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Enfys posted:I don't have any Bukowski, but I've just come to expect that no one ever returns books they borrow. I never loan a book I expect to see again. Maybe I just have lovely friends though I have about 8 friends who remind ME that they have my books. And I've not gotten any of them back.
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Sandwolf posted:I have about 8 friends who remind ME that they have my books. I've started buying "book curse" book plates on Etsy. If i think a book might be borrowed, I put one in the front.
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Feb 4, 2021 19:30
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:book plates What now? Enfys posted:I don't have any Bukowski, but I've just come to expect that no one ever returns books they borrow. I never loan a book I expect to see again. Maybe I just have lovely friends though I don't have friends who want to borrow books from me. Except one guy told me he wanted to read a collection of Borges I'd just bought after I'd finished with it, but then when I told him he could pick it up he looked at me funny and told me it had been a joke.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:What now? No idea what this curse business is.
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Feb 4, 2021 21:07
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Big fat sticker/stamp saying EX LIBRIS HIERONYMOUS ALLOY https://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/top-10-medieval-book-curses/ e.g., https://www.amazon.com/Medieval-Book-Curse-Plates-Set/dp/B07MLP37S6
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Big fat sticker/stamp saying EX LIBRIS HIERONYMOUS ALLOY Ah oh OK. I thought it was a... plate, and putting one "in the front" confused me further. We just call them exlibrises.
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Carthag Tuek posted:yeah except if you wanna pay for it!!! In that case it's legitimately easier to pay for the book and then log out of amazon and go pirate a DRM-free copy somewhere else As an added bonus, the pirate version will come in six different formats, and there's a 50/50 chance that someone will also have gone through it and fixed the hosed-up typesetting that gives it 1" margins or makes every italicized word twice as large as it should be or something Hieronymous Alloy posted:https://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/top-10-medieval-book-curses/ drat, mine are just a drawing of a cat sitting atop a stack of books with EX LIBRIS TOXICFROG below them I guess they might curse someone to have trouble getting their book out from under the cat ToxicFrog fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Feb 4, 2021 |
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Feb 4, 2021 23:37
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Goodreads is having a bug where it won't show the reviews of people I follow. This happen to anyone else?
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Feb 9, 2021 03:33
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Do you mean this sort of page? (My friends read fancier books than I do!)
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Feb 9, 2021 22:55
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 Moral of the story: there's such a think as too ornate a C.
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Feb 11, 2021 23:12
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No, it's only a problem on the pages of specific books where both friends and followed people have reviews posted.
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Feb 16, 2021 09:24
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I've been reading China Mieville's Perdido Street Station and can't remember the last time it took me this long to finish a book.
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I just reread a bunch of Harlan Ellison and for as much as he was a poo poo, holy hell his stories and especially his intros were loving amazing. The Deathbird makes me literally cry.
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I got a chance to meet Harlan as part of volunteer staff at a convention. He was brilliant to talk with, but you could never predict when he would go Full rear end in a top hat mode. Then he used his frankly superior to the rest of the room's verbal skills to just rip people apart. It was amazing, and horrible at the same time.
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The only thing by Ellison I've ever read was an issue of The Incredible Hulk. What else should I read? E: I guess Deathbird if I wanna cry.
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Feb 22, 2021 15:00
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I want to read, but my kindle needs charging. 
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Feb 22, 2021 16:12
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Texas/power outage area?
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Feb 22, 2021 16:50
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No, I have power I'm just dumb because I forgot to charge this thing last night. This is so far the one problem with reading ebooks: reliant on power. Regular books don't have this issue!
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Feb 22, 2021 17:03
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Kindle app on phone? It's not as good as the real thing (my Oasis is maybe my favorite electronic device I own, it's 100% worth the cost) but if you turn on sepia mode and play with the brightness (override system brightness in the app) it's not bad.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:The only thing by Ellison I've ever read was an issue of The Incredible Hulk. "A Boy and His Dog" is a must read if you want to check out Ellison. It's everything that makes him a great writer and everything that makes him a huge rear end in a top hat distilled into one wonderfully bleak and comic novella.
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PeterWeller posted:"A Boy and His Dog" is a must read if you want to check out Ellison. It's everything that makes him a great writer and everything that makes him a huge rear end in a top hat distilled into one wonderfully bleak and comic novella. And the movie is something to behold. Read the story first.
