/lit/ - Literature

I have literally never read a book that was written by anyone other than myself.
This isn't a solipsism LARP. I have literally never read any book that I myself didn't write.
I don't even read other people's writing at all.

>No thanks bro, weed is unbased. I only use opium.

Everything is true and nothing is permitted.

>find a new book on /lit/
>copy and paste it's title directly into the libgen.rs search bar
>download the epub and transfer it to my Kobo via micro-USB

Ah yes, another literary masterpiece to enjoy free of charge. We truly live in a golden age,

>>16432720
>Today I am writing about...

>book's epigraph is in Greek or Latin

>>16407666
correct, there is only compassion or the lack of it. because i have compassion, everything i don't like (sadism) is bad and evil and anyone who disagrees with me is wrong. source: my emotions. I don't care about principles other people hold, only that consequences are what i want them to be, which is a world without suffering or sadistic behavior.

t. emotivist

My argument is that, because .epub and other similar files are effectively identical to each other, and you use the exact "book"(your tablet, e-reader etc) to read all of these different texts, that removes a lot of potential to retain the information.
With a .pdf on your monitor or tablet, you do have unique pages, in color etc, but you still lose the interaction with the physical pages and the tactility, the smell, a stain in the corner of one page- all of this aids retention. With an .epub on your e-reader, you lose all of these aids; everything is identical no matter what you read(physical, visual, olfactory, etc). With a .pdf on your monitor or tablet, you lose most of these aids(you have a slight visual aid and nothing else).
This is basic knowledge in memory retention or improvement, pedagogy, etc. We want studies to demonstrate it, but only to confirm. I'm also not touching upon the fact that these electronic devices are high-octane distraction in a box, more so than anything else in human history. That does not help, at all.

My argument is that, because .epub and other similar files are effectively identical to each other, and you use the exact "book"(your tablet, e-reader etc) to read all of these different texts, that removes a lot of potential to retain the information.
With a .pdf on your monitor or tablet, you do have unique pages, in color etc, but you still lose the interaction with the physical pages and the tactility, the smell, a stain in the corner of one page- all of this aids retention. With an .epub on your e-reader, you lose all of these aids; everything is identical no matter what you read(physical, visual, olfactory, etc). With a .pdf on your monitor or tablet, you lose most of these aids(you have a slight visual aid and nothing else).
This is basic knowledge in memory retention or improvement, pedagogy, etc. We want studies to demonstrate it, but only to confirm. I'm also not touching upon the fact that these electronic devices are high-octane distraction in a box, more so than anything else in human history. That does not help, at all.

My argument is that, because .epub and other similar files are effectively identical to each other, and you use the exact "book"(your tablet, e-reader etc) to read all of these different texts, that removes a lot of potential to retain the information.
With a .pdf on your monitor or tablet, you do have unique pages, in color etc, but you still lose the interaction with the physical pages and the tactility, the smell, a stain in the corner of one page- all of this aids retention. With an .epub on your e-reader, you lose all of these aids; everything is identical no matter what you read(physical, visual, olfactory, etc). With a .pdf on your monitor or tablet, you lose most of these aids(you have a slight visual aid and nothing else).
This is basic knowledge in memory retention or improvement, pedagogy, etc. We want studies to demonstrate it, but only to confirm. I'm also not touching upon the fact that these electronic devices are high-octane distraction in a box, more so than anything else in human history. That does not help, at all.

>>16298773
I want to tell you to commit suicide, but for all I know you were molested/abused and that warped your development into wanting to molest children yourself, therefore it is "not your fault". It is an ethical dilemma, though, I doubt that being molested makes you want to molest children yourself. I was abused(not sexually) and it made me want the exact opposite for everyone.

E-books are the only option. Material possessions should be limited as much as possible. I am also suspicious of the idea that you retain less.

>>16128675
Yes, that's correct. Not all books belong on /lit/. Fan-fiction does not belong on /lit/. Manga does not belong on /lit/. Books about anime and manga do not belong on /lit/. Books about television do not belong on /lit/. All of these things have their own dedicated boards. Please return to the board dedicated to the subject of this thread, namely /a/.

>>16125113
>Not that guy and didn't read his posts btw

>as it were