#294

no I am not, i’ve read about the process of designing a books layout and it is surprisingly detailed, an e-reader zoom in at preferred level and hope for the best is never going to look as tidy. I find reading very fatiguing at the best of times, with word breaks all over the place it makes a difference

#295

edit: maybe not through the actual limitations of digital music formats, but certainly in the way music is mastered for them in the real world

#296

I like when you buy a book in Oxfam and Shaun has written a message for Maria and dated it 1963

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#298

I keep this book at my mums cause I can’t be bothered posing it to myself but I look through it every time I go back for Christmas.

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Love how the inner case matches the the pattern in one of the pictures and the nice box with the string is lovely. More wordy books need to do that sort of stuff.

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#299

Got one somewhere with a message from 1914. Haven’t read it and can’t even remember what the book is but I was so fascinated with that little level of history that I had to buy it

#300

Oxfam staff: quick here comes that lad who enjoys books with dated messages written in them.
Staff start scribbling wildly on any books close to hand.
Ic-smic goes home with 50 shades of grey with inscription “careful you don’t put your eye out lol. Hastings, 1066”

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#301

I don’t want anyone to buy me presents any more either

Stop filling my house with stuff!!! It just sits there.

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#302

Brutal news for your Secret Santa

#303

Can we please just get along? The darts quarters are on and some things are just so beautiful and pure they. transcend petty squabbling.

Come on the Asp!

#304

this is my brexit

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#305

no.

#306

I like books

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#307

real books?

#308

@yuggy I noticed Trago now sells (presumably super poor quality?)Miles Davis/Prince/Captain Beefheart vinyl

#309

Yes. And fiction too

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#310

I think this is a really important point that tends to get missed in the whole digital/physical format debate - housing issues just override everything. Babyboomers often have space to fill so objects become very important - a book or a record acts as both entertainment and as decoration. It’s easy to say CDs don’t take up much space but given just how little space most people live in it can be pretty critical space.

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#311

alright Win Butler

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#312

I also like that. Always reminds me of the first person who did it for me, my Grandma Joan, in Enid Blyton’s The Wishing Chair.

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#313

i too have read and understand joyce, tho i find him shallow and pedantic

presses fingertips together

your move, icarus

#314

i really like Dubliners, but Portrait of the Artist was a pretty miserable slog.

got second hand copies of Ulysses and Stephen Hero recently that i’ll attempt at some stage but probably not for a while, and i have no real intention of ever trying to get through Finnegans Wake

been re-reading Dubliners though. still good.

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