>22374075
Time to go reorganize your library and fantasize about some girl being so impressed by your books that they have sex with you

[Anonymous No.22374098]

>>22374088
You're actually ruining your eye sight by not forcing you to read smaller print. It'll get worse and worse.

[Anonymous No.22374104]

>>22374092
You sound jelly :D

[Anonymous No.22374105]

>>22374080
I prefer paper because its a cognitive disconnect from what I read on tablets/e-devices. Im so used to filtering out most of what I read in shitposts/ social media that I cant truly focus on ebooks. With paper I find myself much more tuned in and I get more out of the book

[Anonymous No.22374115]

>>22374092
Lol sorry bruv but its not fantasy. It helps that Im 6’2 and good looking and only date art hoes, but every girl Ive brought to my room almost immediately checks my shelves. Makes the transition from small talk to fucking much easier

[Anonymous No.22374124]

>This is a LibriVox recording.

[Anonymous No.22374129]

>>22374124
>volume is too low and it's a nasally teenager with a french canadian accent

[Anonymous No.22374132]

>>22374098
How? I actually bought an ebook for that actual reason. I can't really go on reading more than an hour on an actual book, but I can surpass that hour limit if I use my ebook. I have clocked almost two hours while reading Steppenwolf on my Kindle, and my eyesight wasn't blurry at all.

[Anonymous No.22374138]

>>22374129
>it's a filipino with a lisp who ignores all punctuation

[Anonymous No.22374145]

>>22373981
THIS

[Anonymous No.22374151]

>>22374145
samefag

[Anonymous No.22374158]

>>22374151
THIS

[Anonymous No.22374163]

>>22374048
Hegro

[Anonymous No.22374165]

>>22374151
this post didn’t age well

[Anonymous No.22374174]

>>22374165
nice edit, samefag.

[Anonymous No.22374184]

>>22374165

[Anonymous No.22374191]

Each medium has advantages and disadvantages. You all need to just let it go.

[Anonymous No.22374196]

Is an ereader even worth it over just using your phone?

[Anonymous No.22374201]

>>22374196
yes

[Anonymous No.22374203]

>>22374201
why?

[Anonymous No.22374208]

>>22374080
I wanna read books and not texts.

[Anonymous No.22374209]

>>22374196
An e reader ha at least 3x the surface area of a phone. Obviously that would be a more comfortable reading experience than stopping yourself every 30 seconds to scroll

[Anonymous No.22374211]

>>22374203
he said so. you gonna challenge him?

[Anonymous No.22374219]

>>22374211
SWORDFIGHT

[Anonymous No.22374220]

>>22374196
Yes.

[Anonymous No.22374221]

>>22374209
Is there an e-reader with a built in dictionary for looking up words you don't know?

[Anonymous No.22374228]

>>22374221
Idk because Im a paper nigga. Pretty sure all the touch screen kindles have that feature though. Any system running ios will also have it as a function of the sustem

[Anonymous No.22374239]

>>22374221
Kindle. You just press the finger on the word you don't know and it will show the meaning

[Anonymous No.22374242]

>>22373935
I truly don't understand why anyone would read a physical book now that a superior alternative exists. Artisanal or rare books belong in a museum, everything else belongs on the bonfire. It is ridiculous to devote so much space to book storage, it is perversely sensuous to sniff and fondle books, and it is laughable to pay for any form of media. People wrote their books on paper because it was the best option they had available, but this is the age of machines and there will be no turning back.

[Anonymous No.22374243]

>>22374208
>the paper somehow makes the knowledge more meaningful
brainlet

[Anonymous No.22374273]

>>22374239
>buying into the amazon botnet

[Anonymous No.22374276]

>physical shitters will never know what it's like to lie comfy in your bed and read without your hand hurting

[Anonymous No.22374278]

>>22374242
peak soi

[Anonymous No.22374279]

>>22374276
>his hands hurt from holding a book
DYEL

[Anonymous No.22374285]

>>22374276
t. weak wristlet

[Anonymous No.22374287]

>>22373935
Based, knowledge should be free for everyone.

