Is there a reason to ever come back to /book/ now? I see that /lit/ is fucking glorious, and it's really fast and surprisingly full of people. Whoa there, i thought as I saw it, why would anybody come back to /book/ now? I personally only came to make this thread. Are there any people resisting to migrate? What are your reasons?
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Anonymous2010-02-04 3:50
1: I can make posts from my nook, with relative ease
2: /litt/ needs time to shed away the tools who think it's a quick way to feel smart
3: that was VIP quality!
Images are over rated
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Anonymous2010-02-04 4:08
a book imageboard is pointless. It is too crowded with junk threads and daily repeats. I'd rather have a thread existing for years, so we can mull over it and come back to it later like a book.
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Anonymous2010-02-04 6:28
>>3
But 4chan isn't a forum. Threads are supposed to be gone soon after yous top posting. If you want your discussions to stay and resume, this by far wasn't the best place to begin with.
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Anonymous2010-02-05 2:24
>>4
The imageboard still too crowded with junk threads and daily repeats.
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Anonymous2010-02-05 4:17
>>1
What is the point of this thread? You obviously didn't post here before /lit/.
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Anonymous2010-02-05 15:15
>>5
And the textboard is crowder with yearly repeats that all float for months, gathering dust and troll/retard responses; and I wonder what's worse. >>6
Obviously? How so, shitbag? And why would I even know this fucking board exists in the first place is I starting posting in a literature board from /lit/ a few days ago?
posting in a literature board from /lit/ a few days ago?
You are such a beliggerent jerk. You claim to have only found this place only a few days yet you seem to have EXPERT knowledge of what goes on here. Instead of actually lurkking you assume the speed of /lit/ means it's superior to /book/.
this fucking board exists
Something called the frames perhaps? I doubt someone like you even knows what that means.
>>7
Knowing this board exists proves nothing about how long you've known - it's linked below the board title on /lit/, so anyone who checked out the new board would know this one existed.
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Anonymous2010-02-22 14:29
/lit/ was good for a week, maybe
then:
ayn rand
george r r martin
MY TASTE IS BETTER THAN YOURSq934tuqoergjaslefjqewoifjqoewfjaoIJE
tripfags
etc. etc. etc.
I'm just tired of looking at that shit, so I came back here
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Anonymous2010-02-24 21:50
I'm here because /lit/ has too much /b/.
/b/tards do not surf text boards. It's just not in their constitutions.
Personally, I never cared about getting a book imageboard because books are text and the obscurity of 4chan's textboards means less trolls and more serious discussion than their imageboard counterparts. But now that we have one, I am enjoying it. It's one of the smarter imageboards on 4chan, even with its fair share of trolls.
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Anonymous2010-04-23 17:36
I'm staying here. /lit/ is fucking horrible. THEY DON'T DISCUSS BOOKS. This is every thread on /lit/, every hour, every day:
2 or 3 "tell me what book to read" threads
2 or 3 "lets make lists of books" threads
1 "post pics of your bookshelf" thread
1 Atlas Shugged/Harry Potter/Twilight thread. Which by now I actually welcome, because at least they're talking about books. I guess it takes a god damn troll to make /lit/ discuss books.
1 ZWG thread, perpetually bumped by the ZWG faggots
2 or 3 threads not related to books in any way, shape, or form. Including "post your a/s/l," "talk about your job," "I need relationship advice," or "what music do you listen to?" threads.
5 or 6 "critique my poetry" threads which belong on fucking deviant art.
2 or 3 "critique my short story" threads which also belong on deviant art.
12 "what ebook reader should I get?" threads.
14 "help me with my essay/homework" or "I didn't read this book but I was supposed to, please tell me about it so I don't have to read it" threads.
Go to /lit/ right now, and I bet there isn't a single thread discussing books on the front page. If you start looking back to page 10, page 14, and whatnot you might find a few threads which tried to discuss books, but they've got no more than six replies.
/lit/ is illiterate. Fuck those assholes. They don't read books, and they certainly aren't intelligent enough to discuss them.
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Anonymous2010-04-23 21:54
There is indeed a lot of trash on /lit/; maybe the odd half-decent thread every couple of days.
Yeah, /lit/'s always been a real disappointment for me.
I have a second edition of The Magic Skin, by Honore de Balzac. Nothing about the book should be taken at face value. It's not as much of an artifact as The King in Yellow, by Robert Chambers, but there are still publishing oddities worked into the binding.
It's not a difficult read, but I read it twice in late February trying to figure out wtf. I think the realism is meant to disarm the reader. I believe it was meant to be read aloud in sections as a precursor to private sex parties in Paris, but have not found evidence of this. It's a very heavy book, in many ways, imo. Maybe it was just my state of mind...
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Anonymous2010-04-24 1:51
/book/ is mildly pretentious but HOLY FUCK if /lit/ isn't trying to tell you smart people read in every thread
it's like the internet intellectuals are cloning themselves every second
it was a good board for the first month, but long live /book/
>>24
Go back to /b/. Your argument falls on deaf ears because its both too long and nobody will read it.
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Anonymous2010-04-27 11:29
I used to come here from time to time, but not much lately. There is nothing wrong with the kind of people on ether board. /lit/ just has better system. If /book/ had propper forum organization I'd like it a lot more, but its completely chaotic.
>>27
Really. An imageboard having more structure and order to it than a textboard? The only thing world4ch lacks is a search function, but there's /prog/scrape for that.