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When I went to University, there weren't enough copies of mandatory books in the entire country for every student. Certainly not for sale. That's why there were a lot of photocopiers around, like basically one or more in every lobby, and then some. E: in some cases the only copy the University had was a photocopy. Yay humanities!
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Yay humanities! unironically this
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ulvir posted:unironically this My favourite was always when the only book on the subject is in German/French/whatever. "Oh you don't understand German/French/whatever? What the gently caress kind of student are you? Go be a STEMlord then you piece of poo poo and get out of my office so I can get back to my bottle of Gambina."
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Gripweed posted:Can someone point me towards good resources for college textbooks? I'm taking a summer course and the textbook is 98 goddamn dollars, so a more affordable option would be preferable. Does your college have a library? They are pretty good for that type of thing
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3D Megadoodoo posted:My favourite was always when the only book on the subject is in German/French/whatever. "Oh you don't understand German/French/whatever? What the gently caress kind of student are you? Go be a STEMlord then you piece of poo poo and get out of my office so I can get back to my bottle of Gambina." I did this the wrong way around, once upon a time. We were assigned some reading by a German philosopher. I looked up his book in what I presumed was the original German, read the assigned chapter, wrote my essay and participated in in-class discussion. And then found out that the guy had moved to the US halfway through his career and the book we had to read was originally written in English.
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bowmore posted:Does your college have a library? They are pretty good for that type of thing They also have electronic versions of texts frequently. When I did the Let's Read of a literary criticism text I took the long quotes from the electronic version of the book even though I was reading a physical copy. You will likely need to set up your uni's VPN or proxy to do this and read it through a special interface but, free. But a text less than $100 was hard to do like even 20 years ago, academic publishing is very spendy
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Definitely worth looking into digital libraries (not just your school's, but also your local municipal library and archive.org), but be aware that if the textbook has ancillary material not in the book itself (e.g. on a DVD, or on a publisher's website you need an access code for), the library version usually won't include that. Whether this is a dealbreaker depends on the course in question. Also, whether you're getting it from the library, buying a second-hand copy, or doing  , be very careful you get the correct edition. Textbook publishers loving love to publish new editions that retain all the typos, inaccuracies, and omissions of the previous edition but shuffle around pagination and homework questions so that students can't re-use previous editions.
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Stupid question: I'm having a bad swing of my adhd and it means that my kindle is effectively useless as I read a page or two of a book, then swap to another one, and repeat. And like - this is fine, this is normal, but thanks to my meds it feels unnatural again, and so I'm gravitating back to reading physical books as they're harder to swap. But! I want to finish at least one of my kindle books and I don't want to have to buy it. So. Does anyone know how to make a kindle effectively act like it has only one book on it? Without deleting everything else on it, I have at least a hundred things on it and I don't want to lose those bookmarks. I assume not, but hell, maybe someone's done something to make a kindle work for intense adhd.
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When I’ve removed books from kindle it retained all my notes and bookmarks.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Stupid question: I'm having a bad swing of my adhd and it means that my kindle is effectively useless as I read a page or two of a book, then swap to another one, and repeat. And like - this is fine, this is normal, but thanks to my meds it feels unnatural again, and so I'm gravitating back to reading physical books as they're harder to swap. There's a "disable touchscreen" option for the Oasis, which would make it at least slightly more difficult to change books (you just have to lock/unlock it restore touch functionality). I think that option on a Paperwhite makes it so only swipes turn pages, not sure if it disables the ability to go back to library view or anything.
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Humerus posted:There's a "disable touchscreen" option for the Oasis, which would make it at least slightly more difficult to change books (you just have to lock/unlock it restore touch functionality). I think that option on a Paperwhite makes it so only swipes turn pages, not sure if it disables the ability to go back to library view or anything. I have an oasis! I'll give it a go, thanks!
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StrixNebulosa posted:I have an oasis! I'll give it a go, thanks! It's kind of unintuitive to find: you press the top of the screen to pull up the navigation bar/quick menu, and then it's under the three dot menu on the right. It's a lifesaver for trying to read while holding my infant though, she has no sense of personal space.