[Anonymous No.22374295]

>>22374287
No

[Anonymous No.22374297]

Are we finna be able to read customized GPT-books out of thin air in the appleverse AR mixed reality?

[Anonymous No.22374301]

>>22374295

[Anonymous No.22374303]

>>22374295
>t. Brainlet

[Anonymous No.22374310]

>>22374301
>>22374303
seethe

[Anonymous No.22374533]

>>22374239
>>22374221
Kobo also does it ofc and it also has bilingual dictionaries, so I didn't have to buy a big real one, even though I already had anyway. I've also never connected this device to a network and I bought it second-hand for pennies.

[Anonymous No.22374545]

>>22374191
The whole argument is so stupid to me, but it makes sense if a lot of /lit/ really doesn't read books. There was a big fuss when e-readers first came out that paper books would be replaced, so I guess if you only read blogs and stuff to get opinions, and youtube and podcasts, audiobooks, it might seem like an issue.
I get it but I don't. I was so impressed with how cool the e-reader is I didn't imagine anyone who likes reading wouldn't love it. And the amount of pure ignorance surrounding what an e-reader is and what it actually does, from people who use computers and smartphones all the time, is ridiculous. Yet it's somehow a hot-button issue here and the shitposts always get traction.

[Anonymous No.22374548]

and then you all wonder why publishers today only pander to liberal women who are too dumb to pirate

[Anonymous No.22374551]

>>22374243
Yes. The book is not just the text. You are not just your brain.

[Anonymous No.22374562]

>>22374551
>this faggot reads post Gutenberg press literature
What a stupid bitch

[Anonymous No.22374564]

If you’re not reading exclusively on inscribed stone you’re goy cattle and should just get a lobotomy

[Anonymous No.22374566]

>>22374562
I can hear the echo of your typing in your empty room.

[Anonymous No.22374568]

>>22374562
cope

[Anonymous No.22374571]

>>22373935
They're a godsend for reading by candlelight.

[Anonymous No.22374579]

>>22374566
I’m phoneposting while reading an ebook driving down the highway. You will never know freedom like this

[Anonymous No.22374586]

>>22374579
based podposter and insect eater

[Anonymous No.22374601]

>>22374579
based. the worst part about driving is having to constantly look up from your phone and ereader

[Anonymous No.22374602]

Is it worth spending $170 on a Kindle? I'm thinking of getting a Paperwhite 16GB (No lockscreen ads)

[Anonymous No.22374604]

>>22374602
>>>/g/

[Anonymous No.22374612]

>>22374602
yes. just return it if you don’t find it worthwhile (you will)

[Anonymous No.22374622]

>>22374548
Who's buying the Kindle books...

[Anonymous No.22374846]

>>22373957
No because you're absolutely wrong. They're amazing in any scenario, any time of the day, always easily readible, can fit in your pocket and you can get so many books for free. I'm starting to think anti e-book sentiment on /lit/ is an astroturf. It's a great feeling taking an entire library anywhere that easily can fit in your pocket.

[Anonymous No.22374853]

>>22374622
Wine aunts impressed with themselves for being tech savvy.

[Anonymous No.22374856]

>>22373935
Best site to pirate textbooks (i.e. the one type of book which it's inarguable that they should be pirated)?

[Anonymous No.22374857]

>>22374846
But it's not a library if there are no books, Anon.

[Anonymous No.22374864]

>>22374857
Lmao holy crap reddit is going to love this

[Anonymous No.22374865]

>>22374196
Yes. You cannot really read your phone outside if it's bright, but with the way the e-reader works you'll have no problem reading it in broad daylight for instance. It's also easier on the eyes and has better options for changing font and size. It's also a much better size, phones are just too slim really.

[Anonymous No.22374867]

Where can I get the good audiobooks these days?

[Anonymous No.22374874]

>>22374846
>anti e-book sentiment
It's pretentious pseuds who hype a specific model of typewriter and post their mastabatory ramblings in handwriting threads. I still prefer regular books when it comes to novels but certain E-reader features are just too great to scoff at (e.g. consolidating everything you've highlighted into one place, instant dictionary access that works simply by touching a certain word long enough, etc).

[Anonymous No.22374889]

>>22374864
Soi technophiles would love what you said about having le big library in le pocket.

