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 No.2040[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Be a part of History and submit to the Lainzine today!

>>>Submission Deadline is November 27<<<


Feel free to use any format, however please remember we are making a pdf out of text and image documents. Markdown would be appreciated, but don't let that get in the way of sending in a piece.

Also remember that all submissions must be Original Creations written\made by the submitter for the Lainzine.

This time around we want to make it clear that we are looking for some help with typesetting. If you want to help contact the emails below.

As usual, you can submit pieces to

junk0@openmailbox.org
tilde@openmailbox.org
hex_offender@openmailbox.org
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 No.2535

I'm going to start working on an art piece for issue #4. I've held out on submitting because of a lack of faith in my work... but next issue I'm submitting. The fact that you guys make this brings such joy to my life and I want to be a part of it. Thank you!



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 No.911[Reply]

/lit/ is for the discussion and sharing of books and other writing.

>basics

-/lit/'s slow, yeah? Please bump threads rather than creating new ones. Nothing is dead until it's off the last page.
-there's a 30mb filesize limit
-pdf, epup (decentralized electronic puppy format) , and cbr are all supported.
-do not embed malicious files in epub/cbr documents

>what should I read today?

http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading
not real cyberpunk, but hey, you've got books, good books, a metric fuarrrk ton of books for any movement you can think of
http://jinteki.industries/cyberpunk_books.html
schway reading list Akitaro put together
http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/literature.html
huge list of cyberpunk literary resources. whole site's good if you ask me
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 No.2543[Reply]

I hope this is on-topic for this board.
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 No.2563

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fin

nothing is impossible, comrades

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 No.2566

hell yeah its on topic I fuarrrking love tin tin

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 No.2569

Haha I'm digging skinskin over here



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 No.2539[Reply]

So iv been researching Mao Zedong and The Cultural Revolution and i gained access to some scholarly texts from my states library. I have since scanned 2 and a half of them and thought you guys might be interested.
The books I have acquired are:

The Cultural Revolution and post-Mao reforms : a historical perspective / Tang Tsou.

The wind from the east : French intellectuals, the cultural revolution, and the legacy of the 1960s / Richard Wolin.

The Chinese cultural revolution as history / edited by Joseph W. Esherick, Paul G. Pickowicz, and Andrew G. Walder.

Rethinking Mao : explorations in Mao Zedong's thought / Nick Knight.

The Chinese Cultural Revolution : a history / Paul Clark.

The origins of the cultural revolution / Roderick MacFarquhar

I have scanned the first two and half of the third. If you guys are interested ill upload the others as I finish scanning them.
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 No.2540

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 No.2541

here's half of the third, haven't finished the whole thing yet

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 No.2568

I'm interested.



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 No.2474[Reply]

I'm doing PhD in Internet linguistics and I'm wondering about a topic that won't bore me for 2 years. Do you know some interesting works about cyberspace that have to do with language?

Analysis of discourse on youtube or even imageboards would be easy and fun but cringeworthy and useless. Any ideas?
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 No.2531

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2015/11/happy-little-words/

This might be of interest for you, OP.

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 No.2532

>>2531
Woah.

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 No.2537

>>2530
Fluency means you can express any idea sufficiently well in the language you're using.
Thinking in a language is only possible if you are capable of doing such a thing.

>Some of those I would not even know how to say good morning in.

You don't to know how to say "good morning", you need to be able to express the concept the words "good morning" describe.
For example, if you didn't know "Guten Morgen" you could still say something equivalent to it, like "Schönen Vormittag" or whatever, which while not the same thing, expresses the same idea.

>make an effort often to think in other languages

That's the thing innit?
It shouldn't take effort, it should be, well, fluent, no?

>As just a note to all those of you who speak English well from the internet, those of you that I have met in person usually are very good but undoubtedly lacking in some vocabulary

This "in some vocabulary" construction seems very strange, I guess what I may be lacking in words, you lack in style.
Also, there is a lot more than the internet that mainly uses English, to be honest.

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 No.2567

>>2474
Im so sorry.



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 No.2504[Reply]

I've begun to amass a sizeable collection of ebooks thanks to the lainchan volafile, and now I want to rename them using their title, year/edition and author(s). My problem is, I don't know what would be a good way to name them.