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Speaking of ereaders, is there a general thread anywhere? My Kindle's power button stopped working and while there's repair advice online I've been looking to upgrade anyway. There seems to be a tiny bit of scuttlebutt / speculation that there's a new Kobo Forma on the way out in the (relatively) short term but nothing concrete. Might be worth waiting a little to see?
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NmareBfly posted:Speaking of ereaders, is there a general thread anywhere? My Kindle's power button stopped working and while there's repair advice online I've been looking to upgrade anyway. There's an ereader thread in IYG: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3366619
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Has there ever been, or is there any interest in a book collecting thread? There are infinite types of collections and collectors, but a general thread would be cool. I collect small press/limited edition books as well as random weird stuff. I'd love to have a thread to discuss this stuff. I could put together an OP regarding small/limited edition presses (at least some, there are tons I probably don't know about), would anybody else be interested in contributing for other areas they may collect books in?
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D-Pad posted:Has there ever been, or is there any interest in a book collecting thread? There are infinite types of collections and collectors, but a general thread would be cool. I collect small press/limited edition books as well as random weird stuff. I'd love to have a thread to discuss this stuff. I could put together an OP regarding small/limited edition presses (at least some, there are tons I probably don't know about), would anybody else be interested in contributing for other areas they may collect books in? I'd be active in such a thread.
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D-Pad posted:Has there ever been, or is there any interest in a book collecting thread? There are infinite types of collections and collectors, but a general thread would be cool. I collect small press/limited edition books as well as random weird stuff. I'd love to have a thread to discuss this stuff. I could put together an OP regarding small/limited edition presses (at least some, there are tons I probably don't know about), would anybody else be interested in contributing for other areas they may collect books in? I would lurk the hell out of that thread.
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D-Pad posted:Has there ever been, or is there any interest in a book collecting thread? There are infinite types of collections and collectors, but a general thread would be cool. I collect small press/limited edition books as well as random weird stuff. I'd love to have a thread to discuss this stuff. I could put together an OP regarding small/limited edition presses (at least some, there are tons I probably don't know about), would anybody else be interested in contributing for other areas they may collect books in? 
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Ok, I will try and get to it this weekend. If anybody is interested in contributing to the OP with whatever area they collect in PM me.
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A character in a novel I'm reading called Simon & Garfunkel "Saimon [and] telefunken" and it made me chortle.
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Had to Google to get the joke... Siemens I had heard of, but not Telefunken!
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https://twitter.com/lithub/status/1369294447280857091 The Dorian Grays are amazing.
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never have i ordered a book faster than when i saw the description of the george saunders book on writing / russian short stories
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buffalo all day posted:never have i ordered a book faster than when i saw the description of the george saunders book on writing / russian short stories It's pretty good!
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Passing along a link from my mom - her best friend does audiobook recordings for all kinds of weird things, and puts them on her blog and on LibriVox: https://weavergrace.com/ https://librivox.org/reader/13638 I can't listen to them because I hear her voice over the stuff she's reading, but I'll highlight her stuff anyways: https://weavergrace.com/2020/10/24/tarzan-jewels-opar-chapter-one-edgar-rice-burroughs/ quote:As I recorded this chapter, I worked hard to maintain my focus on the terrifying, suspenseful interaction between sinister characters. I imagined myself seeing the story unfold as I reported it.
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Any recommendations for book podcasts, ideally focused on terrible genre literature?
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I Don't Even Own a Television, 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back, The Worst Bestsellers, Read It and Weep (before it pivoted to let-people-enjoy-things drivel). The only one I listen to anymore is 372 Pages, but Mike Nelson is an idiot who can't bring himself to cut ties with anybody (he got in a lot of hot water last year for being on Douglas TenNapel's podcast,* and he would have this year for hanging out with loving Lowtax on the Gaming Garbage stream if anyone outside these forums gave a poo poo about Rich), so I don't blame anyone who doesn't. *The TenNapel thing is funny because the site listed him as one of the main hosts, but he was barely ever on the show itself and conspicuously not on episodes where TenNapel really TenNapeled out. It really comes off like he wanted to be nice (which is all that matters, of course) and do his old buddy a favor without getting too dirty himself. Whoops.
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There's also Book Club For Masochists. The hosts are all librarians, and each episode they pick a (sub)genre or subject of books, and discuss the terrible books they picked for it. They also sometimes discuss good books, library culture/community, etc.
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