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Hey y'all, I'm trying to track down a copy of an oddball children's book. I don't know if this is the place to ask, but figure its worth a shot. It's a childrens book written by an Argentinian Olympian called "Martillo Volador y Otros Cuentos" by Jennifer Dahlgren. I don't think it was ever published in English, but that would be cool. I found one listing on Amazon that just says out of stock and is an outrageous $49.99. Any advice?
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Ironhead posted:Hey y'all, I'm trying to track down a copy of an oddball children's book. I don't know if this is the place to ask, but figure its worth a shot. It's a childrens book written by an Argentinian Olympian called "Martillo Volador y Otros Cuentos" by Jennifer Dahlgren. I don't think it was ever published in English, but that would be cool. I found one listing on Amazon that just says out of stock and is an outrageous $49.99. $49.99 might be a bargain https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?kn=Martillo%20Volador%20y%20Otros%20Cuentos&sts=t&cm_sp=SearchF-_-topnav-_-Results https://www.betterworldbooks.com/search/results?q=Martillo%20Volador%20y%20Otros%20Cuentos https://www.thriftbooks.com/browse/?b.search=Martillo%20Volador%20y%20Otros%20Cuentos#b.s=mostPopular-desc&b.p=1&b.pp=30&b.oos
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I just got this basically brand new at a thrift store for like two bucks (along with a gorgeous edition of Mary Beard's How Do We Look) and it's basically the greatest most bizarre book ever  It's like...the anarchist cookbook for people who binge doctor who? It's got weirdly practical serious camping survivalist tips alongside how to escape from a live burial, defend an embassy, or get out of handcuffs...alongside like, an explanation of the science of radio transmissions 😅      
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That's pretty great - reminds me of the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook Series that were big 20-ish years ago. Which taught me how to defend myself against shark attacks and how to fall safely from a tall building, skills I use daily.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:You'd think they could've gotten MacGyver for the cover. Not sure if you knew already and I'm not realising the joke but that is MacGyver from the reboot series they did... Why that ever existed I will never know lol
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bovis posted:Not sure if you knew already and I'm not realising the joke but that is MacGyver from the reboot series they did... Why that ever existed I will never know lol Oh, no I didn't know there was a new series. I can tell by the smirk that it sucked.
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Anyone know why the Commonweal series thread was closed? Usually there's a mod message or something. Now, it's just grayed out and gives a weird permission error I've never seen on this forum before.
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LLSix posted:Anyone know why the Commonweal series thread was closed? Usually there's a mod message or something. Now, it's just grayed out and gives a weird permission error I've never seen on this forum before. There was drama. There's a new thread here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4006013 Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Jul 2, 2022 |
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Where is the Let’s Read of the Sword of Truth series? I have a hankering to watch someone else suffer through that mess, preferably pulling entertaining quotes for discussion and commiseration.
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Grundulum posted:Where is the Let’s Read of the Sword of Truth series? I have a hankering to watch someone else suffer through that mess, preferably pulling entertaining quotes for discussion and commiseration. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3668845
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Thanks. The OP ends at Chainfire, which is after I stopped forcing myself to continue but before the end of the list suggested by Wikipedia. Did the books become too miserable even to hateread, or is that actually the end of the main plot?
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So for birthday reasons I've been putting together an amazon list of books, and... I am flabbergasted at how bad Amazon is at discoverability. I mean, I knew this, but it's so weird to me how they DON'T want you to find other products you might be interested in. There's no online experience of walking down a bookstore and seeing titles, no lists, nothing. I know. Go poke goodreads or ask for recs or whatever, but it's annoying that I can't do it in amazon.
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Didn’t Amazon just integrate Comixology into their main site after a decade of ownership? I’m glad I canceled my Comixology Unlimited subscription, I really have a hard time browsing Amazon.
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StrixNebulosa posted:So for birthday reasons I've been putting together an amazon list of books, and... I am flabbergasted at how bad Amazon is at discoverability. I mean, I knew this, but it's so weird to me how they DON'T want you to find other products you might be interested in. There's no online experience of walking down a bookstore and seeing titles, no lists, nothing. Amazon's search has been getting consistently worse for a while now. The algorithm they use for searches is godawful, you can put the exact title of a book in and it won't be on the first page of results, instead you'll get a bunch of ebooks with titles that share words with what you want. They are clearly trying to get you to buy ebooks and rent Prime movies so the results are always lousy with those. And now they have sponsored results so you'll get ads for unrelated products that share a keyword. And sometimes it produces really weird poo poo, like recently when I've looked for movies the British region copy comes up higher in my search results than the American ones. I have never bought a British region movie, I have never been to Britain, I've never used a VPN that set my location to Britain, but somehow Amazon has become convinced that I want British blurays.
