Just curious…

*like putting sugar in grits. wtf.

I fucking hate first person. So fucking much.

do you know what we don't talk about often enough? there is no physically comfortable posture in which to read a book

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?

Here's an archive with millions of PDFs of books and papers and magazines and essays and stuff.

I've been looking for such archives, thanks

This makes no sense

it literally could not be more straightforward

It literally doesnt make sence, both have the same value, they're both $30

I think the failure of many people to grasp an incredibly simple, barebones metaphor is demonstrating implicit bias very well

This dude straight up stated the fucking answer and still can’t understand it, because he’s expecting the answer to be his own views lmao

No im not expecting anything its just a badly frammed metaphor

Bro you said the answer. Both have the same value despite different sizes. It’s simple. Basic. Elementary.

But it never says that, it just asks you wich one is greater and the text ends there, wich leads you to thinking that one indeed has greater value then the other, and that the one with the greater value is the answear

It asks you which one has the greater value and what is the answer to that question?

Im not about to argue over a focken tit size metaphor

Never underestimate the lack of reading comprehension on this site lmfao

3rd person is the most common perspective style…

— Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book

EARNEST POSTING. while everyone is still working on new year’s resolutions i want to make sure everyone knows about the FREE serial reader app.

if you are trying to read more classics/public domain works but for whatever reason struggle with incorporating reading into your daily life, or you’re just intimidated by huge books, serial reader is a great tool to make reading more approachable. it works much like dracula daily in that it sends you one excerpt at a time (usually about 10-15 minutes of estimated reading time). awesome for commutes, lunch breaks, quick bedtime story, etc.

it’s very customizable. you can change fonts, themes, and you can even take notes and highlight. you can also sync with other reading apps like goodreads (no storygraph yet……. we can hope!). the base app is completely free, but there is a one-time optional upgrade fee of $2.99 USD if you want some extra features. this is all developed by one guy, so the money goes to supporting the creator - although i’m sure apple takes their cut 😑.

there are a ton of works to choose from, currently something like 800+.

you can now also add your own .epubs to break up your own books into daily serials! very cool, serial reader!

this was the best app i added last year so i just want to pass it on. happy reading! :)

A good compliment to this app

i'm AWARE this is a stupid hill to die on, but like. trope vs theme vs cliché vs motif vs archetype MATTERS. it matters to Me and i will die on this hill no matter how much others decide it's pointless. words mean things

trope: 1) the use of figurative language for artistic effect; includes allegories, analogies, hyperbole, & metaphors, among others. 2) commonly reoccurring literary devices, motifs, or clichés. Includes things like the medieval fantasy setting, the Dark Lord, enemies-to-lovers, and the Chosen One.

theme: the reoccurring idea or subject in a work of art. Death, life, rebirth, change, love, what it means to be human, the definition of family, the effects of war, etc.

cliché: an element of an artistic work that has been overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even becoming annoying or irritating. (Most clichés are tropes but not all tropes are clichés.)

motif: a distinctive repeating feature or idea, such as the green light in The Great Gatsby. May overlap with tropes and is often used to further explore the theme.

archetype: a constantly-recurring symbol or motif; it refers to the recurrence of characters or ideas sharing similar traits throughout various, seemingly unrelated cases in classic storytelling. E.g. rags to riches, the wise old mentor. Again may overlap with tropes, clichés, and motifs, but they're not the exact same thing.

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

oh.

Including systems like Braille. If you learned but had to relearn at some point, put the age at which you first learned.

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

Some of y'all are lying there is no way the largest percentage of people learned to read at age 3

I mean, people do say this is the autism website, and hyperlexia is more common in autistic people! Also, there are books specifically designed for very young(younger then 5) children to read independently, even if they aren't specifically marketed as that.

The thing is I officially "learned to read" when I was 8, but probably knew how earlier. I just HATED the stupid early reader books that my school had, and couldn't make myself read them.

I pretended to read before I could talk. Apparently I could even tell what right-side-up text looked like. Mom handed me a birthday card upside down once as a test and I turned it over and pretended to read it.

I read newspaper headlines over my dad's shoulder when I was 3 1/2. Mom and Dad had read to me every night in my childhood, and I had started saying "Show me this word" during story readings, but neither of them knew I had actually learned to read full sentences until I did it in front of them. (My maternal grandmother thought I was simply repeating memorized words when asked about a text, as she did when she was little...until I read headlines from a copy of her local newspaper she had brought with her from 100 miles away!)

(As for knowing the meanings of the words I was reading, I also remember gathering context clues about words from adults' conversations and TV, and asking about them if I was unsure. Words were just so much fun to learn and use!)

Happy New Year!

reject booktok culture. go to the library and get a weird little novel you’ve never heard of in your life and read it all in 2 days like god intended.

this too tbh

Speaking of books it's been a while since I've seen one of these posts going around & I'm curious so everyone could you tell me what you are reading rn in the tags please