Guess I'm just a peasant eh.
Guess I'm just a peasant eh.
The wordsOriginally Posted by Polly
I used to prefer physical but then I got a kindle and realized it doesn't really matter
What I left:
Spoiler:
Maybe Strife should read the Great Gatsby
Why Great Gatsby
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you
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That is but a trifle!
My attempts at being a (fanfic) writer:
Eclipse - a Saber Alter oneshot
Requiem for a Race - Altrouge and Ortenrosse hunt the TAs ( 1/3 chapters, discontinued )
Memories of a King - a 'Saber Origins' story ( 8/? chapters, discontiuned )
A Small Warmth - a post UBW-Good oneshot, Saber/Rin
Devil's Thrill - Narbareck hunts down a DAA Blackmore ( 10/10 chapters, finished )
Boundary of Loneliness - Ryougi Shiki/Alphard Al-Shua oneshot. Lemon-flavoured
The essence, dear!I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you
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That is but a trifle!
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"An owl-eyed man at a Gatsby party sits in awe in the library, murmuring with amazement that all the books on Gatsby's shelves are "real books":"See!" he cried triumphantly. "It's a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fella's a regular Belasco. It's a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, too - didn't cut the pages. But what do you want? What do you expect?" (3.50)
Quick Brain Snack: books used to come with their pages uncut, meaning that the sheets that are folded to make the books aren't sliced open on the top. You'd have to cut them open before reading. If you didn't, everyone would know that you hadn't actually read the book.
Gatsby's uncut books tell us that much of what Gatsby presents to the world is a façade. He wants people to believe that he's a well-educated man, an Oxford man, but in fact he only spent a short time there after the war. He wants people to think that he's well-read, but he's never even cracked the covers. So, the simple answer is that the books represent the fact that Gatsby is a fraud. He's built up an image of himself that isn't consistent with the facts of his life. But you could also argue that the unopened, unread books represent Gatsby himself: eternally mysterious, eternally unopened."
same
Oh there you go, bringing class into it again.
<NEW FIC!> Revolution #9: Somewhere out there, there's a universe in which your mistakes and failures never happened, and all you wished for is true. How hard would you fight to make that real?
[11:20:46 AM] GlowStiks: lucina is supes attractive
[12:40] Lace: lucina is amazing
[12:40] Neir: lucina is pretty much flawless
Peasantry is a proud profession.
I can relate to this very well.
While I have no qualms on reading Kindle, there's this implicit sensation when reading physical book. I'm a bit paranoid on how I handle those books, though. Like accidental crease would depress me for quite some time.
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Real books are cheaper and don't hurt my eyes as much as Kindle books, as well as being inherently superiour.
The only downside is weight. I got a one-volume edition of the Sword of Shannara Trilogy as a present a few years back and I still haven't finished it because it's too heavy to hold comfortably.
I am of the controversial opinion that they're not inherently better, we're just used to them.
I love owning beautiful books, to clarify. If I could I'd fill my shelves with those beautifully illustrated botany and zoology books, Vitruvius and other trade-related classics, stuff like that. It's just that I don't really feel the appeal of filling shelves with badly made books or classics that are freely downloadable. If there's a classic I particularly like, having a nice edition of it in book form is nice though, and so is getting books as a gift.
This is the real reason.
Basically what I'm most likely to do is give a book a shot on Kindle and then, if I like it and find it somewhere, buy it printed for rereads.
I'll probably cave and get a Kindle someday, but for now I suffer with the ideal of all these smelly old paper books.
<NEW FIC!> Revolution #9: Somewhere out there, there's a universe in which your mistakes and failures never happened, and all you wished for is true. How hard would you fight to make that real?
[11:20:46 AM] GlowStiks: lucina is supes attractive
[12:40] Lace: lucina is amazing
[12:40] Neir: lucina is pretty much flawless
This is what I do.
It's also nice to not have to worry about damaging a book if I read away from home.
Sell them off to those crazy antique collectors in the faraway future for high bucks. Good investment aye.
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Kindle is a free PC app too. And e-books tend to be considerably cheaper than paper ones if you're getting them first-hand.
Admittedly, the last update has resulted in it crashing at start-up without fail for me, but it worked for years before that!
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