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 No.2398[Reply]

I'm dumping the few ebooks that I bought from Amazon, because fuarrrk Amazon.

First: http://amzn.com/B009M9NGK6
Second: http://amzn.com/B0017T0CAG
Third: http://amzn.com/B005XQJEEE
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 No.2399

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Fourth: http://amzn.com/B004Z9E2CE
Fifth: http://amzn.com/B007AKBJ8K
Sixth: A catalog of all the epubs in my library. Ask, and you shall receive.

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 No.2501

>>2399
>Ask, and you shall receive.
Daemon seems interesting.


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 No.1706[Reply]

Read this a few years ago while I was researching how to live as cheaply as possible. Found you could skip that and just live for free. I seldom read books more than once, but I've read this a couple of times since as well. It's a collection of stories this 90's punk kid wrote while bumming around America. Going to read it again. Always puts me in mind to go out and adventure some more.

Any lainons have some more punk lit?
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 No.2442

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>>2247
>>2391
>>2396
>>2429
These are the only books I have, actually, but I have much more crimethink

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 No.2443

>>2442
ugh, lainchan ate this

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 No.2444

Thanks.

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 No.2449

I have a lot more I can't post here; does lainchan allow images with rars embedded?

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 No.2500

>>2449
Hm... Might be the filesize limit? I've a few books I've been wanting to share as well that are too large. The limit should be raised.


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 No.2450[Reply]

Can anyone recommend some good history books, and link a copy to them? My school textbook is full of anti-commie propaganda.

Oh, and I guess this is a general textbook thread

ALSO WHY CAN'T I POST ON TOR
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 No.2454

Gibbon's The Decline and Fall. I don't have a link handy.

It's definitely not revolutionary in breaking narratives though, it's responsible for a ton.

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 No.2455

Honestly, I think you'll get the most accurate information reading a book about X, rather than reading about X in a history book.

After all, the devil's in the details.

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 No.2456

>>2450
>WHY CANT I POST ON TOR

because most exit nodes are used up from bans

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 No.2471

>>2456
Unfortunately the reason I don't use tor to browse clearnet; everything is derezzed or outright blocked.

Had no problems since switching to a cheap VPN.

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 No.2472

>>2471
One day I'll figure out the word filters here.


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 No.1122[Reply]

Time for a little collaborative fiction. Here's how this works:

We're telling a story about an anon jacking in to cyberspace and masquerading as various personae. The story is told in the first person, past tense, and every entry begins with 'Today I was', followed by whatever persona anon assumes today. Tell a little story about an anon's adventures in cyberspace.
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 No.1134

Because AIs are usually patched together from different software packages to fit a specific purpose, data images of AIs tend to be different from each other, too. Which was really soykafty when you only had an incomplete one and were trying to find out what some almost entirely missing parts were supposed to be and how you could get reader programs to just ignore them or something instead of exclaiming "hurr durr this image is corrupted" and terminating without further ado.
Right now, it gave no sign that it was still working as intended. I went to the kitchen, poured myself a noffee (not-exactly-coffee but not soykaf either) and hungrily ate some cookies.
>to be continued.. by someone else in this thread?

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 No.1137

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>>1133
PS: I just noticed this one is pretty soykaf since the protaginst is supposed to be sad about the fact the he will probably never be able to save VI now and frustrated which is why he was slaughtering npcs in VR

if there's a couple more contributions we can merge the whole thing with a collaborative text editor or something and fix stuff liek that

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 No.1139

>>1126

Dude, nice start - makes me wonder what he's planning next, why he chose an old man avatar, and who he might meet at the teahouse.

>>1125
>>1128

Thanks you two, really glad you enjoyed the read.

> I think it would be really cool if Anon had this corrupted, decaying copy of V.I…

Very nice idea; a sense of urgency would be a good touch: losing a friend while losing time…

>Would you be cool with us taking over the story from there?

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 No.1467

bumpity. might write something soon.

