/lit/ - Literature

>>18699648
start with the greeks

>>18699648
Why would you use goodreads? Every fucking book has good ratings making it hard to tell the actual quality

>>18699648
Use Librarything. I never get recommended manga or comics there.

>>18699648
Is Ancient Egyptian Literature an anthology or a treatise, anon?

Wait, you look at the recommendations? I only look at "readers of this book also read..." goodreads is shit at recommendation. I only use it to track shit and follow my crush who rejected me twice (she follows me too).

>>18700867
>an anthology
this

>>18700122
I use it to track books and as my bookmark

Imagine being filtered by the Saiyan Saga, kek.

>>18700122
>Every fucking book has good ratings
Not philosophy books

>>18699648
>>18701031
why don't you use some sort of wiki thing, evernote like thing or excel sheet, or some paper agenda
why the fuck do you need a social networking site to write down what books you read
why do you have to poz yourself by putting all this shit online for amazon or whoever owns this company

>>18699648
Why do you care? It's just advertising, my brain has learned to filter that

>>18701128
exactly. it's a trick designed to extract small doses of unpaid labor out of retards (write reviews! rate shit! add tags! build this database for us!). just fucking type the books you want to read into a text file.

>>18701133
>my brain has learned to filter that
how do you do this? I am unable to filter ads anywhere
if there's a TV and an ad comes up I have to turn it off, it's too fucking annoying
even without the audio there's enough bullshit in the faces and acting and stupid shit they do to irritate me
I will never understand how people manage to withstand this constant assault, everything is so fucking unpleasant in ads and now they're full of gross looking ugly people too
I was looking at this site for clothes and every model male or female looked like some kind of tranny with the same smug face, they were so unpleasant to look at, they weren't aiming for neutral and androgynous they clearly went for aggravating
how? why? do women like this?

>>18701128
>why the fuck do you need a social networking site to write down what books you read
Why do you need to write down what books you read? This strikes me as pseud behavior, whatever its manifestation.

>>18701168
You're autistic if you can remember every book you've ever read and want to read in the future. Or you don't read and your list is shit.

>>18701168
i have a bunch of to-read lists in text files and i delete shit as i finish it. but the idea of keeping track of everything permanently is either (1) autism or (2) the pseud desire to show off. (2) is what goodreads exists to exploit.

>>18701161
>if there's a TV and an ad comes up I have to turn it off
First, I don't have a tv
>I was looking at this site for clothes
I basically don't buy clothes on the internet (I bought some cheap but nice sneakers though, 20-30 bucks), only on local markets who look like picrel. There's always two or three clothes stands run by Chinese with cheap clothing (10-20 for a sweater or a jeans)
If I'm watching/listening something on youtube and an AD shows up, I remove my headphones and look away.
>how do you do this? I am unable to filter ads anywhere
I mostly don't care about any thing they are trying to sell me
Cars? no
Jewels? no
Clothes? see above
Food? I already know what I want, thanks, no, I'm not buying those new chocolate snacks with a funny animal shape
New tech device? I don't need it (I need a new laptop though, this one is like 12 years old and has lots of issues)

But I have to admit that when the ads take half of my screen I do get annoyed. Sometimes I might take a pic of some particularly retarded/dystopic, consider it a sociological hobby or something (I'll post one in the next comment)

>>18701209
That's just normal memory. It's autistic to make lists for everything you should just be able to remember. Is your brain so fried by weed and coom that you can't remember a list of book titles?

Use LibraryThing

>>18701161
Discount-tier brand of nearly everything in picrel, named "Selex" (sic!), the slogan is "Selected for (You)"
Literal Big Brother vibes

>>18701249
I do all these things including not watching YT at all and having tight ad blocking. And I'm still swarmed with ads everywhere. I just have to go outside or visit someone's house and it's a constant bombardment.

>>18701285
>go outside or visit someone's house
found the issue

Dragonball is the modern day iliad.

>>18701261
>Is your brain so fried by weed and coom that you can't remember a list of book titles?
If you name a book, I can usually tell you if I read it or own it. But if you ask "which books by [Author] you've read" that's different.

>>18700122
Good books always have ratings below 4

>>18701285
I don't know what to say. I simply don't let myself think about ads. Yes, there are too many, yes I fucking detest them, after that I don't spend much mental energy about it.

>>18700905
nice

>>18701328
If a classic is <4 stars you know it filtered normalfags. Too bad the top x lists are unusable.