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What rare books are only cheaply available digitally unless you want to pay arm and leg to get it physically?

>> No.15418875
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Sun and Steel :(

>> No.15418884

>>15418875
soon to end my friend.

>> No.15418886
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>>15418875
The French translation is really cheap.

The catch : it's a translation of the English translation.

>> No.15418896

>rare digital books
nigga having the rare book physically is half the fun

>> No.15418913

>>15418896
i just want to fucking read them. Thanks for the pointless post.

>> No.15418927
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Peter Sotos stuff.

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>>15418855

>> No.15418959

>>15418886
>Translation of a translation
Oh no

>> No.15419255

>>15418927
I wish his book 'Selfish, Little' was available digitally. It's supposedly his magnum opus

>> No.15419362

>>15418884
Which publisher is republishing it?

>> No.15419372

>>15418855
On the Marble cliffs is pretty pricey, at least over here

>> No.15419451

Spent 100 bucks on Sun and Steel. Most I've spent on a paperback.

>> No.15419464

>>15419451
it gonna be yikes when it gets republished.

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200 dollarydoos for a paperback? wut

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>>15418855

>> No.15419744

It's shit btw

>> No.15419895

>>15418855
I paid like $60 for my copy of this which is more than I'd usually pay for a book but I realized all the other copies were like $500 so I may as well. I'm glad I did, some of the vignettes get a little tiresome but picking and choosing there's some of the best transgressive fiction I've ever read in here

>> No.15420042

>>15418855
Most of them. Better question is what books haven't been made into PDFs yet.

>> No.15420101

>pasty white guys who got groomed by the altright in 2016 spend $100 on a bodybuilding paperback by a deranged japanese homo
the internet is wild

>> No.15420125

>>15420101
what does that book have to do with the altright?

>> No.15420146

Sam Hyde’s book has insane physical prices iirc, and only has a pirated photocopy version online

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Any Greek language texts are rare and expensive as fuck

>> No.15420928

>>15420125
Absolutely nothing, that poster is just retarded.

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>>15420888
Especially ones with commentary

>> No.15421115

Dawn and Decline, a Collection of Max Horkheimer's personal notes, sells for 150$ but there's a copy on libgen

>> No.15421202

>>15419677
Women and Men used to be an absolute bitch to find anywhere. I ordered the reprint recently

>> No.15421248

>>15419255
i wish there was more Sotos too. someone has to publish it online. maybe we can organize Lit Money Pooling effort to buy and scan those rare books, for the greater good of all

>> No.15421800

The Craft of Power by RGH Siu

>> No.15422427

BUMP

>> No.15424000

>>15420888
Is it possible to print them for a cheaper price?

>> No.15425022

Les Deux Étendards. I will read this book some day.

>> No.15425038

>>15418855
none because I have an a4 sized e reader which handles all lib gen files effortlessly

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Unabridged The decline of the West. The only available copies online are piece of shit optical prints from scan publishers.
Unless someone wants to point me to a good copy of the two volumes. Please! I want to read it unabridged!

>> No.15425789

>>15425053
>>15424000
Exactly the same problem as this anon here

>> No.15426533

>>15424000
No way those 3000 year old texts are copyrighted. Just print them and sell them at half the price man, you'll earn some revenue.

>> No.15426543

>>15425053
reading Decline as a pdf on your phone is the only appropriate experience in the 21st century

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>>15418855

>> No.15426605

>>15425053
>>15425789
>sitting on two old unabridged copies in near mint condition, unread and with no plans of reading them
feels good man

>> No.15426876

>>15426605
Where did you get them sir

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>>15426605
>>15426876
Nvm. Just found new copies of the Knopf edition on Abebooks. Ordered.
Don’t understand why Abebooks takes so long to mail things though

>> No.15427494

>>15418855
>What rare books are only cheaply available digitally unless you want to pay arm and leg to get it physically?
Have you visited AvalonLibrary ????

>> No.15428507

>>15426582
based Klarman

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>>15425053
Arktos is doing and the cover art isn't terrible. Just wait the few months it'll take to come out.

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certainly that one harvard book bounded in human flesh, just so i can see it for myself during my lifetime and return it to the school

>> No.15431135

>>15426947
>80$+ each
jesus fuck anon, i'm german and we had a cheap reprint a few years ago, you can buy the whole thing new for 10€, cheap binding nonetheless, i saw a huge stack of it at a larger bookstore about two years ago. reading about the conservative revolution must be hell unless you speak german

>> No.15431286

>>15418875
My local bookshop has it for $7, should I grab it?

>> No.15433155

I can't find Princes of the Yen anywhere for under 50USD

>> No.15433733

>get pdf of rare book
>go to some website to print books
>order one book and send the pdf as the content

there you go
I have dozens of books like this

>> No.15434027

>>15431135
I ended up canceling the order out of guilt. I think I’ll wait for >>15430164
since it will probably be like $40 total instead

>> No.15434047

>>15433733
which website?

>> No.15434074

>>15434047
Lulu

>> No.15434205

>>15418855
Siege

>> No.15434217

>>15425038
which one?

>> No.15435548

>>15418855
Los Sorias.
1st edition is expensive as hell
2nd too
3rd not that much but still (and is the only good edition with no parts missing).

But a doc is free on the web.