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Here is a present for you, /lit/.

Link will expire in 7 days.

http://wikisend.com/download/756484/Professor Borges_ A Course on English Lite - Borges, Jorge Luis.epub

>> No.5545398 [DELETED] 

Fuck off

>> No.5545491

>>5545398
Just trying to be nice ;_;

Remember how great share threads used to be?

>> No.5545533

.mobi?

>> No.5545537

>>5545533
Sorry, I only have the epub. Calibre can convert it to mobi easily though. I could upload the converted result?

>> No.5545543

>>5545537
Do so.

>> No.5545550

>>5545394
ty

>> No.5545568

>>5545537
How do I open an epub?

>> No.5545581

>>5545394
hm, weird, there doesn't seem to be a lecture dedicated to keats

>> No.5545596

>>5545543
http://wikisend.com/download/118332/Professor%20Borges_%20A%20Course%20on%20English%20Lite%20-%20Borges,%20Jorge%20Luis.mobi

>>5545568
Any ebook reader will do, try Calibre's, or FBReader

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5545600

thanks OP!

>> No.5545607

>>5545596
And how do I open up mobis?

What exactly are these? His lectures? Is it text or audio or video?

>> No.5545628

>>5545596
Thanks but did you apply a cover?

>> No.5545638

>>5545607
These are texts based on his lectures.

Mobis/Epubs are the file formats for ebook readers like the Kobo or the Kindle, but you can still read them on the computer, with Calibre/FBReader/Google is your friend.

>> No.5545648

>>5545638

I'll have to look for one of those programs. What books do these cover?

>> No.5545670

>>5545628
They are displayed in both files on my end

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>>5545670
There's no cover, I don't think. It should be a picture like this. (It's not showing up on my Kindle.)

>> No.5545744

Thanks OP! *sheathes katana*

>> No.5545746 [DELETED] 

wont let me download just open it, halp?

>> No.5546896

Thanks OP. Anything else to share?

>> No.5546944

I'm reading this right now actually, got the hardcover. It's pretty good.

One particularly funny Borges-ism in an early chapter: he says that soldiers scream when they go into battle, and feels the need to justify this assertion. How does he do it? "We know this from a poem by Kipling"! He really lived his life in books.

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>>5546896
Sure, why not.
Here's The Monkey Wrench Gang, a hilarious counter-culture novel from the 70s in which a Vietnam veteran who joins a group of eco-terrorists intent on stopping the growing US industry from destroying the desert.

That cover is from Robert Crumb!

http://wikisend.com/download/724242/The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey.epub

>> No.5546993 [DELETED] 

>>5546990
fuck off

>> No.5547001

>>5546993
I see you're still here, good afternoon :)

>> No.5547064

>>5545394
Thanks brah. Looks interesting, although I have always considered literature from Great Britain to be somewhat inferior.

>> No.5547066

thank you, bby.

>> No.5547067 [DELETED] 

>>5547001
hello, friend :)
I went to bed early last night though :(

>> No.5547080

>>5545394
This is from argorg right? Thanks still

>> No.5547092

>>5547067
I went to bed early, too! Probably different time zones. Woke up at 5am because going to bed at 7pm is weird.

>> No.5547097 [DELETED] 

>>5547092
Yeah, possibly. I woke up at 5am, too! But I only did that, so I could study for my midterm.

>> No.5547109

>>5545491
Fuck off

>> No.5547117

>>5547109
I see you missed one post, good of you to rectify it!

>> No.5547143

>>5545491
>Remember how great share threads used to be?
There a reason why there aren't any more?

>> No.5547153

>>5547143
There's no reason, it just petered out... I remember years ago there used to be this one anon who'd go to the effort of making image files, where the image was the book cover, but you could also open the image in WinRAR or whatever and it would contain the mobi/ePub. That anon probably just left.

There were other share-threads, but with the downfall of one-click hosters around megaupload it has become a bit more annoying to host stuff for the long term.

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5547164

Thanks, OP!

>> No.5547179

>>5547153
Rarimages. Neat idea.

>> No.5547217

>>5545491
Also on a related subject, are there any mirrors to the lit files from the rec post? A number of people can't get them off anonfiles.

>> No.5547218
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5547218

There's so much easily available on lib.gen and through google that it's tough to find things worth sharing unless you scan them yourself.

Kate Gould - Exposing Phallacy Flashing in Contemporary Culture
http://wikisend.com/download/139424/Kate Gould - Exposing Phallacy Flashing in Contemporary Culture.epub

>> No.5547296

>>5545596
Marvellous. Thanks.

>> No.5547329

>>5547218
There's rather more worth in compilations, which save time and double as recommendation lists,
and in the files you share being verified, especially when it comes to ebook formats where much of the less standard stuff is (often poorly) converted from PDFs or other sources.

>> No.5547356

I still have the thousands of books that one Anon uploaded years ago. Good times.

>> No.5547374

>>5547329
Oh man, especially lib.gen often varies wildly in quality. mobilism is usually better, but has less results because they only upload the commercial release, while lib.gen often has the PDF conversions which are full of errors from the automatic process.

I wish book piracy would have the same standards of quality as movie piracy, but it looks like that won't ever happen. We also don't have automated quality checks - with a pirated movie, you can check the quality at a glance (or even just look at the metadata of the file). With a pirated book, you have to read through it all to find all typos/weirdly inserted special characters/broken paragraphs/randomly inserted page numbers/etc.