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I do not understand how someone can unironically believe that Hazel Shade is the author of Pale Fire. I'm sure I'm not the only one who did a reread when people started talking Nabokov again, but coming off that I go peek around to see what the intellectualists have been dreaming up. I get the obvious Botkin wrote it, I can even gently caress with the J.Shade theory, but when you start saying nonsense like Hazel did it, it becomes pretty hard to take you seriously. Granted I haven't actually read their arguments because I have somewhat a value on my time, but I don't think it would be persuasive at any rate. Really you might as well say Gradus scrawled the whole thing on his Cell walls to explain why he shot John, if he did.
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Gaius Marius posted:I do not understand how someone can unironically believe that Hazel Shade is the author of Pale Fire. I'm sure I'm not the only one who did a reread when people started talking Nabokov again, but coming off that I go peek around to see what the intellectualists have been dreaming up. I get the obvious Botkin wrote it, I can even gently caress with the J.Shade theory, but when you start saying nonsense like Hazel did it, it becomes pretty hard to take you seriously. Granted I haven't actually read their arguments because I have somewhat a value on my time, but I don't think it would be persuasive at any rate. Really you might as well say Gradus scrawled the whole thing on his Cell walls to explain why he shot John, if he did. I also can't see the Hazel thing and if anyone found their way there, I would love to see the path they took to get there.
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hello, i will try to make the case for hazel although it will be halfhearted, because i don't think the text strongly supports that reading (although it is a fun one to try to support post hoc) as per: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3785652&pagenumber=1&perpage=40#post462937221 and also because it's been a while. i also don't have boyd's book on hand atm so i don't have his textual arguments available. i don't even remember what his final thesis even was, tbh (it was either a two-narrator case with hazel writing "pale fire" but kinbote existing in some form as a separate narrator that is "haunted" by hazel, or one-narrator case for hazel). i also note that he (seems to have?) recanted the hazel theory in later work, so i'm not certain if there are significant extent groups of "hazelians" left, as opposed to shadeans etc. in any event, the argument i would make goes something like this: 1) nabokov is not above making subtle or otherwise easily overlooked "solutions" in his writing. so solutions of many particular potential complexities are in play 2) the structure and content of pale fire supports its reading as a puzzle box book: discovering the circumstances of shade's death and kinbote's life. the poem itself makes occasional self-descriptions of itself as a mystery. from his prior work, we know that nabokov himself was also not above using cryptic crossword levels of language games to provide clues for textual mysteries of this sort. 3) 1) and 2) together, combined with the lack of a strong textual case or academic consensus around the work, mean that looking further afield is not only permitted but perhaps even more likely to align with whatever nabokov's authorial intent was here. John Shade and Kinbote are "too easy" as answers for the intended author of the poem and so we have to look elsewhere (shades of Borges' "In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?"). so that's enough to at least get to "a wacky thesis about who is meant to have written either 'pale fire' the poem or kinbote's commentary is acceptable", and gives us some license to ignore or at least downplay the otherwise strong textual evidence that john shade is the poet. for hazel specifically as narrator, we gotta go off of vibes though: 1) even ignoring kinbote's gloss, and the near-death experience referred to by "And one night I died.", the poem occasionally alludes to or at least supports a post-mortem writer. (it's "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain", after all). canto 2 posted:There was a time in my demented youth canto 2 posted:What moment in the gradual decay canto 3 posted:The Institute assumed it might be wise canto 3 posted:How not to panic when you're made a ghost: 2) hazel's ghost specifically appears several times as an image canto 1 posted:Pass through its shade where gently seems to sway canto 2 posted:And I love you most there's even an extended bit in canto three where shade denies the existence of his daughter's ghost while various noises recur: canto 3 posted:That tasteless venture helped me in a way. 3) there are several parts of the poem that "work" well if we assume hazel is at least in conversation with (or "haunting") the poet. for instance: "She took her poor young life. I know. You know." the relatively simple rhyme scheme of the poem (remember the actual quality or intended quality of the poem itself is a matter of debate) would also fit well with hazel, who after all is shown to take after her father and whose only dialogue in the poem is to play games with language. so that's how you would get to "there's something fishy going on, and hazel's ghost is involved". how you get from that to a fuller "solution" of the book i think requires some more spadework. again, i think this is a hermeneutical parlor trick rather than a particular strong reading, but there you have it. Tree Goat fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Jul 19, 2022 |
