Ya, about 15 of them are sitting on my kindle because they were freeReddhedd wrote:
43. And about 15 that I always say "I should read that...." and never do
a 'book' can be a canto/cantica. a 'book' is a general term. one volume of the lord of the rings is a 'book'. a collection of poetry or an anthology is a 'book'. printed drama and plays are 'books'. a collection of essays is a 'book'. i think they're using the term very lightly... and they didn't say the entire divine comedy because of the insane length, i imagine.FlemishHCmaniac wrote:
Inferno is not a book, it's a cantica. Why don't they just put "The Divine Comedy"? Or does everyone just read Inferno and then skip Purgatorio and Paradisio?
shhhh let him think his thoughtsJay wrote:
Nah, they stripped us of all personal belongings, right down to our underwear. They couldn't take away religious texts because of freedom of religion and stuff.Uzique wrote:
jesus christ talk about auspicious reading before you're deployed to the fuckin' middle-east to kill muslims
american crusades
You can't explain that.11 Bravo wrote:
why isnt bill o'rlys book on that list
yes it was lol. but i swear it's the one book i've read by him. meanwhile i've read almost all of the late michael crichton's books, so if we're looking at page proportion, he would take the majority most probably...Uzique wrote:
everyone is dissing the da vinci code but i bet it was one of your minute fraction . if 1/18th of all the classic literature that you have ever read is dan brown... dare i even venture to guess how much in terms of actual page-proportion... then you need to seriously look at yourself!
I like my kindle, but not everything is in digital format as of yet. Unless you're trying to build a library or something, it's a lot more convenient. And if you are trying to build a library, it's a fantastic way to weed out the rubbish before you go and lay out money on hardcovers that you may not like.ghettoperson wrote:
Whilst on the subject of books, what do you guys think about Kindles? I'd much rather have a physical collection of books, but it also seems like a really cheap and easy way to acquire a lot of books. Just because I'm going to have a lot of spare time on my hands this summer, so I may as well do some reading.
Do you own a Kindle or a Nook? I used to be a guy that walked around with a paperback bulging out of his pocket or stuffed into his backpack. While I still prefer holding a physical book in my hands, my Kindle isn't all that far off, and the convenience factor more than outweighs whatever sensory attachment I still have to physical books.Uzique wrote:
even a cheap paperback mass-print edition for $5 bucks is worth more than a kindle... a book you have for life, no matter how fancy the print or how rare the edition. you can pick up a 20 year old paperback edition of a classic and read it, enjoy it, put it on your shelf... and take it down and read it again in the future. reading is an 'experience'. a kindle just turns reading into a novel (no pun intended) experience - a bit of a techno-gadget gimmick, if you ask me. great for having works for reference on the move, though... the search feature and stuff comes in very handy in lectures/seminars when trying to find a particular quote/passage/theme (but that's pretty specific to students)
Yeah that's kind of how I was thinking about it. For the moment it gives me access quickly and cheaply to a ton of books, and then once I'm not moving around once a year and am a little more stable I can rebuy everything in paper.Jay wrote:
I like my kindle, but not everything is in digital format as of yet. Unless you're trying to build a library or something, it's a lot more convenient. And if you are trying to build a library, it's a fantastic way to weed out the rubbish before you go and lay out money on hardcovers that you may not like.ghettoperson wrote:
Whilst on the subject of books, what do you guys think about Kindles? I'd much rather have a physical collection of books, but it also seems like a really cheap and easy way to acquire a lot of books. Just because I'm going to have a lot of spare time on my hands this summer, so I may as well do some reading.
Total fucking bollocks.Uzique wrote:
'reading' to me is about more than consuming the text-in-itself, though... it's about sitting down in an armchair, or outside in the sun, with a drink and some music... leafing through a book, flicking over pages. sitting and peering at a screen defeats the entire magic of wrapping yourself away in isolation with a good book.