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Anonymous Mon Jul 28 07:14:56 2014 No.5202205 [Reply] [Original]

So /lit/, here's my predicament. I was at the pool with my book and well...it got soaked. It's soaked pretty bad and I'm afraid to even touch the fucker as it seems like it'd fall apart if I tried to read the cock-sucker and the goddamned bind seems to be tearing. So I'm wondering if there were any solutions to fix my situation without having to install gentoo or going and buying another copy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 07:15:48 2014 No.5202207 Submerge it in rice. It works for mobiles. your book is probably ruined

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 08:26:41 2014 No.5202383 If it was Gravity's Rainbow, fate intervened. Accept this gift.

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 08:31:17 2014 No.5202393
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>>5202205
Wrap it in newspaper, or submerge it in rice.

Either way, you are probably fucked.

If you need a new copy, get the Vintage Anniversary Edition. It has none of the errors that are in all of the other versions.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 09:22:40 2014 No.5202488 >>5202205 >I was at the pool with my book Why?

>>	Reality Check !Z6/0YaJApk Mon Jul 28 09:49:11 2014 No.5202531 >>5202488 Because he never worked hard enough to develop a rig that would be pure eye candy to the babes at the pool, and has this notion that he can pick up if he pretends to read a big book with some kind of abstract title

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 11:04:51 2014 No.5202712 >>5202488 Might be on vacation. Often at resorts the best place for lounging and relaxing outside is the pool.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 11:22:30 2014 No.5202761 >>5202712 Whenever I go on vacation to the beach I stay inside with the nice AC and a glass of pineapple juice.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 17:25:52 2014 No.5204430 >>5202393 Really? I have a well-worn Penguin Classics copy (the Pollack-y cover) and it has more than a few typos.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 17:39:37 2014 No.5204517 >>5204430 Yeah. The Vintage Anniversary edition with the gay-pride rainbow rockets is the only modern version without errors.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 17:43:00 2014 No.5204538 >>5202205 You are a fucking idiot. Is this the new bookburning? You think it's funny to destroy books? Fucking retard. SAGe SAGE SAGE SAGE SAGE

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 17:45:30 2014 No.5204557 >>5204538 >implying sage does anything http://www.4chan.org/faq#sage >Contrary to popular belief, a sage is not a downvote, and should not be used as one. "sage-bombing" or announcing that you've saged a thread may result in a ban.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 19:23:42 2014 No.5205105 >>5204557 But he didn't even actually sage

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 19:31:05 2014 No.5205136 File: 980 KB, 2048x1924, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5204517 There are three vintage covers.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 19:35:38 2014 No.5205151 >>5205105 prove it

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 19:37:15 2014 No.5205154 >>5204557 It stops a thread from being bumped. Of course that doesn't matter on a slow board like /lit/ but how else will people know you don't like a thread?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 20:59:03 2014 No.5205541 We really need to make a guide about witch printings are fucked up.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 03:31:48 2014 No.5207355 >>5205136 That one doesn't work.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 03:32:50 2014 No.5207359 >>5205541 It's pretty easy. Just get the Vintage Anniversary Edition with the multi-colored V2 Rockets. Then you are in the clear. It doesn't have to be more complicated.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 03:33:17 2014 No.5207362 >>5207355 Just like your alcoholic father.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 03:34:50 2014 No.5207367 >>5207362 Close. My father is sober. It is me who is an embarrassing drunk. Still doesn't mean I'm wrong.

Anonymous Tue Jul 29 11:12:24 2014 No.5208752
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>>5207359
yeah but it wold help adding what lines are missing with page numbers,

something the can be dumped in GR and Pynchon threads quickly, So less threads are derailed.

we could make it part of a how to Pynchon guide.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 11:18:47 2014 No.5208787 >>5208752 I'm on it. It won't be great, but it will be a good jumping off point for further improvement.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 11:23:12 2014 No.5208814 Put it in the microwave for a minute or two. I'm serious.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 11:24:15 2014 No.5208819 >>5202205 >reading pynchon at the pool Full blown autism. That's not how you meet girls.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 11:25:12 2014 No.5208827 File: 193 KB, 987x1500, 81xIhxUqXaL._SL1500_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5208787 cool And if you need me to check the Penguin "Twentieth-century classics" Edition < this cover just ask.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 11:26:37 2014 No.5208839 >>5208827 Sure. I'll post the prototype in a short while.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 11:55:01 2014 No.5208986 File: 1.21 MB, 1216x3156, prototype pinecone guide.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5208827 prototype incoming. Berate me all you like. My paint skills are terribad.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 12:27:18 2014 No.5209180 >>5208986 nice job

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 12:28:54 2014 No.5209188 >>5209180 You warm the cockles of my heart.

The cats Tue Jul 29 12:33:58 2014 No.5209218

>>5207355
Yes, it does. I was one of the first people to even recommend the Vintage additions a little over a month ago in this thread: >>/lit/image/UwTgcFU1zN22PITV9Pdi8w

These are all the same book by the same publisher including the cover with all of the little cartoons on it. The two penguin copies are fucked, it's not that every pressing except for one specific one is fucked.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 12:49:37 2014 No.5209275 And this is why physical books are exceptionally superior to e-readers.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 14:19:19 2014 No.5209662 Does anyone have a full list of the errors in the Penguin Edition? The only error that I ever see get brought up is the "pens" line.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 14:23:47 2014 No.5209686 >>5202393 There's at least a typo in a formula and the book easily smudges. Wouldn't recommend that edition.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 14:30:01 2014 No.5209720 File: 154 KB, 1024x768, gr-formula-typo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5209686 If you’re interested

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 14:40:53 2014 No.5209757 >>5209720 Mine doesn't smudge. What are the errors? The exclamation marks?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 14:42:10 2014 No.5209765 >>5209686 Smudges? How the hell do you smudge a Vintage book? I have dozens and none of them smudge at all.

Anonymous Tue Jul 29 15:10:14 2014 No.5209899
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>>5209757
No, the exclamation marks denote the faculty. But the exponent should be the same as the faculty, i.e. m^n/n!, and it has m^2/3!

>>5209765
Don't know if that's the correct term, but if you only have slightly sweaty fingers and touch the print, this happens. pic related.

Anonymous Tue Jul 29 15:14:29 2014 No.5209921

>>5209899
Yeah I know what you mean and I can see you have a problem with that.

I have extremely sweaty hands but that has not happened to any of my Vintage books.

Still, after having seen most of the other versions in person, I think the Vintage Anniversary is the best one out there right now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 15:17:28 2014 No.5209935 >>5202761 >going to a different place outside >better stay inside and do the same thing as I always do

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 15:28:11 2014 No.5209970 Same thing happened to my copy of The Corrections. I ditched it and never got around to buying another copy.

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