Examples:
Title: Subtitle (Year, nth) [Author_Lastname, Author_Firstname(s)]
Title: Subtitle (Year, nth) [Author_Lastname]
Title: Subtitle (Year, nth) - Author_Name
Title: Subtitle (nth) - Author_Name (Year)
Title: Subtitle (Year, nth) [Author_Lastname]
Author_Lastname Author_Firstname(s) Title: Subtitle (Year, nth)
Author_Lastname Title: Subtitle (Year, nth)

Which of these would you use? Or maybe something else?
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 No.2505

>>2504
You want to organize the data in to a tree.
Author_Lastname Author_Firstname(s) Title: Subtitle (ISO 8601)
Most physical libraries sort by something similar to that.

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 No.2534

>>2505
Thanks!

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 No.2536

How are you browsing your books? I mostly look for them based on their titles, so that's what I put first.



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 No.2513[Reply]

Post the last book that you really enjoyed and what you're currently reading.

I had to scroll back pretty far on the list of soykaf I've read but it was 'The Age of Empire' by Hobsbawm.

And right now I've just started Ilium by Dan Simmons which seems to be pretty trippy, looking forward to finding out how he frames the story.
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 No.2524

>>2513
finished neuromancer recently, I really enjoyed it. Going to pick up the wheel of time next, how fuarrrked am I?

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 No.2525

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>>2524
It's long. Very long. It's also about teenagers in what I've read so far. It starts to get interesting after the first fifty or so pages once you have some of an idea where you are and what's going on. It's fun.

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 No.2527

>>2513
I really enjoyed reading No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai.

Currently reading Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. About halfway through.

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 No.2528

Last book I really enjoyed... Stoner probably.
I'm reading Confessions of a Mask right now, pretty cool, pretty gay.
Wanna read Jude the Obscure next.

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 No.2529

>>2524
Juste make sure you can read all of it without stopping. I started reading it and had to wait for the last book to be published. When the book was realeased I couldn't remember anything about the series and couldn't be bothered to start reading it all over again.



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 No.240[Reply]

I've been rocking one of these since they were new, with custom firmware of course. the prs-300 goes for 20-30$ on eBay now. it gets the job done, and that job is reading.
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 No.2473

Do the batteries still hold a charge on the prs300 models?

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 No.2521

>>1521
Have you tried using the share documents to app function in iTunes? Might not be supported on whatever version of iOS the iPad is running.

I used to use the Kindle 4 for eReading. I had a BlackBerry Playbook I used to use at one point as well, but I really only used that for PDFs (was very good for this) and manga. Now I use my Zenfone 2; the screen is big enough and it's convenient.

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 No.2522

I had my latest Kindle for like 2-3 years and I left it on top of my car for about 30 min in the sun and now the top portion of the display is fuarrrked, like the type of damage you'd get from stepping on it.

Need to buy a new one. Feels bad. And I don't feel like getting a cheap one because I'm dependent on the backlight and slow page turn rate is like kicking dead whales down the beach

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 No.2523

>>2522
>kicking dead whales down the beach

wait, what is this a filter for? i just typed it and forgot.

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 No.2526

>>2473
Full charge on my PRS-505 lasts about a month without usage, a few days to a week with heavy usage.



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 No.1448[Reply]

How many of you have some kind of career in literature/journalism/writing?
I'm just curious on how many of us are non STEM majors, which I feel is the overwhelming majority on lainchan.
What do you study/do and how do you feel about it in a world that is becoming more and more STEM focused and letting humanities fall by the wayside?
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 No.2509

>>2508
If you like computers but not software engineering, IT is pretty easy and is always in demand. Just make sure you don't get stuck in customer-facing stuff and instead work with systems.

Any university should have some sort of IT major.

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 No.2510

>>2509
teaching might not be as ludicrous as say STEM careers, but as we've seen >>2352 that's not going to last anyway

better to forget the pay and do what you love. The money won't follow but you might be more satisfied.

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 No.2511

>>2510
also, your major doesn't define you since it only matters until your first job. you can be into computers without majoring in compsci, technical skills are relevant in all fields

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 No.2512

>>2352
i know what you mean Lainon, I already see flooding on *Sec jobs.

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>>1448
Currently majoring in Studio Art with a digital emphasis; am not sure whether or not I want to do gallery glitch art or virtual reality related stuff.
>>1992
hi, lustycru



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 No.2273[Reply]

Got some cool/informative/eye-opening PDFs that you'd like to share with your fellow chummers?
Here is a thread for that!
(Sorry I don't have much to offer >_<)
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 No.2492

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 No.2498

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A Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space - Carl Sagan

Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler

Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming - Stephen LaBerge

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 No.2499

>>2462
This should be implemented. Atleast on /lit/. Why is it that the filenames don't remain intact?

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 No.2514

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