condemns e-books and says that one has to feel and taste the book
in one's hands, and not just absorb information but also capture the writer's feelings and intonations in a way that is impossible with these gadgets
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Putin condemned e-books and said you couldn't feel "what the writer feels", unlike reading paper copies.
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) October 3, 2024
Most media and sources are convinced that Putin doesn't use Internet and gets all his news and reports via printouts prepared for him. pic.twitter.com/Kcdll1dnUn
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The main weakness of ebooks is that there is a weaker sense of progression. This does not matter much for fiction, but for a textbook it can feel a little torturous.
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Also jumping back is a pain. On kindle especially. I never learned the bookmarks thing. Also when you are half asleep and realized you just went 2 pages ahead without consuming any of it it's like 2 slow pages back. Maybe new ones are faster
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On the flip side if you like what you're reading you just tap-tap-tap away and the pages fly by. It's comfy.
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I spend my workdays staring at a screen. I spend a lot of my leisure time staring at a screen. An ebook is taking one of my hobbies that doesn't involve screen use and putting a screen in it
For that reason, I don't like or use ebooks
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E-ink doesn't feel like screen
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a book is an screen with normal ink
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Shitty zoom tho
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compared to a book it does
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e-ink hits different bro
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so basically you hate the environment and go out of yer way to kill trees instead of using something that doesn't contribute to environmental harm in any way
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lol you don't think ebooks and laptops require fricking up the environment to make? Nerd
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The laptops will continue to be made and used regardless of books and the environmental impact of ebooks and the tiny amount of electricity needed to write and read them is tiny when compared to the paper industry.
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source on ebooks and laptops
fricking up the environment 
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/batteries/congo-cobalt-mining-for-lithium-ion-battery/
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washingtonpost? really? you just linked a literal fascist
newspaper 
as yer source? 
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Yes.
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Do you know how many trees you just killed by using an internet link?
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What interesting things you know about the Isle of Man?
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They host the most dangerous race in the world there
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man_TT
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Did you know that the isle of man is one of the oldest democracies in the world?
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Ebooks are easily piratable tho so they win
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It's not like you can easily print out a book and have it delivered to you within time anyways. There are thousands of books about some specific topic made in an specific language that has like 10 copies and most people are not going to bother tracking down that one dust covered, copy inside a library in Svalbard just to feel the physicality that comes with an actual book
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As long as someone's actually reading idc, I reserve my hatred for audio"book" listeners. Reading requires active intention, audio"books" turn it into passive entertainment no better than mindless goyovision brainrotting slop
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Verbal storytelling is one of the most ancient and persistant art forms. I bet you think works like the illiad and odyssey are great literary works when they're literally transcriptions of verbal tales.
I guess midwits that can't memorize thousands of stanzas for recital would like the passive act of just parroting a text in front of them.
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behold the fruits of audiobook listening
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I read ebooks you r-slurred ape BIPOC. B-word butt response from an r-slur that thinks reading makes him smart.
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you should try paying more attention to the words in them
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I literally have no idea what you're saying here. Monkey BIPOC confirmed. Was this a question? Who is them? Why was i inside them?
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Lol you couldn't even type words after that massive own. Libtard destroyed by facts and logic.
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It couldn't be a question because it uses subject-auxiliary inversion.
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I wonder how often individuals would change parts of epics like Iliad and Odyssey when they were the ones telling them. I mean I'd totally change parts I didn't like if I was the village bard
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They are to a certain meter and use formulas for each line as a way to prevent mistakes. It would be pretty hard to change them on the fly
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Mycenean DRM am I right !fosstards?
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This is the only Mycenean thing that I know of:
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Me and the boys pulling up to the club like
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You shouldn't download the Odyssey. It's got a Trojan horse.
!carlos
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hobos tell me stories occasionally can't think of any other modern examples
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Audiobooks. Reading to children. The paul harvey show. As a means of rhetoric normally done in public speaking (joe bidens corn pop story). Plays. Telling your friends stories for entertainment. A huge portion of small talk is literally relating short, well told stories about yourself as a form of bonding.
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I listen to audiobooks while I drive tho only pulpy stuff like sci, horror, fantasy etc. Anything more intellectual and I find myself missing information and getting lost with audiobooks.
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When you have a 2hr commute audiobooks are rad
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OK why is there a debate you can do either or
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i think yer only legally allowed to do one or the other. if you do both you risk being arrested and charged with a felony.
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Nothing feels better than reading hentai on paper, it feels like you're really having s*x
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Youve never rubbed your peepee against a magazine until you came?
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Is it in japanese or some translation?
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that can't be a real quote
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I want to hold the book in my hands. I buy ebooks but only for books I can't get the print version of.
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No I do get his point but if you're a world leader you should be capable of reading r-slurred MSN headlines the same as the rest of us.
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So ur with ur honey and yur making out wen the phone rigns. U anser it n the vioce is "wut r u doing wit my daughter?" U tell ur girl n she say "my dad is ded".
THEN WHO WAS PHONE?
Snapshots:
https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1841869201679519843:
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archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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There was a kid in my middle school who used to eat the top right corner of each paper of his math worksheets/books in school. My band director asked him to spit out his gum once and he said it was paper.
Giga neurodivergent and I honestly never knew what to make of him.
He told me that chewing paper makes you smarter(?)
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Buddy knew what mewing was before it became a thing
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Maybe this putin guy isn't all good after all.
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Wait I love Putin now
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