>>840 How many new posters did y'all get ? I fear 4/lit/ is too small and may have died for good

>>844 I have no idea. I also own /b/ and /k/ and /tg/ so ive been very busy, those are super active boards requiring moderation. So sadly havent had a chance to even check the board til now. Looks like some tho! Im gonna see if anyone is talking about books. I like books.

you can upload entire books here right?

>>808 takes a million years to upload

>>804 There is zero need for an entire board.

>>847 >that pic you seem familiar somehow…

>>849 I don't remember where I saved it from. Perhaps /int/ or /r9k/.

>>852 ah, probably have you confused then kek

Up late about to shave and shower soon

The death of 4chan has been a disaster for my daily routine. >>729 I feel the same way. ID's on drama boards (pol, a, b, bant, v, vg, vt, biz, int), being able to post HQ webms with sound anywhere, and webp, is pretty great. I hated the hacker at first but sounds like he was someone who got banned for criticizing the Solo Leveling janny or something, found out a bunch of dirt 4chan was doing like crunchyroll being jannies or the mods not doing shit, and decided to be ungovernable. Their motive might've been so they could go back to spamming in a DBZ thread most likely so I don't care to glaze that faggot or 4chan's raped corpse. Sounds like they are a neglectful pretentious bunch of lazy fags who didn't care to improve anything so if it comes back the same then it would have all been for nothing. Hoping everyone moves to an objectively better website, the longer 4chan is down the more likely 8chan will stick, that's the best outcome imo. 8chan staff seems motivated to fix things so there will be a lot of change to early weird quirks like loading media and there being two vidya general boards.

>>837 Just to add to your post, the weird double vidya boards is on the users; the point of the website is that if someone doesn't like how a board is run they can make another one themselves just like reddit :^). I don't know what prompted the creation of a second vidya general board amidst the chaos, but it's possible that both will survive (it's happened before with regular /v/ boards because a subset of anons wanted a Mark alternative) or that one will prevail in time.

>>843 It's padded drama slop for women if you're gonna read webnovel slop at least read something decent like guide to evil or mother of learning or something

>>846 I'm not a woman but I grew up with two sisters and regularly watched romance anime with them as a kid thinking there was nothing wrong with it at all so my tastes are probably skewed. I just like the slice of sloppa alongside the emotional scenes paba writes. I also read Chinese sloppa. I am basically a racoon gorging itself on garbage. PGTE is great. Haven't touched MoL yet because I'm not a fan of timeloop stories.

>>788 For sure, I mentally characterize the used book stores I've been to as either real stores or hoarder dens. Most readers have experienced the later; stacks of books everywhere, no real categorization, average quality (physical and intellectual) of books very low, owner seems more interested in collecting books than actually running a business. Some readers like the hoarder dens ('I just love the smell of books!' or 'It's like a library!'), but they are awful from a customer perspective. My favorite used bookstores are like if Barnes and Noble was a local used book store: clean, well categorized, consistent modest sales, helpful employees. If B&N started selling used books I'd be all over it. In my area there's a really good 2nd & Charles that fits the description. As long as you don't sell to them (their trade in program is laughably pathetic), it's a good store.

>>790 Unfortunately I know and semi-regular a used bookstore in the hoarder den category. It's really unfortunate because there are some good books I've come across in there, but some of their organization is very hit or miss. Barnes and Noble could maybe really benefit from selling used books, especially because they have the resources like BookOff and could borrow from that model, but I assume it's probably a really big departure they have no interest in making. I also think Barnes and Noble is too corporate and trend chasing to do something like that. It's really sad, because I think a bookstore that sells both old and new books and other media could potentially succeed, but I can't think of any examples that do that in my area let alone on a large scale.

>>788 little free libraries reflect the community they're in. I've gotten sheet music, chekov plays, and field guides from them. really nice books in great condition, too. check the rich neighborhoods like 20 mins from a city center. I used to live in a neighborhood where all the houses were 2+ million dollars(I rented a room) and the little free libraries were always packed with good stuff and there was a high turnover rate, so there was always new stuff too. I've seen little free libraries in the ghetto that are smashed out, full of mcdonald's wrappers and narcan. If yours are full of romance novels and kids lit, you should probably move. Yesterday I got a clean copy of Schubert's Winterreise score from a piano store. They had a big bin of free music and I spent 5 mins looking through it. They had Mozart Sonatas, Bach Organ music, and Liszt Etudes. Maybe I'll go back and get more later, I can't imagine anyone else is getting any. I played a 70 thousand dollar piano for an hour and had fun chatting with the salesman. Last week, I went to the local used bookstore by the university and got a biography of Toscanini that has quips and anecdotes from people who knew him. It wasn't on zlibrary or available through normal online shops, so I picked it up. Totally worth it. Honestly, I mostly use the Libby app to listen to audiobooks while I walk the dog or ride the train. Libby is great if you read old stuff on topics that aren't very popular. I listened to Ovid's metamorphoses lately and a book about extinct ecosystems called Otherlands. If you ever want to go back in time to the triassic and have someone help you imagine what it was like, that is your book. It was really engaging and went from the more recent familiar ecosystems to the more distant and alien ones in a way that eased you into the scary depths of the past.

