Loved it too!

I liked it, too. You have a right to enjoy what you enjoy. Don't let other people's opinions get in the way of your own enjoyment. The Internet likes to hate on a lot of different things.

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Sure, but not doing in goodwill isn’t against the law (were they even asked?). This isn’t a case of what is morally right but what is objectively against the law, which copying somebody’s book and sharing it en masse without paying for the extra copies in circulation is. No different from “sharing” music & movies online.

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The publishers could have also recognized the effort for what it was, a temporary program to help get through a crisis, and gotten on board for some goodwill.

“Since you always wonder, May you wander Wonderfully.”

from “May We All Get Booked” vMixiMv

I get that YA can be comforting to some readers who are older than its target audience, but I really struggle to understand the appeal, especially when there are semi regular posts from presumably older people complaining they don't find it relatable.

Might be time to pick up something written for adults?

I've found a really good book series that's kinda introductory to sci-fi is the Waking Gods series by Sylvain Neuvel. Genuinely a really awesome series and after finishing the first one I even dropped an email to the author since I was reading it during a really stressful time and it gave me some escapism. I got a really lovely email back. If you like sci-fi, I'd definetley recommend it, they're just complicated enough to be really interesting

So long, Internet Archive.

(￣ー￣)ゞ

Interesting since Internet Archive has DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) exemptions for other types of things

You think conservatives are going to rule against corporate interests here?

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I was searching for this! Great book

I think about it, mull it over. Writing it down helps me formulate and clarify my thoughts.

I don't read reviews or articles until after I've written mine. If I have missed something well that's too bad. I don't really expect anyone to read my reviews, anyway. They disappear in amongst the hundreds or thousands of other reviews.

To be fair, that's the way my brain works anyway. I have a Humanities degree and I am accustomed to thinking by writing.

Taken with grace and humor, as I hoped it would be. I bow before your elegance :)

But I still don't know if "Les Mis" is a real thing, collectively used to, let's say not butcher the original title too much out of courtesy. Please enlighten me.

Sounds like a no brainer to me. Just because you’re a registered not for profit org doesn’t mean you can just start pirating

yes that's true, so far I've only tried it with three books, two of them were well known enough but the other one was very niche (like 100 reviews on goodreads) and the ai admitted to not having enough information on it to talk about it.

Well for example the historical context of the book, what the author is trying to say, the symbolism of the characters, etc. I loved asking it questions like "considering the historical context of the book, and that character X symbolizes Y, what did X's action mean and what was the author trying to say?" I think I got a much better grasp of the characters and the bigger picture of the book this way.

And yeah it sometimes gets things wrong but I can always supplement it with googling and my own knowledge of the book.

yes I am part of several book subreddits and book clubs and have discussions about books with others, however there is an expectation to your interactions there, if I went in and said "okay I didn't get this book at all, can someone explain the entire thing to me", that would probably not be appreciated in the club. I see using AI as a way to gather my thoughts and brainstorm my ideas before I take them into a discussion with others.

>U.S. District Court Judge John G. Koeltl said that the Internet Archive was making “derivative” works by turning print books into ebooks and distributing them.

Right call? Wrong call? Thoughts?

Would you lot please take a deep breath & count to 10 before downvoting OP's posts just because her/his years as a teenager weren't exactly like your own?

After almost finishing the Captain Alatriste series I want to begin The Three Musketeers series. The first book of the "series" bares it's name but I am not sure about the others. I've read that they are 6, 7, 3, 5. No conclusive answer, reddit truly is my last resort to these type of questions

I am sure this was asked many a times before so I will also ask for book recommendation, I love 17th century historical fiction, and I am wondering if you all have more suggestions so I can get my fix

If I found there were a category of books which seemed to never be enjoyable for me, I would simply avoid reading books in that category.

I'm curious what do you do when the meaning or something about the book eludes you? do you do research into the book online?

There were moments when the ai told me something that I would have never thought of, and if I had written a review with my limited knowledge it would have been missing that key information.