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Anonymous Thu Aug 17 22:05:24 2017 No.9907826 [Reply] [Original]

>The book has a foreword, a preface, and an introduction

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 17 22:07:13 2017 No.9907835 >>9907826 >mfw blessed

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 17 22:08:25 2017 No.9907844 File: 63 KB, 167x237, beaniebro.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >book has front cover ripped off, as well as the pages before page 1

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 17 22:33:47 2017 No.9907923 File: 19 KB, 348x327, 1489110055078.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >The book has a foreword, a preface, an introduction, a translator's note, an editor's note, an author's note, a glossary, an appendix, a bibliography, and an index

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 17 22:34:34 2017 No.9907927 File: 30 KB, 633x758, 1430453422386[1].png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9907826 >book has endnotes and footnotes

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 17 22:35:21 2017 No.9907930 >>9907923 This is literally the Oxford edition of the Divine Comedy that I own. Way too much extra bullshit.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 17 22:37:52 2017 No.9907941 File: 1.92 MB, 350x310, 1495681445655.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9907826 >The book has a foreword, a preface, and an introduction; but no publisher's page.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 17 22:38:41 2017 No.9907946 >>9907930 >Divine Comedy Sounds like everything you need, desu

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 17 22:38:44 2017 No.9907947 >book has a beginning, middle, and an end

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 17 22:39:27 2017 No.9907951 >>9907947 >book starts en media res

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 17 22:42:23 2017 No.9907959 File: 62 KB, 646x650, nene.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9907826 >book has a jacket

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 17 22:43:07 2017 No.9907961 >>9907951 >I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 17 22:45:32 2017 No.9907970 File: 591 KB, 900x716, kendrasunderland2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9907959 >the design on the cover is the same as the dustjacket

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 17 22:46:15 2017 No.9907974 File: 52 KB, 389x200, 200_s.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9907959 >book has a pretty jacket >made of shit quality and is falling apart >actual hardcover is ugly af

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 17 23:44:08 2017 No.9908180 >>9907970 ...who?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 00:14:58 2017 No.9908246 File: 159 KB, 484x477, 1503017126582.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >book does not have a foreword, preface, introduction, or monograph >have to check multiple sources to convince myself it's a legitimate book

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 00:17:26 2017 No.9908251 File: 52 KB, 600x591, CT2nDXzUsAAUicc.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >book has pictures

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 00:24:26 2017 No.9908275 >>9908251 >book has pictures by Gustave Doré

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 02:46:19 2017 No.9908644 >>9907826 >book hás introduction that is written by another person and is bigger than the book itself.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 03:15:36 2017 No.9908709 >>9907826 >Book has a wealth of resources to aid your comprehension and understanding of the text Why is this a bad thing?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 03:27:53 2017 No.9908730 File: 154 KB, 935x1201, AE008B25-17A2-4167-AD33-1E00F0C81738-556-00000105830EB1C4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >book is upside down

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 03:54:16 2017 No.9908765 >start flipping through the book >page xi, xxvi, xl JUST START THE FUCKING BOOK ALREADY

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 03:57:45 2017 No.9908770 File: 477 KB, 495x750, 1502939687398.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >too lazy to work on my novel >write my novel's foreward, preface, and introduction instead feels good

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 04:09:17 2017 No.9908789 >the preface doesn't use roman numbers >the novel starts at page 38

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 04:11:28 2017 No.9908791 >>9908770 MADMAN

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 04:30:29 2017 No.9908827 >introduction >introduction to the first edition >introduction to the second edition >introduction to the third edition >Translator's note

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 04:34:57 2017 No.9908839 >>9907826 >read a novella >20 page introduction >10 page author's note >30 pages of appendices >100 pages of the actual story

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 04:57:28 2017 No.9908871 >hemingway anthology >introduction by publisher >introduction by son #1 >introduction by son #2 >introduction by son #3 >introduction by hemingway himself

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 05:00:19 2017 No.9908879 >>9907947 >Book has pages

Anonymous Fri Aug 18 05:01:15 2017 No.9908882

>Introduction to the first edition
>Introduction to the second edition
>Introduction to the third edition
>...
>Introduction to the ninth edition
>Introduction to the first posthumous edition
>Introduction to the first fully restored edition
>Introduction to the 50th anniversary commemorative edition
>Introduction to the 75th anniversary commemorative edition
>Introduction to the 2nd fully restored edition (we mean it this time)
>Introduction to the 25th anniversary of the 2nd fully restored edition

