yeah, I look at Amazon, Goodreads and other book review blogs to get different takes on the book of interest. no waiting required :-)
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Replying to @learning20201 @nosilverv
it's so nice! tho i still order physical books on occasion. in some ways they contain physical magic!
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Replying to @DanielleFong @nosilverv
always a battle between resisting that physical magic thing, and the space constraints taken by physical books - can't carry around whole collections - and the fact that a collection of physical books isn't instantaneously searchable ...
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.... (the best you can do is go through index of each.. or furiously skim through many - well not really, we usually just search on the Internet then, don't we, instead of utilizing our trusted book collection?)
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Amazon actually searches inside books (for all the books there is a "see inside" feature), so you could make a collection out of the ISBN numbers of your favorite books, and then search through them...
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Google books might also work for the snippets, but then copyright battles restricted them how much they can display, so copyright sucks...
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Both Amazon and Google have dreamed the Universal Library dream, and making ALL the books searchable and accessible, with limited success due to lobbying by Big Publishinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZkdkobK99A …
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Library Genesis has a huge repository of books to download, but hasn't crawled through and indexed the knowledge inside, making it all searchable... http://libgen.is/
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Archive also has a big collection of books & papers, allows to borrow upto 10 books at a time for free, each for a 14-day period, artificially constrains the availability of books asking people to queue up for a book, like a physical library - (?) for copyright reasons possiblypic.twitter.com/Uo4fBqvwoW
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correct, copyright reasons, but no limits right nowhttps://twitter.com/JimmyRis/status/1243020007984029702?s=20 …
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James and the Giant Peachoid 🍑 @JimmyRisWhoa The@internetarchive and@openlibrary just opened up the whole library. The National Emergency Library, 1.4 million digital books available to the world. https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/?iax=ntlemrlib%7ctxtlnk …1 reply 2 retweets 2 likes
OMG I have spent like $1000 on kindle over the past month
well this is better!
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Replying to @DanielleFong @JimmyRis and
Sometimes this helps: https://z-lib.org
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Replying to @AriCostello @DanielleFong and
Was just missing Asimov earlier today (haven't read much of his work, surprisingly!) and look what showed up there https://b-ok.cc/book/193388/7b0c61 …pic.twitter.com/ERo4ccEBMy
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