No AFROTC on campus/not as much financial aid. But that's for another topic.Jay wrote:
Then you should've chosen American, dummyPoseidon wrote:
Poli Sci with a specialization in International Relations.Macbeth wrote:
You are a philosophy major?
i am currently reading a shitload... juggling like 5 books, and getting through about 250 pages a day, minimum.
feels good to have all this spare time
i just finished a history of western philosophy... it was great. had to do a lot of note-taking and mind-mapping though. unapologetically huge.
feels good to have all this spare time
i just finished a history of western philosophy... it was great. had to do a lot of note-taking and mind-mapping though. unapologetically huge.
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I don't know how you do it. Three is about all I can do, and I really don't even like that.
I still haven't found a copy of history of western philosophy. It's $16.50 on the kindle, but I don't like reading big books on my kindle. I guess I'll just buy it at Amazon.
I still haven't found a copy of history of western philosophy. It's $16.50 on the kindle, but I don't like reading big books on my kindle. I guess I'll just buy it at Amazon.
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yeah i definitely wouldn't advise buying a book of that shape or nature on a kindle - i'd hate to read it on a device! plus it's a good one to have on the bookshelf
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I can't get myself to buy a kindle/eBook reader.. Wouldn't want to give up buying and reading "proper" books. In the same way, I can't get myself to sell books either, even though I have little intention to read some of them again. Oh well.
And nice on the reading 'zique. I'm heading to the sea in a few weeks away from distractions like exam-stressing brothers and midlife-crisis-stressed parents. Should be good.
And nice on the reading 'zique. I'm heading to the sea in a few weeks away from distractions like exam-stressing brothers and midlife-crisis-stressed parents. Should be good.
Oh, and people should totally start using goodreads, it's really quite good.
Also, I only have like three friends, it's kind of depressing
Also, I only have like three friends, it's kind of depressing
my only gripe with goodreads is the 'favourite authors' thing. all the authors on there blow. if you're using goodreads to raise your creative profile... you're either a shit writer or you're doing something very, very wrong. i wanted to add some genuine 'favourite' authors but i was, instead, given a list of nobodies and awful fan-lit crap. that's a little too DeviantArt for my liking.
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I just looked at the front page and saw a bunch of Twilight shit on "best books ever" lists. I can't say I'm too surprised.
time to get your read on lolunnamednewbie13 wrote:
I just looked at the front page and saw a bunch of Twilight shit on "best books ever" lists. I can't say I'm too surprised.
Besides it being far too similar to Vampire: The Masquerade, Twilight's characters are way too one-dimensional.
And pasty make up.Kimmmmmmmmmmmm wrote:
time to get your read on lolunnamednewbie13 wrote:
I just looked at the front page and saw a bunch of Twilight shit on "best books ever" lists. I can't say I'm too surprised.
It's so dreamy.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
lol.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Besides it being far too similar to Vampire: The Masquerade, Twilight's characters are way too one-dimensional.
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can't really annotate on a kindle, or make bookmarks, etc.Uzique wrote:
yeah i definitely wouldn't advise buying a book of that shape or nature on a kindle - i'd hate to read it on a device! plus it's a good one to have on the bookshelf
that why?
you can annotate and bookmark etc with the kindle app. having a tablet has been a godsend to my ability to read more.Trotskygrad wrote:
can't really annotate on a kindle, or make bookmarks, etc.Uzique wrote:
yeah i definitely wouldn't advise buying a book of that shape or nature on a kindle - i'd hate to read it on a device! plus it's a good one to have on the bookshelf
that why?
yeah but you can't really look over the spine side of a book and see all the marks you've made.burnzz wrote:
you can annotate and bookmark etc with the kindle app. having a tablet has been a godsend to my ability to read more.Trotskygrad wrote:
can't really annotate on a kindle, or make bookmarks, etc.Uzique wrote:
yeah i definitely wouldn't advise buying a book of that shape or nature on a kindle - i'd hate to read it on a device! plus it's a good one to have on the bookshelf
that why?
Imo, having a physical copy is better for some books, worse for others.
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You can do it with the kindle itself too. There is a kindle app for the PC as well . But my eyes would hurt pretty bad trying to get through a long book with anything that is backlit.
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where, exactly, would it ever be 'worse' to have a physical copy of a book? when is it ever preferable, when considering an individual book, to have the e-reader version? the only incentives, as i see it, are price and portability - that has absolutely nothing to do with the book itself. a book is for life, so that 'expensive' hardback will retain its value whereas that $5 throwaway kindle version... not so much. e-readers are a waste of time, imo, and they take half of the wonder and appeal out of finding, owning and reading books, too.Trotskygrad wrote:
yeah but you can't really look over the spine side of a book and see all the marks you've made.burnzz wrote:
you can annotate and bookmark etc with the kindle app. having a tablet has been a godsend to my ability to read more.Trotskygrad wrote:
can't really annotate on a kindle, or make bookmarks, etc.
that why?
Imo, having a physical copy is better for some books, worse for others.
and no, i don't annotate or mark my books, so that's not the reason i'd prefer to have it in a physical copy. i'd prefer to have it in a physical copy because it's some 900 pages long, and i don't want to sit and stare/flip through a tiny, shitty screen for that 2 weeks just to read one book. kindle readers are wholly inferior, in my opinion... but what would i know, i've only been around books every day of my life.
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well yeah price and portability, longer books (While not being the fault of the work itself) are much heavier than an e-reader.Uzique wrote:
where, exactly, would it ever be 'worse' to have a physical copy of a book? when is it ever preferable, when considering an individual book, to have the e-reader version? the only incentives, as i see it, are price and portability - that has absolutely nothing to do with the book itself. a book is for life, so that 'expensive' hardback will retain its value whereas that $5 throwaway kindle version... not so much. e-readers are a waste of time, imo, and they take half of the wonder and appeal out of finding, owning and reading books, too.Trotskygrad wrote:
yeah but you can't really look over the spine side of a book and see all the marks you've made.burnzz wrote:
you can annotate and bookmark etc with the kindle app. having a tablet has been a godsend to my ability to read more.