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Tree Goat posted:hello, i will try to make the case for hazel Thank you! It was great to read that. Also: quote:hermeneutical parlor trick
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Tree Goat posted:hello, i will try to make the case for hazel The most damning thing about the theory to me is there's no why to it. There's no reason in the text for us to believe that Hazel would create Pale Fire the poem, and even less for her to create the gloss. Shade creating the poem is simply him trying to deal with the trauma of his daughter's suicide, and Botkin creating the gloss is a way for him to lionize the object of his unreturned affection, while also coyly slipping in his own megalomaniac delusions. Having that be the story is perfectly congruent with everything in the text, the quote unquote final secret being that Kinbote is really just Botkin. I can entertain the idea that Shade wrote both the poem and the gloss though, imagine him working for so long on this poem dealing with his daughters suicide and realizing no matter how much emotion he pours into it it'll never reach the level of Frost. So he starts doing a fake gloss of it, he brings in this rich imagined life, he morphs his annoying neighbor/colleague into Kinbote an obsessive stalker, and creates this fiction of him being killed. Now his poem is ensconced inside this bizarre tale of false kings, assassinations, new criticism, daring escapes, beautiful princesses. He's turned it from a poignant but forgettable poem by a nobody to an object that demands study. So both of those maintain a logic to the authorship, whereas the Hazel theory feels like someone throwing something out there that's insane just for attention. Then backing it up limply with some slight implications that maybe ghosts are real. It lacks any motivation
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i mean i could confabulate some potential motivations/structures if you want (pale fire as an occurrence at owl creek bridge-style meditation from hazel as she works through her relationship with her father while engaging with a fantasy country of her own design, hazel as a lincoln in the bardo-style possessing figure attempting to give her father's work and death some ultimate meaning through her own unresolved emotions, hell, hazel as hamlet-style vengeful wraith trying to get her father's killer to admit to his deed and/or commit suicide through the maddening influence of poetry etc. etc.) but i don't think you would (or should) find them particularly compelling narrative structures. i would have to develop an almost megalomaniacal devotion to this particular reading outside of even a shred of textual support (there's an argument that boyd was doing a kinbote-style shtick in proposing it in the first place, for this reason). there's a reason it's not a popular (or even particularly credible) reading, merely a potentially interesting one. honestly i would view the hazelites (if there are any unironic ones, which i'm not really sure of) as an emotional reaction to the text rather than a logical one, an urge to look for new readings (even in the midst of a book that is largely a satire of these readings). kinbote is too obviously a liar, and the reality/non-reality of his referents calls into doubt the reality/non-reality of other elements of the book. sort of like when you're watching a bad magician and you know to look everywhere except for where the magician is directing your attention. again, compare to humbert in lolita where you, over the course of the novel, figure out more or less exactly what kind of liar he is. fwiw boyd cites nabokov's diary later to support more or less of what i think of as the "standard" reading (all is more or less as it seems: shade as poet, kinbote as botkin, botkin as commenter who commits suicide at the end of the book). christ should i have been spoilering any of this. ah well. spoilers for pale fire i guess. Tree Goat fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Jul 19, 2022 |
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This discussion is making me want to reread Pale Fire, especially since I forgot Botkin existed (and the concept of Zembla being confabulated by a Russian expatriate instead of an American is kind of interesting, even above and beyond the fact that it was obviously written by a Russian expatriate in the real world).
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You should absolutely reread it. Everyonce in a while I start thinking that there's a lot of peeps who've got some good prose goin', then I read some Nabokov and realize they're all loving amateurs who need to get the gently caress out
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