[Anonymous No.22374893]

>>22374865
idk, holding my phone with one hand while in bed is pretty comfy. Most r-readers are heavier than my phone so I don't see it being more comfortable.

[Anonymous No.22374957]

>>22374893
>idk, holding my phone with one hand while in bed is pretty comfy

[Anonymous No.22374960]

>>22374957
i remember seeing that in the movie and thinking what the fuck are they trying to convey with this dumb shit

[Anonymous No.22374972]

>>22374960
>what the fuck are they trying to convey with this dumb shit
She guards her clam like a good intellectual and is in no danger of It Follows following her.

[Anonymous No.22374977]

>>22374972
>curtains
The balls are blue.

[Anonymous No.22374981]

>>22374957
>a fictional device
>>22374960
A sense of otherness

[Anonymous No.22375020]

>>22374981
>autism
Kek, you looked it up to see if it was real.

[Anonymous No.22375023]

>>22375020
No, I saw It Follows back in the day and I remember the talks about this gadget.

[Anonymous No.22375027]

>>22375023
>can't extrapolate from a single example to figure out small eReaders exist
Autism.

[Anonymous No.22375035]

>>22375027
Not as small as the shell one, you little weasel.

[Anonymous No.22375042]

>>22375035
>pedantic
>it's not even bigger
>still can't extrapolate
Autism. Here's another one.

[Anonymous No.22375045]

>>22375042
You posted a fake device from a movie and expected people to think of some specific chink device and I'm the autist. Lol @ you.

[Anonymous No.22375046]

>>22374856
libgen

[Anonymous No.22375051]

>>22373957
The very presence of e-readers undermines your beliefs on books and reading. You feel a strong aversion to them because accepting e-readers would mean admitting that you were wrong all this time. Buying rows and rows of books in current year is vanity. You are a paypig, no matter how hard you try to deny it.

[Anonymous No.22375058]

>>22373957
They hated him because he told the truth

[Anonymous No.22375110]

All literature should be free at this point. If it is of value, it should be publicly funded or the author should receive donations. Perhaps they can even auction the work as a NTF.
But good God... The people who say "I put so much work into it. Therefore you have to pay to read it even though you can download it for free" are living in fantasy land. You need to separate the art from the artist, okay? Once you create it, it has nothing to do with you. You will die. It will live on if it is worth a damn. Get over yourself.

[Anonymous No.22375267]

I'd much prefer to have physical copies, but, being a kiwicuck, good books are very expensive/hard to find here. At the end of the day, it's the content that matters

[Anonymous No.22375275]

>>22374061
This is a particularly cringe meme, anon...

[Anonymous No.22375302]

I like reading physical books because indeed I do like having a bookshelf and a physical collection of what I have read.

[Anonymous No.22375311]

>>22375302
you’re still allowed to buy books if you have an ereader anon

[Anonymous No.22375454]

>>22374276
>read without your hand hurting
Scrump. You need to jack off more or get the women's dumbbell set

[Anonymous No.22375552]

>>22373935
>bought a nice BOOX so that I might finally stop buying books
>I use it on occasion, but also keep buying books
I can't help it. Physical books are the superior medium and experience. It's not even close.

[Anonymous No.22375556]

>>22375051
A mix of both is fine. Every faggot needs to turn everything into some try hard ideological purity test now. You're too online, dipshit

[Anonymous No.22375561]

>>22375051
>>22375556
That applies equally to that pathetic pseud cunt talking shit about e-readers btw. Sick of u nerds

[Anonymous No.22375564]

>>22373957
>There is something truly disgusting about ebooks and e-readers, can any anons help me articulate what I'm feeling?
What you're feeling is pseudo-intellectualism. PROTIP: if everything that you want to read is available to you in physical form then you are an actual pleb and your taste is too fucking basic bitch to even warrant an opinion

[Anonymous No.22375568]

>>22373951
Yet you still read schlock

[Anonymous No.22375569]

>>22375564
Pull your head out of your arsehole

[Anonymous No.22375570]

>>22373981
Damn, blud, you are insecure. I own 1,500 books and I am a NEET who only goes outside to rock climb and buy groceries

[Anonymous No.22375574]

itt: commodity fetishism

[Anonymous No.22375576]

>>22375042
>>22375027
Stop spamming insectoid shit

[Anonymous No.22375577]

>>22375569
Go back to lurking. Only a newfag would seethe at that.