Imo, having a physical copy is better for some books, worse for others.
and no, i don't annotate or mark my books, so that's not the reason i'd prefer to have it in a physical copy. i'd prefer to have it in a physical copy because it's some 900 pages long, and i don't want to sit and stare/flip through a tiny, shitty screen for that 2 weeks just to read one book. kindle readers are wholly inferior, in my opinion... but what would i know, i've only been around books every day of my life.
Thats it really .. price and portability. You also sacrafice certain tangibles. Like I said at goodreads, there is something to be said about the feel of the paper, the smell of the ink. It reminds you that there was real effort put into producing the book. I like my kindle, but there is a generic feeling I get going from book to book. Its good for light reading though. .. and oh yea, impulse buying.
Xbone Stormsurgezz
yeah... that's another thing. there's no satisfaction or sense of 'finishing' an e-reader, really. you just reach the end of a document and put your device down (or, just load another file and start reading another, seamlessly). the lack of tangibility, for me, really destroys half of the 'charm' of the reading process. it reminds me of the hundreds of hours a year i spent reading online journals and .pdf's on academic databases... in the end, for my finalist period, i actually took to printing out every single research journal article (some 50+ per essay) onto basic a4-printed paper... just to have something to hold. it all blurs into a monotonous digital mess, otherwise, all under that headache-inducing screen glare. no thanks.
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That's why they have groups. Find one that fits your interest and look at what is popular amongst that group.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
I just looked at the front page and saw a bunch of Twilight shit on "best books ever" lists. I can't say I'm too surprised.
Xbone Stormsurgezz
Books have no intrinsic value. The information they contain does. I'm paying for the contents, not the cover art, so my Kindle works just fine for me. Portable, light, and performs the function of transmitting content to my brain brilliantly.Uzique wrote:
where, exactly, would it ever be 'worse' to have a physical copy of a book? when is it ever preferable, when considering an individual book, to have the e-reader version? the only incentives, as i see it, are price and portability - that has absolutely nothing to do with the book itself. a book is for life, so that 'expensive' hardback will retain its value whereas that $5 throwaway kindle version... not so much. e-readers are a waste of time, imo, and they take half of the wonder and appeal out of finding, owning and reading books, too.Trotskygrad wrote:
yeah but you can't really look over the spine side of a book and see all the marks you've made.burnzz wrote:
you can annotate and bookmark etc with the kindle app. having a tablet has been a godsend to my ability to read more.
Imo, having a physical copy is better for some books, worse for others.
and no, i don't annotate or mark my books, so that's not the reason i'd prefer to have it in a physical copy. i'd prefer to have it in a physical copy because it's some 900 pages long, and i don't want to sit and stare/flip through a tiny, shitty screen for that 2 weeks just to read one book. kindle readers are wholly inferior, in my opinion... but what would i know, i've only been around books every day of my life.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
books have no intrinsic value? not everything is economy, john. some times the things you purchase and choose to have bring a sentimental currency. a book collection is something you can keep, go to, and even hand on to your kids or to someone else. gifting someone a kindle doesn't have the same appeal, really. seeing as everything else in our lives is rapidly becoming digitized and clouded onto one big conglomerate online-heapfuck, i'd rather keep the simple, solitary joy of being able to curl up with a book. plus... people here often berate the 'hipster douches' that fulfill stereotypes of sitting in a starbucks on their macs or ipads; i'm sure sitting in a public place reading tolstoy on your wifi kindle is pretty up there in the metro-faggot scale, too.
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I might like the content of a certain TV show or movie, but the experience is different depending on how it is delivered.Jay wrote:
Books have no intrinsic value. The information they contain does. I'm paying for the contents, not the cover art, so my Kindle works just fine for me. Portable, light, and performs the function of transmitting content to my brain brilliantly.Uzique wrote:
where, exactly, would it ever be 'worse' to have a physical copy of a book? when is it ever preferable, when considering an individual book, to have the e-reader version? the only incentives, as i see it, are price and portability - that has absolutely nothing to do with the book itself. a book is for life, so that 'expensive' hardback will retain its value whereas that $5 throwaway kindle version... not so much. e-readers are a waste of time, imo, and they take half of the wonder and appeal out of finding, owning and reading books, too.Trotskygrad wrote:
yeah but you can't really look over the spine side of a book and see all the marks you've made.
Imo, having a physical copy is better for some books, worse for others.
and no, i don't annotate or mark my books, so that's not the reason i'd prefer to have it in a physical copy. i'd prefer to have it in a physical copy because it's some 900 pages long, and i don't want to sit and stare/flip through a tiny, shitty screen for that 2 weeks just to read one book. kindle readers are wholly inferior, in my opinion... but what would i know, i've only been around books every day of my life.
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then again i'm the sort of person that will still make a point and give support to various print media (be it journals and magazines) ... i'm not so eager to sound the death-knell of that particular industry. in my opinion, there should always be a (higher) place for print media-- even if it's a comparatively smaller and niche market (though, in this case, i don't think 'books' in the general sense should ever become niche to ereaders - i'm referring more to newspapers and disposable print media). i'm all for modernization but i do question some of the oncoming 'advances' in technology. i don't want to lead my entire life glued to some form of screen: desktop, laptop, or portable. it's nice to, oh i don't know, detach yourself from the network once in a while. going to a secluded spot and sitting down with your kindle doesn't seem to have the same romantic appeal. call me a luddite, but...
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