Even though they take their files from the usual piracy pages, I feel like share threads are a bit more intimate. Often the anon "advertises" his or her link, leading to other anons finding novel authors or works. Plus the anon can usually vouch for the quality of the file.

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>>5545394
OP thank you so much.

>> No.5547470

>>5546990
Neat!

>> No.5547481

>>5547218
I can't seem to open this one, Calibre says it's not a zip file.

>> No.5547490

>>5547481
Happened to me once, try re-downloading/re-adding.

>> No.5547492

OP I wish I could give back but the only "rare" ebook I possess is Salinger's Three Stories that was posted here months ago. I will upload it if you want it.

>> No.5547494

>>5547374
Addendum: A bad movie copy doesn't particularly change the tone or structure of a movie, even though it makes it less enjoyable.

A bad book copy, on the other hand, can change the entire "tone" of the book. For example, Thomas Bernhard often did not use paragraphs to make monologues seem more "unstoppable", like a river breaking its dam, completely out of breath.

A badly converted book might lose all of its paragraphs and suddenly you have some additional symbolism which may not fit the theme of the text, or you have some extra symbols which may or may not be there intentionally. It's really hard to "trust" a pirated ebook and when I read these copies, I wonder whether I'm actually reading the copy the way the author intended. By now, the minute I find some broken / or ( or ) in the text, I delete it and go buy the original. What if the "pirater" has forgotten to add a chapter? The book becomes a malleable thing, all of a sudden, which you can't trust.

>>5547443
:3

>> No.5547499

>>5547492
Share anything you particularly like, why not have a share thread.

>> No.5547511

>>5547499
Indeed.
Here it is!
http://wikisend.com/download/244564/Three%20Stories%20-%20J.D.%20Salinger.epub
This was formatted by a kind anon here months ago. It's from those stories the Salinger estate didn't want to publish.

>> No.5547527

>>5547511
Guessing
"The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls"
"Birthday Boy"
"Paula"
?

>> No.5547538

>>5547527
Yep.

>> No.5547556

>>5547527
>>5547538
Already got but thanks for the up

>> No.5548134

Reading OP's book. So I love Borges and the book is quite interesting, but if that was the way he lectured, I dunno, I'd be kinda disappointed. He knows his material very well, but he doesn't seem to be going anywhere with his exposition. Only read 20% so far.

Thoughts, anybody?

>> No.5548185

>>5548134
...where do you expect him to "go"?

>> No.5548208

Don't call me a pleb but how do I read these without an ebook?

>> No.5548210

>>5546990
cool man thanks,

>> No.5548226

>>5548208
I recommend FBreader

>> No.5548242

>>5548226
thx m8

>> No.5548349

>>5548185
Well, he just sort of comments on what happens on the text, "Beowulf is an epic where the Dane prince slays an ogre, his mother and a dragon..."

He rarely shows you stuff you couldn't have gotten yourself just by reading the text. He could show underlying patterns, he could focus a lot more on stylistic issues, etc. But he seems happy merely cataloguing the different texts and offering a somewhat lengthy summary of them. It feels underwhelming.

>> No.5548465

Some months ago I did a sharethread and uploaded all of Borges writings, in both English and Spanish.

Lots of non fiction, poetry, etc.

Link should still work:
>>/lit/thread/S4718956#p4728018

>> No.5548601

>>5548465
That's cool, think I have them all but I'm guessing these are PDF too. Will make sure to post here whenif done converting the giovanni translations to ebook format one day

>> No.5548605

>>5548465
Thanks :3

>>5548349
>He rarely shows you stuff you couldn't have gotten yourself just by reading the text.

I think this is because of the nature of the course, it's more of a lit 101 thing. Therefore, he's not going too far into the works - not enough time, not enough experience in the audience.

>> No.5548649

>>5548605
Right, that's what I'm trying to say, maybe. I don't doubt his knowledge, it's just that everything he says seems pretty basic. So yeah, it kinda makes sense if it's a 101 course thing.

>> No.5548694

>>5545394
http://www.openculture.com/2012/05/jorge_luis_borges_1967-8_norton_lectures_on_poetry_and_everything_else_literary.html

Here's some recordings of Borges delivering some lectures in English at Harvard.

>> No.5548718

>>5547153
>years ago
that stopped at the beginning of 2014 lol

>> No.5548752

>>5548465
Holy shit, that sharethread was glorious. We used to have good ones. And it's not always about getting hard-to-find files, it also doubles as a pretty decent recommendation thread. Definitely see stuff that 95% of /lit/ ignores.

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>>5547217
>pol has a recommended reading torrent
>lit doesn't have a recommended reading torrent

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>>5548465
>mfw this
ereader is the best use of money I ever made in almost 30 years of existence

>> No.5550214

>>5547217
You mean this link?http://pastebin.com/Mg6JwscV

The person in charge of that list gave me the account so I could update the Japanese lit folder link.
If someone was willing to mirror them in Mediafire or some other place, I could edit the pastebin with all the new links.

>> No.5550221

>>5548912

/pol/ is an excellent website

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG0erhuG4HU

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>>5550221
oh my

>> No.5552360

>>5550214
Those same anonfiles links are in the wiki.

I'd mirror but can't download them either.