[Anonymous No.22375580]

>>22374846
>I'm starting to think anti e-book sentiment on /lit/ is an astroturf.
he said unironically in the daily Amazon Kindle® advertisement

[Anonymous No.22375581]

>>22375564
This is arguably one of the most retarded posts I have ever read

[Anonymous No.22375588]

All im seeing in this thread is “im too broke to afford physical copies of books so i pirate them on my ereader”

[Anonymous No.22375590]

>>22375581
You're a retard. Actual readers (not you) are very thankful that ebooks are around as they allow one to read hard to find/insanely expensive/out of print works that they'd be otherwise unable.

[Anonymous No.22375592]

>>22375590
Name one single book that you have read that fits this category. Also, this doesn’t negate your retardation simply because you’re poor can’t afford to spend $50 on a book.

[Anonymous No.22375595]

>>22373951
Lol I'm on the outskirts with a refurbished tablet and a reading app

[Anonymous No.22375596]

>>22374867
Audio book bae

[Anonymous No.22375607]

>>22375592
>Name one single book that you have read that fits this category.
I have tracts of metaphysics and natural philosophy that are literally impossible to find in physical - at least through online distributors. They just can't be found, irrespective of price. One might turn up here and there, but it's a game of luck that they ever appear and luck that you land the purchase before someone else. Hardly a reliable system if you're after certain works and want them on hand.
>Also, this doesn’t negate your retardation simply because you’re poor can’t afford to spend $50 on a book.
Anon there's a very high chance my physical book collection would mog yours. I buy books all the time.

[Anonymous No.22375609]

>>22375607
>I have tracts of metaphysics and natural philosophy
>Anon there's a very high chance my physical book collection would mog yours

[Anonymous No.22375611]

I just read pdfs straight from the laptop. So much better than jew readers

[Anonymous No.22375612]

>>22375609
Yes.

[Anonymous No.22375613]

I am sure your collection of 300 books “mogs,” lil’ guy.

[Anonymous No.22375617]

>>22375613
I'm about 1.5k physical right now. Dropped a lot after a house move. Kept the best. Have just over 1tb ebooks too.

[Anonymous No.22375623]

>>22375617
You can’t just steal my (>>22375570) book count. Choose another number to lie about.

[Anonymous No.22375627]

>>22375623
I didn't even see it. I'm an old ghost I'm trapped forever here I can never leave, you think I ever stop to read all the posts in the threads I shitpost in?

[Anonymous No.22375629]

>Can't remove battery = spyware
>Future update to require Amazon account and internet connection is inevitable (piracy prevention).
>Battery levels cannot be maintained by small solar panel.
>Books are already free of charge and trackers at this place called the library.
I think your big problem is that you don't recognize that it's a trap. It is typical of Amazon especially to rope everyone in with what seems like an amazing deal, only to change to a worse deal once they become your normal vendor. If the device is not modular, it is not your device. When you get locked out of Amazon's device, remember that we all still have our paperbacks :)

[Anonymous No.22375652]

>>22373964
>a book would withstand nuclear fire better than an electronic device
:D

[Anonymous No.22375662]

Hello Anon >>22373935,

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[Anonymous No.22375680]

>>22373941
Well, yes, they have.

[Anonymous No.22375681]

>>22373957
>someone please think and speak for me
Reading on paper obviously hasn't helped your brain.

[Anonymous No.22375796]

>>22373963
Why?

[Anonymous No.22375802]

>>22373964
Pro tip: you will die and lose everything if there is nuclear war.

[Anonymous No.22375832]

>>22374551
> the book
> the
Which one?

[Anonymous No.22375839]

>>22373981
Rekt

[Anonymous No.22376706]

>>22373951
paper pseuds indeed

[Anonymous No.22376924]

>>22374011
>Which resembles changing tv channels constantly out of fear of missing out.
lol what the fuck

[Anonymous No.22376930]

Anyone using the Pocketbook Touch HD? Looking like a better option than the Kobo Libra 2/Clara since it's only 155 grams.