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 No.2460

>>1467
oh soykaf this thread still exists? bumping before it 404s


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 No.856[Reply]

Like going down a water slide; you can't see where you're headed but you're getting there fast.

The drugs act as social lubricant. Yes. You're all so lubricated that you can't maintain a connection.

The plane stretches on, translates into a 3D space.

The interface disappears, but…

Am I in reality? Or am I in someone else's dream?


>poetry thread
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 No.1670

Two parallels of adjacent opposites
One heading up, one heading down.
Which one will reach infinity?

Neither knows, as they do not intersect.

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 No.1736

Earth Boy & Space Girl
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Are we in a simulation, an alternate dimension, a dream? Doesn’t matter. We’re here, now.

Galaxies swirl around us as we move through space at an impossible speed.

Earth Boy runs on a bridge of light, intelligent particle-waves assembling before him, bearing his weight and scattering into the vacuum as he passes. He breathes in, out. His heart beats out the chaotic time of his existence in his ape chest.

Space Girl flies, swoops through the void like a dolphin or a barn swallow. Her body changes color at a whim: now fuchsia, now chartreuse, now infrared. She dips her hand into a nebula, generating vortices of dust and plasma.

The two of us move together, away from nothing and towards everything, confident that we will find our destination along the way.

We leave no trace of where we’ve been.

We’re here, now. Then we’re gone.

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 No.1960

>>1144
>Difficult not to be when it comes to non-love related poems.

Sounds like a personal problem

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 No.1961

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Hello, head.
Is it that time again?
The to time to lay down and count my sins?

I wish to be better.
My shoulders light as feathers.
Instead, inside I feel the stormy weather.

The wind it blows.
It howls and it groans.
I'm drowning in rain, strapped to a stone.

Good night head.
I'm starting to bend.
This life is hard without a true friend.

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 No.2458

I miss the days of anime and gardening. The days of chores and books. The days of walking alone through a blizzard. I miss hardwood floors. I miss dinner at the same table every night. I miss aspiration. I miss boredom. I miss dreams. I miss early mornings. I miss having no tolerance for THC. I miss the colorful storm of youth. I miss comics, legos, wooden swords. I miss not caring about how I looked or acted. I miss not having a facebook. I miss. I miss. I missed. I took a shot and missed. I didn’t think it was important at the time. Now I know. I won’t miss again. I’ll never miss again.


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 No.993[Reply]

What do you think about Stealing the network lain? I personally like it. It's well written and enjoyable!
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 No.1148

>>1147
physical copy? i mean if you're buying DRMd ebooks that is pretty stupid tbh, don't do that

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 No.1471

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What is your ideal hacker fiction lainons? If you had complete control, how would you tackle a piece of media about hacking (cracking if you want to be a stickler) and/or focusing on a hacker.

Personally I'd focus it more on the individual rather than trying to portray the hacking as more glamorous then it really is -- I'm looking at you hackers.

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 No.1473

>>1471
I would focus it on personal power struggle and how a person tries to change a world, wanting it to become better but making it worse.

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 No.1474

>>1471
>What is your ideal hacker fiction lainons? If you had complete control, how would you tackle a piece of media about hacking (cracking if you want to be a stickler) and/or focusing on a hacker.
interesting question
>Personally I'd focus it more on the individual rather than trying to portray the hacking as more glamorous then it really is -- I'm looking at you hackers.
yes, a more realistic portray would be cool. I'd love a thriller story about a guy or a group who are good hackers but also do social engineering and intrusions in person
sort of like the good old spy stories but with modern tech and realistic hacking that makes sense and that you can follow

for example the Stieg Larsson trilogy was pretty bad in that respect

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 No.2457

>>1148
I buy DRM'd books, but I make sure that I can liberate them first.


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 No.1538[Reply]

In this thread we will be posting our bookshelves, and judging each other. Be sure to recommend books based on what you see.
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 No.2404

I wish I could afford books. ;_; I have to pirate all my stuff.

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 No.2406

>>2404
I found some classic literature on Barnes and Noble's for around $5 each, but I know what you mean getting the books you want can be expensive.

