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do you use an e-reader?
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Printed for Portuguese/Spanish books I can buy locally/across the border.
Kindle for ebooks in English which can be hard to find around here or too expensive to order physical from amazon because of import taxes (I do have some printed books in English which I can find in bookstores here, typically famous titles like Moby Peepee, Lolita, Paradise Lost, LOTR).
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Curious, why would you pick up the English translation of Lolita over the Portuguese? I get why you'd want the other 3 in English
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Lolita was written in English and I prefer to read novels in the original language as long as I understand the language. I have no qualms about reading translations of non-fiction books though, like this one I bought recently.
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Huh, I didn't know that it was released in English first, never mind then
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Nabokov's most famous works, Lolita and Pale Fire are both set in the US and they were both written in English. I was kind of shocked by the high quality of his prose considering he was Russian but apparently he spoke English along with Russian at home as speaking English was considered fancy stuff by the Russian nobility, if you watch his interviews he sounded more like a posh upper class Bong than a Russian immigrant.
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