What is the pocketbook like holding with 1 hand in bed?

[Anonymous No.22377004]

>>22375045
>>22375576
>autism

[Anonymous No.22377160]

>>22375802
no i won't i live in the hills. if there's a nuclear war EMP will fry everything electronic even if you aren't near the blasts t h o u g h.

[Anonymous No.22377271]

>>22374548
The truth no one wants to acknowledge.
>It's the women's fault!
>It's those goddamn minorities!
>LGBTQAIRTUVWXYZ cannon did this to us!
>The entire industry hates men!
Even if there's some truth in all of that, poorfags pirating books that barely make any money in the first place nowadays certainly isn't helping. This isn't like with multibillion dollar streaming, movie, and video game companies where they don't even feel it. Most traditionally published books only sell a few thousand copies.

[Anonymous No.22377298]

>>22373935
>>22373951
>>22373981
I'm buying books because they can't be censored or modified once I own them. The stuff you download on your e-reader can be.

[Anonymous No.22377337]

I think I lost my nook ("my" nook, I actually just found it on an Amtrak and reset it). What's a good cheapo e-reader to replace it with?

[Anonymous No.22377341]

>>22377298
no they can’t you schizo

[Anonymous No.22377349]

>>22377298
You don't have to buy digital books that reside in the cloud. You get a file you yourself store and load onto any e-reader you want. No one can modify it.

[Anonymous No.22378480]

>>22374846
>can fit in your pocket
Speak for yourself. Anything less than 8 inches is shameful.
They can fit in some pockets but I wouldn't want to carry it around in my pocket. Hell, even before ereaders came onto the market I didn't lug books around with me in my pockets: I had a fucking bag.

[Anonymous No.22378510]

>>22375629
>>Can't remove battery = spyware
Gonna be completely fucking honest with you here mate.
In the mid 2000's when ereaders surfaced: you couldn't replace the battery.
This was dead centre in the age of the sony ericson, the samsung e250, the motorola clamshell shitter, the nokia n95, the sonky k800, there were all these great feature phones with replaceable batteries and yet
yet
the ereader market came onto the scene with closed backs

while the iphone was a sperm shot into your daddys asshole
while the ipad was planning for it's 1st gen replacements due to drops (thanks slidey backs!)
the ereader stood tall and proud
aged
AG-ED above them

with a shitty battery and top tier battery life due to no wifi
no fucking backlight, nothing, an on off button, page turn/menu buttons and the lightest mobile cpu

that was life on the ereader trail
and it stayed like that, even when Mr. Bezos wanted to cut corner.

So yeah, cry about muh replaceable battery all you want but it really wasn't a thing. Nobody was running out to replace their cybook gen 3 battery. Hell, you could quite literally buy samsung, nokia & sony batteries in your local PC world etc and still not replace the battery in your ereader.
This was a time before the iphone.

-but we put up with it because it looked good.
What happened to the phone & PMP market after it was a shame; but it happened.
You can buy phones today that have replaceable batteries btw, lots of phones from smartphones to dumbphones, amazing, literally amazing devices that you can swap in and out of.
Know what you can't do? buy batteries like you could in 2008. Charge them in docks like you could in 2008 and hotswap them on a moment's notice. Hell, back then phones used the same battery for 3+ years. Nowadays you'd be lucky to find the same battery in production a year on; even for old folks.

Hot swappable batteries are a meme. And I say that as a fan of hot swappable batteries. It's a 10/10 feature but fuck me if the feature phone ever died out and the doomscroller reigned in.
Yeah, it sucks it takes effort to replace a battery on an old kobo/kindle but it sucks hard dick to replace a battery on almost any device nowadays where you pay the chink gamble on some aliexpress order.

[Anonymous No.22378535]

>>22374276
>>physical shitters will never know what it's like to lie comfy in your bed and read without your hand hurting
handlet here
hurts on both mediums
need a nice big natural eink screen angled against my view at a distance with clickers attached to my input method of choice.
We're decades, eons away from that tho.
eink has all the same issues with painful reading in bed that books do :c

[Anonymous No.22378574]

>>22377341
They already are.
>>22377349
If it can connect to the internet, it can be modified. Do those devices connect to the internet?

