/lit/ - Literature

>>20341576
I'm nervous that if I keep adding to my reading list like this, even though I'm retiring very young I simply will never get to everything I want to read and/or study. Sadly I wasted my first 30 years and I'm only realizing in the last few years how terribly un/mis-educated I am. So what I need is a standard by which I can say okay, I'm not going to read this book in my entire life because it doesn't meet the standard, so I'm not going to buy it or download it even if it's free.

>>20341655
I'm sort of doing that now but I'm finding that due to my semi-limited time I wind up only reading very lightly and ignoring heavier works. For instance, at the start of the year I picked out two dozen books I wanted to read for the year, and then in the first week of January I found out Sadly, Porn had been written and published by TLP. That was a very heavy/dense book and wore me out to the point that I now mainly read light fiction during the day and don't make the time to sit down and read stuff that's on my list, even if it's only medium weight. So now all these medium/heavy weight books are stacking up on my shelves and in my kindle and I don't have a way to filter out what is interesting, but that I simply won't read because a single lifetime isn't enough.

>how? do you have a job? i can read 30 min at most
I read pretty much every waking moment I can. I don't own a smartphone but I do carry my kindle everywhere, so I read 5-15 minutes at a time here and there and it adds up. Then I come home and binge on some series or other that I'm reading. I have a job but I'm retiring this month, which would have been a perfect time to go hermit mode and work through some backlog, but I've got two years of world travel to art museums and historical sites planned, which is also going to cut into my reading time. As for being able to read that long, I find it mainly effortless unless it's something terribly dense, but even then I can relax and read a novel or pop-press nonfiction book and it's very enjoyable.

any sites out there that sell cheap used books that wont put me on a watchlist? I dont really want my reading list on file at Amazon/Google Intelligence Agency. pls help.

>>13789834
>t.

>>13717013
Have you ever thought about getting a job, sonny?

>>13499124
>I'm 23, and the past couple of months it has kinda just clicked and now I just feel old as fuck

Soon you will stop giving a shit. You're still insecure like a small child.

>>13450120
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>>13455305
I used to post here a lot in the old days and I don't really remember her being discussed much. There were a lot of weird little cults that flared briefly and then subsided. I might have missed that one. Or maybe my memory is just bad. How many /lit/ oldfags are left? I only come here once every few months now, and I don't have much free time anymore.

>>13140384
Boomers are cancerous. Even though my life is hell I'm glad I'm not an empty vapid boomer mowing his lawn and listening to Rush Limbaugh.

>>13009956
The difference is chaos or civilization.

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>>12096102
eh, you can't avoid having frog in tuxedo threads from time to time, but you can cut most threads you don't like at 20-50 comments and by doing so direct the general content of the boards when most active posters either leave the place after getting deleted too many times or start only posting on "safe" threads

>>11672770
Me too mate, the ladies still love me.

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>>11637572
t.