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 07:11:08 2017 No.9909142 >>9908275 The finest taste

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 07:19:26 2017 No.9909152 File: 1.69 MB, 2280x2880, 010705kerouac-scroll-hirez.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9908879 >book hasn't pages

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 07:20:50 2017 No.9909155 File: 129 KB, 265x265, smiling carl.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9907826 >The foreword, preface, and introduction have a gratis book at the back

Anonymous Fri Aug 18 07:24:04 2017 No.9909165

>the book has a map
>the book has a family tree
>the book has "to my father" on the title page
>the book's previous owner smoked way too much cheap weed
>the book has advance praise on the front cover
>the book has "10000000 halfwits also bought this crap" on the cover

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 07:25:12 2017 No.9909167 >there's no table of contents

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 07:32:22 2017 No.9909178 File: 891 KB, 325x252, 56478392653496578346576234965784236795234789.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9907826 >introduction alone is 45 pages long fuck you mum why couldn't you get me a decent copy of moby dick

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 07:37:19 2017 No.9909190 >there is no index of names

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 08:36:27 2017 No.9909326 File: 7 KB, 181x279, mamalay.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] book is a translation into english of a famous novel, and has cultural footnotes to spoonfeed anglos.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 08:41:09 2017 No.9909333 >book is from 500 years ago from another continent >doesn't have footnotes explaining things most people wouldn't understand

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 08:43:47 2017 No.9909341 >>9908180 kendra sunderland

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 08:50:47 2017 No.9909353 >there are no chapters

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 09:12:52 2017 No.9909418 >>9907923 >thinking it's ever acceptable for a non-fiction book to NOT have a bibliography pleb of the highest fucking degree

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 09:14:37 2017 No.9909422 >>9909326 Sorry sweetie but just being a non-Anglo doesn't somehow make you an expert on every other European culture, regardless of how bitter you are about being isolated from the Anglo world. The extra notes are for your plebby benefit too.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 09:17:36 2017 No.9909427 >book has "suggestions" for other shitty books by the same publisher and the first chapter on a completely different book JUST

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 09:17:55 2017 No.9909429 File: 66 KB, 570x428, shiba.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9908765 >book uses roman numerals start to finish >ends on page DCCLXXIX

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 11:07:11 2017 No.9909740 >>9908180 dumb phoneposter

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 11:41:40 2017 No.9909870 >>9907923 Is that a picture of William Lane Craig?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 11:43:48 2017 No.9909879 >>9908709 Because they spoil the actual book

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 11:45:24 2017 No.9909884 >>9909152 >Jew Books

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 11:46:11 2017 No.9909887 File: 38 KB, 327x499, bloom_republic.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >book has a 130+ pages interpretive essay by the translator

Anonymous Fri Aug 18 11:48:25 2017 No.9909897
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>>9907826
>book has numbered footnotes scattered throughout the book
>just the numbers though
>the actual notes are all collected on the last fifteen pages
>you have to flip to the end every time you see a footnote to see what it says

end me

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 12:02:05 2017 No.9909936 >first page describes the characters appearance

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 12:17:53 2017 No.9909996 >>9909418 like anyone outside of academia gives two flying fucks about what other books you've read lol

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 12:19:58 2017 No.9910008 >>9907923 >Every Norton Critical Edition ever

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 12:28:43 2017 No.9910057 File: 41 KB, 750x698, lemôn.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >book is re-published after having been made into a major picture with a small essay from the film director in the front

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 12:35:28 2017 No.9910086 >>9909897 Endnotes per chapter is even more infuriating. It doesn't even make sense that publishers do it. Back in the day it eased typesetting of pages. But now when everything is set up digitally, is it just lazy and inferior.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 12:37:04 2017 No.9910096 >>9909165 >"The book behind the hit movie"

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 14:33:39 2017 No.9910644 >>9908839 Literally Heart of Darkness

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 14:47:57 2017 No.9910720 >Book has a foreword >Skip it >Turns out it was actually part of the story JUST

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 15:56:50 2017 No.9910969 File: 14 KB, 194x259, apple tablet.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9909152 >scroll has no tablet

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 16:31:14 2017 No.9911105 >Book has a short story in an envelope that ties into the short story >it is printed on quality paper

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 18 18:04:13 2017 No.9911403 >>9909353 Saramago?

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