[Anonymous No.22378586]

>>22378574
Find me 1 case where an e-reader modified an ebook you sideloaded onto it.

It's technically possible, but not something that's going to happen. Worst case scenario, you disconnect it from the internet and move your file over again.

[Anonymous No.22379312]

>>22378535
anon you can do those things
get a tablet arm and a remote, live out your Wall-E fantasies

the future is now

[Anonymous No.22379330]

>>22378574
>Do those devices connect to the internet?
Mine doesn't, schizo. Oh let me guess, it hacks my WiFi using a zero-day?

[Anonymous No.22379372]

>>22375652
It's more about the emp part

[Anonymous No.22379382]

>>22379372
>I’m going to be reading in a nuclear war
nigga you’re going to be dead
also not how that works

[Anonymous No.22379389]

>>22379372
>he doesn't have a spare ereader backed up every month in a faraday cage

[Anonymous No.22379711]

>>22373957
You don't get to flaunt your physicial book and have everyone think you're a smart little niglet, thus you feel emancipated by the e-reader

[Anonymous No.22379716]

>>22373981
This.

[Anonymous No.22379718]

>>22373992
>Reading a 1000 page novel without the weight or hassle of carrying it around.
I love it so much, bros.

[Anonymous No.22379721]

>Do all my reading on my 2019 kindle unless I literally can't find the book otherwise
>Buy nice looking editions of books I really like to decorate my room
>Shit on e-readers and paperbacks depending on the ocassion.

[Anonymous No.22379725]

>>22374061
kek

[Anonymous No.22380528]

I don't understand this discourse
I just read epubs on my phone bro

[Anonymous No.22380541]

>>22373935
ya'll niggas got no librarys? What is you talking about

[Anonymous No.22380789]

I regret getting an e-reader. Now my shitty video essays have no bookshelf in the background to verify my literary acumen.

[Anonymous No.22381114]

>ah yes, I spend thousands on printed books
>ah yes, I spend hundreds on e-readers and pdfs
equally retarded

[Anonymous No.22381442]

>>22373978
>>can instantly search entire book for previous appearance of a character or word
goldfish memory brainlet

[Anonymous No.22382103]

>>22375574
>itt: commodity fetishism
i'm starting to understand why women shun broke niggas. you refuse to be lavish toward the things you most enjoy. it's a miserly way of living - an hebraic spirit

[Anonymous No.22382131]

>>22375574
commodity fetishism isn't about fetishizing commodities in a sexual way, it was about traditional definition of a fetish which is an inanimate object imbued with human life force which in the marxist ideology is the worker's labor time. copper is a commodity, but when some guy makes a wire out of it, his life force has been added as value to the raw material.

[Anonymous No.22382340]

>>22380789
green screen

[Anonymous No.22382352]

>>22379721
You are literally me.

[Anonymous No.22382359]

>>22379312
Honestly? Pretty fucking cool. Could be a kino 4chan setup too, with an iPad and a mouse to control it whilst lying down.

[Sage No.22382509]

>>22377298
You obviously should not BUY ebooks for an e-reader. You pirate them without drm and store them locally.

[Anonymous No.22382534]

>>22373957
Its artificial. I dont even consider people who have read an eversion of something to have actually read the book.

[Anonymous No.22382547]

>>22382534
Cope, ereaders can be customized to allow you to fully appreciate and only consume the text. I made it so I don't even see page numbers anymore, it's pure.
Enjoy spending 16 bucks on some book to put on your shelf to try and impress girls

[Anonymous No.22382580]

>>22382103
>I must CONSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

[Anonymous No.22382651]

>>22382580
broke-nigga-itis is truly a malady of the spirit, smdh

[Anonymous No.22382675]

>>22373981
Holy cope.

[Anonymous No.22382779]

>>22373957
homosexuality

[Anonymous No.22382909]

>>22373957

[Anonymous No.22383403]

>>22382651
>midwit trying to pretend he's smart
>by paying through the nose for books he can't understand