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 No.2407

>>1588
You should get more Orwell books. Some of his Lesser known works, such as The Lion and the Unicorn, are amazing even though they're nonfiction.

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 No.2446

>>2400
>>2404
Look for your local public library book sales. You can get some really pristine books there for super cheap. Also look around your area for a good used book store, if you find a good one, it's not something to ignore.

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 No.2448

>>2446
ask around college libraries for when they are replacing books too.


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 No.2416[Reply]

Greetings Lainons,

There are many books the great Lain wishes could be in our digital
libraries, and a near equal number of projects [0] aiming to bring
them so. None are directly organized for the benefit of Lainchan,
however. Therefore, I offer a proposition for this fine board's
consideration: We crowd-source the funds for an automatic linear
bookscanner [1] [2], which I will build and operate, converting books
selected by the community into digital form. I also have some fun
ideas about how to distribute the physical books post-scan, as a kind
of Kickstarter-esque rewards system.

What say you folks? It's not quite a warehouse in Kasas City, but a
potentially mutually beneficial arrangement nonetheless. E-mail the
throwaway account provided to indicate your interest, or reply in this
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 No.2432

>>2431
>removing the binding
No.

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 No.2433

>>2432
You're sacrificing a single physical copy for potentially infinite digital ones. Damning the information held within the book to be forgotten just because you don't want to put a few bruises on your analogue edition is plain selfish.
You can always have it professionally rebound afterwards.

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 No.2438

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>>2433
Why destroy the book, when you could just use pic related? Physical books are sacred, and we may have to rely on them when SHTF.

In addition, unless the book in question is in large circulation, you may preven someone else from creating an ebook of said book, that is superior to yours.

That, and it'd be nice to sell it for a good price once I'm done with it.

That being said, I do know that book stores strip paperbacks of their covers, and then throw them in the trash, as demanded by their publishers. Not sure if book is still together once it reaches the trash or not, but I believe that's an possibility worth exploring.

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 No.2441

>>2438
You aren't willing to sacrifice your books or even just take the time to learn to rebind them and yet you want us to crowdfund a machine for you so that you can later sell it? This isn't going to work.

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 No.2445

>>2441
Some people can unbind their books, other can use a similar contraption to the previous post if they don't want to unbind. What's the problem?


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 No.484[Reply]

Comics thread anyone?

I just read this thing.

Find stuff on http://libgen.org/comics/index.php

Post things you like!
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 No.2361

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>>611
Sadly true but I don't think that was the intention.

There's a trend with current youth culture to idolise the wrong people.
Spider is not a good person, he just tries to show how bad the rest of the world is.
No one should try to be like Spider, especially not bloggers.
That level of tenacity is obnoxious if you're not in the upper tiers of journalism, and even there it won't gain you friends or respect.
He does it for himself and his obsession with the truth.

Of course, these are the same people who see Tyler Durden as a positive role model.

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 No.2364

>>840
I've just ordered the hardcover that's coming out in a week or two.
I liked Overture's story, but I LOVED the art. Totally worth having just to gawk at.

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 No.2387

Guess this is the place to ask
Not so long ago I saw this comic, dystopic, a guy was coaxed into the cyber revolt. A couple of brothers I guess.
Something like fish eyes or something.

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 No.2388

>>2387
Fisheye Placebo

http://tapastic.com/series/fisheye

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 No.2392

>>611
>>2361
ITT: People who have never read Hunter S. Thompson. Spider is just Ellis' take on Duke in the future. He's no better or worse than the real journalist who inspired him.


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 No.823[Reply]

Any good lainchan manga?
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 No.2380

>>1806
I just finished OPP last week. I am really happy with how it ended, even though it was kinda surprising lol

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 No.2381

maybe Aria

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 No.2382

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>>1806

>Caramel Kitsch Yuugekitai

I enjoyed it very much, but, well... hmm.

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 No.2384

>>2373
YKK is beautiful. I wish it never ended. But it would be against the point of the story.

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>>2381
forgot to add images


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