>>831 Existentialism by Robert Solomon. It's a starting point that you can latch onto since it involves the philosophy of the present times. A textbook should give an overview a wide variety of subjects, but instead of the usual glazing and dismissal the book is just an anthology of primary source material and some brief introduction. I doubt I would've studied phil without it.

>>831 I've read the Republic. It's interesting, but it is also very long. Most of Plato's dialogs are much shorter. The go-to starting point for Plato back in antiquity (at least according to a certain neoplatonist named Iamblichus) was Alcibiades I. After that Gorgias and then Phaedo. You can look up the rest of his list if you want to read more.

>>827 I'm pretty far into philosophy what's a good place for philosophy of mind and hermeneutics respectively? I'm reading John Searle for mind but want to go deeper.. And hermeneutics seems to always filter me

>>711 If he finished the books he wouldn't have time to write his third history of the lusty Targaryen bastards or attach his name to another tv show. At this point I don't expect him to ever finish TWOW let alone the series. My cope is just telling myself that Stannis conquers Westeros and R'hollor's followers live happily ever after.

>>829 My cope is that Stannis realize that to reforge his sword and kill the Others he needs to kill someone with the blood of the true king: Shireen or himself. He picks himself but Shireen ends up ruling Westeros with fAegon Blackfyre as her husband.

where are my /grrm/ bros?

I liked the people who talked about what they read I fucking hated the retards who made surface level threads about shit that they haven't read (every nietzsche thread) Also every thread with having anything to do with women was awful. If you participated in that fuck you

>>821 >I fucking hated the retards who made surface level threads about shit that they haven't read (every nietzsche thread) Nietzsche is high school-level philosopher. I can't imagine full grown adults bragging about reading his works.

>>833 Those threads were made by trolls to antagonize religionplants mostly And it worked, because those posters were also high school level

I’ve been using my notes app and google docs. Convenience over everything as long as it is functional.

>>620 I use novelWriter and its fine

>>647 I use Scrivener and it's awesome. You can make independent notes per chapter, there's room to storyboard, you can do so much. My absolute favorite feature is that you can write chapters and drag them around. I plan a skeleton plot then just kinda connect the dots as I grow a novel, so it's really helpful to be able to see the superstructure of the plot as it develops. Relevant notes pop up in the chapter where I need them, and I keep a whole separate section with character details, motivations, relationships, etc. It's so good at keeping everything organized, which is a challenge while growing a novel. It's leaps and bounds better than using a simple word processor, and you won't really understand until you use it why that is. I've only been using it for my last six books, but it's changed the way I write and plot. I'm sure I use it in a very simple way, and that there's much more you can do, but it's transformed my workflow. Oh, and if you do nanowrimo, it has built in integration that syncs with their website and keeps you on track for your monthly wordcount, but now that nano is dead you'll be on your own, but that was cool. Honestly just get Scrivener and watch a tutorial on it. It's fucking amazing.

>>688 your diary lol

>>688 Forbidden Colors for another Mishima book. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Death in Venice, Maurice and Last of the Wine if you want something set in Greece.

Salve, amice. I'm glad to see a familiar face as we navigate this time of exile. 136 Psalmus David, Jeremiae. Super flumina Babylonis illic sedimus et flevimus, cum recordaremur Sion. 2 In salicibus in medio ejus suspendimus organa nostra: 3 quia illic interrogaverunt nos, qui captivos duxerunt nos, verba cantionum; et qui abduxerunt nos: Hymnum cantate nobis de canticis Sion. 4 Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena? 5 Si oblitus fuero tui, Jerusalem, oblivioni detur dextera mea. 6 Adhaereat lingua mea faucibus meis, si non meminero tui; si non proposuero Jerusalem in principio laetitiae meae. 7 Memor esto, Domine, filiorum Edom, in die Jerusalem: qui dicunt: Exinanite, exinanite usque ad fundamentum in ea. 8 Filia Babylonis misera! beatus qui retribuet tibi retributionem tuam quam retribuisti nobis. 9 Beatus qui tenebit, et allidet parvulos tuos ad petram.

>>793 Salve, amice. Quam idonee deligis psalmum; sodalitatem qui adimatur ei nimirum quasi patria praerepta flere est licendum.

>>803 Mihi placet ut tibi. Hodie Sancto Sabbato iter ad parentes facio. Bene vale. Fortasse iterum scribam in crastinum aut alio die.

>>748 nigga that book has necro-zoo-pedophilia what more extreme?

>>749 The same thing but tasteful

>>748 is that some new meme book?